I am sharing again another image from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This is about the fairytale hotel named Excalibur located in Las Vegas Strip Paradise. Don't you know that this hotel is named after the mythical sword of King Arthur also called Excalibur? I love this hotel due to its castle-like design and architecture. I am also featuring healthcare it jobs in Las Vegas since my sister is working as a nurse there. I believed she is now a desk nurse after being transferred from ward section.

Back to Excalibur: This hotel opened last June 19, 1990 and a total of 4,008 rooms. It is owned by MGM Resorts International. It was known to be the biggest hotel in the world when it opened. Here is an image I took during my visit last 2008.

CHATHAM, Mass. – The remnants of Hurricane Earl took aim at Nova Scotia early Saturday after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared, dumping heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages accustomed to nor'easters.

Officials planned to survey the damage from the storm at daybreak, but early reports showed only a few hundred power outages, a handful of downed power lines and isolated flooding in Massachusetts.

Earl swooped into New England waters Friday night as a tropical storm with winds of 70 mph after sideswiping North Carolina's Outer Banks, where it caused flooding but no injuries and little damage. The rain it brought to Cape Cod, Nantucket Island and Martha's Vineyard was more typical of the nor'easters that residents have been dealing with for generations — except this one disrupted the unofficial last weekend of summer. continue reading here

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press Writers Russell Contreras And Bob Salsberg, Associated Press Writers –

It's been awhile since I did not chat with my sister from Las Vegas. If I am not mistaken, I guess for over a month. We had a chat last Tuesday but only for some minutes because I was having a headache at that moment. She mentioned that she plans to have a vacation next year. I would like to suggest er to take a look at Branson vacation packages. She's never been to Branson there and for sure it would be nice for her to see and experience the place for the first time. I hope to chat with her again next week. Before I forgot it, I would like to greet all American friends for a happy celebration of Labor Day. I believed friends in the U.S. base nearby will have a four-day weekend off especially the soldiers. Hubby will also have an off on Monday. We will see what we can do. Have a great weekend ahead!

This is one of the pictures I took the first night I arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada. My sister's hubby passed Las Vegas strip and we also happened to pass-by at Ballys Hotel. I was amazed by the lights and neon signs in Las Vegas. It was astounding having seen it for the first time last 2008.

I did mentioned in my other blogs that a Filipino-American friend visited us here in Europe for three weeks. I believed she had a lot of fun touring seven countries during this span of time. She did not only went into tour but did some shopping as well. I remembered that she bought a 16G USB stick in Wuerzburg, Germany but forgot to take a look on Asus laptop. This is also the laptop that I am wishing to buy in the future. I can't afford to buy it right now because I am broke at the moment after touring with her in Europe. We also did some shopping especially for travel souvenirs like postcards, magnet, shot glasses, travel books and a lot more. She is backed now in the United States because her vacation is finally over. I smiled at her message in facebook telling me that she is backed now to her barracks. Till next time Non! I might visit you in the U.S. when I will win in the lottery...lol!

I am sorry folks! This is not really a perfect picture I took from inside of Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Beside that I am not a professional photographer, my camera is also not a good one. These pictures were not edited also. I still wish to visit Las Vegas next time to take better pictures of it. For now, just enjoy watching these images I took during my visit last 2008.
Paris Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA, that is owned and operated by Harrah's Entertainment. As its name suggests, its theme is the city of Paris in France; it includes a half scale, 541-foot-tall (164.6 m) replica of the Eiffel Tower, a sign in the shape of the Montgolfier balloon, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe, a replica of La Fontaine des Mers, and a 1,200-seat theatre called Le Théâtre des Arts. The front of the hotel suggests the Paris Opera House and the Louvre.

The Paris is linked via a promenade to its sister property, Bally's Las Vegas, through which it is linked to the Las Vegas Monorail. wikipedia

Off for USA topic because I am giving you a little weather update for today. I went outside this afternoon to breath some fresh air and spend time in our garden. It seems that we are having a cold summer weather the past days. It was raining so hard yesterday and then later on the sun started to shine again. Rain,sunshine, rain, sunshine and so on and so fort. I don't exactly remember how many times it did acted like that yesterday. With this kind of weather, it is the best time to search for the best women's rain boots. I also remembered our trip to Paris two weeks ago where the weather is also very unfriendly. My shoes was so wet that I ended up buying a new pair. It is my first time to buy a violet leather shoes and I love it. I am hoping that we will experience a dry and sunny weather in September. Right now, the weather outside is cold and windy, thus I decided to enter the house before, I get cold again. Have a great afternoon from Europe!

Have you been to Luxor in Egypt? Have you been to Luxor in Las Vegas? I believed I can answer these questions. First, I haven't been to Luxor in Egypt but I had already visited Luxor in Las Vegas. The Luxor Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It looks like a pyramid with a total of 4,407 rooms. Imagine how these rooms were built inside that huge pyramid hotel? I'll show it to you. This hotel was made after the city of Luxor or Ancient Thebes in Egypt. It was opened last Oct. 15, 2003. Three years later, that was the time I visited Las Vegas. Here are some pictures I took during my visit.

Hello everyone! August is almost ending again. This month is for me a great one. If you happen to read the posts in my other blogs, you might know why. Anyway, I was surprised last Friday as someone greeted me. I was working a bit in our garden when somebody said "Hi, how are you doing"?. It was a former neighbor who is having a vacation at this moment in Europe. She presently lives in the United States since she is married with an American. I noticed a lot from her face. She seems to look gray and older. Her hair is totally white and some wrinkles are already forming around her eyes. I guess, she needs the best eye cream for wrinkles to make her looks younger and alive again. Getting wrinkles and having white gray hairs are signs of getting older but sometimes through the use of modern cosmetic and beauty techniques, the signs of aging can be hindered. I just hope that she is having a good life in the U.S. Anyway, as she asked me that question how am I doing? I proudly told her, "great"!

It's been two years now since I visited United States and stayed most of the time in Las Vegas, Nevada. I also had the chance to visit Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam as it is called by others. Here are some images and information I took from this amazing architecture during our visit last June 2008.


Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest hydroelectric power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. It was surpassed in both these respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently the world's 38th-largest hydroelectric generating station.

This dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, is named after Herbert Hoover, who played an instrumental role in its construction, first as the Secretary of Commerce, and then later, as the President of the United States. Construction began in 1931 and the dam was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 30, 1935 but it was not fully completed until 1936, which was still more than two years ahead of schedule. The dam and the power plant are operated by the Bureau of Reclamation of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, Hoover Dam was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985.

Hoover Dam and its associated changes in water use had devastating impact on the Colorado River Delta at the mouth of the Colorado River. The construction of the dam has been credited as causing the decline of this estuarine ecosystem. For six years in the late 1930s, after the construction of the dam and while Lake Mead filled, virtually no flow of water reached the mouth of the river. The delta's estuary, which once had a freshwater-saltwater mixing zone stretching 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of the river's mouth, was turned into an inverse estuary where the level of salinity was actually higher closer to the river's mouth.

Environmental impact

The Colorado River had experienced natural flooding before the construction of the Hoover Dam. The dam eliminated the natural flooding, which imperiled many species adapted to the flooding, including both plants and animals.
The construction of the dam decimated the populations of native fish in the river downstream from the dam. Four species of fish native to the Colorado River, the Bonytail chub, Colorado pikeminnow, Humpback chub, and Razorback sucker, are currently listed as endangered by the U.S. federal government.
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