Well, we’re all checked in and through security at Las Vegas’ McCarren airport. I’ve got about 30 minutes until we board so I thought I’d jot a few notes.
I promised you the most boring Las Vegas travel log ever. We don’t party, we don’t gamble and we’re generally “early to bed and early to rise.” Let’s just say we did the same things we would have done at home – only we did them here in Las Vegas and in a very nice 9th floor suite with a HUGE outdoor porch that ran the entire length of the suite. The hotel was only 11-floors which is about the size of most of the parking garages here. Ken and the kids really enjoyed the indoor pool, though. I tried to make business calls during their pool time but only scored a “so-so” in that department.
It was wonderful holding school with Abbey in the cool morning air on the porch with the view of Las Vegas and the mountains spread out before us. Christopher chose to do his school inside where it was presumably quiet since Abbey and I were working outside and Daddy was in his classes. We had a table and 4-chairs as well as 2 chaise loungers; one with a pad and one without. Since we’re in a betting town you could easily wager that the kids fought over the lounge chair with the padded cushion. They either took turns or used a towel on the 2nd one. There really isn’t much our two youngest won’t fight over.
Since we’ve been here a few times before we really didn’t do a lot of the tourist stuff. M&M World and floats at Coca-Cola World were “musts.” Obligatory visits to any Sam’s or Costco’s we found along the way. Girls only and guys only dinners one evening (Ken and Christopher chose the buffet at Mandalay Bay while Abbey requested an ice-cream dinner from Cold Stone Creamery in Excalibur), and the dancing fountains at Bellagio. We ate dinner at the Sidewalk Café in Bally’s one evening where you could place Keno bets from your table and the games were displayed on screens throughout the restaurant (we didn’t). The theme was early Vegas with pictures of Sinatra, Davis, Martin, and Bishop all around and music to match!
The highlight for me would be our California excursion last Sunday. This aging east-coast girl dipped her toes in the Pacific at Huntington Beach (after stopping at Costco for a new pair of Crocs due to sore feet from my sandals). We drove the interstates often featured on Fox News for high-speed police chases, and saw the Crystal Cathedral and California Angels stadium in Anaheim. Dinner at Chile’s in San Bernardino before driving back through the mountains to Las Vegas.
We did enjoy the manager’s reception at the hotel each evening – just enough to spoil some appetites for dinner, but great people-watching and regrouping time for us before dinner. We had wonderful breakfasts at the hotel each morning, lunches at Jersey Mike’s, Great American Pancake, Costco, Wendy’s and such. Dinners were as noted above plus a couple trips to TGI Fridays, and two nights of local pizza/wings/spaghetti/subs in our room.
We just got our boarding call so I’ve got to go for now.
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