Downtown Las Vegas

Went for a little walk this AM…the weather’s lovely in Las Vegas at the moment…makes it easy to get out. My husband and I are staying downtown and there’s a ton of two things I really love around here:

1)    Old hotels, and

2)    Cool signs.

Things get pretty shady pretty fast as you venture too far east on Freemont Street, though…when I go back it’ll be with my six-foot-six husband.

A few pictures:

The Four Queens hotel…love the colors here.

Another one of the old downtown hotels. Again, love the colors on these signs. And they’re of course amazing lit up at night.

Gotta love the Western theme that pops up in Vegas now and again. Why don’t they make signs like this anymore?

Someday I’d love to own/run a cool hotel. It’ll have a great sign--that’s mandatory. The sign doesn’t have to be fancy…something like this would be awesome.

A young and sun-weathered and tattooed man leaning in the doorway of this hotel asked semi-jokingly--half smile, half sneer--if I wanted to take his picture as I walked past. I smiled and thanked him and kept walking, but now I wish I’d taken him up on his offer…he was an interesting looking guy.

Tomorrow’s our last day here…I have some work in the morning, but after that we’re going to have some fun…there’s been a lot of work this trip, but also some time to relax (in other words, lay on the couch…fatigue is still getting the best of me). And we’ve gotten a lot accomplished as far as helping my mother-in-law, which is the reason we’re here…