Day 1 in Vegas

Vegas is HUGE! It was sooo overwhelming leaving the airport in the shuttle bus. I felt so tiny. We had tons issues checking in. The "agent" kept telling us to come back to get our room key. While we waited for our room key we gambled....as of now we are down $.50. We also ate at the buffet in the restaurant and walked around the pool area. It took 4 hours to get our keys and then.....our room was horrible. The carpet was warping and you could see the floor boards by the bathroom door. The bathroom was disgusting. The fixtures in the bathtub were loose and the toilet was like a toilet at cheap fast food restaurant. We decided to just live with it for the night because we wanted to get ready for dinner and who knew how long it would take to get a new room.

Dinner....and a show.

Well, my husband is amazing! While we were waiting for our luggage at the airport, David handed me some papers. I looked at them and didn't realize what he was handing me till a few minutes later due to being scared of loosing our luggage. He got me Criss Angel tickets for his show BELIEVE! I was in shock! David kept telling me and other people that he didn't know if he wanted to go and just acted like he wasn't into it. Me, on the other hand, have been telling EVERYONE how much I wanted to see that show. Well, two weeks ago, he bought us tickets!
The show was at 7pm and we wanted to go to dinner at the restaurant in the Stratosphere. The show and the restaurant are at two different ends of the strip. David called and made reservations for 4:45pm and we just made it. We took a taxi and the driver took every back road and our taxi ride was $18.

TOP OF THE WORLD
David made us Anniversary reservations for a window seat. Talk about amazing. It was beautiful. We could see everything and watched the sun start to set on the city that never sleeps. We weren't expecting the menu to be so expensive...we knew that it would be pricey, but we joked that Bree's collage fund was just spent. We dined on filet mingon, garlic mashed potatoes, and steamed asparagus. YUMMY! We also both had ONE mix drink (one of the best old fashions that I have ever had). Our bill came to (with tip) $170.26. I have the receipt to prove it. It was definitely wonderful, but I would never pay that for another dinner...maybe our 25th Anniversary. The waiter then told us what to tell the taxi driver....we spent about the same on that trip and it was double the distance.

Criss Angel
The show started at 7pm. David did a wonderful job with the tickets. We were in the 15th row with aisle seats. WONDERFUL!!!!!! Criss Angel ran around the audience and the other performers we running up in down the aisles. Being in section 101 meant that if I would have stuck my arm out more, Criss may have tripped and sat on my lap. :). The show was amazing. David even said that he didn't expect that type of show. We were both speechless after it. It was AMAZING! He did a lot of his BIG tricks that were performed on Season 1 and Season 2 of his show. He also did a couple audience participation tricks. There was one trick with birds and we both are still talking about if the birds were real or not. Tons of birds flew over our heads and something dropped on our heads, but there were tons of 3D screens, so we both don't know what actually happened.

After the show David and I walked the Strip. I took some really cool pictures. We were headed to the Vanetian for a Gondola ride. It was just something romantic to end the night. It was only a 15 minute ride, but it was a great end to a perfect evening. David was soo cute because we were instructed to kiss under the bridge and the driver turned away and David got shy. Such a silly boy!

We got back to our room at around 11ish. I don't know if we were just sooo over tired or what but we were both not loving the room. I even cried. We finally fell asleep. When we woke up around 7am, David called the front desk to change rooms. We are now in a room that I feel safer and I am not worried about bugs attacking me in the night. THANK GOD!

More later!