Wow what a whirlwind of a trip! We left Friday night after work and got to our hotel around 9pm. We managed to stand in line at the wrong hotel for about 30 minutes and then got directed to where we really needed to go. When we arrived at the hotel they couldn't find our reservation. I would be lying if I said I didn't get a little nervous. After they made several phone calls and checked a million places they still couldn't find the reservation. All this time I was just praying "Lord please just let this work out." They decide to just let us stay and we could call our travel company in the morning and get it all figured out. Well then she says she doesn't have any rooms still available. Ugh. So she asks her manager if she should just move us. And he says yes. We get on the elevator and realize that we are staying on the penthouse level...this of course makes us all start jumping up and down! (the Lord seriously answered my prayer) After we get to our room and take a million pictures we decided to change and head out to explore. (mind you it is close to 11 at this point and we all worked that day...but it's Vegas!) Vegas is kind of like a different world, the streets are covered with pictures of basically naked girls, people walking around with beers, some of the shortest dress I have ever seen...it's kind of overwhelming. It really made me realize how grateful I am tot be in that scene...we really didn't fit in and I think we were all ok with that. The next morning we got up and immediately hit the pool. This was amazing. We ordered food and drinks and sat their poolside just hanging out laying in the sun...vacation at it's truest!
I don't remember who suggested it...but we thought Chipotle would be a good idea for lunch. So we call the concierge who tells us it's located between two hotels (mind you each hotel is the size of an entire city block) we then begin our trek. We take the bus and get off where we thought it was...we were wrong. I then call chipotle and she tells me it is in between two completely different hotels...awesome. It's now 99 degrees outside and standing in the sun with 50 other people for the bus is just getting to be too much. So we decide to walk....and walk....and walk. After getting lost a handful of more times we found it!! It seriously was the best tasting chipotle I have ever had :) The thing I liked most about this experience is that even though we were REALLY hot (I loath being hot) we all remained in good moods, even though we kept getting lost none of got snippy or annoyed with one another we just pressed on....I thought that was awesome. Last time I was in Vegas I was 18 and the 4 of us got into a million fights the 4 days we were there. I think being older this time around made a huge difference :)
We spent the rest of our time being tourist, shopping, laughing making Hangover references. It truly was a trip I will never forget. Even though were out of place amongst the party crowd we enjoyed our time together and just had a great time! I don't think I will be going to Vegas again. It's fun to see and the hotels truly are amazing, but the excessiveness of it all is kind of ridiculous and un necessary. Maybe I have been one too many missions trips but it's kind of hard to enjoy the absolute spoiling that takes place there when you know there is just so much sadness and poverty elsewhere in the world....
I don't remember who suggested it...but we thought Chipotle would be a good idea for lunch. So we call the concierge who tells us it's located between two hotels (mind you each hotel is the size of an entire city block) we then begin our trek. We take the bus and get off where we thought it was...we were wrong. I then call chipotle and she tells me it is in between two completely different hotels...awesome. It's now 99 degrees outside and standing in the sun with 50 other people for the bus is just getting to be too much. So we decide to walk....and walk....and walk. After getting lost a handful of more times we found it!! It seriously was the best tasting chipotle I have ever had :) The thing I liked most about this experience is that even though we were REALLY hot (I loath being hot) we all remained in good moods, even though we kept getting lost none of got snippy or annoyed with one another we just pressed on....I thought that was awesome. Last time I was in Vegas I was 18 and the 4 of us got into a million fights the 4 days we were there. I think being older this time around made a huge difference :)
We spent the rest of our time being tourist, shopping, laughing making Hangover references. It truly was a trip I will never forget. Even though were out of place amongst the party crowd we enjoyed our time together and just had a great time! I don't think I will be going to Vegas again. It's fun to see and the hotels truly are amazing, but the excessiveness of it all is kind of ridiculous and un necessary. Maybe I have been one too many missions trips but it's kind of hard to enjoy the absolute spoiling that takes place there when you know there is just so much sadness and poverty elsewhere in the world....
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