The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority predicted New Year's Eve celebrants would pump $209.

Jeff Wilson, from Geneva, Ohio, talks to Mallory Huck, left, and Julie Langille on Fremont Street Experience's on New Year's Eve. I'm going to send this picture back to my boys," said Wilson. Buy this photo
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Gogo dancer Jennifer Segura performs in front of the D Hotel at the Fremont Street Experience's Downtown Countdown on New Year's Eve. To the right are girls are passing out New Year's Eve souvenirs to hand out later. Buy this photo
Michael Beck, 42, left, and Erin Coates, 27, both of Las Vegas, try to entice celebrants to drink Champagne from their festively-decorated container on the Las Vegas Strip on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, New Year's Eve. Buy this photo
Erin Coates, 27, of Las Vegas pours Champagne into the mouth of Alan Jackson of La Mirada, Calif., on the Las Vegas Strip on New Year's Eve. Coates was offering free pours to passing celebrants. Buy this photo
Benjamin Schwechla of Germany looks at alcohol options while shopping rent a car san francisco at Walgreens on the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip on New Year's Eve. Only plastic bottles containing alcohol are allowed to be sold and carried on the Strip from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Tuesday. Buy this photo
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Thousands of men, women and children from around the world hugged and kissed on the Strip as fireworks lit up the sky at midnight, popping in synchronized sparks from the rooftops of the Venetian and Treasure Island.
After the show was over, a mob of people was briefly blocked rent a car san francisco from streaming back into the Venetian when a fence gate jammed in front of the casino. rent a car san francisco Finally, the gate opened and revelers slipped through.
"We're going over the fiscal cliff one by one," a woman yelled, making a reference to a breakthrough in faraway Washington, D.C., where the Senate rang in the new year by passing a fiscal cliff bill.
With hundreds of thousands of people taking to the Strip and downtown to celebrate New Year's Eve Monday night, Las Vegas police said revelers were mostly well behaved. Shortly before midnight Tuesday, police only arrested 13 people, 10 of whom were detained near Fremont Street.
As many swung their glasses in celebratory rent a car san francisco cheers, others fastened the seat belts of their children and pulled blankets over the entirety of strollers as the air continued to chill and the clock ticked closer to midnight.
Although New Years Eve, and Las Vegas, is often perceived as an adult only crowd, parents refused this notion tonight, many bringing their children out through the entire rent a car san francisco evening, even to see the fireworks at midnight.
Miguel Parra brought a blue cooler on wheels that was converted into a music boom box, set up shop in the middle of the street between The Mirage and Harrah's and invited revelers to dance to the music.
For a dozen years, Don Delay and his wife Del have come early to the Strip and set up chairs in front of The Venetian to watch the fireworks. They were there at 10:30 p.m. as the crowd began to swell.
As drunken tourists taunted, sounded horns and cursed, 10-year-old Elias Guiterrez continued reading the message of Salvation rent a car san francisco from The Bible. Just a few feet away, Elias father, mother, and three sisters rent a car san francisco stood, passing out flyers and holding signs that proclaimed "Trust Jesus."
Adrian Guitterez said he and his family have come out to the Las Vegas Strip for the past five New Year's Eve celebrations. Although Adrian also preaches from the sidewalk on the Bellagio every Saturday, he said that New Year's Eve is the biggest crowd to reach.
"Sometimes people throw beer and ice, they act meanly but I don't respond, he said. His ultimate message is to be available and remind others that God exists. The majority of people he speaks with approach him.
This year, one struggle they faced was building and supervising around the construction of the Imperial Palace, which is located in the middle of the Strip near Harrah's Las Vegas and Caesars Palace.
Aj haneefah, a graphic designer from L.A., set up shop in front of New York-New York. He said he comes to Las Vegas every year to sell memorabilia for the new year. This was his fourth year, this time selling light up glasses, sunglasses and wristbands.
Erin Coates and Michael Beck were the ringleaders for their own mini-street rent a car san francisco party in front of Harrah's on the Las Vegas Strip, offering revelers a healthy dose of champagne from a 1 1/2-gallon plastic container. Six bottles
At 38 degrees under the Fremont Street canopy it was a bit too warm for Marty "the Pimp" Pritchard. When he and his ladies in red left Edmonton, Alberta two days ago the Canucks were shivering at minus 36 degrees.
At the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas, the New Year was rolling in like a tank, as in Ronnie "Tank" Campbell, a 315-pound truck driver from Fayetteville, N.C. Wearing only a diaper, top hat and white 2013 sash across his chest, he posed for pictures with a bowl for tips.
The pub, which advertises as the only British rent a car san francisco owned and operated pub in Las Vegas, kicked off the festivities earlier than most so patrons could celebrate the New Year on British time, which was 4 p.m. local time.
Streets closed rent a car san francisco Monday night around the Las Vegas Strip and downtown's Fremont Street Experience where more than 300,000 New Year's Eve revelers were expected to celebrate the end of 2012 and bring in 2013.
Starting at 6:30 p.m., Las Vegas Boulevard became party central, closed to traffic and full of wandering locals and tourists from around the world. A traditional fireworks show at midnight will usher in the new year.
Inside the casinos, big-name acts including The Black Keys, The Killers and Pitbull were helping ring in the new year Monday. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were performing a sold-out show at the Cosmopolitan's Chelsea Ballroom that will be broadcast live on the casino's 65-foot rent a car san francisco marquee to partiers on the Strip below. Beyonce will give an invitation-only performance in the Wynn's 1,500-seat-amphitheater.
Outside, for the hardy souls, temperatures were expected to drop to 35 degrees Fahrenheit around midnight, then below freezing by 3 a.m., said the National Weather Service, which predicted clear skies with mild winds.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority predicted New Year's Eve celebrants would pump $209.9 million into the economy in one night, not counting what gamblers drop on the city's games of chance.
The Strip will be closed from just south of Tropicana Avenue to south of Sahara Avenue along with most cross streets. To cross the Strip on New Year's Eve, Sahara as well as Russell and Desert Inn roads will remain open.
All moving walkways, elevators and escalators leading to or crossing Las Vegas Boulevard also are shut down to accommodate the roving, liquor-imbibing crowds. They resume operation at 12:15 a.m. on New Year's Day.
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