viva las vegas

Years ago, Billy and I worked as Travel Agents for American Airlines Vacations.  Working there, I learned so much about the amazing hotels of Las Vegas and was just in awe.  I have wanted to go there for years and see hotels, see shows, just walk around and soak up Sin City.  We finally decided to bite the bullet and just book a trip.  We went with our best friends and left the kiddos with Billy's mom.  I have to say, it was an amazing trip.  It was everything I had hoped and so much more!  We were only there three days, but the hotels were just amazing.  We stayed in THE hotel at Mandalay Bay.  It is an all-suite hotel and the rooms there are just incredible.  Floor to ceiling windows, one and a half bathrooms, the largest bath tub I have EVER seen, and so on!  We arrived on Sunday wearing our Chiefs gear to support Billy's favorite team and met up with our besties who were supporting their team, the Cowboys.  The boys found a place who put both games on and us girls started out with a little slots and some shopping.  We went to a fabulous dinner, Joes Stone Crab and then crashed.  Billy and I had to get up at 3 for our flight and with the time change, we had been up almost 20 hours at that point!  The next day was a whirlwind of hotel site-seeing!  We saw Venetian, Bellagio, Paris, Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, Luxor, MGM, Excalibur and so on.  We went downtown and saw the Freemont Street Experience.  This was especially cool since they were kicking off a bowl game and had a special show as the football teams were walking down Freemont Street.  Very cool!  We had dinner at Red Square in Mandalay Bay and stayed mostly at the hotel with The Mix, and Eyecandy.  On Tuesday we did more site-seeing and shopping, and went to Minus 5.  It is an ice lounge and possibly the “coolest” thing ever!!  Then we went to the Gold Lounge at Aria before our show – Viva Elvis!  This show was amazing.  I think my mouth was open the whole time in amazement!  We hung out at The Chandelier at Cosmopolitan, and then were hoping to catch 80’s night at The Cathouse.  They had canceled 80’s night, but we still had the best time dancing the night away!  We had to leave the next day, but we had an absolute blast!  I can’t wait to go back again!  ?Sorry the pictures are so out of order.  Blogger just isn’t working with me today!