Time to Drop it Old School Style - Vegas Round 2

Number one priority of the day. New shoes for the hubbie.  Turned out that his running shoes just couldn’t cut it walking the strip.  Thankfully there was this glorious adidas store right across the street from our hotel. As I (key word I) patiently waited for the adidas store to open, we decided to do the CSI Experiment at the MGM.  This was ok.  Think that maybe we are just setting our standards a little too high for Vegas. Is my expectation for everything being over the top too much to ask for? Probably.

Of course we had to lunch before the adidas store.  Can not take a man shopping without a full belly. Especially seeing the store we were about to conquer was two stories…and I (my feet) love adidas. OH and back to the food, pizza place in our hotel.  Yummie.  Of course we ate the whole pizza.

Now onto business….adidas store. Glorious.  Had the opportunity to try on some new running shoes that adidas has out. And believe it or not I ended up with nothing.  Here is the wonderment my hubbie came out of the store with:

Being the persuasive woman I am, I managed to talk my hubbie into trying out this oxygen bar.  Hey there were like four other guys sitting there….kind of looking like pigs.  Yeah see the picture, no that is cute. Right.  By the way as cute as I looked (hey don't judge), Hubbie hated it.

Since it was a little too cloudy for the pool, we ended up napping again in the afternoon. Yes, napping in Vegas people.

Now like it says time to drop it old school style.  Off to Old Vegas aka Fremont Street.

First off get the lay of the land.  We walked the entire street.  This place was definitely old school.  It reminded us a lot of our trip to New Orleans.  There is no traffic allowed on the street, so you can just walk with your cocktail and enjoy. And serious people who isn’t up for one huge dirty street party.

Now my dad is completely about the Golden Nugget.  Mention Vegas and be prepared for the endless conversation all centered around the Golden Nugget.  Doing what every good daughter would, I took his money and put it in the gigantic slot machine in the front that he kept talking about.  No big winner here.  I tried and was able to give him back what he gave me.  Awesome daughter right here people.  Now if I was the person that we saw win the $81,000 jackpot on a slot machine bet I could have gotten the super duper awesome daughter title.  Also managed to check out the golden bar dispenser, yep you read that correctly, for the little brother.  $93 for a bar that is like a quarter inch.  I like my brother…not that much.

 

One of my mission for the year and this trip was zipling. Check it off as mission accomplished.  Ziplining is awesome.  We met and awesome couple in line.  And my hubbie is hilarious. Especially when he went with the whole comparison of what he looked like in the harness and what a giant blue wrapped sausage looks like. Just in case you are curious the end conclusion was they look the same.  

We managed to stay until it was dark.  Seriously who could go home when there is a big party going on?!?! Saw the light show which was Bon Jovi.  Then headed out.  I am very thankful for the super nice transit guy who helped us figure out the bus system.  We made it safe, sound, and exhausted.

Ooeey Goey Chocolatey Goodness

That can only mean one thing...celebration of yet another food day.  Who could pass up the excuse though to have chocolate chip cookies.  Happy Chocolate Chip Day!!

 

While you are salivating some information to add to that brain of yours:

25% of all the cookies baked in the United States are chocolate chip. 



Happy Mothers Day

Whether you have kids, dogs, husbands/boyfriends, no one, etc. whatever Happy Mothers Day!

My mommie disappeared on me.  Forest had to work brunch for Mothers Day. So where did that leave me....teenager and obligation free.  The hubbie and I did end up going out to brunch with my little bro.  Absolutely awesome idea by the way.

After all who can complain about having this for brunch....

Why yes that is a wonderful glass of mimosa

 

 



Forest did manage to remember his mothers day gift to me (shout out to the biology teacher or this probably wouldn't have happened) on Monday. Thankfully it was still alive after spending a weekend in the depths of his locker.  Teenage Boy locker equals very, very scary place from my experience.

Happy Mothers Day

You ate a what !?!?

You ate a what!?!? Seriously we really did eat this.....

