We started off by crossing the time zone into Mountain Time at the ginormous Hoover Dam.

Then we drove to Lake Huvasu to see London Bridge !! It is seen as a symbol of friendship and the £2.5 million paid in the late 1960s for it.

Today we are doing some more ghost towns and then leaving Arizona back to the Airpot to return home missing New Year. Arizona was so different from Nevada (guns seem to be everywhere and few masks! Unless robbing you).

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Our Stockings were full and Santa had turned the sky above Venice the colour of the Italian flag so must be Christmas morning.

Morning mass was at “The Strip Cathedral” with a soft jazz band playing carols and commemorations to Saints we hadn’t heard of who had been killed by Native Americans in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century.

We left Venice to venture out to other nations …

Here we are on the moving walkway up the Rialto Bridge – Venice gondolas and moving pavements your never have to walk

Here we are looking at French battle victories at the Arc de Triomphe

The famous Tour!

Le sign de directions.

Here is Caesar celebrating the super bowl coming to Las Vegas. Vidi veni Vegas.

Now around the world, trying 24 soft drinks at the Coca Cola world. Italy was herby and disgusting, but India and Tanzania won.

Lady Liberty made from six hundred pounds of chocolate at New York.

Back to Venice for small appetisers.

We managed to drag ourselves from the 3 TVs with Christmas movies in our room to look at Christmas decorations on the Strip.

The highlight of our trip was to the Excalibur hotel for the Battle of the Knights dinner show. Indoor jousting, a round table that came out of the roof, fighting firey dragon and lots of audience participation.

We cheered for Hungary but France boo boo won only to be defeated by the evil Dragon who was the defeated by King Arthur and then we washed with Christmas snow!

Oh and don’t forget we found a lot of cake on our journey down the strip…

Inside and outside it’s Venice here (excepting the culture and smells). It’s $35 for 10 minutes with a gondola singing to you wearing a mask!

All the ceilings have paintings in the style of different artists …mum thinks this is Tintoretto but could be Titian blue so hard to authenticate.

There is also inspirational floral message art….!

And of course the 40 restaurants …this is breakfast (and mum says all other meals for the day so enjoy).

And of course Christmas gambling .

Saturday afternoon after collecting Kate from a singing course we ventured into the fun of Heathrow to get out six days before planned to Las Vegas airport.

Each queue was for a different level of organisational ability – nothing done, checked in but not bags checked in, have documents but not verified, not checked in but verified or verified and checked in. As we were the last category we got through in 20 minutes after being moved from zone A to B to C and to G.

Heathrow were full of signs like this with no key – is 3 people busy or not busy no idea!!

We got to the business lounge and started on the free buffet…just in case… we then got on the plane but after an hour had to get off the plane (it hadn’t taken off) as there was a leak at the fuselage!

We finally made it on to a new plane after spending an extra 4 hours in Heathrow departures and got ready to sleep across the Atlantic. We arrived at Vegas at midnight (their time) and after a nice chat with the man at customs and immigration were allowed in the country .

We arrived at the crazy Venetian hotel at 2am to our enormous suite and managed to sleep after putting our stockings up.