VEGAS DAY 1:
Rush to the airport to catch an early flight. After getting through security, we grabbed some coffee & breakfast. It took all of 10 minutes for Blake to spill coffee on his t-shirt & shorts... mind you, this is not just ANY shirt.. it's his new, favorite, highly-prized moon pie t-shirt... and it's white... and the shorts were khaki... you see, Blake has a very strange skill. If there is a disposable cup in the stack of hundreds with a hole in it, he will get it ERRRRRRY time! Just ask him. It happens. Sooo... we get to Vegas on time.... only to wait for the shuttle to come get us. That took a while. Once we got to the hotel, they weren't ready for us to check in yet, so off to the pool we go. Which, I might add, has been my plan all along. So we crash at the pool, track down a waitress and order $12 pina coladas... yes folks, $12...but yummy! We ended up traipsing all over the nearby hotels while we were waiting to check in and BOY were we wiped out. We had dinner reservations at Mon Ami Gabi at 7:30...(
http://www.monamigabi.com/). However, 4:30 rolls around and we're staaaarving!! Then we had a moment of reality and realized it's 6:30 our time. Needless to say, we moved up our reservation and dinner was great. We had steak & seafood and creme brulee.
Blake with our $12 beverages... no, they're not both his... :o)
Us still in "plane" clothes... people were always offering to take our picture for us... That backpack was super heavy... poor Blake... *Swoon* My Hero!
One of the many statues at Caesar's... notice the AWESOME Moon Pie shirt... haha..
DAY 2:
Objective numero uno was to sleep in. I don't think we did anything before 10am! Today was the first "fun day" of the trip! We went indoor skydiving... (no worries... i have pics!
http://www.vegasindoorskydiving.com/) Blake crashed into me twice, nearly killing me the second time, but I escaped with little more that a tweaked knee and a concussion ;o). All in all, we had a blast. Then, we were right next to a Ross and i needed shorts. I don't own any anymore and it was hot... so we went to Ross. bad idea. There was a unified team of living brain donors working there, doing their best to move at the speed of smell. it was bad. finally we got the shorts (and Blake didn't commit homicide) and went back to town where we continued exploring hotels. We also went to new york, new york to ride the roller coaster... Remember, this is after my near death experience when Blakey decided to use me to break his fall... i was certain i was suffering from a head injury at this point... so I said what the hey, let's ride a roller coaster!!!! What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Hahahaha!!! I survived and it was awesome. We also visited the 4-story M&M store... everything M&M you could imagine.... and everything you couldn't or wouldn't want to... We did get some M&M's with almonds and they are awesome!!! We had a good time people watching there too. That evening we went to RAO'S Italian Restaurant (
http://www.harrahs.com/casinos/caesars-palace/restaurants-dining/raos-detail.html). It was decent, but not as good as we had hoped.
Indoor skydiving "uniform". My suit won "most ghetto & most holes".
Before my near death experience... Thank God for the helmet... I didn't know he was gonna use me to break his fall(s)... :oP
That's me just gettin' off the ground... crazy feelin'!
Catchin' some air... (The guy didn't turn the flash on... sorry it's so blurry...)
Yeah... That's Blake. He had no idea this was happening... Let's just say he's not so thrilled with this pic... hahah... I'll probably get in trouble for posting it...
Blake's crazy... haha... Just threw himself out there... literally... his landing skills suck, though... just ask my head...
I think this may have been AFTER he tried to kill me... I still love him though... :-)
In front of New York, NY... see the coaster? Yeah... fun stuff with a concussion...
Goin' to see the real thing is on the list...
M&M Heaven!!!! Oh yeah... those are the infamous Ross shorts... Took blood sweat and tears to acquire them. Several people had near death experiences in that store and didn't even know it...
DAY 3:
HOOVER DAM DAY
After stopping for breakfast at "The Coffee Cup" in Boulder City and having a stooopid good burrito, we jumped back in Zyppy and tootled off to the Hoover Dam. HOOVER DAM HERE WE COME!!! The Hoover Dam is pretty dam awesome. If I had a dollar for all the dam jokes Blake & I told that day, I'd be rich... it was non-stop. And the later it got in the day, the worse they got... but hey, we laughed a lot! We took the generator tour and quite possibly have located the world's most boring tour guide ever. Let's just say he did NOT love his job. After spending several hours there, we went to lake mead and played in the crystal clear, ice cold water. Then we drove through the desert and went climbing down hills in our flip flops. We were filthy by the time we got back! Decided to do a casual dinner that night and ate in the food court. I think we had fish & chips and chicken fingers...wow.... healthy!!! hahaha!! Then we walked around on the strip a little, listened to some live music... saw a 65-year-old man with a mo hawk (yeah, it was white)! hilarious... but of course i didn't have my camera to document that...
Blake being "That Guy" (and lovin' every minute of it) on the way to the Dam...
Outside the Coffee Cup... see the sign??
Me & Zyppy
Ummm.. guess where we are... & yes I have a shirt on...
There are fish down there... so we all know what he's thinkin'... The boy wants to go fishin' at Sea World... It's a sickness...
This is in front of the suspension bridge that is being constructed... it's supposedly going to be one of the largest ever built.
LAKE MEAD
Crystal clear water... and FUH-REEEEZING cold... but fun!!
DAY 4:
GRAND CANYON.... already blogged about that one, see photos below!
DAY 5:
Relax day. Didn't do too much... just piddled around town seeing the rest of the sights and recovered from putting 700 miles on the rental car in 2 days! We needed to pick up a T-shirt for Jeff and decided our feet were on strike and took a cab. After all, we'd been walking all week... Dinner was at Joe's Seafood Prime Steak & Stone Crab... holy moley..... this was definitely the culinary highlight of the trip (
http://www.icon.com/joes/Las_Vegas_home.html). It's in the forum shops in between Caesars & Bellagio. We got all dressed up for dinner and had a really great evening. I did a little bit of shopping after dinner and decided my shoes were trying to kill me and walked back barefoot. Classy, but I didn't care. I was going to be crippled if I didn't! We decided we needed to go explore the night life at least once just to say we did... it was OK... not really our scene, but we got cute pics! :o) ...and then it was back to Texas... home sweet home!
Before dinner at Joe's...
After dinner and before checkin' out the clubs... (didn't last long...)
...and that's our vacation!
