Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Las Vegas

As a wedding gift, my grandparents gave us a week of their timeshare. Four years and two kids later, we finally found the time to use it! We decided to head to Las Vegas since neither one of us had ever been there before, and everyone always seems to have a good time in the city that never sleeps. The accommodations were top notch! We highly recommend the Grandview Las Vegas. It's about three to four miles south of The Strip, but shuttles are available, and South Point Casino is across the street from Grandview and also has restaurants, bowling, and a movie theatre.



While we there we checked out most of the hotels, saw two shows (Cirque Du Soleil Mystere and Blue Man Group) and two movies. We spent some time by the pool, went out to dinner every night, took a day trip to Hoover Dam, and explored M&M World - a highlight of the trip as we got souvenirs for our little guys who were back home in Minnesota (we missed them a lot!). We aren't much for gamblers, but we had to try a few video machines since after all, we were in Vegas. I believe we spent a total of $25, and we won....well, nothing. We lost it all. But hey, $25 for a couple of hours of entertainment wasn't too bad.
Excalibur - With its castle-like appearance, we are pretty sure this would have been Sam's favorite hotel.

The Bellagio - Definitely our Fave - Fountain light show, great gelato, fancy people, unique decor
Skylight in the Bellagio

Coolest chocolate fountatin ever (at the Bellagio, of course)
At night

The Venetian - It looks like Italy inside - that sky is painted on the ceiling!

Pirate Ship outside of Treasure Island
The Fremont Street Experience (Old Vegas)

Hoover Dam - After a really long road trip with insane traffic, the Hoover Dam didn't quite impress us. It was the hottest day of our trip - 106 degrees + being surrounded by concrete = yuck. Right when we got there, we went into the cafe to grab some lunch, but the electricity had just gone out so they weren't selling anything because their cash registers were down. This also means they weren't selling tour tickets and the visitor center was closed. We roamed around for 20 minutes, then headed back home, but at least we can say we saw the largest dam in the world!
Ceiling in the lobby of the Bellagio

Lion Habitat in MGM Grand
Blue Man Group = Awesome
See it. Seriously.



Paris (this Eiffel Tower replica is half the size of the real one)

Hanging out after some gelato at the Bellagio

The Volcano at the Mirage

The Light Show at the Bellagio

1 comment:

Candace said...

Now I want to go back and just spend time there and see more stuff. It was hard cause when we where there we were there with a lot of people and for a wedding so we didn't get to spend time on a lot of stuff that we wanted. We still had fun though. Glad you guys enjoyed it!