Over New Years we met Andy, Joyce, Joe and Emily in Las Vegas!! We had a nice 40 minute flight from Phoenix. We met up on Dec. 31st and stayed through Jan 4th. We stayed at Bills Gambling Hall, which is in the center of the strip next to the Flamingo. For dinner on New Years Eve, we ate at this amazing italian "hole in the wall" behind our hotel called Battista's. It is a lot of food, but sooo good. After dinner we walked to the Paris and rode to the top of the Eiffel Tower. It was so beautiful to be up there at night! We got great pictures of the Bellagio's fountain show too.
The actual night of New Years was INSANE and we almost got trampled by 400,000 people that were crammed into the road for the fireworks display. It sounds funny to hear the story but it was not funny at the time!! With Emily being 4 mos. pregnant, we knew immediately it was a bad idea and we tried to get out, however the crowd had turned into a mosh pit and we had no chance. Andy somehow managed to rescue Emily and got her to safety!! I jumped a cement ledge at one point and about got my glasses knocked off. Needless to say we did not see the fireworks display and we all had to take extra long showers after this to disinfect.
Andy ended up losing his cell phone. Long story short, a good samaritan actually drove back to the strip the next day to meet us and return it! Karma!!
We spent the rest of the three days walking around through every hotel and eating. One night we took a bus to downtown Vegas to see the "Fremont Street Experience". The light show was really cool.
My favorite part of the trip was seeing the Lion King at Mandalay Bay for Joyce's Birthday. It was amazing and I would highly recommend it!! The following are a few of my favorite pictures from the trip.
Here is the link to see all of our Vegas pics!!....
http://public.fotki.com/caskinner/las-vegas-for-new-y/las-vegas-jan-2011.html
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