So this weekend was a 3 day weekend. My friends and I (Sean, Bryan, and Bryan's friends Kailey and Angela) decided to go to to Las Vegas. I along with Angela have never been to Vegas. Most people think it isn't fun when you aren't 21 but that a whole lot of patooie! We left school Saturday morning. For lunch we ate at a Greek place called Mad Greek, It was pretty good! This Greek restaurant is located in Baker a little ways out of Nevada. After this we continued to head to Vegas. Just outside of Las Vegas was a casino/hotel called Buffalo Bills. Bryan said they had a coaster that was pretty good so we decided to ride it. This coaster was called Desperado. It was fun, fast, and very rough. I had a ponytail in my hair and thought I was going to lose it by the time the ride was over, luckily I didn't. After this Vegas wasn't too far away.
Once we got into Vegas we checked into our hotel. We stayed at the MGM Grand. Our room was the Grand Queen. It was so nice and the beds were super comfy. I've only bee out of the state once and that was back in 8th grade so I really haven't stayed in many hotels so I thought this one was awesome! We freshened up then headed down to the strip. We walked to the New York New York and walked down for a bit then crossed the street and went to the M&M World and Coca Cola factory. After this we grabbed some dinner and continued to walk down the strip. By the time we were ready to turn in we ended up at Caesars Palace in the Forum Shops.
This was our view from our room at the MGM
There's our hotel!!
New York New York
There was a lion habitat by the casino on the first floor, Awesomeness!
M&M World taken by Sean
Let me tell you the best part of the trip. I have the greatest boyfriend in the world. He is so great to me and surprises me with things and I appreciate him so much! So earlier that day when we were at Mad Greek I told Sean that at the Forum Shops I wanted to go to the Celine Dion store. Ever since I can remember I have listened to her music and ever since she was first in Vegas I wanted to see her in concert. Bryan mentioned that she was at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which I knew. Sean asked if I wanted to go, I didn't want to spend so much money, well he bought tickets for the following night! My jaw dropped, it was AMAZING what he did. Anyways we walked through half of the Forum Shops and then turned in.
Here I am in the Forum Shops, I though this would be a good picture :)
Here is a view of SOME of the Forum Shops plus the sky that changes color throughout the day!
On Sunday we checked out of the hotel at about 12:30 and headed back to the car and packed our stuff. We then headed to Downtown Las Vegas. Here we went to another hotel which had a good hawaiian restaurant called Aloha. From here we decided to check out Fremont street, there were gift shops and a zipeline, a pretty cool place. Here's an interesting tidbit, Fremont street used to be "The Strip" until new hotels were built and now the strip is what it is. After we wanted to check out the Pawn Shop from the TV show on History Channel "Pawn Stars" Here's a little advice with this it's not exactly what you would think it would look like. It is a lot smaller than it appears on the show and you do not see the actual stars from the show. Still if it is something you are interested in do it, there most likely will be a line but it moves pretty fast. By this time it was maybe 2:30, 3 o'clock. We went back to the strip and tried to finish the forum shops at Caesars Palace. We spent the next 3 hours walking it up and down. It is BIG! At about 6 o'clock we all kind of just decided to stay an extra night because it would have been a bad idea to drive back home after the concert. This time it was the Imperial Palace. Totally don't recommend this place, the room smelled like smoke and I didn't really want to pull down the covers and sleep. But for being a last minute thing and only for an extra night for cheap wasn't bad. Since it was so close to the show we grabbed some food before heading to the show.
Pawn Shop, and look at the line...not bad we waited for only a couple of minutes
Here's what I have been waiting for all day and even longer!!!!
Here's where I get to my favorite part. After we ate Sean and I split away from the group and headed to the Colosseum. We got our tickets from will call and then went inside to get our seats. We were in the second mezzanine area which was high up but still awesome to me. I was super excited, my heart was beating and I just couldn't wait til it got started. Once she came out and started singing I just broke down and cried. I was crying so much Sean asked what was wrong and I said nothing that I was just so happy and he replied I've never seen you so happy that you cried LOL The show was amazing, she did some tributes to people such as Michael Jackson and Etta James. Plus she sand her songs starting from the beginning with Where Does My Heart Beat Now? I was rocking out to all of them, I sang tapped my feet, clapped my hands UGH it was great. I didn't want the night to end. Ever since I can remember people/myfriends have always made fun of me for liking Celine Dion, personally I don't care what they think she sings better than any rapper or those singers that cuss in their lyrics. She is genuine and really cares about her audience and what she sings about.After the show I was the happiest person in the world, I also decided to buy a shirt then headed to the Celine Dion store and bout a key chain and a picture. They didn't have any real posters :( so I bought a big postcard haha. We headed to Chipotle and ate with our friends then headed back to Imperial Palace and later went to bed.
On our last day in Vegas we woke up and checked out then headed back to the M&M world and then to Mandalay Bay to check out a stain glass window in the House of Blues that Kailey's mom had made. Then we left Vegas.
Look at me I am so happy! WOOOOO!!!
Our tickets! :))
The ride home was full of laughter and dancing in the car. This weekend was probably one of the best weekends ever. I achieved one of my ultimate dreams thanks to Sean. I love you so much sweetie!!
Til Next Time!
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