We have decided to celebrate our 45th Wedding Anniversary and Michael's birthday in a special way - so it was a good time to visit Las Vegas! I arranged for several "goodies" to do while there and I will post separately on each event we attended. All I know that 4 days and 3 nights are more than enough to see what you want to see and to make sure you lose all your money..... lol
We had a great deal on flight+hotel we couldn't miss. While there we saw more cowboys and kids all over the place: the 2009 National Rodeo Finals were in town. Boy, are they a loud bunch! The outfits they wore were so neat - I loved the different types of cowboy hats and boots. I saw one little girl, about 5-6 years old all dressed up in pink with tons of rhinestones on her costume, hat and boots - all pink!!! She looked absolutely adorable. They passed us too fast for me to take a picture of her. I purchased tickets to a show called: The Price is Right. It is a stage show - similar to the one televised with great prizes, told to "come on down" and participate in different games. After each game finished, 5 people's names were called and they were issued a player's card with $10.00 in food coupon and $10.00 in slot tokens. Michael's name was called. He was so happy!!! So was I that it was him - after all it was his birthday.
Before the show we had our picture taken before the "big wheel" and that was great!
We arrived around noon on Friday and the show was Friday night. What a way to start a vacation! We travelled back to our hotel, Circus Circus from Bally's where the show was. Had a quick bite to eat and did a little gambling but were so tired - we fell into bed.
But there was no rest for the - weary travellers. I asked for a wake-up call for 5 a.m. because we had other great things to do early Saturday morning. It was painful to get up that early but we had to be at the front entrance to ......
You'll have to read my next post.
Hugs,
Gisele/Nanabear
