Vegas Baby!

Eric and my trip to Vegas last weekend for the NCAA tournie was so much fun! And we can't wait to go again after we've recovered from this trip. So I'm guessing we'll be ready to go again around 2011. The trip was filled with lots of amazing food, more then a few too many beverages, a little gambling, some laying by the pool time and plenty of basketball watching.

We stayed at Mandalay Bay which is gorgeous and smells like Hawaii when you walk in the front door. The casino itself smells like cigarettes but what are you going to do, it's Vegas. We ate at an amazing seafood place on Friday - RM Seafood, steak on Saturday - Stripsteak, and shared some small plates at Stack on Sunday before going to see Love (the Beatles Cirgue show). The show was wonderful but probably would have been less sleepy if we hadn't had wine with dinner and gone to the late show. Live and learn.

We mostly watched basketball in the sportsbook at Mandalay but next time we're hangin at the Wynn sportsbook. It has huge comfy leather swivel chairs.

On Saturday night we sat on the balcony in the bar at the top of TheHotel (part of Mandalay Bay) and watch the lights go out on the strip for Earth Hour.

Here are some pics from our fun:

Veiw of the strip from our room on the 24th Floor of Mandalay Bay

We wondered the strip on our first morning in Vegas and stopped at Paris for a Bloody Mary

To be honest - this really isn't my drink but I did find it amusing how many places had VERY tall specialty drinks and how many people were actually walking around drinking them at 10am.

First night in Vegas - watching some basketball before heading out for dinner.

Here's the reason we were in Vegas!
Here's the view of the strip from Mix (bar at the top of TheHotel)

View of the Mandalay Bay pool at night and about 60 floors up.
Eric and the Elephants
Mandalay Bay Beach (waves and sand and all)
The lion at MGM Grand
Picture standing under the lion. Those are some big paws!
Pretty lights and flowers at the Wynn. Some of the casinos are so amazing! Some are exactly what you would expect from cheesy Vegas. This was an amazing one.
Our last view of Vegas before getting on the plane.

Thanks to Grammy and Grampy and Aunt Jane for keeping Miss Ellie so happy while we got to go have some fun!