Las Vegas trip 2017

The last week of March was Our trip to Las Vegas and we looked forward to more seasonal weather and a relaxing time with a small bit of gambling too. Very small-- not much of a gambler! Our flight was leaving Duluth Sunday evening with a connection at MSP airport. As luck would have it the weather did not cooperate.Duluth does tend to have its share of fog and late Sunday afternoon the fog settled in around Duluth and Lake Superior. Our daughter was dropping Us off for Our flight and continuing to College for the week.
At the airport it soon became apparent Our flight was going to be delayed enough to miss our connection at MSP airport.What to do? We hated to have Our daughters evening spoiled coming back to get Us and besides the Fog was very thick.After consulting with the airline we decided to change flights and catch a very early flight Monday. Rented a car for transportation home and back and about 5 hours later, and away We went.Figured We wouldn't be the only sleep deprived tourists in Vegas!
Arrived nice and early at Las Vegas with the time change, checked into the Stratosphere Hotel and started exploring. We saw a broadway style show,visited the titanic exhibition ( it was great) and toured the Hoover Dam.
Thursday we decided on some pool time and were enjoying the pool by 10am. Later We noticed the wind was really starting to pick up.Weather reports the night before had predicted a very strong wind by noon. They were right and We decided to check out the Stratosphere tower and maybe find a restaurant.
The Stratosphere tower is about 110 stories high. Impressive. I don't relish heights but was willing to accompany My wife.While up at the gift shop at 108 story level we noticed movement back and forth. We were told the tower was engineered to move several feet to accomadate extreme winds.Yup-enough for Me! Down We went and found a ground floor restaurant. Later we went up to our room and relized the Las Vegas area was having a rather significant sand storm with winds in Our area gusting to 60-70mph! Yikes!!
With the weather being less than stellar, thought maybe some guests would be concerned. Nope.Casino operating like it was a nice summer day. Nobody concerned in the least! Eventually towards dusk the winds calmed down and strip returned to normal--well except for the 50 some thousand without power!! We had power so we ate supper, gambled some and had an enjoyable evening. Flight back to Minnesota was the typical hurry up and wait and feeling like cattle being hearded! Like I said-typical!
All in all a fun but interesting trip.We're ready to do it again !
73---Tim