Las Vegas 2012

DH & I decided we needed a bit of a break before another farming season starts and the seed plant goes nuts yet again and so we made a quick weekend trip to Las Vegas.

I've always wanted to take a picture of mountains from an airplane but there were always clouds in the way. This time there were less clouds and so I put my phone on airplane mode and shot away.

These weren't the highest mountains but when you are from ND anything over the size of a small hill looks like a mountain!

I don't know if any of you read the Yarn Harlot but she created the term "kinnear". And so on St. Patrick's Day I couldn't resist kinnearing this gal who was all dressed up for the day.

But! She caught me at it. Oops. Turns out she wasn't upset...just amused. Her & her friend, that was dressed almost identically, were happy to take a picture with me.

No. I'm NOT putting that on here...what do you think I am? Crazy? These girls are skinny and I look like 2 of them put together.

Whenever "Pawn Stars" is on we usually watch. And since it is just a ways north of the strip we just had to go see the place for ourselves.

It was a hoot to see. None of the stars of the show were around but the guys behind the counter are occasionally seen in the background of the show.

It was your typical pawn shop. Older building. Slightly dusty appearance on everything.

They let only a certain amount of people in at a time and as you can see in the picture everyone basically lines up and walks around the perimeter of the store.

They sell a lot of touristy things. T shirts, shot glasses, mouse pads, magnets, key chains as well as some very expensive items that have been pawned there. I thought it would be fun to pick something up from there. Ah. No. Guess not.

2nd DS was there a couple weeks ago and did a little investigating. He walked around to the back of the building to their warehouse where the big overhead door was open. Guess what he found inside. T shirts. A whole wall of boxes of T shirts and nothing else. He was like..."Can you say tourist trap?"!

There are no pictures allowed at any of the shows and so no more pictures but we went to Jay Leno who is the same onstage as the standup part of his nightly dialog. Fun to see in person but if you watch regularly it felt like you'd heard it before.

The next night we went to Kathy Griffin. Funny but with a bit more of an edge than I'm comfortable with but it was ok.

The last night we were there we attended Cirque du Soleil Love (Beatles). Amazing. Huge. Spellbinding. Very loud Beatles music. Acrobats coming from the ceiling, over your heads, up from the floor, down the aisle. Like a 3 ring circus, there was so much going on you couldn't see it all. Did I say Amazing and Spellbinding?

It's always fun to go to Las Vegas. People to watch. Shows to see. Lots of good eating. A little shopping. Relaxing.

If you can, you should try it sometime!