Our Everyday Life

Sabbatical 2016. Las Vegas, Nevada

Part 40 here
After camping we decided to head to the south, through the corner of Arizona to Nevada. Our Tundra required a regular service, so we decided to stay for a day in Las Vegas, to see the city during the day and night.MOM_1112 MOM_1117

We went to the Shark Reef, to watch the predator fish. After that, we went to Sea Monster.

какой-то огромный ящер

Giant lizard

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Скаты, как коврики

Stingrays like a small rugs

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Пираньи

Piranhas

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Рыба-молот

The hammer-head

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Часть музея выполнена в виде затонувшего корабля, вокруг которого плавают рыбы

Part of the museum was built like a sunken ship, and fish were swimming around it

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Среди акул плавают аквалангисты

Aqualungers swimming here too

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Рыба-меч

Swordfish

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В сувенирном магазине

In the gift shop

DAD_0169 I was expecting somethink awful and scary, but in reality it wasn’t that bad. We saw fish, that were regular from one side, but all layers of muscles, bones and digestive organs were shown from the other side. Pretty interesting, I would say, and completely not scary. First I thought they were made from some sort of plastic, but because I felt the light smell of fish I understood that exhibit has been made from once being alive creatures.DAD_0171 DAD_0172

С одной стороны рыба ...

From the one side it is just a fish …

... а с другой - как она внутри устроена

… from the other her inside is shown

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Акулий мозг и нервные окончания

Shark’s brain and nerves

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Next we went to the highest Ferris wheel in the world – when we were at the very top, we were 550 feet from the ground. Full circle takes half an hour, we went there right after the sunset, so still were able to see the buildings and watched how the lights were turning on. Pretty amazing!

We went up inside a pod just like this one. Our was #18

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When it became completly dark we went to watch the famous Bellagio fountains. There were a lot of people in the street, and first nothing happened, but then the music starts, and whole croud was amased. I will never forget that show, so marvelous it was!

 

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We were pretty tired so we call for Uber and went back to our hotel for some rest.

Part 42 here