I am way behind on blogging, but here finally is our Vegas trip that we took a couple of weeks ago. We flew out Friday evening, but our flight was delayed about an hour and a half out of Fargo. Luckily we found out before we left for the airport.
Arriving in Vegas. So, we landed in Vegas after a direct flight from Fargo around 11:00 PM.
I didn't take my camera, so all the pics were just from my cell phone.
We hadn't planned a long trip and would be flying back out on Monday afternoon, so we tried to make the most of our time. Once we checked into our hotel, we ventured out for a bit and stopped for some appetizers and drinks. I had been awake for about 23 hours at this point, with the time change and all, so that was about it for me!
We stayed at the Flamingo which was really busy. We tried to spend as much time in the pool there as possible since the heat was ferocious. I think the highest it got was 112 degrees.
We had made reservations for Saturday night at a nearby restaurant, Spago. When I confirmed the reservation, I was asked if we were coming in for a special occasion and I checked the box that said 'anniversary' since that was the whole reason for our trip in the first place. It was right near the Bellagio's fountains, so the view was pretty nice.
Fun bread board!
We had ordered a dessert and then they brought this little treat out with Congratulations for our anniversary. It didn't really seem like it was the same as what we had ordered, but it was really tasty, so we just proceeded to eat it.
Then our actual dessert that we ordered showed up. Uff. Apparently the first one was the complimentary one for our anniversary. Ha!
After dinner we went to the Tropicana for a comedy show which was super funny.
Our windows had these thick mesh screens so it was sort of difficult to see out them, but one morning I woke up to see a hot air balloon down below.
On Sunday night we had tickets to a rock concert at the Hard Rock Hotel. We found a really good Chinese restaurant in the hotel to eat at before the show.
On Monday we spent the rest of our time walking around some of the other nearby hotels/casinos. We discovered The Cheesecake Factory in Caesar's Palace. Oh. Man. It was so good. Neither one of us had ever eaten at one before, but we were so glad we checked it out.
Heading home!
We were glad to get away for a trip with just the two of us, even though we didn't do a ton of stuff in Vegas. It was just so hot during the day, it was hard to do anything much outside, except to be at the pool. Dana wanted to do a zipline thing. I instead offered to video him from the ground. :-) But, he didn't end up doing it. I think if we ever go back, we'll plan for a less scorching time of year!
Thank you to the grandparents for watching the girls while we were away. Here's some pics of what they were up to while we were gone.
At the pool in Lake Park.
Watching Grandpa Kevin hard at work.
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