Vegas in review

I have pictures coming so hold your horses. Vegas was, what's the word I'm looking for, cold. Yeah, it was down right chilly. It even rained on our last night there. Felt EGGACTLY like Vancouver. But enough about the weather...

We stayed at the Mirage on the 10th floor and we had a pretty decent view of the Strip. The hotel is getting a bit older now but it was still nice enough. We could see The Venetian and Harrah's pretty well out our window.

We spent most of our time walking around the Strip visiting casinos. My feet and knees were killing me after just 3 days. We basically saw every casino from Mandalay Bay in the south all the way to The Wynn in the north. We made a trek downtown to Fremont Street as well to see the light show there. Lots of free entertainment along the Strip. Some were even Christmas themed. Actually I was expecting Vegas to be a little more decked out...

We caught a Cirque du Soleil show at Treasure Island - now called TI. Got discount tickets too so that was good. There's nothing better than watching circus freaks. I mean that. It was an amazing show. Very bendy people. Very muscular people. Very little body fat.

We saw some wildlife too - we saw the white tigers at the Mirage, looked at Flamingoes and saw a couple lions too.

Susan and I watched the Bellagio Fountain show TEN times! It's by far the best free thing in Vegas. It was so majestic and so beautiful. Speaking of the Bellagio, they had these amazing Christmas displays inside their Conservatory. There was a family of 3 bears each with thousands of hand placed carnations as fur. There was a field of pointsettias amidst a fountain with dancing spurts of water. There were 100,000 cranberries floating in another fountain. There were giant reindeer covered in 600 pounds of whole pecans. It was pretty spectacular in there.

Oh and the food...man - we tried three buffets while we were there. I'm still a little full.

Cravings at the Mirage - great snow crab legs, big hand tossed salads, huge shrimp cocktail, good sushi

Le Village at the Paris - it was like eating in the middle of Beauty and the Beast ("little town full of little people..."), nice selection of french food, wonderful desserts and yummy leg of lamb!

The Carnival Buffet at the Rio - 300 items!! the food line went on and on and on and on and on. I've never seen anything like it. That was impressive. Complete with champagne too! Best prime rib ever.

Vegas has really changed a lot since I was there last. Lots of new things to see. The shopping malls/arcades were pretty neat to visit as well although we didn't buy anything.

So did I win any money? Well, no. We lost a little. My mom won $100 though - at the nickel slots!! So she was pretty happy about that.

On the way home, we stopped at the Premium outlets outside of Seattle and bought cheap wine and cheap clothes for me. Nice way to end off the trip.

All in all, it was a good trip. Now it's on to Christmas....

Pictures to follow soon!