Apparently what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas for this is what Tammy and I did during our Las Vegas trip for our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary which we celebrated in December.
We left cool, damp Hartford Saturday afternoon, April 26 and arrived in warm, dry Las Vegas Saturday evening. After our shuttle bus ride to the Excalibur, we checked it and the Luxor out before retiring for the night.
Sunday morning, we walked through the New York, New York, the MGM, and the Tropicana. At 10 am, we took the Big Bus Tour of the Strip and downtown Las Vegas. We made one stop that day on the tour at the Miracle Mile and ended up walking through the following casinos -- Planet Hollywood, Paris, Caesar's Palace, the Bellagio and its Fountain show and the Flamingo. That night at seven we took the Big Bus Night Tour of the Strip stopping to see the Mirage's Volcano show and the Fremont Experience.
On Monday, we used the Big Bus as our taxi to get us to the Silver and Gold Pawn Store. From there, we walked the street of the wedding chapels, visited the Mob Museum, continued our walk to the Neon Boneyard Museum, then back to the Mob Museum for a ride back to Bally's and dinner at Battista's
Hole in the Wall.
On Tuesday, we walked the entire strip from the Excalibur down to the Encore and back home again - going in to every casino along the way and taking in three more Fountain shows. That evening, we saw the Blue Man Group from the front row in what they call the "poncho seats".
On Wednesday, we went to the Grand Canyon's South Rim. We took a tour out of Las Vegas with a five and half hour drive time there with a stop along historic Route 66 in Williams, AZ for lunch. We spent about three hours at three stops in the South Rim before heading back to Las Vegas with a quick stop at the Hoover Dam.
On Thursday, we had breakfast in Boulder City, NV at the Coffee Cup that was in the show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. While there, we took a quick driving tour of the city then headed to the Hoover Dam for an in-depth tour of it from the top down. That evening, we took in the Tournament of the Kings dinner show.
On Friday, we got up for a 6:30 am hike in Red Rock Canyon that lies just twenty minutes outside of Las Vegas. We arrived back in town at 10 am, walked one point five miles off the Strip to the National Atomic Museum, walked back the one point five miles to the Strip, visited a few shops, had dinner at the Mon Ami Gabi. We capped the day off by going to see the Jersey Boys -- a musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
On Saturday. we checked out of our room at 11 o'clock, awaited our noon shuttle back to the airport for our 4:50 flight back home getting in at 2 am.
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