Busty LaRue's Glitz and Glam

Other Vegas Randoms

Sleeping in the car.

Apparently it was fake sleeping.

Yeah, definitely fake sleeping.

Still fake sleeping. He did eventually fall asleep. YAY!

Bass Pro Shops: OCC (Orange County Choppers) did this awesome bike for the store! Oh, and we met a guy that worked there that was from our hometown. Totally weird. At first we were kind of like "Yeah, whatever, everyone says that." But then he started saying things about the town, and the people and the wards, etc. so we knew he was really from up here. CRAZY!

At the Mirage:

Some weird, not quite a duck, duck.

Marsh was enthralled. He didn't want to leave the "Bird! Bird!"

Wish I could capture the annoyingness with a photo....

Wish I had a picture of the non-working, non-existant modem in our room. Kind of made connecting to the internet a problem. Come to find out the modem was broken, and the ethernet cord-keeper had been stolen! Yeah, nice.

Also wish I had a picture. A picture of the letter left on our night table Tuesday night. Apparently the hotel/casino was planning a 4 hour power outage that night. Not too big a deal, right?

Well, apparently the power outage screwed up the alarm system. At 7 PM on Wednesday (remember, we went to get Ben & Jerry's?) the alarm system went off. Not a big deal right? WRONG. They went off for an hour! Yeah. Just a little annoying. Come to find out, it was just on our floor.

Things we ate...

MONDAY: Lunch - In-N-Out Burger.
Dinner - Cheesecake Factory....Service...not so great, but it could've been worse (keep reading). The server disappeared 30 minutes before we got our check. It took him so long, in fact, that Mike had to take Marshy outside into the Forum Shops at Caesar's to look at the fish in the aquarium to calm him down.

TUESDAY: Breakfast - Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville. Mmmm.... Yummy.
Lunch - ??? Don't think we ate lunch! :S
Dinner - Carnegie Deli. We ordered the Corned Beef sandwich (seen below) and a slice of plain cheesecake. Mmmm.....the cheesecake was heaven.

WEDNESDAY: Breakfast: Breakfast buffet at the hotel.

Lunch: Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville. Mmmm.... Cheeseburger in Paradise-alicious! :)

Dinner: CPK. AWFUL! The didn't have an access ramp so we had to carry Marshy upstairs in the stroller. They don't have a kids menu, so we ordered Marshy a cheesey-bread bruschetta appetizer. The service sucked so bad that we didn't leave a tip. Yeah, it has to be bad for us to not leave a tip. Our server walked past us at least 5 times within a 30 -minute period while we were finished, empty plates, waiting for her to give us our check.

Oh yeah, and Marshy didn't like the cheesey bread. He was content just eating the butter pats. (see below). We try to get him to eat real food. I promise!

Late-night snack: Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Cost us $20 for 2 ice creams. What the? AND! (this is the kicker) they only took cash, so Mike and Marsh went to find an ATM. 3 ATM's, and 4 security guards in the casino later, Mike shows up with a $20 to find out that it's like $20.34 or something like that. I only have $0.04 in change. Yeah. Sucky. They were nice and gave us the $0.30 free. Nice. Thanks a lot. Jerks.

THURSDAY: Breakfast: Buffet at the hotel.

Lunch: Outback Steakhouse. Not as good as we were told it was.

Dinner: Mickey D's. Yep. Kids meals were ordered, all food was cold. BOO to McDonald's! :(

FRIDAY: Breakfast: Jack and the B-fish (box)

Lunch: In-N-Out...Oh yeah, we need one up here.

Dinner: McDonald's.

Coke Store

The Coke Store has this cool green screen and some dude in a polar bear suit that you can get your picture taken at. The first time we saw the bear Marshy kind of liked him. He even said "Bye bear!" when we left. CUTE!

We went back the next day to get our picture taken with Mr. Bear. Marshy did not like it one bit.

He bawled hysterically the whole time. The bear felt really bad, too, and they made him take a break after we were done!

As we were leaving the store, he asked where the bear was! Funny boy.

Swimming! .....finally

We finally made it to the pool! Marshy cried and cried and cried when we got in. He did not want to be in there. After a lot of persuading, and finally pulling him in, he settled down and didn't want to get out of the water!!

He hated being towelled off to go inside. Poor guy. But, despite putting lots of sunblock on him, his ears were still bright red after being outside for only an hour.

Las Vegas Natural History Museum

A boy and his monkey suit.

Looking at the baby dinosaurs.

Pushing the button that makes the dinos "talk". There was a giant T-rex that made noise and it scared Marsh so bad that he ran away crying "HOME HOME! HELP! LOOK OUT!" It was cute.