Monaco is really really fun. (this is an understatement)
The place rocks. I've been there few times before, but this was my first GP weekend. I always seem to miss it and all I end up seeing is the tire marks on the roads to remind of all the car stuff that I miss. Even w/o the motorsports going on, it's a heaven for any car guy. I'll post pics of that later, but there is everything imaginable on wheels running around the streets. It's not an exaggeration when I say that no matter at what time, and what place you're in, if you look in any direction you'll see a Ferrari, Lambo, or several of them at any moment. It's a playground for grown-ups.
In the bars/clubs, I've ran across Paris (yes *that* one), Kimi, Kid Rock, Mick Doohan, even George Lucas, and many others. (It's the first time that the GP weekend coincided w/ the Cannes film festival, and since it's only an hour away there was plenty of movie celebrities spilling over) I even saw Mika Hakkinen sitting at a red light. Think about it, former world champion, stuck in traffic!
It's also ridiculously expensive. This is just a sampling of the prices, but I saw signs in some bars for a non-alcoholic drink the price was 20 euros, a leaded one will set you back 30 euros. (It's $1.35 per one euro!!) One place charges over 70 euros for a glass of champagne. A bottle of Absolut in a club, 350 euros.
The place is crawling with some of the hottest women, (some are poor, looking for a rich daddy, some are filthy rich, but they are all smoking! and when you look at them, it just doesn't matter. They are very leggy
) Their beaches are slightly different too
Besides the sand, there's always a deck w/ a bar that has tables etc.... basically a cafe in the sand. Lots of waitstaff running around serving drinks and food etc. One place has waitress outfits comprised out of daisy dukes-type of shorts and pasties. That's it... the entire "uniform" Funny how quickly you can adjust to seeing that in every direction that your head turns....
Since I went w/ my dad, I really didn't want to go into perv-mode and take pics of every a$$ that I saw, besides, I would've run out of memory cards. As for the grid girls, they tend to hang out near the grid and we didn't have access to watch the race on the straightaway. Not that good of a view there anyway (at least not of the race...)
The camera that I'm using is a Sony DSC-V1. Only recently while rummaging when packing, did I realize that I can get an attachment long range lens for it. All you see was taken w/ the regular feature zoom built into the camera. I used between 220-350 shutter speed.