November 16, 2003
Tourist morning in Vegas
This morning, I went for a brisk walk to The Strip and back, buying myself and Bruno breakfast (donuts, that is). Vegas, and the US by derivation, is huge. 6-lane roads, and blocks of half a mile - much longer than I'm used do. Simply going back and forth to Las Vegas Boulevard is a one hour walk. I also met Carsten and his wife, they were planning to do the touristy thing as well.
After that, it was about 9AM, Bruno and I hit town, took a cab to the Fashion Show, a huge shopping mall along The Strip with an Apple store inside. Unfortunately, the shop only opened at 11, so we got out and walked down The Strip instead, to the Stratosphere. The Stratosphere is a hotel/casino/shopping mall combo (as most of these places are like), with a huge tower next to it where you can take an elevator for a nice view on the city. Took some pictures as well. I'm now sitting in the XSL-FO tutorial, which Gianugo is presenting as a fall-back since Doug couldn't make it. Poor guy got almost no sleep preparing himself for this emergency task. We'll be hitting town shortly, looking for lunch.