Thanksgiving at LasVegas :)

Hi All,

Its been a long time since i came blogging....... first been sick :( next my dear hubby was working from home and no access to the laptop :(...... thought enufs enuf and here iam coz i did not want anyone to forget me or my blogs ...... :)

Iam going to tell about my trip to LasVegas.... man the pleasure one faces as you walk thru the strip is amazing...... But it took me some time to get used to the drop in temperature in Vegas when compared to Cal :)

We started around 11 in the am when the actual plan was to start by 8 :) and the traffic on the freeway was awful.... bumper to bumper and this was my first experience with such heavy traffic. After around 1.5hrs the traffic improved and we reached Vegas as per plan at around 7pm. Entering into Vegas , the lights was amazing. But what i luved more was the ride thru the desert. Dry land is in a way a beauty to admire as we admire the greenery.

Had booked into a hotel near the strip so checked in there first and after having a short rest we were back to the "Strip".... parked at MGM and we went strolling thru the strip. The activity at so late in the nite is not something we normally see in our day to day life in our places .... such crowd and man the money spent here is just unimaginable i guess :) 

I just wanted a walk thru in all the major casinos and my dear hubby was ready to please me :).... the grandeur of Caesars Palace is something that still keeps striking me at odd moments and so does the Lion at the MGM :).... btw did u know nearly half of the major casinos in the Strip are owned by the MGM group..... includes MGM Grand , The Mirage , Bellagio , Circus-Circus and Excalibur to name a few :)... wish i had that kind of money to invest... then i guess if i did have i could retire happily for the rest of my life........

As we were walking i did note down the time for the fountains at the Bellagio and we were back in time for the Fountains to light up in sync with the music. That was an awesome sight and something iam going to remember. For the 3 nights that we stayed in Vegas i made it a point to go to the Bellagio all nites to see just the fountains playing :)... we returned bck to the hotel at around 1.30am :) and i was freezing ......

The next day was Black Friday and so we thought we would scrounge around for some good deals in electronics....... we had friends also visiting Vegas and we met up with them. Evening went in for the rides at Stratosphere and the view from the top floor of Vegas was great. The ride in the elevator amde me giddy for a second but then got used to it.... and coincidentally met a friend of mine ... guess being in CA we could not meet bu then we did meet at Vegas :)... that did strike me funny.

Saturday made a trip to Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon ( will talk about that in the next blog) and Sunday after a late breakfast went for a walk in the strip , had lunch at an Indian Restaurant and then back to the hotel to pack up and start back to CA. The return journey was as bad as possible... the trip of 5 hrs took us in total 8.5 hrs and we had news channels standing with their crews to record the traffic :)

And b4 i forget my husband did play at the Casinos and lucky for him...... he did win 500$ after spending 200$ :)... guess i need to thank my stars that my hubby dear does not gamble :)

Will be bck in a couple of days with my trip to Grand Canyon :).. till then wishing everyone a Merry Xmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!