Crazy New Vegas Attraction!

Just saw this in a travel industry trade magazine....crazy fun! Called Parabounce, check out the vid!

Inside Ourselves

I saw this exhibit in Las Vegas a few years ago. It's hard to describe the different feelings you get while looking through it. You can easily spend a couple of hours going through it, especially if you stop to read the different information on what each body is displaying. Alot of the bodies are displayed in various active poses. The bodies are all donated by the people themselves with the understanding that the bodies are all anonomous.They use a ploymer preservation process developed in the 1970's. The most interesting thing I found was the blood vessels and the nerve's and such, and I admit the deformaties too. The grossest thing was definately seeing a person's entire skin by itself laying on a table...really discusting and amazing how much skin we have and how thick! I really had the urges to touch them, which is prohibited, but funny enough at the end they have a heart you can touch if you want and I was too grossed out.

By the way Bodies the Exhibition is held in cities all over the world!

Don't Look Before You Leap!

This is the Stratosphere's newest thing....SKYJUMP!!!

Skyjump is the highest controlled free fall in the world. Before the jump riders are prepped and suited up in jumpsuits, and are also given a safety lesson (hard to remember a word of the safety lesson when your nervous, as Mike and I found out when skydiving for the first time!).

The Rider is connected to a high speed 'decender' (whatever that is) and led to the edge of the platform. Proceed to take a step and plummet through the sky 855 feet, the equivalent of 108 floors....sounds easy enough eh?!