Last morning in Vegas. We’re being very exciting – packing. Then we’ll get the car and be off.<\/p>\n
Dinner at the Stratosphere was good. Watching Vegas below us and the rides above, had a lovely dinner. Then headed to the observation deck so we could get a close view of the rides (wild) and Joe could get more photos. We then played some blackjack, badly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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