back from our vacation to LA & Las Vegas
We're just back from a fabulous 2-week vacation -- a family visit to Los Angeles, plus a "couples getaway" to Las Vegas to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We had a great time - I'm all-the-way relaxed and ready to tackle my summer projects.
This was my first trip to Las Vegas in many years -- and wowee kazowee, the Strip is a Trip! Everything is designed to be larger than life and to sweep away your everyday, practical mindset. The whole town says to you "Relax - have fun - play some games, win some money, spend spend spend!" To plan our trip, we relied heavily on the Las Vegas page of TripAdvisor.com. This is fast becoming one of my favorite travel websites - the reviews are honest and filled with useful details.
The highlight of our trip was an evening at the Rio hotel (just off the Strip, filled with locals) seeing the Penn & Teller show. For nerds like us, this show was perfect -- fast-paced, filled with insider humour and self-referential asides. Penn is an irreverent intellectual who tosses off math jokes and catches a speeding bullet in his teeth. After their show, the magicians even posed for pictures with their adoring fans in the lobby. What's not to like? :-)
Wanted to share with everyone about this web site I found, http://www.insidervlv.com . I got a lot of great information from them and I got free show tickets for our entire family. Bought one of their discount Vegas cards and it saved me over $200 in three days.
Posted by: Patrick | October 21, 2005 at 01:10 AM