My trip to Vegas....part 1.

Since I don't really have alot of time to sit in front of the computer this week, I thought I would break my trip down into parts. So this part one will be the first day of our trip.

I woke up at 5:30 am to wash the last load of clothes before we left. Got up and took a shower around 7 and finished getting ready and packed the last bit of items. My brother arrived here shortly after 8 and then I went over to the store and picked up some munchies and pop for the kids and my brother. When I got back, my hubby loaded the car with our luggage. Sho-sho gave me a big hug before we left but the other kids just went off to school like it was no other day. We left the house around 9:30. We arrived at the airport and check in our luggage. The airport has changed alot since I flown last. You had to take of your shoes and jacket, which I thought was strange, b/c I was wearing flip flops, I mean what could I possibly hide in there?
So we proceeded on to the terminal and then we had about a hour and a half to wait for our plane. and that would be no biggie at any other airport, but there is absolutely nothing to do in the Spokane airport. So after a bit, our plain arrive and we were part of the first group to board and of course hubby had to have the window seat. We had to land in Boise first. This was not on our printed flight plan, but I guess it was a scheduled stop. I took this opportunity to call and check on my brother and the kids since it was past noon that we landed in Boise. Then after a few minutes our flight took off and we were on our way to Reno where we had to switch planes. Upon arriving, the first thing we saw was an I-pod vending machine! And it had every little accessory and I-pod that you could think of, in every color that they have available. So after checking this out we went and checked the schedule and saw that our flight to Vegas was delayed by at least an hour. So we got a bite to eat and looked at the slot machines that were scattered everywhere. Then we got on our flight to Vegas and arrived there around 4:30. This airport was so big that we had to catch the Tram to go to our luggage. They had a whole separate building for baggage claim and this things was gigantic compared to Spokane. You could probably fit our whole airport in just the baggage claim!!! So we left there and check in for our shuttle to the hotel. We got to the New York New York hotel and there was just so much to take in. There were slots machines everywhere, trees inside the building,and the shops were lined up to look like a New york street. There was also a river that ran through the casino floor.
We checked into our room and went up to the 22nd floor, where we had the most amazing view of the roller coaster that came by right in front of our room, we could see down the strip and Excalibur was right across the street. I opted to take a shower after feeling ill from all the taking off and landing that we had to do.
After the shower, Hubby gave me a tour of the hotel. There were 2 Starbucks and 2 Krispy Kremes just in the hotel. We found Coyote Ugly and got a drink from the outside bar and then proceeded to walk over to the Excalibur b/c hubby said our show started at 9 and we had about an hour to kill over there. We walked around the casino there and then went down to the arcade, where hubby was determined to win a Spiderman or Venom stuffed doll. but we didn't. We then went into our show, it was the Tournament of Knights. We were in the Hungary group, it was jus tme and hubby sitting there and then this family of 5 with 3 very small children come down and we find that they have the seats right next to me. The Mom and Dad were huge!!and i was hoping that they would seat one of their kids next to me, but no it was the dad so I had very little elbow room. But I guess that was okay, so then I could just sit closer to hubby. The dinner was not all that good. We had a cornish game hen with steamed broccoli head, potato wedges and a roll. The chicken was good, but because of the steamed broccoli everything else was soggy. Unfortunately our knight did not win the tournament. But we got a couple of very cool beer steins from here.
After the show we went back over to the Spiderman game, but once again did not win one. We then started heading back over to our hotel. Oh I forgot, on the way to Excalibur are these Jetson's type walkways, where you just have to stand on them and they move for you! Nice huh? Hubby says that it is for the drunk people, but unfortunately there is not one of these ramps that lead out of the hotel. We got back to our hotel around 12 am and I just wanted to take my contacts out, so we went over to the newspaper store inside our hotel and bought some saline solution and then went up to the room to take my contacts out. Then we went back down and walked around for a little bit more. We walked over and looked at the poker tables were hubby wanted to get in on one and me not being a poker player, decided to play a couple of slot machines. And me not knowing how these things work, lost $40. just like that. So me feeling soo unlucky I decided to go up to the room and Hubby stayed down and played his poker game.

I sat up in the room and watched TV until hubby came up to the room around 2:30 or so and had some to go from one of the bars down on the main floor. We had some mozzarella sticks and some thing else that my hubby had that I don't remember b/c I didn't want any. Hubby said that he did not win anything, so at the end of the day, we gave our hotel about $100. And that is day one and now I need to go and do other stuff to get ready for the baby shower this weekend. I will continue on with Thurs. tomorrow.