Las Vegas Vacation Diary
Day Fourteen: Las Vegas Flash Flood and The Venetian and the Guggenheim Museum
We are in the hotel. It's still raining. We are going to sort our pictures for use on a website and for screensaver possibilities. Had breakfast and are snacking for lunch. The big event inside the hotel is watching the river flow through the parking garage and down the side alley way into the huge drain. |
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For a picture gallery of the Imperial Palace: Las Vegas Dreaming - Imperial Palace
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Later…. Rain has lightened up enough to go over to the Venetian to the Guggenheim Hermitage Exhibit: Artefacts of the 17th century from Russia. Lots of jewel encrusted gold objects, armour, icons, cut velvet robes, and boots embroidered with pearls. The Orthodox church and the Tsars spent a lot for pomp and show. |
It is interesting to note that these artefacts come from the era just after Elizabeth I. Russia was pretty isolated from Europe at that time, but there was definitely wealth.
The Venetian is lovely at night, inside and out, and the neon displays on the walk up there and on the hotels around it are stunning. The Guggenheim has a rotating show in the Venetian. There are three or four large rooms. There is no permanent exhibit, only special travelling ones. They charge a healthy fee, just as all museums do for special exhibits. But the exhibit pieces were well chosen and each was quite spectacular. |
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For a picture gallery of the Venetian: Las Vegas Dreaming - Venetian
We got takeaway at the Panda Express in the Venetian Food Court.
We were amused by the overhead complaints of a hotel guest who had gotten lost in the many corridors and couldn't find the elevators to the room.
I think this might be a problem in many of the large hotel/casino complexes,
as they try to divert all traffic through the casino, and some of them
are several blocks in area.