Vegas Vacation, Fun in the sun!

Well Jeff and I decided to go to Vegas for a Vacation this year. We got a really good deal in the mail and said "why not"! We drove about 7 hours to Nevada. We did read almost all of "Catching fire' the sequel to "The Hunger Games", on the drive. I read it out loud to Jeff. It made the time go by a lot faster. One of the things we did is go to the Hash House a Go Go. Jeff got this huge pancake that was so yummy. It was pineapple mango.

Another place we ate at was an Italian restaurant across the street of our hotel. We ordered these stuffed mushrooms. Don't be deceived by Jeff's face, they were very good. Jeff just didn't want his picture taken.

We walked lots of miles up and down the strip. It is a lot farther than it looks. We only would walk about half way down and back for one day. There were lots of bridges that you have to cross to get across the street.

This is inside our hotel, the Wynn. This was in the middle by the entrance. Fresh flower balls were hanging from the tree.

This if Jeff being a dork in our hotel room. I told him to button up his shirt and he decided to button in all the way up and tuck it in and act like a dork. So in revenge I am putting it here on the blog.

One of the nights in our hotel I was waiting for Jeff to grab something from our room and I started watching a game at the casino. It was a large wheel that they spin and it lands on a number. You bet on what number it lands on. The numbers are 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and two different symbols. It starts with 1 having the most spots on the wheel and goes less and less until there is only one of each symbol. So the less spots a number has the more money you can win but the less likely you will win it. Well, we decided to play it since is was only $2 min bet (which means you only have to put down 2 dollars for a bet) and all other games, other than the machines where around $10+. So anyway the lady that was spinning the wheel had hit one of the symbols 3 times in a row. So we decide to put $3 on it. Well she hit it again and we won $120!! It was very exciting. The chances of that spot was 40 to 1.

This is me looking out from the Venetian Hotel.

These are some waterfalls right outside of our Hotel.

We got free tickets to the show in our Hotel called Le Reve. It was part of the good deal we got with our room. These tickets where $150 per ticket. We got really good seats and the show was amazing! It was a circular seating with the show being in the middle. It takes place in a pool of water. They had different things rise up out of the water and they would dance and do cool tricks off of them. They also had water falling from the ceiling and people droping from like 100 feet into the pool. This was by far my favorite thing in Vegas!

One of the days in Nevada we decided to go see the Hoover Dam. It was really amazing. Jeff really liked this part of our vacation.

At the MGM they had a lion exhibit. We thought we would see more Lions and maybe tigers but we only saw these two lions sleeping. The trainer was sitting next to them just petting one. She was crazy, just sitting there getting photographed by everyone.

This statue is the largest bronze statue in the western hemisphere.

This is the New York, New York hotel. This one probably my favorite hotel. It was cool.

This is the Treasure Island hotel. We could see this hotel from our room really good. They have a show that they do outside on the pirate ships. It was a little cheesy but they had a few cool affects.

This is our hotel The Wynn. We stayed on the 60th level, which is the very top level you can stay on. The elevator rides always made our ears pop and we always felt a little sick afterwards.

Our Hotel room was really nice. The view was amazing. We had a window that was floor to ceiling and a huge bathroom.

We also went swimming at the pool but didn't get any pictures of that. The weather was around 100 degrees the whole time so the pool was really nice. We had lots of fun!