Vegas Redux

Well, RB and I went to Vegas (that’s short for Las Vegas for y’all not in the know) a couple weeks ago. I meant to write about it sooner but work has been getting crazy lately. So I’m going to be brief.

We had a blast as a summary here is the list of things that RB came up with that we did on our trip:

Hi honey

So, here is the list that I have compiled of all the things that we have done in Vegas, let me know if I missed something:

Hoover Dam tour
Jubilee at Bally's
Bellagio Fountains
Bellagio Indoor Garden
Fall of Atlantis in Caesars Palace
Star Trek at Hilton
Desert Passage at Alladin (shopping area)
Fremont Street
Car Showroom at Imperial Palace
Red Square Restaurant at Mandalay Bay
Lion Habitat at MGM
Erupting Volcano at Mirage
N.Y.N.Y. Roller Coaster (Manhattan Express)
Gondola Ride in Venetian
Madame Tussauds Wax Exhibit

And the list of all the hotels we've visited:
Bally's
Caesars
Bellagio
Sahara
Circus Circus
Hilton
Alladin
Excalibur
Flamingo
Harrah's
Imperial Palace
Luxor
Mandalay Bay
MGM Grand
Mirage
Monte Carlo
NYNY
Stratosphere
Treasure Island
Venetian
Wynn

PS: we also saw that waterfall with the forest and stuff at the Wynn, but I don't know what it is called.

Number 1: Yes she addresses me as honey in eMail from time to time.

B: I think she did a pretty good job of summing every thing up. She did miss a few things. We also road the new monorail they have that runs most of the length of the strip, ate at a Wolfgang Puck restaurant, saw a few living statues, saw the people dressed up in Roman garb and we went to the Palms Casino as well. She later when I pressed her she said her favorite thing we did was the gondola through the canals at the Venetian. It was a lot of fun and our gondolier was from Italy and sand us a nice Italian song.

During the firs part of our trip AP and MP were also in Las Vegas so we spent a lot of time palling around with them. We had a lot of fun. They were a bit tired out though from having been there all week and so they didn’t want to check out everything for a second time! They did talk us into going to Jubilee, at Bally’s; a classic Vegas show girls type show. It was a ton of fun – it would have to be with a tag line like Thousands of Jewels covering almost nothing – and we were really glad we went. Let’s just say it was a great show. Though none of the acts really seemed to tell much of a story I don’t think anyone minded.

Also in town while we were in Vegas were about 60 people from work. A lot of people who I went to training with in Florida decided to get together for a fun weekend. This included a couple of guys from my office. We tried several times to meet up with them but never seemed to be in the same place at the same time. Three times wee missed them by fewer than ten minutes. That’s ok though because we doing the crazy tourist things while they were more interested in partying, drinking, and gambling. Maybe next time though.

The one surprise – at least for me – on the trip was the Star Trek casino in the Hilton. I avoided it before because I assumed it would be really corny and nerdy, but we ended going to the Hilton to catch the monorail back to our hotel. I was actually a lot nicer than I thought it was going to be. We did not do the live adventure / ride I think that may have been over the top. The casino though was made to look like a space station and was actually kind of fun to walk around and see. My nerdy side did come out though when I had to go and look at the statues they had in glass of characters from several different Star Trek franchises. Dad or Dave if your reading you would have loved it.