Collin surprised me with a trip to Las Vegas in early February. We left on Friday morning and flew first class to Vegas. It's only a 2 1/2 hour flight, and there's no time change, so it's a perfect place to spend a long weekend. We arrived shortly after noon and after dropping the bags off at the hotel, started exploring the city by foot.
Collin with our hotel, Paris, in the background.
Last time I was here Paris had not yet been built. It is an amazing hotel!
We had reservations for the Eiffel Tower Restaurant, and our table overlooked the strip and the Bellagio Hotel just across the street. The Bellagio has a lighted fountain show every half hour, so we saw it quite a few times throughout the course of our meal. Which, by the way, was fantastic!
The open kitchen of the Eiffel Tower Restaurant which totally reminded me of my favorite movie "Ratatouille" minus the rats, of course.
The mister and me at dinner.
After dinner we had tickets to see Jay Leno do stand-up at the Mirage. He put on a great show and was really funny. No cameras were allowed, so I settled for a picture of the tickets.
The Paris Hotel was super cute inside. We had lunch the following day at this "outdoor" cafe at our hotel.
We explored other hotels as well. One of our favorites was the Venetian.
Not quite the real thing, but the canal was quite a sight.
Saturday evening we had tickets to see the Cirque du Soleil show, "Mystere". One word - amazing!
After we headed back to the Venetian to have a late dinner at Otto Enoteca Pizzeria, which is owned by Mario Batali. Gordon Ramsey Steak was located in our hotel, but we never dined there since we weren't in the mood for steak.
On Sunday we were back at the Venetian again to have lunch at a restaurant beside the canal.
The lobby at the Venetian
The whole hotel was beautiful.
I was super excited to see that the Titanic Artifact Exhibition was in town. Unfortunately cameras weren't allowed in but it was really well done and extremely interesting. There was an actual piece of the ship that was on display (it was a huge piece of the side of the ship), and the Grand Staircase was re-created in real size, as was a portion of the ship's promenade deck. There were real artifacts that were recovered from the ship wreck that belonged to both passengers and the Star Line. It was really impressive.
After the Titanic Exhibit, Collin and I walked the strip at night to see all the amazing lights.
New York New York
Hard Rock Cafe
Our hotel at night
We did some gambling the last night we were there - nothing major, just 1 cent slots. I had a dream when we arrived that I hit triple sevens and won $8 million. Well, I did hit triple sevens (see above) but since we were playing penny slots the payout was 1,000 "credits" - a whole $10.00!
My "jackpot" claim ticket.
It was a wonderful weekend away, and it was especially nice to not be on Mommy duty the whole weekend. Thank you so much to Auntie Delta and Nana & Bubba for providing childcare.
P.S. - When we told the boys that we were going away for the weekend Ronan was quiet for a moment - you could see the wheels turning in his mind. Finally he spoke, "Well, I could make sandwiches for my brothers." Poor guy thought we were leaving them without any grown-ups to take care of them! He thought it was a much better solution to have Nana & Bubba coming to stay while we were gone!
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