This is the view from the pool up toward our hotel room. The place is HUGE.
This is our view of the pool. It had a wave pool and a lazy river and several separate regular pools (plus a 21 and older "European style" pool. We never checked that out, must to the dismay of our husbands). It was voted best pool area on Cheapo Vegas. The weather was gorgeous the whole time. There wasn't a cloud in the sky as you can tell from the first picture. It was beautiful. SUPER HOT but perfect sunbathing weather.
Since it was so nice, we spent most of our time by the pool.
See? Never a cloud in the sky! We saw a tiny one once but we yelled at it until it dissipated. 
Our room was "exquisite"! We had an extra TV in our bathroom! Sweet!
We also spent a lot of time on the strip. We walked... and walked... and walked. When I took this picture, we were standing only a quarter of the strip away! We still had 3/4th of the way to go to the other end. See how far Mandalay Bay (smack dab in the middle of the picture) is from the middle?? My feet think it was about a million miles. Seriously! You can't even read the letters on the building. It's so far away!
We did a lot of sight-seeing. Jenny and I got our picture taken with a plastic Elvis! He had a sequined glove! What's that all about?
The last time we went to Vegas, it was for my brother's 21st birthday and we stayed at the Flamingo. So we went back to where we had our picture taken before and posed. We asked a random couple standing there to take our picture. They had the thickest southern accents that when they first started talking, we weren't even sure if they were speaking English! She took our picture and looked at it when she was done and said in her drawl, "Oohhh, I geeeeettt iiiittt. Y'all were standin' with one leg up laaahke flameeeengooooos!! Okaaaayyyy." Haha. I love southerners.
We also got our picture taken with a storm trooper, which was pretty cool. He let us hold his gun. Plus he was using a voice changer thingy so he sounded very official.
After we had our pictures taken with the nice young storm trooper, we stood on the corner waiting for the Walk sign with a giant group of people who were also waiting to cross. There were a few men standing there advertising for a strip club. One man yelled to the entire crowd, kids and all, "Come to our strip club and you can get a free lap dance. We also have midget lap dances half-off. You don't even have to sit in a chair for that one. You can just sit on the floor!" Nice, dude.
I also made Andrew ask some questions at the front desk.
Alan: Can I ask you another question?
Front Desk: Sure.
Alan: You probably get this a lot. This isn't the real Caesar's Palace is it?
Front Desk:: What do you mean?
Alan: Did, umm... did Caesar live here?
Front Desk: No.
Alan: I didn't think so.
Great movie.
More sightseeing? We saw boobs on a wall in our hotel. We didn't feel as much like pervs when there were people lining up behind us to get a picture of the stone boobs. Everyone's a perv in Vegas!
Almost every place we went had a Sports Book like this. This is the one at MGM. I find these things to be amazing. Every single seat was full! With the Preakness and the hockey playoffs, I guess that makes sense. But wow. People like to bet on sports. Who knew? Ha.
I really liked this picture because it shows how creepy Donnie and Marie really are. Look at them! Peeking over that building! Creepy!!
There are so many amazing shows to see in Vegas. Which one did we end up seeing?
We saw The Green Mile on TNT in our hotel room. Awesome right? Andrew got sick right before we were about to go buy tickets for a show so we didn't end up seeing anything. But I gotta say, I did enjoy The Green Mile. :)
We also watched planes take off from the airport. I'm not kidding you when I say we saw probably 20 Southwest planes take off in an hour. It was incredible. Southwest must have a BOATLOAD of planes. Jeez. I am not exaggerating. We probably saw less than 10 other planes besides Southwest. I couldn't believe it.
We also did a lot of gambling. How much money did we bring home?? FOUR DOLLARS. We are apparently not good gamblers. Oh well, it's all in the fun of the game right? Like "Jaws the Slot Machine"! It will EAT YOUR MONEY. :)
Andrew also played this slot machine which had a Camaro on display. He REALLY wanted to win that car. So he played about 5 dollars worth until he realized that there was a tiny sign on the machine that said, "Actual car is for display only. Car can be purchased at the Las Vegas Chevy Dealer." AAH! Vegas!! Sticking it to us once again! Kind of like the $32 bucket of beers you can buy at the pool. How many beers does that come with? 5. Dang. How much is a Pepsi? $4. WHAT?
All in all, the Vegas trip was a blast. Except for the fact that I had to drink a lot of water. Viva Las Pregas!! :)
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