Monday, September 21, 2009

Vegas Vacation - No Kids Allowed!

The Venetian...awesome shopping and food!
MGM GRAND...before the David Copperfield show that was HORRIBLE. Do not waste your money on that guy! Pathetic and cheesy.
So Coooooollll!!!!
TITANIC! Loved every minute of it!
Donnie, Dallas and Bryan after the draft
Marci, Melissa and I went to a concert so we met the boys AFTER the draft. No way I was going to sit through a football draft!
Marci and I, hanging out with Whoopi!
Marci, Me, and Melissa before our Legends in Concert. Cute show!
Marci and Myself, posing in the MGM hallway.

Everyone knows that Donnie loves sports...okay, Donnie is obsessed with sports! So it shouldn't be surprising that he is an avid Fantasy Football player, and went in with family and friends to buy a team with a Vegas-based Fantasy League. We traveled to Sin City for his draft last week, and knowing that there would be LOTS of football involved, I conned my good friend Marci to tag along with me! The last time I was in Vegas, Donnie and I were getting re-married and didn't really participate in much of the touristy stuff that I wanted to do. Marci and I made up for lost time and visited nearly every casino on the strip! You can quite literally go to Vegas and never gamble a quarter and still have so much fun stuff to see and do.

To illustrate my point that you don't need drinking and gambling to have fun in Vegas, Marci and I bought tickets to the Body exhibition and the Titanic artifacts exhibition at the Luxor. Some may sneer at doing anything educational in Vegas, but let me tell you that both exhibitions were interesting and well worth the $59 bucks we paid for both. I have loved the Titanic since I was a little girl, and seeing the jewelry, clothing, dishes, and furniture with my own eyes was amazing. The reconstructed grand staircase and deck are a must-see...I could go on and on just about the Titanic!
The Body exhibition is hard to put into words without shuddering. REAL human bodies are on display, preserved by a silicon substance that hardens around the organs and tissues to make the body rigid. Many different parts of the body are on display in the different sections according to our major systems, bone, circulatory, muscular, respiratory, and nervous systems. There is even a section devoted to fetuses and embryos that was very hard for me to get through, but interesting just the same. The case with the cancer-plagued lungs was much more riveting that any pictures of blackened lungs I have ever seen, because the evidence is so in-your-face. Cross sections of a brain affected by stroke, and livers damaged by cirrhosis were also amazing and gross. If you are ever in Vegas, take the time to see it! You will appreciate your body and the intricate way God knit us together after viewing. It is a jaw-dropping exhibit!

Exhibits aside, Marci and I did A LOT of shopping, which is another great reason to take a gal pal with you to Vegas. Donnie would barely let me browse the stores in Cesare's Palace and Planet Hollywood the last time we were there, and Marci and I had a marathon day of shopping to make up for that. We literally SHOPPED ALL DAY LONG, and it was everything I dreamed it would be! Sushi for lunch, delicioso Italian food in the Venetian for dinner, and lots of sight-seeing and touring made for a perfect day in Vegas. Oh, yeah, and Donnie drafted his team sometime during all of our adventures! A fun, fun trip...and probably our last for a long while. ;)
***Thank you to Granny Deb and Pop for keeping the girls during our trip. They had so much fun with the both of you...I'm not quite sure they wanted to come home!***

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