I love being on vacation.....Day 3 Las Vegas

After lazing around in bed for awhile making our plans for the day.....the decision was made that Paul wanted to play in a poker tournament.  We found what we were looking for at Treasure Island, so after a cup of coffee (for Paul) and a Orange Juice (for me).....off we went to the bus stop to get off on the LV Strip!

We were lucky enough on this trip to get the front seat on the top deck of the bus.  It offers an amazing view as you are headed down the strip.  We took advantage of our prime time seats and took some pictures.

Who doesn't recognize that iconic hotel and casino?

We made it to Treasure Island only to find out they cancelled the game.....so off we went to find some other action.  We actually found a tournament at another brand new hotel/casino....The LINQ.  As Paul went off to bankrupt the other players at the Tournament, I was left to my own devices to entertain myself on slot machines. 

 

However, along the way we just had to take advantage of this beautiful

day at this beautiful picture stop. 

 

 

 

I played at the LINQ for awhile and then found myself across the sidewalk at Harrah's.  I ended up amusing myself for a couple of hours (and staying about even).  I seemed to do better when people would call me on the phone.......such as this lucky spin as I was talking to Aaron:

 

 

After awhile, my husband summoned me that he and announced that he had come in 2nd place in the Tournament and it was time to eat some lunch (well heck yeah......it was already after 2pm).  After walking around for an hour searching for the perfect place to eat, we found a brand new restaurant that had just opened a week ago....so we feasted on a gyro sandwich and a garbage salad (yumm!)

As we ate lunch we perused all the booklets, websites, and anything else we could find to pick the best show we could go see that night.  We finally picked Las Vegas The Show at Planet Hollywood.  We went and bought our tickets and then had about 4 hours to kill until it was show time.

Well we didn't want to go back downtown to the hotel.....so off we went to find some adventures in Las Vegas.  We walked in and out several hotels and played a slot machine here and there.

As we were walking out of Bellagio we had the bright idea to try and take a "selfie" with the Bellagio Fountains and the Paris hotel in the background.  Seriously.....here is what it's like to be old people and try to take a selfie.  I hope no one was watching us!

 This is me telling him how to do it probably.  (I sure as hell don't know what was wrong with my hair in this picture.....and why I'm even posting this here).  He just snaps away and forgets to tell me.

 Nope.....this is a bad one....let's try it again.

 Paul......stop talking while we are trying to take the selfie!

 This would have been perfect had Paul been smiling......we better take another one!

 Success!  This one is great, let's see if we can get another one (and why does it look like Paul has a lighted tower growing out of his head?)

Well we should have quit when we had the last good shot.  It also appears that the Paris Hotel tower is now attacking Paul's head!

With only an hour left until the show.....we ended up at the Bally's casino where Paul played Pai Gow and I tried my luck at the Wheel of Fortune machines.  How come you only really start winning money when you are on a time limit and have to go.  These machines were really treating me right and I walked out with $300 in winnings!  Yahoo!

Had to take a picture because you don't get to enjoy this every day!

And I didn't do it just ONCE.......but I did it again on another machine!

But it was time to head off to the show.  We had VIP tickets and that gave us great seats and a free picture before the show.  Here we are:

The show was great and was a musical based on the history of Las Vegas from the time of the Rat Pack to now.  It was nostalgic and entertaining.....but not the best show we saw while we were here.

We then hopped the bus back to downtown (with a detour at the Stratosphere.....where I found a $20 bill laying on the ground next to a slot machine.  That was the only GUARANTEED win that I had there). 

I did snap a picture while we were riding the bus back downtown and sent it to my sister....who said that it looked like we were on a prison bus.  There definitely was a wide variety of people riding.

After getting back downtown we headed to the Four Queens to eat dinner at their restaurant.  We had eaten there a couple of nights ago and the food was delicious, reasonable, and the staff amazing.  It was 10pm and we were starving.  I finally had the spaghetti that I had been wanting for 2 days!

The rest of this evening was spent hanging around in the D Casino.  Paul enjoyed the dancing dealers and I enjoyed the old fashioned quarter machines.  Day 3 is in the record books!