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<\/p>\nFor Christmas Kath gave us all certificates for airplane flights.\u00c2\u00a0 Alex and I had been planning on using them for our anniversary next year but then we found out they expired before then SO we decided to use them early!\u00c2\u00a0 We looked for the shortest and most available flights and ended up with Las Vegas!\u00c2\u00a0 We had never been before so we thought it would be fun!\u00c2\u00a0 It was a great weekend and we had a lot of fun!\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks KATH!!<\/p>\n
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Here are the girls at the window with Uncle Christian as Alex and I were leaving to head to the airport!<\/p>\n
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Another reason we chose Vegas was because of the good hotel deals!\u00c2\u00a0 We stayed in the Luxor for $30 a night!<\/p>\n
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Alex’s favorite part of the trip was going to the ESPN zone in New York New York.\u00c2\u00a0 Your table comes equipped with surround sound and a flat screen HD TV on the table!\u00c2\u00a0 Then you look out to a giant wall of big screen TVs each with a different sporting event to chose from.\u00c2\u00a0 Then you can pick which you want to listen to and tune your own tv into the game!\u00c2\u00a0 Plus the menu is a bunch of giant hamburgers! I have to admit it was pretty cool…but for Alex it was more like paradise!<\/p>\n
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I totally look dazed this picture!\u00c2\u00a0 But here we are at the ESPN ZONE!\u00c2\u00a0 You can see the reflection of the TVs in the glass behind us and that giant metal around the booth is a giant speaker!<\/p>\n
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“I wish I were big!”\u00c2\u00a0 That is such an awesome movie we had to take a picture with the fortune teller!<\/p>\n
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We went to FAO Schwartz in Caesar’s.\u00c2\u00a0 It was really fun to look around at.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s Alex wearing his birthday princess hat!<\/p>\n
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Here’s a picture at the Venetian.\u00c2\u00a0 We had planned on taking a gondola ride there but since it turned out to be 16 dollars a person we decided to just take a picture instead!\u00c2\u00a0 For Free!<\/p>\n
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So this picture was from the pirate show at Treasure Island.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny story though!\u00c2\u00a0 This used to be the street show you could take your family to see and stuff because it was just two pirate ships blowing each other up.\u00c2\u00a0 But apparently they “jazzed” it up a bit since most people saw it…so now, instead of pirates fighting pirates they are fighting sirens (AKA girls in lingerie).\u00c2\u00a0 So this is the only picture we took of that because we spent the rest of the show trying to get out of the crowd and when that didn’t work we looked at the ground.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As we finally did walk away everyone was like “thats not the show it used to be…” So we weren’t the only ones that were surprised! I felt bad because there were a bunch of people with little kids and stuff that you could tell were really embarrassed.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt stupid that we were there too! \u00c2\u00a0 Alex’s quote from that was “when it is pirates vs. strippers nobody wins!”.\u00c2\u00a0 So true Alex!<\/p>\n
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Here we are playing with the camera self portrait setting while we wait for the volcano to erupt at the mirage!<\/p>\n
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Here’s our trip to Paris!\u00c2\u00a0 Just kidding…this is the casino Paris behind the fountains at Bellagio!<\/p>\n
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And finally, the best thing for Mormons to do in Vegas…go to M&M world!\u00c2\u00a0 4 floors dedicated to the making of delicious little chocolates!\u00c2\u00a0 They have a movie and a ride where they pretend you are a peanut being made into an m&m.<\/p>\n
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And the coolest thing was the wall of chocolate!\u00c2\u00a0 All the different colors you can think of!\u00c2\u00a0 They were like 14 dollars a pound so we didn’t actually buy any but it was cool to look at! Alex did buy a m&m flavored chapstick for Emmy and so she always smells like chocolate now! She was very excited!\u00c2\u00a0 And we got Kaylee’s Halloween costume there too…but you’ll have to wait for Halloween pictures to find out what it is!<\/p>\n
Anyway, while there were some not so good things about Vegas there was also a lot of fun and free stuff to do there.\u00c2\u00a0 While we probably wont go back anytime soon it was fun to get away by ourselves for a little bit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For Christmas Kath gave us all certificates for airplane flights.\u00c2\u00a0 Alex and I had been planning on using them for our anniversary next year but then we found out they expired before then SO we decided to use them early!\u00c2\u00a0 We looked for the shortest and most available flights and ended up with Las Vegas!\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading Vegas!<\/span>