The positives: 1. It was around $50 a night, which is amazing considering we booked it the day before we went there, and we stayed on Friday/Saturday night, the most expensive nights of the week. 2. Its location was fantastic! It was close to all the things we wanted to do, but far enough away from the strip that it wasn't noisy all night. We totally slept with the window open without being woken up by sirens all night! 3. Full size kitchen. Not that we used it, but having a fridge was nice for our leftovers.
The negatives: 1. No pool. Poo. 2. The front desk lady made us wait 35 minutes before we could check in. Maybe this isn't a big deal to some people, but after being in the car for 6 hours, I don't really appreciate sitting on a couch watching a lady to paperwork. Customers first!!! 3. After waiting 35 minutes, the person checking us in said they only had smoking rooms left. Ew. But, this brings me to my 4th positive pont; when we went to our room, we realized that it was actually a non-smoking room. Strange? Yes. Thankful? Absolutely.
So obviously, since our late arrival Friday night (we got there around 11pm local time, midnight Utah time), we didn't do anything except go to bed.
Saturday we got up early and went to our favorite ticket selling thingy, Tix 4 2Nite. They sell half price tickets to shows in Vegas. We wanted to go to Tournament of Kings, but it was all sold out. So after thinking about different shows, we decided on Penn and Teller. So we bought our tickets, and went on with our day.
We had lunch at Rainforest Cafe. We both got bacon cheeseburgers. They were delicious! But super overpriced, please don't ask. We even got dessert! Bananas Foster... I don't really like bananas, but I do love the caramel rum sauce that they cook it in. Or in this case, they just drizzled the sauce over the top, but it was still delicious!
After filling our bellies with overpriced deliciousness, we "cruised" the strip, on foot, of course... you have to be mental to drive the strip... or just have nothing better to do... or maybe you don't know what to do in Vegas other than drive down the street with your windows down bumping crappy rap music. Ok ok... maybe you don't have a lot of time and just want a quick glance at the city. Except... that's not very quick. Anyway... where was I? Right, we were walking down the strip. Oi! I've walked the thing so many times, but it still never ceases to amaze me. We went inside M&M
World, just momentarity. We didn't stay to watch the movie this time. Then we went over to Coke World and saw their cute scented t-shirts! They have shirts that are scented like different coke drinks! I bought a Vanilla Coke one. Not only because I love the stuff... but because it was super cute!We also bought a new decoration for our "theater" room. Thanks to Tenille and Brandon we have a ticket stub and popcorn decoration, and now we have a coke sign! Hooray!
Next we went to Ethel M's Chocolate Factory. One of my favorite places to go. The chocolate is expensive, but delicious. We both got a box of 12 chocolates, and we also bought a few candybars. Oh, and we bought ourselves drinks too! Because we spent so much money, we got a free gift! It was some delicious toffee stuff. Mmmm. Good stuff. The samples this time weren't that great. It was just regular milk chocolate, white chocolate and dark chocolate. Don't get me wrong, their plain flavors are good, but it's nice to sample some unique chocolates. Oh well though, there's always next time!
After this we were feeling pretty tired, so we went back to our room. I read a couple chapters of the 6th Harry Potter book (just refreshing my memory before the movie comes out) and Lance watched TV, and then we took a nap. Crazy, right? Well, you see.... we wanted to go swimming, but the hotel didn't have a pool, like I mentioned before. So we napped for 2 hours, and got up because we wanted to get dinner before our Penn and Teller show. That's when we realized our Penn and Teller "tickets" were really vouchers, and we needed to swap them for tickets at the ticket booth an hour before the show. So we had 30 minutes to get ready and rush over to The Rio to exhange them. Oi! Luckily we made it in time, and still got pretty good seats! Instead of eating, we just went to the theater and waited for the show to start.
The show was better than I thought it would be! Penn and Teller are truly amazing! They did a trick where they turned an audience member into Teller. Seriously, I have no idea how they did it, it was freaking crazy! They also did the Magic Bullets trick, which I have seen before on TV, but it was still awesome to see in person. Basically they have audience members write their names on bullets, put the bullets into guns, and shoot them through pieces of glass at eachother, catching the bullet in their teeth, and then having the audience member confirm that it's the actual bullet they signed. Seriously baffling.
After this we went to dinner at In N Out burger. I love that place. It was really good. Yes, this means we had burgers for lunch and dinner....
We then went to Fremont Street and walked up and down, watched the laser show and made fun of the the retarded drunks before heading back to our hotel.
I intended to take more pictures of our little adventure, but alas, I am terrible with remembering to grab the camera out of the car. That, and, I hate carrying the thing. Oh, and I feel dumb taking pictures of things. I dunno... something about feeling "touristy" even though I am a tourist. It's something I need to work on, OK?!
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