We stayed at the Flamingo, which was nice as far as being centrally located, but I will never stay there again. Nor would I recommend that anybody else stay there. Dirty, dirty, dirty. Constantly dripping bath faucet and burned out lightbulbs in our room. I was not impressed. I understand it's a super old hotel, and that's fine. But that doesn't mean that you can't switch out a light bulb as needed, or give the carpets a MUCH needed shampooing. But, enough about that!
They did, however, have a beautiful flamingo habitat in their courtyard.
Monday night we ate dinner at the Italian resteraunt at New York New York and just walked around, looking at the resorts. Saw the Bellagio fountains, gardens and amazing cakes/pastries.Tuesday we were lucky enough to get free tickets to see the Mac King comedy/magic show. It was fantastic! And clean!! We walked around looking at more of the casinos and later that evening, we went over to Luxor to see the Bodies Exhibition. I was absolutely fascinated with it. There was a part of the exhibit that included fetal development, which was kinda hard to process at first. I got a bit teary as soon as I walked in the room and just wanted to hold all those poor little things. It absolutely broke my heart thinking about how many women lost their babies and now had them on display in Las Vegas. BUT. It was so amazing to see exactly what the fetal development was at each specific stage. I really don't know how anybody can say that a fetus is not a living baby. Especially after having seen this exhibit. I kind of think it should be required viewing for anybody contemplating an abortion. But again, enough of my soap box. Bottom line is that the exhibit was well worth the money. The human body is absolutely amazing!!
After that exhibit, we ran back up to Harrah's for their buffet...YUMMY! We definitely ate way more than necessary!
Wednesday morning, we headed over to the temple and did a few sealings. We wanted to do work for an hour, but because of the temple workers scheduling, we really only ended up working for maybe 20 minutes. It was still enjoyable, though. When we first walked into the temple, there was a woman standing there greeting people coming in. I looked at her and then whispered to David, "Is that Marie Osmond?" It SO was!! She was a new volunteer there, and was even the one that helped me as I rented a dress. I was worried for a minute that she was going to ask where we were from, where we were staying and "Oh! You stayed at the Flamingo, did you catch my show?"; because, no, we didn't. But she didn't ask any travel related questions, so we were good! She really is so incredibly sweet.
After the temple, we went to the Ethel M chocolate factory, bought a few too many chocolates and then headed for home.It was such a nice, relaxing trip; and so much fun to have David all to myself for 3 days straight. However, we were so happy to come home to see our kiddos!! They had so much fun with Lala while we were gone...she did a good job of spoiling them rotten! We are so lucky to not only have her here, but have an auntie that is so willing to do anything for the boys.
And now that our little vacation is over, it's back to the grind! Wouldn't it be nice if we could just live in a permanent state of vacation? I know I'd love it...
3 comments:
I always found it obnoxious that the energy tax on a hotel room in Las Vegas is OUTRAGEOUS but the light bulbs are burned out?!
Glad you guys had fun!
We went there a few weeks ago and it was so much fun! We didn't stay at the Flamingo (although, we had a similar experience a few years ago at the New Frontier hotel, which has since been demolished for good reason) but we we went to see the bird habitat and Hallie LOVED the flamingos.
It looks like you guys had so much fun! I'm glad you got to have a little trip just the two of you. That is so important!
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