So after getting back to Vegas from the Valley of Fire, we went to the Stratosphere tower. It’s another hotel and casino with a giant tower on one end of the Strip. There’s an indoor observation deck and then another outdoor one.
Dillon could see his mom’s house from one side. He would’ve called her and had her go out in her yard and wave but his cell phone battery was dead and I didn’t have one with me.
The elevator operators here were pretty funny. On the way up, the operator was a really short woman—short enough to qualify as a dwarf, I think. She had a bit of an accent. With the crowd of people in the elevator, most people couldn’t tell where her voice was coming from—couldn’t see her. She was giving us directions about where to go depending on what we wanted to do once we got to the top, and when she was done she asked if everyone understood her ok. Everyone said, Uh, not really. She repeated everything. Then we were at the top, and everyone was like, “So, we go—this way?”
There are rides on top of the tower that hang off the sides of it, which I thought the boys would want to go on, but they didn’t.
Dillon figured out that his little digital camera would focus through the telescopes and he got some really cool shots this way.
Here’s a couple of pics he took:
On the elevator ride down, it was just us and a kooky old-guy operator.
The ride was really jerky and wobbly and he mentioned that the elevator doesn’t actually go straight down. That was comforting.
I took another picture in the elevator of our hotel. It has a mirror on the ceiling.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 am
We spent one night in Vegas on our honeymoon (traveling down to So.Cal) and we rode the roller coaster on the Stratosphere. It was pretty scary (and jerky)!
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 am
The coaster isn’t there anymore, they took it down. Too bad, I think the boys would’ve done that.
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 am
Is the ride that shoots you up into the air still there (can’t remember what it was called). My brother used to work for the company that builds those, and was there off and on while they were installing it. Scary stuff!
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
Cool pics. I never did the Stratosphere coaster. Way too much of a wuss for that one.
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
The ride that shoots you up is still there. It’s the only one I considered going on. If the boys had done it, I might have been able to talk myself into it, I don’t know. They thought it looked lame, though. I think they were just chicken.
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Holy cow, that’s an awesome view.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Those pics are so cool. I love the ones through the telescopes.