jeremy and i walked next door (vegas has walkways over most major streets so pedestrian/auto traffic rarely collide. in fact, the whole transportation infrastructure there [parking, roads, moving sidewalks, etc] is pretty efficient.) to caesar’s palace, one of the most famous hotels in vegas.
it’s one of three hotels i can think of, and the first of those, to have a sky ceiling that changes from morning to daylight to dusk to dark.
the forum shops at caesar’s is now an actual simon mall, right on the strip. the link claims it to be the country’s most successful shopping center. i don’t know about that. i’d have loved to be a materialistic hedon whilst meandering about the curving escalators and multiple levels (aa! anthropologie! miss sixty!), but let’s face it, who shops all day while on vacation? there’s actually another simon mall a half mile north, same side of the road. it’s truly a shopping city. a very expensive shopping city.
i love seahorses.
you have to walk by quite a few naked sculptures, including the huge statue of david, to get to these ones inside the forum shops…
and these ones move! we watched the animatronic figures of neptune and his two feuding children reenact the tale of atlantis’s watery destiny, complete with water and fire. in another corridor of the shops, the moving statues of apollo, venus, bacchus, and others have a party in the main fountain.
afterward we watched the fishies being fed. there was this gorgeous, yet oh so shy lionish hiding out. i know they’re beautiful and rare creature, but i kept wondering what certain tropical fish tasted like.
