Vegas Pictures part 1 - the Luxor

These pictures are from in and around our hotel. I'll write more about what we did later. I'm too tired from work and working out to do so at the moment. Plus, I'm hungry and I'll be able to go eat once I get this done. If I wait until after I eat there's no coming back here to post.

The Luxor. This is where we stayed.





The sphinx outside of the hotel.





Me standing at the foot of the sphinx. It's pretty huge.





Part of the hotel. It's a shoppes area / hotel. Pretty sure the super nice rooms were in here.

Entrance inside the Luxor. It was hard to take pictures inside hotels and at night because it was dark but there were a lot of lights, if that makes sense. You were too far away to successfully use night mode on the camera since the flash didn't do crap against these huge buildings and the auto mode took the dark pictures. We finally were able to get decent pictures using night mode with no flash - the only problem was this had like a 1-4 second exposure time and if you moved slightly it was blurry. It's hard to hold a camera still that long with no tripod.

Statues inside the Luxor. The lighted things behind them are the escalators to the atrium level where some shows, exhibits, the food court, other restaurants, and the bridge to the Mandalay Bay were.





Christi and I in front of those statues. The escalator lights are a different color because they were constantly changing.





Part of the entrance statues. I remember in my art class learning what these are called, but I have no idea now. Hey, it was an elective - give me a break.

Atrium level. It's hard to tell what's going on in this picture if you weren't there to see it, but I'll try to explain. If you look up at any time, the shape of the Luxor and all of the lines created by the structure can really throw you off. It's cool. The buildings are just aesthetic structures. I think there was a theatre entrance in one of them. The lines on the side and top are the rows and rows of hotel rooms. The atrium was wide open so you had a cool view from your floor. The tall thing on the right is an obelisk. They had these all over the place - pretty cool. On the left is a corner of the hotel. This is also where the elevators to floors 6-15 were. Yes, the elevator does go up on an incline - it's a really, really weird feeling. And that handsome man in the red shirt doing whatever it is he was doing - that's Christi's dad. No idea who that lady making the really weird face is.

Giant obelisk outside of the hotel. I had a daytime picture of it but I'm not sure what happened to it. It was roughly the same height as the sphinx, which was really tall.

Luxor at night. It was really hard to get a good picture of the Luxor at all, especially during the night. It was flanked by 2 hotels that were much taller and had the giant sphinx in front. At night it was really difficult being that the hotel is all black and the only thing illuminated was the giant spotlight on top of it, which you can apparently see from space. That and the tiny lights running along it's sides. Cool structure, but hard to photograph for an amateur like me. Oh, and those white beams at the bottom are the tram track that ran from the Mandalay to the Luxor to the Excalibur (and back).

Here's the crew eating breakfast at the food court in the Luxor. It had a McDonald's that surprisingly wasn't overpriced like most other places. We ate breakfast here most of the time.

That's all the pictures for now. I have plenty more pictures to post later. I'll eventually get around to talking about what we did, too. Have a good evening.