Sin City Trip

It has now been a few days since our return from Las Vegas, aka Sin City, and we had a great visit with the clear highlight spending time with the new Mr and Mrs King. We enjoyed Vegas to its maximum including shows, bars, gambling, swimming, beaches, dining-out and M&Ms. The newly married couple are certainly enjoying their honeymoon travels across California and we heard all about San Fransisco, Yosemite Park, drive through Death Valley and Grand Canyon.

Once we met up with Emily and Kris, we all headed for the -5 degree ice bar, which could have proved a trauma for someone with small finger syndrome! Despite this, we had a real laugh in rented coats, drinking vodka cocktails from ice glasses and even a quick drink from an ice statue of a lady's chest (not quite sure what that was doing there). On Sunday morning, we enjoyed a gospel brunch with was as much food as we could eat at the House of Blues, but the real entertainment was from the gossip band which got the crowd on their feet and even on the stage. This set us up for the day with lots of energy and we then toured the strip, including the M&M brand store - I think the colourful pictures tell their own story.

That evening the Beatles Cirque du Soleil show called Love, was simply spectacular! The show combined the best of the Beatles songs with amazing acrobatic displays. There is no easy way of describing the content of the show, but suffice to say that everyone thought it was a fantastic highlight of Vegas. This was followed by us walking back to the hotel and admiring the Bellagio Hotel dancing water fountains - check out the video for the full experience, shot by my video assistant Emily.

The next day saw us relaxing at the lazy river and wave pool at the Hotel, followed by a late brunch and Kris discovering the joy of maple syrup on pancakes and bacon. Sweeeet....! We then popped along to the Little White Wedding Chapel which seemed to be in honour of Elvis, with the realization that you could get married at the chapel drive-thru. We all decided that it wasn't the best place to renew our wedding vows on this particular occasion. Dinner later that night was at a Rainforest restaurant, which involved sitting very close to a noisy elephant (I will leave the rest to your imagination). The remainder of the trip was spent drinking, eating, gambling and swimming until we said our farewells in the hotel lobby - with Emily and Kris heading onto LA and us returning to Vancouver. Good times!