While we were home for grad we decided to take some vacation time and fly out to Las Vegas. We drove to Great Falls and flew out from there because it is about 3 times cheaper than flying out of Fort McMurray. We left on Sunday and got in Vegas around 5 PM. The first night we walked up and down the strip and just took in the lights.
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| This was our hotel. It is one of the older ones but it was nice enough. |
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| Here's Cody taking in everything. |
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| This is the Volcano eruption in front of the Mirage. |
On Day 2 we woke up fairly early and started our trek down the strip. We went in almost all the hotels and also stopped by Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. It was crazy how life like the wax figures are. We had a lot of fun walking through and taking funny pictures with them.
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| I married George Clooney while I was in the museum. It was a special day. |
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| Cody with Chuck Liddell |
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| This picture was for Steve. Me and Michael Jordon |
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| Here we are with Pres. Obama in the White house. No big deal. |
There are lots of weird people on the strip who dress up and impersonate famous people. We saw Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jack Sparrow, and a Superman that we could have sworn was our bro-in-law Scott!
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Cody with the sketchiest Mickey Mouse ever.
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On our second day we also went to M&M World, which is massive, and continued on down the the Luxor where we went to the bodies exhibit. We weren't allowed to take pictures in the exhibits but it was really interesting to see all the different parts of the body on real people. And a little creepy too if you really started to think about it too much. It was really neat too that by looking at the bodies facial structure you could tell if they were Asian or Caucasion. Most were Asian, the guide told us that the exhibit mostly came from China.
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| M&M World |
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| The lions at MGM Grand. They are in a soundproof habitat and there are trainers inside who feed them and play with them. It was really neat. |
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| The roller coaster at New York New York. It was tons of fun but also a really rough ride! My head and muscles were sore after riding because you are thrown around so much! But it was sooo fun! |
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| This is the Luxor where we saw the exhibits. |
On our third day we went to the Titanic exhibit again at the Luxor. We couldn't take pictures inside this one either but it was really interesting to see all the artifacts they have brought up out of the ocean from the ship. At the beginning of the tour you get a paper with a persons name on it that was on the Titanic and what class they were and if they were with family, etc. After you look through and experience what it was like on the ship you find out if your person survived or not. Cody's name did not make it and mine did, which wasn't a surprise as most men died because they were trying to save the women and children first. In the exhibit there is an exact replica of the Grand staircase from the ship as well as a real piece of ice to show you what an ice berg is and how cold the night was when the ship went down. It made the experience very real and put into perspective what an amazing and terrifying night that must have been.
On our third day we also went to the top of the stratosphere and the Eiffel tower at the Paris hotel. Cody didn't want to go on the rides on the stratosphere, although I don't know if I would be able to do them again either. They have a new one now too, you get hooked on to cables and then jump off the top of the stratosphere and free fall to the bottom. It looked more fun than I thought it would but I don't think I could ever actually do it!
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| View from the top of the Stratosphere. |
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| Cody at the top. |
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| Me walking through the most luxurious and modern hotel, the Wynn. Super fancy. |
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| By the third day my feet hurt so bad and had huge blisters on the bottom from wearing my super flat sandals the first 2 days that I had to put on my runners. This is how ridiculous I looked and I got lots of funny looks from people and Cody made fun of me....hey at least my feet didn't hurt AS bad anymore! |
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| Us in VEGAS! |
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| A table we saw in one of the stores that was going for $30,000. It was a pretty crazy table, but a way crazy price! |
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| The Bellagio fountains from the top of the Paris building. |
On our last day there we sat by the pool for a while, went to a buffet at the Monte Carlo, saw a show and went down to Fremont Street.
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| This was our pool. It was so relaxing to swim for a bit and then lay by the pool and tan! I miss it. |
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| Our buffet here was Awesome! Really good food and cheap thanks to Tix4Tonight! |
The show we saw was Cirque Du Soleil's Mystere. Neither of us know what the story line was or what was happening during it but the acrobatics and everything they did was so amazing and crazy! We were just mesmorized the whole time and there was so much going on you just didn't know where to look. Next time we go to Vegas we will definately be seeing another show, hopefully "O" the water one.
The only pictures we were allowed to take were of the stage before the show started then cameras were not allowed at all.
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| This was the stage before it started. Two baby carriages and sounds of babies crying for like 20 minutes. |
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| Fremont Street! |
On Fremont street there was this guy Tony Vegas who does paintings with only spray paint and crude tools like paper and old rolls of duct tape. He does each painting in less than 8 minutes and they are really very amazing. He was super cool and I could have watched him all night.
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| Tony Vegas doing his thing. |
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| This is one of the pictures that he did just to show you how amazing he really is. |
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| Every hour on Fremont they do a light show on the big canvas above your head. The night we were there they did tributes to different bands. We saw tributes to the Doors, Queen, and Kiss. This was a picture I got of the Queen light show. It was lots of fun! |
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| Here we are with Tony Vegas and his assistant. That is the picture he painted specifically for us. It is supposed to look like Canada. The picture is Awesome! |
Vegas was so much fun! It was Cody's first time and he had a blast! We were sad to have to come home because even though we did a lot of things there was still tons we wanted to see. But we will go back one day. Now we are back home in Fort McMurray smothered in smoke and working hard. But Summer is here and I love it!
