The entrance to the Neon Museum /image source:lasvegas.informermg.com

Vegas for the nongambler is fabulous fun and (no) games. Hold the poker and poke around.

For starters, Richard "Tex" Coe, a former Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, performed several barrel rolls, and flew upside down to test Larissa's stomach - then handed the controls over to her!She flew the plane through an adrenaline-pumping inverted 360-degree loop as she pulled 7 G's (that's seven times the force of gravity), her face contorted into an odd Hobbitlike mien before reverting to unbridled glee at what she had just accomplished. Upon returning to terra firma Larissa declared, "My knees are wobbling, when can I go again?"

To get our feet back on the ground, we ventured to Dig This, an attraction that fulfills childhood dreams of playing in the dirt. We chose a session on the Caterpillar excavator, forbidding-looking pieces of equipment with steel-toothed buckets that loom overhead like escapees from Jurassic Park. After rumbling across the sandy site, we dug Humvee-sized holes, maneuvered 2,000-pound tires into pyramid-shaped piles, and played a form of excavator basketball where even LeBron James wouldn't dare block our shots.....Continue Reading

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