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Wow, I just dropped of the face of the earth with my Vegas story, huh? Sorry bout that. Since I work every other weekend, time seems to fly by fast... and even though I have every morning to get things done... that is also when I get EVERYTHING done :-) laundry, house cleaning, grocery shopping, errands, watch my TiVo'd nightly shows (there aren't many, but I gotta squeeze em in).

I promise I haven't forgotten about finishing our vegas story, I am actually working on getting day 3 pictures gone through right now and hope to blog tonight if we have a slow night at work, otherwise they will be ready for me to do tomorrow. I also have a few other things to blog about on my 'To-do' list.

• We got new WINDOWS! the remaining 5!!!
• My flower garden/beds are looking so colorful and I got some pictures of those last week to share!
• I never blogged about our newly married getaway weekend... I totally forgot about that until just now, those pictures are on my other camera!
• We've had contractors out for the basement, which is our project for the summer - getting it finished and adding a bathroom. Although I don't really have anything to blog about that yet, I wanted to throw it in here because it has taken up some of my time lately and eventually when the project gets rolling I'll be blogging about it :-)

Las Vegas Day 2 evening

After the amazing Cirque du Soleil "O" show we caught the tail end of another fountain show

Since after dusk they are every 15 minutes we decided to wait to watch another full show before we headed over to Paris casino to go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

It was so cool seeing the fountains at night with the lights.

Inside Paris was pretty cool, it was much brighter than the other casinos (although you can't really tell from this picture) because the ceiling was painting like the sky.

We waited a good 45-50 minutes in line (standing) to get our chance to go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower.... we could have purchased an express pass, but since we had a BOGO coupon for the normal ticket we just decided to rough it out and deal with the line. It was pretty amazing at the top, getting to see all the lights from up above! When we got up another fountain show was going on, but that side of the tower was crowded so we decided to wait for the next show to get a front row view.

Caesar's Palace is HUGE! (but to my surprise not the largest in Vegas, according to Wikipedia, MGM is the largest hotel. Although Caesar's looks the largest from the outside it is actually 11th out of all the Vegas hotels. Our hotel was surprisingly number 6.)

Our hotel:

Once we finished up at the top we were ready to hit the sack! We took a cab home because my feet were KILLING me!!! Overall it was a very busy day and we got to see a LOT of Vegas!

Las Vegas Day 2

Well our first full day we woke up to a bright-sunny-blue sky! This was the view from our room.




The plan for the day was to do some exploring. Our casino wasn't too exciting so we never really spent much time in it. Besides the castle theme, all else was pretty much junk.


We had breakfast at a little restaurant in our hotel, then we began our exploring outside. Leaving our hotel: Excalibur


We first walked over to New York New York, which in the end, ended up being my favorite hotel/casino!


I had to get a picture of this as we have this very same plant in our dining room!


I got some good pictures of our hotel from across the street. And we could also see the mountains way off in the distance! It was a beautiful day!




We looked around NYNY for a bit, I played some $5 roulette, I think we also played some black jack. I got a picture of my chips since I didn't want to keep one of the big ones as a souvenir. I did keep $1 chip though :-)


Once finished in NYNY we headed across the other street (caddy-corner from our hotel) to MGM grand.


We did a little more exploring and played a few slot machines.


And my favorite: roulette! (since we're not supposed to take pictures of the tables, I found one out of use to capture real quick!)


I got a picture of our MGM chips as well :-)


We left MGM and headed across the OTHER street to Tropicana. We didn't go in tropicana, just used it as a short cut to return to Excalibur. Notice the lovely astroturf!


I got another view of NYNY


After our walking, we decided to head to the pool after lunch (I can't remember where we ate lunch this day...


After a little rest and relaxation, we got dressed for the evening and started our long trek down to the Bellagio. We had tickets to see a Circ de Soleil that evening "O" and was playing at the Bellagio. Even though on a map it looked like it was only a few blocks down, since all the hotel/casino's were HUGE these were VERY long blocks!

Of course we had to pass NYNY again to head north, and we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge


We witnessed a hot dog eating contest as we passed through. We saw so much on our walk. Here's Planet Hollywood:


Here was a cool Harley Store:


We walked through the Cosmopolitan, it was pretty!


There was a cool clothing store in the Cosmo with these sewing machines in the display window


We were getting soooo close! As we neared the Bellagio we saw the adjacent hotel: Paris!




There we were, we finally arrived at our destination!




We arrived at the end of a water show, so we stayed to see the next show which was just about 20 minutes later.






It was SOOOO cool! My favorite part of vegas! It was so fun watching the water dance to music!!!! We even saw a little duck family


That evening we had dinner reservations at Olives, which we could see from the sidewalk.


We made our way inside to explore. I knew I wanted to see the jelly fish ceiling and the conservatory I had read about. But first we picked up our tickets for the show at will-call.








The conservatory was beautiful!








We did gamble a little at the Bellagio, which the dealers there were ROUGH! yikes, we quickly decided against further betting which caused us to find other things to do with our time until our dinner reservation.

We decided to watch another water show


And saw another duck family!


Then walked next door to Casear's Palace and enjoyed a nice cold beverage!


Walked back to the Bellagio for another fountain show :-) I sure did like watching them!


It was only about 20 minutes before our reservation so we decided to go ahead and go to the restaurant. We had an amazing dinner! I had a squash ravioli and Kyle had some amazing chicken! It was magnificent!!!

Then we headed to the show, with a little slot playing to pass the time. There was a little museum of Circ de Soleil inspired sculptures.




Then it was time for us to find our seats! We were so excited!! And happy to be ready to rest. They don't really have any benches anywhere unless in front of a slot machine and we had done a lot of walking all afternoon! I snuck over and got a picture of the ceiling as we couldn't see it from our seats.


And since there was no photography during the show.... this is all I can show you


The show was fanastic!!!!

I'll pick up after the show in my next blog :-)