Waking up in Vegas

We spent 2 nights in Las Vegas in the Imperial Palace Hotel right on the Strip. In the night the city looks very bright and live, however, in the daytime it turns into this dull one-street town in the middle of nowhere (desert to be exact). Below are the pics of the view that we had from the hotel room - looks boring, right?
One thing that I expected, but it still surprised me, was that when we checked-in around 3am there were plenty of people gambling in casino downstairs, and then the next morning when I woke up at 9 am and went downstairs again, the same people were still gambling in there. I guess with gambling you really lose track of time.
The funny thing was that the local news was all about a recent arrest of Paris Hilton in Las Vegas. After cops asked her for ID, she accidentally pulled out a plastic box with cocaine instead. But then, let's give some credit to Paris, that kind of is her ID, isn't it?