Vegas Baby!!!

At the "Bling" Dinner on Saturday Night

Blown Glass at the Bellagio

M&M world

At Cesar's Palace in the Lobby

Paris is where we stayed

So I enjoyed my first trip to Vegas!!  It was soooo much fun.  I went because my mom had her jewelry convention there and I thought I might as well tag along.  I asked Debbie Reid to go so I had someone with Vegas experience to show me around during the day when my mom was busy.  What a cool place!  I cannot wait to go back.

Debbie and I got there on Friday evening.  Our flights were pretty close together and we went to the hotel, had a little to eat and joined my mom in the convention room.  We sat and listened to some of the awards that were being given and then hit the casino floor.  My mom and Laura joined us after a little while and we went walking.  We went in and out of Bill's, O'Shea's, Bally's, Harrah's, Cesars, and Mirage.  We didn't do any gambling, but we did a lot of people watching and sightseeing.  We headed back to Paris, which is where we stayed and sent Laura and my mom to bed and Debbie and I gambled.  We had so much fun playing Wizard of Oz!  Didn't win much, but I was highly entertained.  We didn't go to bed until around 2:30, which St. Louis time would have been 4:30!  I had been up almost 24 hours!!!  I cannot even remember the last time I did that. 

We slept in until 9:30 and got up and had breakfast in the hotel and put our walking shoes back on.  We hit Planet Hollywood (which is where I want to stay next!), MGM, Coca-Cola store, M&M store, New York New York (would like to stay there too), & Bellagio.  We gambled in each hotel we went in, which was fun to say I did.  We went back to the hotel and got ready for the "Bling" dinner that Park Lane was having that night.  We went and ate dinner and then headed back out.  We went to the same places we had gone the first night, but this time we gambled in all of those places.  My mom and Laura did not go with us because they had an extremely early flight.  We went to bed around 2:00 am that night or morning.

We slept in again and on Sunday had breakfast, packed up, checked out and headed out.  I wanted to see the Venetian before we left so that is where we went.  I won $50 playing penny Price is Right.  It was so fun to win and keep going to the bonus stuff!  We went back to Paris, played a little more there and then headed to the airport.

 I had a great trip and really cannot wait to do it again.  Aside from airfare and hotel it was not too expensive of a trip.  Yes, I lost some money gambling, but not nearly as much as what i thought I might have.  I even came home with money left!!!  That says something right there!