Vegas, Baby!

As you probably saw from the phone-pictures I posted a few weeks ago, Carter and I had a long weekend vacation in Vegas over Veteran's Day long weekend! We had a great time, just the two of us--I think this might have been the one and only time we've ever gone on a vacation together to a NON-family related function! yay us! I had never been to Vegas before, so Carter showed me around and we saw all the sights and did pretty much everything. I liked it a lot, but decided 3-4 days was just about enough Vegas for any one person, so I was also happy to be home. Vegas is tiring!!

Here are my pics, enjoy!

This was the beautiful entry-way inside the Wynn. I waffled a lot, but I think the Wynn was my favorite casino/hotel! We didn't stay here, but pretty much went back every day because we liked it so much. The decorations and feel were the perfect mix of modern and classic, very sophisticated.

This is still at the Wynn--we had the brunch buffet! The wait was a little excessive (1.5 hrs in line I think???) but the food was AMAZING! we both left SOOO stuffed. 

I had a bottomless mimosa! mmmm

also at the Wynn

my favorite model in front of our hotel--Circus Circus

We got a really good deal on this hotel, but it definitely is not the nicest place on the strip!  It was fine though, very family oriented and kinda "classic". The room was MUCH nicer than we thought it would be, it must have been recently renovated.  We were fairly far from the main part of the strip so we took the bus a lot.

not the best photo, but this is us all dressed up before going to our show! We saw Cirque De Soleil show called "KA" and it was AMAZING.!! We weren't allowed to take photos but I'll just describe it here.
I knew we had good seats, but I didn't realize HOW great they were--we were FRONT ROW and in the exact middle! Apparently our tickets were not the most expensive kind but the 2nd most expensive tickets,  as you can't see quite everything from the front row (almost TOO close, but not really). We thought it was fabulous though, were so close we could really touch the actors if we wanted too! In fact, one of them almost DID hit Carter in the head! They also ran right through our front row and we had to put our legs down otherwise we would have tripped them! The show was great, it had more of a plot than the other Cirque show we've seen, but still plenty of crazy stuff too. The stage and set were also amazing. 

One day we spent in old town (Freemont Street). I liked it a lot, for some of the same reasons as Circus Circus--it's old, classic, not much has changed, but it's still clean and fine. We had breakfast here and gambled a bit in some smallll casinos!

Freemont Street

Trying to be artsy until Carter told me what sort of place this a sign for.....can anyone guess?

they gave free beers much  more freely on Freemont Street! Yay!

These people were getting married on the sidewalk in front of
Circus Circus, so romantic :-)

Our last night in Vegas we didn't have plans, so we bought last minute tickets to a magic show!  Also we made friends with some people while we were waiting to get into the show , and they invited us to sit in their booth in the front row! 

His name was Jan something, from Germany and with a thick accent. He was very cheesy but his magic was good, we couldn't really figure many of them out! (Carter claims he had a few figured out)

After this show we went to a very nice italian restaurant recommended by Becky. We went all out and got appetizers, desserts, etc. It was sooooooooooo good!

I think that's the Wynn again. These pictures are apparently not in order....?

This Chilhuly glass art work was on the ceilling at the Bellagio, so beautiful! Now it is the background on my cell phone.

Bellagio brunch buffet on our last day--Carter got entire plates of meat!

Waiting for the Belagio fountains on our last day

shopping on the strip!

mmmmmmmm M&Ms in sepia!

and Coca Cola in black and white! I'm so artsy.

I took this one for the Boehms!

At the huge coke store we got a sampler of 16 types of Coke products around the WORLD!! It was so interesting, crazy crazy flavors from all crazy counties.

mmmmmmmmmm

One more fountain experience before we got on a bus to the airport.

They played "Viva Las Vegas" by Elvis! Perfect!

Goodbye Vegas

goodbye,  Circus Circus