buuuut...here we go.
They say the best part is getting there but I think that's only if your not the one driving. Haha..Jordan got to check out all the awesome scenery and take fun pictures ..and SLEEP!!! and I drove.
This was the coolest cloud we had ever seen.. it literally looked like one little brush stroke on the sky.. or like a thumb print. I don't know but it was beautiful.
When we finally got to vegas, we stayed at the Good Ol' Golden Nugget. Our first night wasn't much to write about haha. We checked in our hotel at about 4:30, walked up to our room and literally the second we hit the bed we fell asleep...we woke up the next morning at around 9am and were unsure if the clock meant it was 9pm the night of our arrival or if we had really slept the first 17 hours of our Vegas honeymoon away. I guess we needed it after our stressful drive. About an hour and a half in we got a speeding ticket in Beaver, UT. I wish I would have got a picture of the cop experience. Ugh..still frustrates me. Anywho.. the hotel was on Freemont Street which was an experience in and of itself I will definitely be posting more pictures here :)
Now we were ready to hit the strip.. Notice the rosy cheeks. After our loooong rest we decided to hit the pool.. hahahaha I guess Jordans fragile Hawaiian skin couldn't handle the las vegas rays... he actually ended up getting heat stroke so we went to bed early this night too.. this picture is the following day. Day 3.
This day we just checked out everything that was near our hotel. We walked up and down Freemont Street. . . and our hotel said that the strip was within walking distance so that was the plan, after dinner we set out down Las Vegas Blvd. After about 3 miles we could finally see the space needle hotel in the distance.....annnnd we decided to walk back. Note for Next time: The Golden Nugget is NOT within walking distance of the strip unless you don't mind walking 20 miles round trip. We decided to drive down there the next day and see what it was all about.
this is the pool. you can't really tell but there is a gigantic shark tank that is in the middle of the pool.. the water slide is a clear tube that runs through the tank and it is awesome.. I wish I could have taken a camera down the slide it literally looks like you have sharks swimming all around you.
there was a car show on Freemont Street. There were probably a hundred or so souped up pimped out cars but of all of them I think this one was the coolest. Just an old beat up pickup truck made to look like the truck on CARS. sweet.
Freemont Street at night was BEAUTIFUL! So many lights...everywhere!! there was a show going on over our heads on the light archway thing. It was a rock concert or something. It was awesome.
Jordan checking out the worlds biggest Golden Nugget right inside our hotel.
This is the next day when we went to the strip. We asked this nice looking older couple to take our picture, and lucky for us they spoke very little English. The wife thought we were trying to sell them something I think, so she just kept shaking her head no. Finally the husband understood and took this picture. It was really blurry but we were too exhausted of trying to communicate with them that we decided just to deal with it lol.
We went to the strip the next day too but we didn't take too many pictures. This day was awesome, we saw Cirque du Soleil, ate at the Paris Buffet and at the Ceperie, and did a little more shopping. We almost got in a car accident with a stretch hummer limo filming for some reality tv show that I can't remember the name of because I let one of the limos in and instead of driving he just stopped right in front of us and let 3 other hummer stretch limos in. frustrating. Anyways this is one of the only pictures we have from that day before we left the hotel.
we walked Freemont street again that night before bed and in the morning it was time for checkout and the drive home!
