FRIDAY: We left Arizona and hit the road to Vegas. We stopped at Hoover Dam exactly 45 minutes after it closed, so that was a bummer. I set our Google Maps to take us to the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign, and I'm happy to say that we got a decent picture of the sign, and some good selfies with it. The line to pose under the sign was crazy long so we decided against that. We spent the weekend at the Excalibur hotel, and while the room was good enough for the cheap weekend I was striving for, it won't be anything that we'll do again. We walked up the street to Bellagio for dinner, and ate at their buffet. It was super late by the time we ate, so we just walked back to our hotel and went to bed after that.
SATURDAY: Brian was up and out of the room early, so Sydney and I ordered room service for breakfast, and then took the Monorail up to the stop closest to Circus Circus. Our plan was to walk down one side of the Strip on Saturday, and the other side on Sunday. Circus Circus was a bit disappointing, so we left there pretty quickly. We took a cab to Treasure Island, and therein began our trek down the Strip. It was hot and uncomfortable, so we ducked into every casino we walked by. We had lunch at Caesars Palace, had a cold drink at Mandarin Oriental, and enjoyed some water at New York New York. At that point, we were exhausted and overheated, so we went back to our hotel. Friday night consisted of tickets to the Beatles Love by Cirque du Soleil, and dinner at the Carnegie Deli in the Mirage. The show was really, really good! Our day was so tiring! My feet and legs hurt so much!
SUNDAY: Again, Brian left early for class. Sydney and I decided to check out the hotel's breakfast buffet, and discovered that the buffet should definitely have been what we should have done the previous morning. It was way better than the room service. We started our day at The Venetian and Madame Tussauds, and wandered down the street at our leisure again, stopping here and there for a cold drink and a dose of air conditioner. I was able to get some shopping done at the ABC Store on the Strip, which made me SO HAPPY, and Sydney was able to pick her favorite colored M&Ms at the M&M Store. We had a chocolate milkshake at the Hershey Store. We made our way to Luxor for a quick walk-around, and then back to our hotel, where Brian had returned to pick us up. He finished his class about two hours early, so we were able to make it to Hoover Dam while it was open, and then made our drive home.
Here's something different for a trip to Las Vegas: Neither Brian or I had a single alcoholic drink, nor did we gamble a single cent. I mean, I don't like to gamble, so that wasn't an anomaly for me, but for not even Brian to put a single quarter in a slot machine was pretty crazy. We do usually have some kind of celebratory cocktail though, but for whatever reason, we didn't even do that. not that there's anything wrong with that. I am perfectly happy not drinking when I'm spending the weekend with my kid, and I'll saw that she is probably the reason why I was fine with spending my weekend totally sober and with all my change in my pocket.
Next trip to Vegas, though, includes a room at Bellagio with a view of the fountains, and at least one fancy drink.
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