Vegas for the Weekend

Back in June, my sister, niece and I planned a mini vacation to go to Vegas for the weekend. Well, we went last weekend and little did we know, one of the biggest fights was happening at MGM on Saturday night. We didn't think all the crowds would affect us since we were staying at Red Rock in Summerlin. Wrong!

Our plane pulls away from the gate at Long Beach Airport and the pilot makes an announcement that the Vegas airport is shut down because of volume! So we sit on the plane for over an hour. We finally take off and the plane is about to land in Vegas and the pilot takes the plane back up because another plane was on the runway. We circle around the airport for a while and finally land. I ended up getting sick on the plane because of turbulence, awesome. That was just the first night!

During the day on Saturday, we decided to take a shuttle to the strip so my niece could check out Vegas. I finally got a chance to try the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity. So yummy! That night, my niece begged us to go to the strip to go dancing at a nightclub. We ended up at Ghostbar at the Palms since it's slightly off the strip. We had a great time there, decided to leave around 1:45 a.m. and bam... thousands of people were in the casino lobby. Seriously! We had no idea P. Diddy was having an after party at a nightclub called Rain inside the Palms that was set to start at 2:00 a.m.. So we leave the Palms and there is only about 500 people trying to get a taxi outside the hotel. Shoot me now! It ended up taking us 2.5 hours to get a taxi that night, after of course walking to another hotel… with no shoes on, because our feet were killing us! We got back to the hotel at 4:30 a.m.! Ugh, only in Vegas.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend. Yes, besides all the mishaps and being sick on the plane, we did have a great time!

{outside Ghostbar}

{after visiting Serendipity}

{about to hit the casino on Friday night}