on and on and on........in Vegas

Sep 14 (cont): After a torturously long trip from the Stratosphere ---> Harrah's, we meet up with Jenny's Aunt Lynn & Uncle Mal and eat at Toby Kieth's 'I love This Bar & Grill'. I had a pulled pork sandwich and it was pretty sweet. Then we crossed the street to Caesar's Palace and ate at The Cheesecake Factory!! Yeah!! This was our 1st Cheesecake Factory experience, and it did not disappoint. We were all pretty tired after that, and headed home to bed.
Sep 15: We got up and did our 3rd (and last!) timeshare presentation. Our pickup was scheduled for 12pm at Circus Circus and we were told it was to be a two hour presentation. Our bait: $100 cash and a $25 restaurant voucher. From start to finish, the experience lasted 4 hrs, and when our manager realized we were not there to buy, he was extremely rude to us and took a couple of shots at the fact we were ministers. During the presentation he even used a story of the death of his mother to try and sweeten the timeshare experience! There certainly are some disgusting people here in the world, even in Vegas, weird! Over and over they kept saying, "We don't sell our product, our product sells itself!" Yet they tried pretty damn hard to sell their product to us! Even going as far as using the "health and wealth" doctrine to try and lure us in! This company (which I refrain from using their name so that they may not get even more business or website views, etc) has ruined our timeshare experience and we definitely will NOT be going to another. Thats ok though, because we already aquired 2 shows, 3 all-u-can-eat buffets, a $25 food voucher, a 2 for 1 buffet, and $100 cash! Not bad, although that is time we will never ever ever get back.
After that horrendous event, we walked up to the Tropicana for a buffet supper, and then walked back down to Planet Hollywood for 'V: The Ultimate Variety Show', our first show in Vegas. It was good, but I'm glad we didn't actually pay for the tickets; it wasn't THAT good.
On our way home, we talked with Micheal, who was a Vietnam veteran. Mike lost his right arm in the war, is now confined to a wheelchair, and is almost unintelligible. The rest of his story is hard to completely believe; but the man loves Jesus and chooses to believe (in the midst of his hardship) that Jesus loves him more than anything. We gave him some change and let him pray for us.
Sep 16: Cruised around to more hotel/casinos, seen an awesome water fountain show at the Bellagio, ate some great food at Paris Las Vegas, and talked with more homeless people. We also went and seen magician Steve Wyrick at Planet Hollywood. He was really good, but not good enough to pay for, in my opinion.
Today: Went and seen The Venetian, which has canals running through the hotel complete with gondolas! Then we went and seen some lions at the MGM Grand. We also ate at the Monte Carlo. We also went and checked out Hooters.
This evening we were picked up by Jan Kluever and we went to a church and helped out with feeding the homeless. A ministry called Amazing Grace feeds the homeless every wednesday. Tonight we fed about 150 people and after that, 10 stayed around for a church service. The percentage that stayed was disappointing, but we believe for revival in Vegas to start from the bottom, which it does.
Tomorrow is our last day in Vegas before we head back to Canada. It has been a great honeymoon, but we both look forward to getting to the Island, and making further plans for Cambodia.
Oh, and I just raided Joy Waide's photo collection from Vegas and got a lot more wedding photos. Check out our complete wedding photo collection -->HERE<--.