Sin City

Welcome to Sin City!!!!
We touched down in Las Vegas airport, already noticing that we were somewhere new by all the poker machines scattered around the airport terminal; the gambling starts early here folks!
We headed to our hotel (The Luxor - pyramid shaped hotel) and checked in. Sadly the lifts to our rooms were broken and full of maintenance staff so we ended up waiting over 40 minutes just to go upstairs to our room... however our rooms (when we finally got to them) were quite spacious and awesome. We headed straight down stairs for a celebratory bottle of champagne (so what if it was 4pm!) and ended up being put on the VIP list for the LAX night club that night. 

After talking about coming to Vegas to celebrate our 25th birthdays many years ago it was amazing to actually be there with our champagne :)
We went and got ready for the night and headed down to LAX night club ready to celebrate some more! We learnt how dangerous free pour is in America, when you get given a drink with no particular measurement of alcohol...it just keeps coming! Emma and I found ourselves in the centre of a "Jersey shore turnpike" circle somehow... was very interesting hahaha.

Emma and I woke the next morning and heading down to starbucks for some breakfast, bagel and coffee in hand (horrible, horrible coffee!!) we went for a walk up the strip, towards New York, New York. Stopping in the casino for a quick gamble (whilst in Vegas!). I won a lovely $20 in the casino which was delightfully exciting before Emma and I headed back to meet the girls for some shopping (today we were celebrating our joined birthdays!)

We hopped on the bus towards the outlets and ended up stopping in at an outdoor plaza for some lunch and shopping at Victorias secret, Abercrombie and Fitch and other stores! We had a delicious lunch (and margarita of course!) and bought tickets to see Cirque du Soliel. We were tossing up on what kind of shows we should see in Vegas and decided on Zumanity as it appeared to cover all of them and was the cheaper option (our bank accounts hurt!) Stephanie was on the phone for a while trying to book us into a helicopter flight over the grand Canyon, but because it was the Easter weekend it proved to be quite difficult. Bless her though, because she did it, for two days time! :)

That night we got ready with a cocktail (duh!) and headed into New York, New York for some NY style burgers and the show!
Zumanity was a great show, it was the adults only version of Cirque du Soliel so it had everything we wanted in a vegas show...
- burlesque
- cirque du soliel
- male strippers
- comedy show
- drag show
...Boom! covered them all in one night :) And it was really awesome!!! 
The night finished with a walk down the strip which was beautiful with all the shiny and bright lights :) Vegas truly is something different! Ohh I also forgot to mention that we climbed all over the statues in front of the Luxor hotel. You know us, if there is a statue, it must be climbed!!


The following day we decided to do a bit more shopping at the other outlets, however we got a bit lost along the way, and weren't sure where the buses were taking us, as we seemed to enter the desert more... and the buses stopped coming to let us on...all the while Emmah and Steph were doing some serious pee dances and were ready to jump on the closest bus to anywhere just to use a bathroom.
Luckily for them and their bladders we made it to the outlets. To be honest the outlets weren't that great and we didn't spend much time there before heading back to the strip and our hotel.
Emma dragged me to the gym to do evil squat jumps (EVIL!) before getting all tizzies up to go to the Bellagio for dinner. What a fancy ass place! Seriously is a beautiful casino. Our dinner consisted of sitting overlooking the water fountain display out the front.

The next day was our helicopter ride out over the Grand canyon. Emmah, Steph and I took our limo to the helicopter (yep, limo because that is how we roll!) and got placed in our groups for the helicopter. Luckily we got given the window seats/front seats in the helicopter with a highly amusing pilot. The views over the canyon were SPECTACULAR. It is incredible, and there are hardly words that can describe it! I won't even try to, because I would not do it justice! I will post some photos below for you to see though.
Poor Em didn't get to see much of it though, as she was too busy trying to hold her breakfast in... helicopters in windy canyon tunnels aren't for everything it seems...

We headed back to the hotel ready to move onto our next hotel for our Contiki tour (hotel was on the other end of the strip).

Love B xox