Making Memories Vegas Baby!

It's been a While!!! had things to do people to see and places to go!
I flew out to Vegas on the 6th June with a couple of friends, the flight felt like one big party free booze and loads of guys in groups and girls flying out to have fun.

The flight went surprisingly quickly i watched the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the third! time and still enjoyed it. Getting nearer to landing the scenery below was amazing miles of desert interspersed with lakes.
Arriving in Vegas was a different experience to New York a few years previously much friendlier and able to have a giggle too!
The heat on leaving the airport was baking! we grabbed a cab and headed for the Bellagio i agreed on 35 dollars which included a tip he took my 40 very quickly and jumped in the car without giving change! stung and i had only just set foot in the country! mind you it was the only time in the whole holiday.

The bellagio was chaotic when we arrived at around 2pm their computer system had crashed and they were doing all bookings manually, we were told to come back at 5pm so we headed for the loo's changed into costumes and hit the pool for the afternoon.
On return to book in later it was still heaving it took a while but we got our room however it wasn't the room promised. We ended up there for the night and then had to move our cases the following day, certainly worth the trouble as we then had a view over the Bellagio fountains! They play to music and one of the channels on the tv plays the music every 15 minutes synchronised with the fountains below, completely mesmerising and i could have just sat all night watching them if there wasn't much more to do.

Still a way to go!

Vegas is BIG!!! everything is HUGE! I don't think you can grasp how big until to see it, above is a pic of the corridor to the rooms, you think having walked miles on the strip that you are nearly home on reaching the hotel .....but no! you still have miles to walk just to get to your room, through the reception then the casino to the lifts and then another mile from there to your door! A pic of the fountains from the room and then the hotel itself...due to some problems we had we were moved to a penthouse suite! if you look at the pic were it is bowed in the middle look to the left and then the two windows next to the bowed bit and just sitting on the top row of lights.....our room!
Because of the problems we had we got three extra nights free and our hotel bill voided!!! so we stayed 3 days longer we weren't ready to go at all until then. Moving twice had taken a couple of days out of our holiday pack ing then moving and unpacking.

The Sky Walk which we walked around..has a glass floor!!

The Hoover Dam from the Helicopter.

May  I Present the Grand Canyon!

But other than that the holiday was great i went to the grand canyon by road and then by helicopter which was just brilliant, we flew in at sunset into the canyon had champagne took some pics then flew back over the strip all lit up in the night.
We went to a club on the top of the RIO hotel which had 360 degree views of Vegas whilst you partied i had a bit of bump and grind with a DJ who was in for a festival. Had a few nights of staying out till the morning but not as much as my friends i did succumb a couple of nights. My feet were very painful walking because of the capecitabine but nothing i couldn't handle.

We went to a few hotels, in the Venetian we went on a gondola ride inside around the shopping area!, at the Paris on our last night we ate at Gordon Ramseys, we had a turn at the roulette table...i lost money and was an awful sore loser...:o( We partied at the Blue Martini which was a place recommended by the guys we met at the hard rock hotel and who we moved on with, nice guys on business from Canada. My friends left and i stayed with new friends i made for that evening, who gave me a lift back to the hotel afterwards.
Oh we just had a blast and hoping to return next year though it may fall on Glasto weekend! :o\

In terms of my cancer, it was fine i had my picc line in and the chemo nurses sent me away with a bag full of goodies to keep it clean, i swam with it...not to be recommended but i was ok, re insurence ....well i just kept my fingers crossed!!! far too expensive otherwise. Everyone has a different approach mine is to make the most whilst i can, i have already booked a holiday in Florida for me and the boys in October......making memories!!!!!