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vegasrocks
01-02-2009, 01:41 AM
If you were lucky enough to vacation in Vegas on New Years Eve I am sure you had a ball. There were plenty of people to celebrate the new year with. It is being estimated that 30,000 people were in the city ready to PARTY!

People were wearing glasses in the shape of 2009, this being the last year that two zeros will be together. The smell of beer was in the air all you could hear were cheers for the new year.

Lots of celebrities were in attendence as well, many of them performed. Kid Rock was at the Palms, Pink was at the Hard Rock Hotel and at Mandalay Bay you could find Akon. They all held performances.

Other celebrities who did not perform but were there for the party were, Usher, Denise Richards, Kim Kardashian and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz.

At the Paris Las Vegas at about 9pm, motocross rider Robbie Maddison jumped 100 feet to the top of the Arc de Triomphe replica. He then, daringly, free-fell about 50 feet landing on the other side flawlessly.
YouTube - Robbie Maddison New Years Eve Jump 2009
At The Mirage, Robbie Knievel flew 200 feet in front of the fire spewing volcano. This came on the 41st anniversary of the attempt that his late father, Evel Knievel tried to jump over the Caesars Palace fountain which was unsuccessful.
YouTube - ROBBIE KNIEVEL JUMP OVER MIRAGE VOLCANO
What a New Years bang all of that must have been.

VegasLuvsMe
01-02-2009, 12:38 PM
That was pretty awesome. :D

The Robbie Knievel one has been stopped for some reason, but can be seen in one of the two small clips just under where it was suppose to show.

I use to love jumping when my brother and I had a 125 Suzuki trail bike.

He would take to the trails with it, but I worked on my jumping skills on a small hill behind our house.

It's a good feeling to be flying high and free on a bike. Those were the days.

VegasLover
01-02-2009, 06:36 PM
I watched this on Fox News Years.

As only Fox can they showed animation of how the jump would go - then showed five ways it could go wrong - Pyrotechnics going off early and burning him, animating a crash, falling just short of ramp and back wheel hitting, falling way short and crashing into back of ramp and ended with him falling into the volcano!

Gotta love Fox!

vegasrocks
01-03-2009, 03:13 AM
I think these guys are crazy!!! Exciting but crazy! I will tell ya, I could never deal with the stresses of being one of their girlfriends lol!