After a late breakfast in the Pyramid Cafe here at the Luxor, we meandered over to Mandalay Bay where they have the Shark Reef Aquarium. This was very beautiful with lots of interesting aquatic life. Some of the rays there had fabulous markings.
Walking back to the Luxor we had just about the funniest experience we have had so far. Mandalay Bay is hosting the Home Depot Store managers meeting - we were swimming against a tide of about 4000 store managers!! I might add that they were very bad mannered in taking up the whole width of the walkway!
Next we just killed a little time browsing before the highlight of today - a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon. We were picked up from our hotel by limousine and taken to the Sundance Helicopter base. There were six of us per chopper and we had the bad luck to be with two honeymooning couples so missed out on front seats. It didn't matter too much though; the chopper had such great windows that we could all see well. And what spectacular sights! The ride took us over the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead before dropping into the canyon and flying below the rim. We landed near the bottom for a nice picnic lunch and a little wander.
We returned by a slightly different route which included flying along the Las Vegas strip at the finish. The pilot was fantastic and we hope we have some good photos to share once we get back to our computer. This evening we walked down to Mon Ami Gabi (Jo and Gabi's favourite Vegas restaurant) to have dinner and watch the Bellagio fountains - we had to wait over half an hour for a table outside on the patio but it was so worth it. We had the most delicious meal and got to watch six different fountain shows. A perfect end to a grand day.
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