Fremont Street, Las Vegas

Taking a long week end in Las Vegas with old college buddies was a great. There will be few vacations on the horizon for the next several months. We had talked about vacationing together for several years and finally made it happen last weekend when seven of us met up, staying at a time share one of the couples owned. The three bedroom, two bath condo was perfect for our group and the price was even better, free. Couple that with the air miles we used for the plane ride and we definitely had a bargain vacation.

We started out the evening on Fremont Street where neon is king, the music is loud and the crowd young and rambunctious. The old neon features the original Vegas cowboy, the martini glass and of course the famous over head awning that displays mind blowing visual effects as lights form into a montage designed by what must be an ex acid head. The music drives the visual imagery that races up and down the street pulsed by popular rock and roll, the two shows we viewed were George Thouroughgood and Queen, the last few minutes was a basketball montage that featured the NCAA basketball tournament and bracket pairings.
George was cool but Queen was my favorite I wish we would have made the 9pm show that featured The Doors. A new feature since my last visit to Fremont Street was a sax player who jammed to original tunes, at one point he held a note for 30 seconds as the crowd silently counted. By the time we left Fremont Street we had been up for 24 hours and our bunks were sounding pretty good. We still had two more days jam packed so we headed back to the condo for sleepy time.