Las Vegas Trip 2013: Part 1

A few days after we got back from Logan, we took the kids down to Josh's parents' house in St. George for their annual week-long stay.  They were so excited!  While they were gone, Josh and I decided to go to Las Vegas.  He had some business meetings down there anyway, so it worked well.

We got to Las Vegas  and checked into our hotel.  By then we were starving, so we ate dinner at Hash House a Go Go which was right at our hotel.  We went there years ago at the original location and loved it, so were excited to see they had another one there.  They have the best crab cakes ever! :)

The next morning Josh had one of his meetings.  He was researching a potential product he was thinking of incorporating into his massage therapy business.  Anyway, after the meeting, we went to lunch and then headed back to the strip and walked around.  We went to the Mirage first and saw their beautiful fountains and then went inside to see their huge aquarium.  It is so fun to just stand there and watch all the different fish.  Some of them are so funny!

After that we went through Caesar's Palace.  It is just the coolest place to walk around!

After our walk we decided to try the famous Frozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipities.  We also ended up just having our dinner there too.  They had pretty good food!  We ended up coming home and learning how to make the frozen hot chocolate ourselves.  So good!

After dinner we walked around the Paris.  It's another fun one to walk around.  Cool atmosphere.

We walked down more of the strip, heading toward our hotel.  We stayed at a new one called The Quad.

Josh had really wanted to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower at Paris, and we had a coupon, so we decided to go back and do it.  I'm SUPER afraid of heights, but it wasn't too bad because it was all enclosed.  It was pretty creepy when you could feel it sway a bit in the wind.

The views were amazing!

The next day Josh had another appointment in the morning.  In the afternoon we walked over to the Venetian to see Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum.  We hadn't been for a few years, so decided to check it out again.  They had a lot of the same statues, but did have some new ones.  These things are just so cool.  It's amazing how real they look and neat that they make them exactly like the stars (height, etc).  They never look as real in the photos though. :)

Will Smith:

Sandra Bullock:

Johnny Depp:

Can't remember who this was:

Michael Jordan:

Simon Cowell:

Josh got to dress up with Michael Jackson: 

...and drive with Elvis:

Louis Armstrong:

Yay! Thor:

George Washington:

Abraham Lincoln:

John and Jackie Kennedy

After the wax museum we walked through the Venetian.  It was pretty neat to see too.

They had a lot of medieval type actors walking around entertaining.

That night we walked around the strip.  This clock tower was cool:

We stopped to see the volcano show at the Mirage.

I don't have many pictures from the next day, but these are some fun little desserts 

that we had at dinner (at one of the buffets close to our hotel):

And that night we saw some fireworks out of our hotel window: