During spring break in '05, I took Emily down to Arizona to stay with my great uncle. While down there, we did the usual tourist stops of crossing the Mexican border, visiting Sedona, AZ, going to the Grand Canyon, crossing the Hoover Dam, and finishing the stops in Las Vegas. Our plan was to head up there and stay at my uncle's daughter Julie's place in Vegas and then do some sight seeing the next day and head back to Arizona. Well, we got to Vegas, did some sight seeing (tons and tons of walking), and then stayed the night at Julie's place. The next morning we planned on doing a little more sight seeing and head back. Well, we walked down the strip some more and soon realized that we weren't even going to see half of the main drag. So we just decided we would go find some cheap motel and end up staying 1 more night. We went to some of the lower scale hotels on the main strip, but those places were still way to expensive for a last minute reservation. We ended up going down some back roads and finding a cheap dirty motel in the slums. It was pretty creapy but we had a place. We did finish seeing the main hotels on the strip that day which was completely amazing. I think I may have gambled $20 over the span of the 2 days and had one of the best times of my life just walking around sight seeing. When we got back to the motel that night we were pooped from all the walking. The next morning when we woke up we looked around and realized how dirty this place was. There was nasty hairs all over the bed and when we took our showers noticed disgusting things there as well. If we would have realized all that before we went to sleep, we would have just stayed the night in the car. Well, it's over and we survived. Even with the bummer of a motel we had, Vegas was still on my list of favorite places I've been.
