Some Images From Las Vegas Trip
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Just got back from Las Vegas earlier today. Some pictures for your consideration:
On the way to Hoover Dam:
The water intake towers on the Nevada side of the dam:
Lake Mead, viewed from the top of the dam. Note the drastic drop in the water level of the lake in recent years:
A view of the hydroelectric power station at the foot of the dam:
The face of the dam itself. Yes, it's one heckuva drop from the top:
The Colorado River leading away from the foot of the dam. The bridge under construction is intended to ease the flow of traffic going over the top of the dam:
More pictures to follow...
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The following images were taken while we were walking along "The Strip". Please pardon the somewhat blurry pictures--it's kinda hard to take clear long-exposure shots without a tripod.
The following three images were taken inside Caesars Palace:
More to follow...
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Very nice!!!! We're thinking of making a road trip there come spring break. Thanks for the pictorial tour. +1!!!
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nice photos!!!! may i ask what camera you use for the night shots?
so...did you gamble/win/lose money??! =P
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Originally posted by jetta:
Very nice!!!! We're thinking of making a road trip there come spring break. Thanks for the pictorial tour. +1!!!
You're more than welcome.
Vegas is--what?--a 5 hour drive from SD, right?
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Originally posted by lostintransition:
nice photos!!!! may i ask what camera you use for the night shots?
so...did you gamble/win/lose money??! =P
Thanks. The camera I used was my trusty 6MP Canon PowerShot S3 IS. It's one of the early generation "superzoom" point-and-shoot cameras, and I've been completely satisfied with it thus far.
As a rule, I don't gamble, but it was hard to resist the temptation whilst cruising through the casinos to drop a dollar here and there into the slot machines. I think I must have spent no more than $4 along those lines. Didn't win anything back, of course!
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On New Year's Eve, we took a drive out to Red Rock Canyon, just to the west of Las Vegas and did a bit of light mountain climbing:
Some visitors from Belgium we came across:
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
You're more than welcome.
Vegas is--what?--a 5 hour drive from SD, right?
Right. We were thinking of heading up there this winter but we're heading to the mountains instead. We leave in the morning for Mountain High for a day of inner tubing and snowboarding.
Say, was airport security chaotic?
In other news, I'm heading back to Sears. This time at the appliance outlet. I wasn't intending to return but we were there looking at appliances for the new digs. To cut a long story short, I was surprised to see that the current store manager was the Whirlpool sales rep from my Sears days. He and I had a good relationship and he remembered me. That wasn't so short was it?
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Wow :O
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nice nice. thank you meia gisborn
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When I first saw the pic of the Hoover dam..it suddenly reminded me of a scene in "Transformers" (the movie).
Turns out it was the base of the elusive Sector 7..
Nice pictures!
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Originally posted by jetta:Say, was airport security chaotic?
On the Twin Cities side, no. But at LV's McCarran Airport, the wait to get through security to the gates was nearly an hour. And I was told that was normal for them.
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Thanks. The camera I used was my trusty 6MP Canon PowerShot S3 IS. It's one of the early generation "superzoom" point-and-shoot cameras, and I've been completely satisfied with it thus far.
As a rule, I don't gamble, but it was hard to resist the temptation whilst cruising through the casinos to drop a dollar here and there into the slot machines. I think I must have spent no more than $4 along those lines. Didn't win anything back, of course!
wow...i'm very impressed with the camera....or perhaps it's the photographer who's good...tee hee
you are even more "guai" than me....i spent 20 bucks at the slot machines the last time i was in vegas
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Our New Year's Eve dinner:
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Your kitchen very nice leh.
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Originally posted by jetta:
Your kitchen very nice leh.
Er, fren, this thread is about my Vegas trip. Those pictures were taken in my friend's parents' house there.
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ya....nice countertop and backsplash....ohhhhh....and nice gas stove too...i like.
hahahahahaaa
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You guys got dump away the boiling the lobster water or use as stock for another dish like laksa?
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
You guys got dump away the boiling the lobster water or use as stock for another dish like laksa?
Laksa broth is made from water used to cook lobsters? That's news to me...In any event, we tossed the water down the drain. It smelled pretty awful anyway.
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Friend's mother, used to make the most delicious laksa out of the toliet kitchen at the ground floor hdb shop which they processed and distribute to restaurant kitchens.
From sea cucumbers, lobsters, crayfish, chinese ham, oysters to dried frog saliva.
Auntie will boil the mini lobsters and prawns, peel off its heads, dump back into the water to boil and make base stock.
One big pot of stock, all those ingredients will eventually takes up 3/4 of the pot when drained.
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Another retired police officer used to set up roadside stall at Chinatown during the Chinese New Year Period.
His prawn mee soup is famous and his trick is to throw in a full uncleaned out of intestines or whatever crap flower crab, still alive and still bound by dried seaweeds/raffia string to boil with the pork bones for stock. He says it shorten the boiling time of the stock making by 1/2 because the crab gives it a awful smell but really delicious flavour.
Then he will cut one single prawn into 3 thin slices sideways and sell the noodles, soup and the pathetic prawns in a bowl for $5/-
And people will still purposely flock to his stall, cos he only does it for CNY. (Another thing is, probably because no other stalls are open on CNY!)
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Nice pics.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Friend's mother, used to make the most delicious laksa out of the toliet kitchen at the ground floor hdb shop which they processed and distribute to restaurant kitchens.
From sea cucumbers, lobsters, crayfish, chinese ham, oysters to dried frog saliva.
Yikes! No more laksa for me...
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it's not unhygenic or anything mah.....that's how i make my prawn noodles soup too....boil the prawns together with shells/heads and then use the water to make the broth. it might smell funny at first....but if you were to add all the other ingredients/herbs/spices....i g'tee you'll get first rate soup stock!
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Nice pics.
Thanks!