We wander the downstairs mall after checking-in. There are about six different restaurants and various shops. The casino is HUGE! There has to be over 1000 pokies, roulette, 21, craps and other Chinese tile and card games I’m unfamiliar with – it’s all rather daunting so I can’t bring myself to play anything. Besides, roulette is $15 minimum. The Grand Buffet, however, serves breakfast for $10, lunch $15, dinner $20 and late night (midnight to 4am) $10. As we wander through the Buffet area there are people literally falling asleep in their food. They have obviously been up all night playing the 'one-armed' bandits......only I think all you have to do these days is press a button.
The next morning after breakfast we walk down to the Falls – they really are spectacular and much better viewing from the Canadian side. A browse through the obligatory souvenir shops then down to what appears to be the main street. It resembles side show alley – very glitzy, very gaudy and a little sad as all remnants of any nostalgic notions of romanticism have been stripped away. The once famous ‘honeymooner’s paradise’ is just tacky and bad taste.
I give in and order coffee from Starbucks – the world is being denuded of all intimacy.
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| Looking across to the States. |
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