Fremont Street Experience

Monday 29th October
This was to be our last day in Las Vegas, so we spent some time stocking up for our Desert Experience, 12 days in Death Valley. A big shop in Walmart.
In the evening we stepped out to Fremont Street to experience the Street Entertainment at night. It is indeed a truly amazing happening. Fremont Street is covered in with a high arch roof, a bit like an old train station. Set in the roof though are thousands(?) of lights so that the whole roof becomes a giant screen about 200 yards long. Combined with three stages, a giant 5 wide Zip Line going overhead and any number of street 'Artists' at street level this makes for a very interesting evening. On the hour the roof screen showed some rather impressive  videos to Don Mclean's American Pie, Queen's We Rock You/We Are The Champions and Bonjovi's something or other forgettable. Down below we could pick out Spiderman, Transformers, Hulk, Marilyn Monroe, Mr Spock, several Elvises, a few tarts, odd metal painted statues, Big Bird, Smurfs, a couple of Michael Jacksons, the YMCA gang, MrT and a variety of Alien Life Forms. All this was of course compounded by it being the Halloween Holiday, so throw in several Grim Reapers, witches and ghouls and it meant your head was constantly spinning round to see what there was to see. The three stages were very entertaining with live singing and dancing, showing a bits from Rocky Horror, Little Shop of Horrors and general ghoulish entertainment, including  their own rendition of Thriller. Then every hour everyone came to a stand still and looked up to watch the overhead screen and listen to the music.
The street was also well lit by loads of neon signs and screens. Including the famous Giant Cowboy, which used to welcome everyone with a loud 'Howdy Pardner' until some film mogul took a dislike to it and it has been silence since then.
This made a great way to finish off our visit to Las Vegas. Tomorrow back to the desert.