 

cactus

We live in Wisconsin.  This is by no means a staple in our diet. Seriously is this a staple in anyone's diet.  Wonder how the heck this prickly little prince ends up on the dinner table then? Store flyer comes in the mail advertising cactus on sale.  Extremely amazing idea pops into a brilliant womans head and BAM added to the grocery list.

Now one can not forget that shortly after the brilliance the scouring of the interenet to find recipes occurs. And perhaps this is validation that someone actually eats these prickly princes.  Conclusion on this matter: this really is not a popular food or there is only one way to cook these things up.  There would be no stopping this awesome idea, of course. Settled on a good ole saute in garlic butter.

Next part of the mission, sneaking it into the house. No way are these people going to know what I just fed them until after they take a bite.  Seriously though my family are amazing good sports on these let's try random foods missions.

Let the cooking begin. At this point you just got done trying to get all the little pokers out of this thing, hopefully not wearing to many bandaids, and trying not to drip blood into the pan. Kidding. No mom's were harmed in the making of this. Of course you can not  yelp to much from being stuck by all the random little pokey things sticking out.  Can't have the family in here seeing what is about to go down.  Dear cactus I get it, you should not be eaten...you win.

Of course I get busted getting this ready and inform the hubbie what will soon be gracing the dinner plate.  Glutton for punishment that he is, he agrees to try it.  Seriously people what other option was there try it, watch me have a tantrum, or suffer the wrath.  Try it usually wins.

Everybody tried; hubbie and steppie definite no no no.  Myself and little brother..concluded it was icky but yet kept munching on it either from the pan or on top of the quesadilla. Go figure that one out.

Thankfully we did survive this experiment with the prickly prince... but we will not be going down this path again.

Viva Las Vegas

And so instead of boring you all with it all at once, the wonderful Vegas vacation will be in a few different posts.  Here is number one. Enjoy

Friday night was a hard night to sleep. We had to get up at 2:30 in the morning to make it out the door for our flight. I was so freaked out that we would miss the flight. You know what that means just really laying there in an ok sleep tossing and turning. Of course, we didn't miss the flight. Thank goodness.

Airport moments: After you go thru security, our wonderful airport in Milwaukee has this sign:

Flippin' love this since I have a tendency to say that I am discombobulated. My world is complete I now have a place to go to get it back together. Then the funny moment in the airport when they come over the speaker saying if someone couldn't find their gum they should head back to security. Needless to say at that moment Hubbie couldn’t find his. If only I had the camera the oh is it me, what should I do face...priceless. All the way to Vegas we thought it was him who left his gum behind. Of course shortly after our arrival he found it.

Vegas day 1 :  Took the cab to our hotel, New York New York. The hotel was huge. Thought we would end up getting lost in there to never, ever find our way out. At that point in time you are grateful to realize there are food places here, so at least we will not starve.

 

   

 First problem was how to actually get to the strip

 

 One dead end later and we made it!

After we finally get out (ha you think we are getting released from prison at this point), we decided number one priority should be breakfast.  After all it was 11:00 o’clock back home and we have not had any food.  Way to go Frontier, no snacks on the plane….rude.  On day one we managed to venture in the majority of the casinos and shopping malls on one side of the road. Also was able to sneak in a nap in the afternoon and a little sun time by the pool. Surprised to have knocked off one whole side of the strip within the first day.  Trying to get the concept down of what to see in each casino was also interesting. 

 

Ready to rock-n-roll here is our snapshot – Day 1

 

 

Aria                                             Ceasars Palace

 

    

Treasure Island - Darn pirates trying to blow up the girls' closets

Bellagio

Then Dinner at the Venetian Italian restaurant with gelato afterwards (love gelato dates with my hubbie). Already found my Pandora bead for our little Vegas excursion at the mall within the Venetian.

Took in some more sights on the way back to our little home away from home.

        Watching the volcano at the Mirage

Sad to say we had no luck gambling today. We owned the strip today.  As the hubbie would say..."Like a Boss"