We arrived in Las Vegas pretty late after Corey’s game, but the city was just getting waking up. We were exhausted and decided to go to bed, but we felt pretty lame looking out of our hotel and seeing all the people out and about.
We had no major plans for our stay in Vegas, other than we really wanted to see a show. On Saturday morning we waited in line and got tickets to see Phantom. We were really torn between that and a Cirque du Soleil show, but Phantom won out in the end. After we got our tickets we had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen, and then went back to our hotel to wind down. (For the record, Vegas was also HOT. It took the better part of 2 hours to get our tickets taken care of, and that included walking a 1/2 mile on the scorching hot strip. We were tired.)
Phantom was so awesome. I’ve seen The Phantom of the Opera before, but the Vegas version pretty much blew the Broadway version out of the water. They have a 20 million dollar theater in The Venetian made especially for the show. It is spectacular. The show was about an hour shorter than the Broadway version, but the story still flowed. The music, singing, and costumes were beautiful. I was definitely under a spell. Loved it.
This is us in the theater before the show and before the ushers came around saying, “No photography in the theater, please!” (Lots of iphone pics on this trip…)
Eric affectionately called this date, “the most expensive date in 10 years.” After the show we stayed at The Venetian and ate at Wolfgang Puck’s Postrio. It was so fancy. We ate delicious dinner and dessert. We were totally out of our element, but that’s OK once every 10 years, right?
Here’s what we ate. Eric said he felt dumb taking pictures of our dinner.
On our way out of The Venetian, I tried my hand at some slots. I didn’t win. Boo.
After leaving the hotel we walked around the strip for awhile and then headed back to our hotel. (The Westin, by the way… It was nice.)
On Sunday morning we headed home at the crack of 11:30. We stopped in Cedar City for a quick hello to my brother and his family. We arrived home around 7ish to three kids who had missed us a lot. It was great to see them! Every once in awhile you need a weekend away to remember that you love being parents. Agreed?
Our anniversary trip was awesome. I hope we don’t have to wait 10 more years for another date like that!
1 comment:
HOW FUN! Happy Anniversary! That sounds like a blast. I think PHANTOM will have to go on my Vegas "to do" list! Sounds wonderful. And the food looks yummy too. Tell Eric you've got to splurg at least once every 10 years! :)
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