Returned from a quick getaway last Sunday to Las Vegas with our great friends and travel comrades. The weather was hot and dry, my hair was stick straight(Love that!)and the people watching was awesome.Thursday, we arrived in style with our limo service(it's Vegas baby)and checked into The Hotel at Mandalay Bay.It's their all suite hotel(which is nice when you're married to a late sleeper to have another separate living room so I can watch tv or read since I woke up at 5 or 6 am EVERY DAY!!)Nice hotel-it's classy but not stuffy.Went to lunch at Mon Ami Gabi at the Paris hotel and then headed back to our hotel for happy hour. We had reservations at Tao Asian Bistro at the Venetian. Way overpriced food and they brought our cocktails AFTER we finished our meal. Our waiter felt bad so he gave us VIP hand stamps and we breezed right in to Tao nightclub.Score for us. Dance and danced some more. It's such a beautiful club.We left our friends around 1:30am(not as young as we used to be)they didn't roll in until 5!!!Friday was all about hanging out at the cabana. Friday night we tried Craftsteak at MGM based on one of Ron's friends who's a steak connosueir -if you watch Top Chef, you knowthat it's Tom Collichio's restaraunt. The steak and scallops were perfection, the wine list astronomically priced, so we drank by the glass. For once my husband had a more expensive drink than me. His red wine was $18 a glass and he had two. I'll be reminding him of this for years to come.We then headed over to Pure at Ceasars. Luckily, our friend signed us up for VIP so we only had to wait 45 minutes to get in. We immediately went to the lovely rooftop where we met some young, cute Californians that schooled us in on how table service works. Unforunately, the smaller the group, the more expensive. You need like 15 in a group to make it worthwhile.My feet were killing me-they need old people VIP service.For 4 people please?? Saturday was another day of lounging around at the cabana and people watching. Saturday we went low rent and went to Margaritaville.We were all grateful they served Diet coke after 2 days of Pepsi. They put on this crazy skit so we started clapping along even though I only know 3 Jimmy Buffett songs.We could not stop laughing. Headed over to a dueling piano bar for awhile and called it a night. Gambling? Didn't do much of that-lost $30. Liver-is regenerating as we speak.People watching-PRICELESS.So much to say but it's a family blog so I'm keeping it PG.
Returned from a quick getaway last Sunday to Las Vegas with our great friends and travel comrades. The weather was hot and dry, my hair was stick straight(Love that!)and the people watching was awesome.Thursday, we arrived in style with our limo service(it's Vegas baby)and checked into The Hotel at Mandalay Bay.It's their all suite hotel(which is nice when you're married to a late sleeper to have another separate living room so I can watch tv or read since I woke up at 5 or 6 am EVERY DAY!!)Nice hotel-it's classy but not stuffy.Went to lunch at Mon Ami Gabi at the Paris hotel and then headed back to our hotel for happy hour. We had reservations at Tao Asian Bistro at the Venetian. Way overpriced food and they brought our cocktails AFTER we finished our meal. Our waiter felt bad so he gave us VIP hand stamps and we breezed right in to Tao nightclub.Score for us. Dance and danced some more. It's such a beautiful club.We left our friends around 1:30am(not as young as we used to be)they didn't roll in until 5!!!Friday was all about hanging out at the cabana. Friday night we tried Craftsteak at MGM based on one of Ron's friends who's a steak connosueir -if you watch Top Chef, you knowthat it's Tom Collichio's restaraunt. The steak and scallops were perfection, the wine list astronomically priced, so we drank by the glass. For once my husband had a more expensive drink than me. His red wine was $18 a glass and he had two. I'll be reminding him of this for years to come.We then headed over to Pure at Ceasars. Luckily, our friend signed us up for VIP so we only had to wait 45 minutes to get in. We immediately went to the lovely rooftop where we met some young, cute Californians that schooled us in on how table service works. Unforunately, the smaller the group, the more expensive. You need like 15 in a group to make it worthwhile.My feet were killing me-they need old people VIP service.For 4 people please?? Saturday was another day of lounging around at the cabana and people watching. Saturday we went low rent and went to Margaritaville.We were all grateful they served Diet coke after 2 days of Pepsi. They put on this crazy skit so we started clapping along even though I only know 3 Jimmy Buffett songs.We could not stop laughing. Headed over to a dueling piano bar for awhile and called it a night. Gambling? Didn't do much of that-lost $30. Liver-is regenerating as we speak.People watching-PRICELESS.So much to say but it's a family blog so I'm keeping it PG.
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Can't wait for the next trip! Vegas was awesome! Even if some of the non-PG memories are burned in my mind forever! :) K
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