Viva Las Vegas

When you think of Vegas you think of gambling, quick marriages, bright lights, people performing on the streets. It's the ideal place for people 21 or over, but not for kids. When you you go there as an adult there are plenty of things to do but as a kid there's limited activities. I went here over the summer and I'll tell that it's not the most exciting place to go.
My dad thought that it would be a great idea to take us to Vegas for a summer vacation. At first I was really excited to be able to go there as a teen, that feeling quickly left as we rolled into the three hour traffic. The hotel that we stayed at was The Flamingo. It was pretty much smack dab in the middle of the new strip.
The first day we were there we walked up and down the strip. Let me tell you there are some very interesting people down there. Everywhere you look there are people trying to hand you cards with pretty/naked women on them trying to get you to come to their strip clubs, most people ignore them and others that don't know what they are take them but then realise what they are and discard them onto the street. We did end up finding a young boy performing for people, he was covered in all gold paint and was acting like a statue and would move like he was a robot, he was really good. Up and down the strip you can find all sorts of street venders. One that really interested me was the guys that painted with spray paint, we ended up buying a few of them because they were so cool.
We ended up going to the army base that is there in Vegas, my dad is in the Air Force. This is one of the bases that people live at, there are homes and stores and fast food restraunts, pretty much anything that you want you can get on this base. On these bases the prices are lower than in other stores outside the base, so name brand clothes are about 50-80 percent cheaper than what they usually are. We went and looked at the houses that peolpe live in and where my dad stayed when he was down here. My dad said that there is a school on that base but we never did find it. We got to go see where they keep the planes and where they go to put the bombs on them, though we couldn't get too close for obvious reasons.
There were a couple of exhibits that we went and looked at. A couple of them were zoos, one of them you could be a dolphin trainer for a day which would be cool if you didn't have to pay 500 dollars to do it. The other one that my mom and I went to was the Human Body one, never again will I do that. It was quite nasty. They were real human bodies most of them with no skin. Someone had asked where they get all of these bodies becuase there were a lot of them. The lady told us that most of thm are donated from Asia because there if noone claims your body within a certain amount of time, which usually means a week or less, then they donate them to science. I had thought about donating my body to science after I die because with these bodies they can learn so much and maybe even cure things but after I saw this I decided to change my mind.
Other than those we spent most of our time in our hotel room, which wasn't too bad since they had a tv in the bathroom mirror. I would sit in the bathtub with a blanket and a pillow and just watch tv. We also went swimming a coulpe of times. There was this pearl place in the hotel where you could go and pick out your own oyster where there is a pearl inside and then you canpick out a ring or a necklace to put it on.
We didn't go to any shows, the closes things to one was the water show at the Bellagio, which was really cool. Ohter than that there wasn't really anything else we did. I know that it sounds like we did a lot but I wouldn't want to go back unless I was older.