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Good morning! It's time for a FRIDAY PHOTO POST.

This is on sale at my local Walgreens. To be honest I find the name kind of offputting, but to each their own.

What, me juxtapose?

GIANT MARILYN IS GONE. Good thing too, she seems to be having some issues with her lower back.

NATO came to Chicago. I went to Las Vegas.

There's nothing creepier than seeing strange flags where you're used to seeing familiar ones. That's some kind of NATO thing, but it freaks me out. Those should be Chicago flags!

It's cool though, the Avengers and their pizza will protect Chicago in my absence.

I've never felt safer traveling through an airport.

WELCOME TO LAS VEGAS. WE HAVE AN ENTIRE HOOTERS HOTEL.

HAVE A TERRIFYING GIANT BIRD.

Or a giant chocolate fountain, that works too (thanks

jonaht -- Mum was blown away by this thing!)

My mind, meanwhile, was blown by the Bellagio water feature. I mean, this much water in the desert is kind of wtf, but it was so much better than I was expecting. Orders of magnitude better.

I was less impressed by the big-ass glass flowers, but I can't deny they're...epic.

Caesar's Palace had some pretty cool ceilings too.

This is a photograph of the best gelato in the state of Nevada. Purportedly. I haven't had a lot of gelato in Nevada, but it was damn good gelato.

At Caesar's Palace they have some pretty intense statuary.
Mum: Are those mermaid horses?
Me: That's a hippocampus.
Mum: How do you know this stuff?

Mum: I love the giant ladies.
Me: Caryatids.
Mum: How do you know this stuff?

Fountains at Caesar's Palace!

juniper200 charged me with finding nerdy slot machines. I rose to the challenge.

I won like eight bucks on this one.

I took a picture of myself in Venice! (Or a picture of my finger at the Venetian.)

The Phantom set, pre-show, from the Most Awesome Seats.

I can't explain why we went to The Cannery, miles outside the strip, but we did, and I took this picture of the sign from the parking garage. The whole journey was inexplicable.

This is an octopus candelabra. Your arguments are invalid.

Flying home:
Sam: What do you suppose is in that big wedge-shaped box? Golf clubs?
Mum: No, they'd be more oblong. Maybe a recumbent bike?
Sam: Or a GIANT SLICE OF PIE!