Las Vegas

As a young girl traveling from San Diego to Utah every summer to visit grandparents our family went through Las Vegas but we never stopped longer than to gas up the car, go potty and be on our way. This past Valentine’s weekend Doug and I went for a couple of days. Now I know why my parents never stayed long. It is truly sin city. The building codes aren’t the same as we have here in Arizona that I take for granted. The cigarette smell and smoke in all of the casino’s is horrible. We did see a few sights and wish that we had more time to see a few more but time was short. The strip isn’t really that big for all they cram into it. As a young girl I didn’t remember anything like it was this past weekend. There are so many buildings that represent other places around the world such as New York, New York sky line view,the Eiffel tower,


and the statue of Liberty.

We visited the M & M store.

They don’t make the candy at this place they just sale everything with M & M’s on it. Everything was really expensive in that store. You can buy every color of M & M’s there for only $11.99 a pound out of these big tubes that lined the wall on the 2nd floor.


It seemed like every casino went on forever once you got inside. All of the many different stores, and attractions were a little overwhelming sometimes. My favorite that we were able to go into was the Bellagio. We watched the fountains a number of times on Saturday night. It was so impressive how they have the water move and dance to the music.


Inside of the Bellagio there is a botanicle garden that was really neat also. They change the plants five times a year for the different seasons. They had gorgeous orchids


and plants growing in Panda Bear shapes.



Down the hallway from that was a chocolate factory. Everything they made was edible but to pretty to eat.



They had a cool looking chocolate fountain against one wall was encased in glass.

I would have liked to go to a show or two and visit a few other places like the Gondola ride at the Venetian, and visit the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory. Maybe we will have another chance to go there and spend a couple more days next time. All in all it was a fun filled two days.