My Week In Vegas

So having disposed of the kids late Monday night, we got up at some ungodly hour on Tuesday morning (6am is definitely ungodly to me!!!) the cab arrived at 7am to take us to Gatwick airport.

The cab driver turned out to be an old friend of my sisters, which was rather weird, so i chatted to him for most of the journey.

Eventually we arrived at Gatwick, checked in and proceeded to duty free, where we shopped, had breakfast and then had to leg it for the plane :$

The flight went by really quickly probably due to the fact I slept for about 6 hours of the 10 hour journey time :D

We arrived in Vegas only to find our limo was nowhere in sight so Nigel had to call the hotel to get them to send it and finally after a 30 minute wait he turned up and drove us to the Rio where we were spending the first part of our week away.

There was lots going on in the Rio and apart from daily free floor shows which were pretty good, they also had Penn and Teller performing there which we went to see. They were very funny and very entertaining and I recommend them if you are ever in Vegas.

I played my first live poker tourney in the Rio while I was there and although I didn't come in the money I didn't disgrace myself coming around 30th out of about 80 starters. Nigel on the other hand finished 4th and in the money :D

Lots of shopping and eating and chatting to my babies on msn. They stuck the web cam on at mum's which was cool cos it meant I got to see them :D:D:D

On the Friday we changed hotels and stayed at the Green Valley Ranch which is a little bit away from the strip but a lovely hotel with lots of amenities.

We met up with our friend Jesse and he introduced us to some other friends of his, one of whom is a high roller and who had the most enormous suite at the hotel I've ever seen! He was having a bbq to which we were invited which was fantastic - there was soooooooo much food that we hardly made a dent in it :$

The following night it was a trip to Circus Circus casino. The casino is pretty grim but they have a superb steak restaurant there and we met up with Jesse and some of his old college mates, 12 of them all in Vegas for the Superbowl. It was a fun evening with lots of banter around the table, I was a little worried I'd feel a bit left out being the only girlie but that wasn't the case at all.

Sunday was Superbowl day so we relaxed during the day and it was back to the enormous suite for a superbowl party and more food and drink. Sadly my team failed to win but a good time was had by all!



Monday was going home day, so we packed all of the presents we'd bought along with what we'd arrived with and set off to the airport with Jesse, who was on the same flight as us but sadly in economy so we didn't see him once we were onboard the plane.

I managed to get a little bit of sleep on the way back, but not a lot. There was a bit of turbulence which kept waking me up but otherwise the flight was ok.

Then when we landed it was a mad rush to get home so I could see my mum and dad before they went off to Spain that afternoon for a month. We picked 2 excited kids up from school, who gave us loads of hugs and kisses and then asked what we'd bought them :S

All in all I had a great time and met a load of new and interesting people and spent loads of money :D