The extreme day.. 21st October

Today Tom, Adam and I had an early start because at 11:30 we where getting picked up from the Tropicana Casino to go SKY DIVING. (sorry mum) We where drove about 25minutes from Vegas to a little airfield just on the cities edge. To be honest i wasn't that worried and I'm still not sure why. I should have been very nervous, jumping out of a plane 2.8miles above a desert isn't the greatest of ideas, but i wasn't for some reason. We meet out instructors and then had to watch a video about the process and dangers of skydiving.
Below is the man who invented the tandem sky diving system. I laughed so hard when i saw his face. To think i was going to trust this crazy looking dude with my life.
We put our jumpsuits and harnesses on, ran through what to do when we jumped out of the plan. Then we where all set to rock and roll. The three of us had already payed to have a DVD of our jump ( I promise you'll all see it before i get back. I'll have a word with Pete about how to go about it). When we saw what would be flying us up to 15,000 feet i got kind of scared, it looked like it was made up of old roses tins. I was really glad that we didn't have to come down in it. Just before we got to the jump height my instructor Troy asked any last words as part of the DVD, I blurted out "I love you mum" and shortly after that i found myself heading straight down, then the potty mouth started. 50 seconds of free fall with your mouth wide open, screaming, doing roughly 120mph really drys your mouth out believe it or not. When he pulled the shoot it went from being extremely loud to so peaceful in a split second. Troy suggested we did a few "Death sprilles" (nice name hey?) which i agreed too. They where really cool but i felt sick after about 10 or so, i had to ask him could we just cruise down nice and slowly. THe landing was really soft which i didn't expect at all, i thought it would really hurt. We headed back, got changed and got a lift back to the strip. Tom, Adam and I had a beer and a laugh about the insanity we where just a part of. After that i went back to the room for a power hour or two.

When i awoke later everyone was getting ready to go out down the strip for a few beers and a gamble. Before we left we paid to go up the Stratosphere tower to have a go on the rides and look at the strip at night. The strip was really nice at night.

The details of the rides are below:
Big Shot - Shoots passengers straight up 160 feet at 45 mph (over 4 Gs) until they are 1,081 feet above the Strip.
X-Scream - A giant see-saw that propels you 27 feet over the edge of the Tower, 866 feet above the ground.
Insanity, the Ride - A massive mechanical arm extends 64 feet over the edge of the Tower and spins you at a force of 3 Gs for a truly mind-bending experience.

X-Scream was rubbish, it may have been because i was sitting at the back on my own. The other two where a really good laugh.

When we finally hit the strip we started in the Venician which was lush on the inside and had canals you could have a ride on if you didn't mind spending a few dollars on the outside. We didn't stay there long because it was really expensive for drinks, we decide to find somewhere with cheaper table minimums and obviously cheaper drinks. We ended up in a little casino which was a bit of a dive called Casino Royale. I didn't really want to waste any money on the tables so Adam and i sat by the bar and got the drinks in. After a few Adam got his courage together and put $100 on black and won! He played a few more times and kept winning. By the time he was done we was up about $700. He said he'd pay for me and him to get drunk, this is where it turned sower. We had about 12 beers, 3 frozen margarita's, 3 double jagermisters and 2 double whiskeys. As you can imagine i was howling! It went crazy after that, last thing i could remember was standing by a craps table at about one. I found out we didn't get in till about 6 am. I'd lost four hours of the night, bad times but fun so I've been told.