Happy
Friday and Pre-St. Patty's Day to you all!
We
are home from vacation. Our days in Vegas were enjoyable, full of
new experiences, and also quite indulgent.
This
trip we stayed at MGM Grand on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip.
I liked this location as it is really convenient for using the bus
system and made getting around really easy. You have to walk quite
far into the hotel to reach the room elevators and our room was
almost at the end of a long hall. There is always so much walking
when you go to Vegas.
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| My steps/miles from my Apple Watch Sunday - Thursday |
In
the wee hours of Tuesday morning, I had my first White Castle
experience on the strip. It was pretty good but I don't really like
sauteed onions on my burger. While we were waiting for our food,
somebody standing by me asked if we notied Flavor Flav, a celebrity
personality/rapper/comic, had just walked in. Sure enough, he was
standing in line to order his food wearing a clock around his neck,
his signature look. Once I saw others were bugging him by saying
hello, I stepped up there to take my turn. Oh boy did he look
wasted. I'm not even sure he knew what was going on but he was still
polite and greeted fans. You never know what you will see in Vegas
at 2am!
Later
on Tuesday afternoon we met up with some friends, a prior coworker
Kelsie and her trooper husband Dan. We enjoyed happy hour at
Beerhaus, watched them play at the craps table, and then had dinner
at Nine Fine Irishman. I am so glad we were able to meet up with the
for the evening. Kelsie and Dan live a few hours from Boise and were
in town for the Golden Knights Hockey Game.
On
Wednesday we met up with my cousin Amy and her husband John who were
in down for March Madness from Lee Summit, Missouri. We started at
Bellagio so we could see the conservatory, which was done up for
Chinese New Year/Spring Awakening.
From
there we used their car rental to go off strip to the Pinball Museum.
This was amazing! There are rows and row of pinball machines from
all decades. They also had other “old school” gaming consoles
and a popcorn machine for $0.25. The popcorn machine was an instant
win each time!
We
finished off our day of new experiences at the Mob Museum. This was
a three story building exhibit that told all about the different
types of mobs, how they began, the ties to Vegas, and eventually how
it ended for some. This museum takes several hours to see it all and
we really enjoyed it.
We
said goodbye to Amy and John and took the bus from Fremont Street to
Twin Peaks. Boise has a Twin Peaks restaurant/bar and while we have
never been, my parents have taken Grandpa there once (there is so
much in that statement that seems odd) and she always told me how
good the beer was. She was right! The beer is super cold that after
getting to the bottom of my 22 oz glass it was still cold. We
actually popped into Twin Peaks twice, once early in the week and
again on Wednesday for the $6 beer special and some dinner.
The
burgers we had were good and we enjoyed the chips and queso too. Of
course, the main selling point for Twin Peaks is the “scenic views”
and boy were those girls wearing hardly any clothes!
Our
final day in Vegas was a long one. We booked the latest flight out,
which didn't leave until after 10pm. We thought this would be a
great idea since we are on graveyard and didn't want to get up super
early for the first flight out. Since we weren't doing good at the
slot machines and our gambling money was pretty much gone, this meant
a really long day with nothing to do. After checking out of the
hotel, we had breakfast/brunch at the MGM Grand buffet, which was
AMAZING and included all-you-can-drink mimosas.
We
killed time at the Fashion Store Mall and eventually used the bus
system to make our way to Hard Rock Casino and a nearby German
restaurant called Hofbrauhaus that Kenyon's coworkers have been
telling us about. It was expensive but since we were in the mood for
authentic German cusine, we shared the potato soup, sausages and
pretzel, and finished off with some black forest cake. It was all
really good!
You
better believe I had myself a big German beer. I wanted to do the
really large one, just for show, but that is a lot of beer to drink
at 3pm and it was $17. So, I settled for the smaller one that was
just as tasty.
We
took the bus again the rest of the way to the airport, which put us
there five hours early as there was a flight delay. Not much to do
in the Vegas airport but the one plus side is that it was smoke free.
Between cigarette smoke and legal marijuana in NV, it was a stinky
few days on the strip.
We
always enjoy going to Vegas but know we need to branch out more. So,
I'll have to start researching other non-stop flight destinations for
the future.
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