12 January 2009

New Year

Fremont street

Did something different this year.  New year's day was in Las Vegas.  Left in the afternoon on the 31st. And although the flight was delayed and arrived ~90 minutes behind schedule, we got there a couple hours before midnight.  Fremont street was filled with people, there was a live band playing on the stage and video being played on the canopy.  At midnight there was live fireworks under the canopy and playing on the canopy was a video firework/ light show.

Not as fun as playing with fireworks.  But still a little scary since the sparks falling were just above us.  Everyone had a hat.  We were a group of cats, dinos, tiger and frog.  There were other people walking around in New Year hats.  I saw a person with a spiky hat that had stars dangling from each spike.  I think I want to make something that has something like that. 

Wage and I

In Caesar's Palace there is a toy store with a large trojan horse.  Outside was this person in an Ugly Dolls costume.  It was very amusing watching the Wage dance and interact with people. When I walked up to get a picture, Wage stood next to me then started to inch away.  When I walked away Wage followed me.  
The tower at the Paris is a little difficult to capture.  

It was a nice change from my normal New Year's day and tons of fun.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like you had a fantastic time! Haven't been in Vegas during New Year's before, must have been fun! And cold!

BTW, everyone loves the hats! I need to send you pics of Ri-Ri's hat!

Did you do a Nemu Nemu one? I saw a pic of a baby wearing it and thought it looked like one of yours.

San said...

Since a few people have been mentioning the anime convention to me, I decided to look it up. And I do recall seeing an article about the locally made manga Nemu nemu. They sell their own hats and products.

The two main characters, Anpan and Nemu, are cute dogs. They remind me of (Sanrio's) Purin. Purin(Pudding) is named after a food like Anpan. Most anime dogs tend to be roundish with floppy ears.

A picture of Ri-Ri would be great.