We picked up Haley who was flying in from Calgary to join us for her Super Duper Exciting Vegas Weekend 30th Birthday! and checked ourselves in at the MGM Signature.
Our first Vegas adventure was a helicopter ride out to the Grand Canyon, it was super expensive, but yolo people :P
I enjoyed the ride, Haley isn't a great flyer so was a bit stressed on the way out, however a couple of glasses of bubbly with our picnic lunch at the bottom of the canyon made the trip back a bit a better for her.
The chopper went out over Hoover Dam and then into the canyon. The dam is just so massive, it's hard to contemplate how they would even build something like that.
We had some sweet digs with a large spa bath so after making a big bubbly mess of the bathroom we set off for Haley's first birthday surprise.
We had wanted to see Showgirls but it finished in April so we decided the Chippendales was like practically the same thing. The Chippendales are Magic Mike-style male strippers and are hilarious, especially when they get girls up out of the audience - you've never seen anything so awkward in your life and of course Haley loved it!
The next day we did a little shopping and hung out in the pool at the hotel. Robina did her best Bondi Rescue impersonation and helped out a super drunk lady who was pretty much passing out in the pool while the pool life-guards stood there trying to decide whether they should bother getting wet or not.
Our second night we organised seats on a party bus pub crawl, we went to a few clubs and they took us out to the Las Vegas sign, the party bus was this huge black limo with disco lighting and poles for dancing. On the bus were a group of guys dressed matching in white so we called them Boy II Men and kept asking them to sing for us, they didn't sing much but one was keen to give us a strip show on the bus - who needs the Chippendales when you've got drunk baseball draftees!
The next day we roamed the strip looking through hotels such as the Bellagio, Excalibur, Paris, the Venetian, MGM, Circus Circus (Robina and I stayed there a few days after Haley left and it actually has Circus acts in a big top inside the casino!), New York New York and the Luxor.
The hotels line the strip, each one is at least two normal city blocks and is outlandish and garish,
Excalibur looks like a Disney castle, Paris has a fake Eiffel Tour, Luxor looks like an Egyptian pyramid and New York New York fakes a whole city skyline.
And that's just the outside, the insides have faked buildings and streets inside, complete with fake sky ceilings and the Venetian even has a fake canal with gondolas floating up and down.
We took a ride in the gondola and the gondolier was a lovely girl who sang us a few songs in Italian and finished up with Italian Happy Birthday for Haley.
The hotels are massive and amazing but essentially still just casinos, you walk through the gaming floors any time day or night and the casino-zombies are always there at the machines, smoking (yes, inside smoking ugggh), staring dumbly at the spinning and flashing screens and unenthusiastically pushing buttons.
Then after a few shrimpy snack at Bubba Gump we had to return Haley to the airport *sadface*
Robina and I decided to spend one more day in Vegas and we shovelled as much into that day as possible starting with a crap magician who was a bit like 'hey everyone, remember that time when I was a minor tv celeb for about five minutes?'.
Then we visited the Bodies Exhibition, I was spewing I missed when it was in Melbourne so was glad to find out was here and it was really good, it's amazing what they've done with the bodies.
Next was Showstoppers which had a lot of singing, dancing, excellent costumes and lots of classic songs.
And we topped of the night with Cirque du Soleil's Mystere which was amazing, because it's in a large theatre not a tent they had people flying from the ceiling above the crowd and at the beginning there was so much going on I just didn't know where to look!
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