Las Vegas diary - part two

Saturday night we went to a drive-in. Apart from the fact they don't have them in the UK, I'd never been to one. It was pretty good fun. Everybody pulls up in a big car park, and tunes their radio in to a particular frequency on the radio. There's people there with boom boxes pumping out the soundtrack, and it was so warm - we just sat around on sun loungers, and took it all in. We got two movies for 6 dollars. which puts them at about £1.60 each, about a fifth of the cost of a cinema back home. We saw Tim Burton's new movie Corpse Bride, and that was followed up by The Dukes of Hazzard, the reviews are to follow.

Sunday was my first day on the Strip (Las Vegas Boulevard), where all the casinos are. We went into the new Wynn Casino (pictured), and it was very fancy. They've obviously spent a fortune on it, and judging by the restaurant prices, it's obviously pitched a bit upmarket. We played on the Megabucks machines, which are the ones that are all linked together, with a large jackpot. When we played it was at 10.5 million dollars, which would do nicely. We won about $15 each. Not a life-changer, but I got pretty excited, I can tell you.

We left there to go find somewhere to eat, and went to the Crown and Anchor, the 'British' pub, but it was rubbish, and the beer and the service was pretty poor. We ended up going down to Green Valley Ranch, to the casino there, and that was chock full of local gamblers. In Fado, the Irish pub, the time just passed, the Guinness was pretty good (for Vegas, anyway), and the giggling just got louder. We ended the night there, and it was the first time Phil looked drunk. Which was highly amusing.