It has been a long while since I have been to Las Vegas, but I intend to get there sometime before the year ends. The last time I had been there is a time I remember well because I had seen a cloud formation above the dancing fountains at the famed Bellagio Casino.
The day that I traveled there had been after a rainy spell in Arizona and clouds were forming great huge images all the way from Phoenix to Las Vegas since I chose to fly Southwest Airlines to get to Vegas. Sometimes I take a bus designed for casino visitors through Greyhound, and sometimes I fly.
I had just arrived in Vegas when I went to see the then newly built Paris hotel. It has a replica of the Eiffel Tower. Having seen both now I realize that while imitation is flattering, it is a far thing from the real thing.
While walking to the Paris Hotel from the Imperial Hotel where I stayed, I noticed this huge angel looking cloud directly above the Bellagio Hotel. It was pointing towards the Mandalay Bay Hotel where I eventually went to find a sign for the show The King and I displayed.
At the Paris Hotel, a photographer was busy taking photos of the new Paris site, and I was speechless, looking at that angel cloud, and made him look at it by touching him and pointing upward. Like that ufo of long time ago, nobody else appeared to be looking up as I had been, but he did look up, and pointed then to me, and said "You!" to me.
I wish I would have had my camera then! One reason that I do carry it with me all the time now.
That was some week in Vegas. I remembered the cloud angel above the town in Pennsylvania that is posted on the internet. I copied it, and have it yet, as it appeared over the football field in Montoursville.
I wish I could have photographed this but I did the next best thing and made a sketch of it in my sketch book.
It is memorable..for the moment, I am letting the memory of what followed rest...four days later, and JFK, jr. died in a plane crash. I have not forgotten that as I had gone into the Bellagio to play a slot game and won!
Other things happened then that are unforgettable to me. We had a violent rainstorm in Vegas then, and I learned how dangerous flooding waters can be even in the streets of Vegas. One cannot fight a rushing swell of water! I did command the storm to stop finally! Anyone reading this now will wonder at me for saying it, but I remember it well. I am very well known in that city, believe it!
I was being followed all the while. It was early morning...I had to fight the flooded streets to make it back home. The rain did stop. There are times when I have to exercise my powers over nature. I have not forgotten that one! It happened in Vegas.
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