Teacher on Break (Yes they do let us out) – Vegas Day 1
June 4th
My family road tripped it from Colorado to Las Vegas with five people in the car (and two of them being teenagers). Yes, I know we’re crazy. But we survived the trek across Colorado, through Utah, a tiny section of Arizona, and then Nevada.
The first stop yesterday was at a Tix for Tonight booth to get tickets for the Mat Franco show. It came with a free dining card – bonus! After that, we walked to the M&M store. On the way we got to listen to a woman playing the ukulele and singing her “I hate Trump” song. No comment on that one.
My daughter was lured in by the wall of M&Ms, so of course we had to get a bag (as you you’ll see, my children had way too many sweets yesterday – Vegas isn’t only bad for adults.
A quick commentary here. You no longer get barraged by people handing out porn on the streets. I think they’ve rehired these people to bug you about buying things in the casino malls. They try to hand you tiny bags and lure you into their store to buy $150 eye make-up. Don’t worry, just use the same tactic as before – ignore them.
In the Planet Hollywood mall area we bought the kids Tollhouse cookies and then found the car in the parking garage. We parked at the Linqs casino where they have the High Roller (a ferris wheel like the London eye). Walking down the Promenade, we stumbled upon the Sprinkles cupcake ATM. My husband had seen this on-line and not knowing if we were going to make it back to this place, we bought the kids cupcakes. Yes, you read that right. Now they’ve had M&Ms, cookies, and cupcakes. Bad parents.
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For linner (lunch/dinner) we drove down to Treasure Island and used our dining card at Señor Frogs. My husband and I got the giant yard drinks and we split up fajitas. Very delicious. Then we headed back to the Tahiti Village to use the pool and rest up before the show.
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If you haven’t seen Mat Franco, you have to go. This show was amazing. Not only were Mat’s tricks amazing, he had me laughing the whole time. He used a couple of the tricks that I saw him do on America’s Got Talent, but there were also some new ones. I also like that he put in a lot of personal aspects. He made the show more like of a story of his life and magic. He’s also a fellow New Englander which is wicked awesome.
On the way back to get the car, everyone was hungry (which I totally didn’t understand), so we stopped in the Venetian food court. I just nibbled on what everyone else was eating. Bailey’s came with a milkshake (yes, you read that correctly). Her blood sugar must have been through the roof at this point. At least we all slept well and I’m sure visions of sugar plums danced through the kids’ heads. Onward to today which will hopefully involve less of the sweet stuff.
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