Friday, May 14, 2010

I ♥ Las Vegas

I don't know whether any of you have really been missing it, but I owe you a blog about my trip to Vegas. So here goes...

It was SO fun! I'd like to try to convince myself that it was actually more fun because I waited more than a year between visits, but I know full well that my brain is impervious to such logic. Every time I go to Vegas, I begin planning my next trip to Vegas - that's just the way it is.

This trip was a bit different for me in that it was warm enough to go to the pool (for Vegas, that means 80's) and we didn't eat a single fancy dinner. The fanciest we got was Todd English P.U.B. in the new CityCenter complex, which was good, but overpriced. BLT Burger, in the Mirage, was a much better value - plus, they have a shake called The All-Nighter that involves espresso and Bailey's (YUM!).

Truth be told, we were supposed to eat at Mario Batali's B&B Ristorante one night, but we ended up canceling our reservation because I had declared it to be "Everything fun day," during which we could only do fun things, and we were having too much fun in the dive casinos on the Strip to leave (mostly Casino Royale, which wins for most deceiving name). They had $1 margaritas. That was a good day.

The best part of the trip was spending time with some of our fabulous friends, who we don't get to see nearly often enough. Plus, I got to see one of my college friends who I hadn't seen for (this kills me) nearly a decade. And we saw LOVE, which I think must be just as amazing the 700th time you see it as it is the first (this was my second). AND I discovered a new favorite slot machine, Invaders from the Planet Moolah (They're cows, get it? And they moo in the most delightful ways!). AND I got to play the Monopoly Tycoon Bonus several times, which is always a good thing.

Oh Vegas, I keep thinking you will start to lose your luster one of these times...but it seems that we have a love made to last.

1 comment:

kristi said...

That DOES sound fun!