It wasn't until I was 2 days into my Vegas trip that I learned what "Viva" meant! Live Las Vegas. While we did not live Las Vegas in the typical sense (drunk & ridiculous) we did have a very, very good time!!! Not only will I be telling you about our trip...but what we ate! While it definitely wasn't "all healthy" we never intended it to be. We tried to make smarter choices and I'm very proud of how we did.
The reason we headed to Vegas was because my Father in Law was getting married to his girl friend of 14 years...Penny! They made the meaningful date of 11.14.13. They got married at 14:00, on the 14th, of the month they met 14 years ago.
We headed out on Wednesday night after work and got into Vegas at about 10pm which was about 3 hours later than we were supposed to be there! It was fun flying in at night!
Wolfgang Puck at the MGM Grand. The only restaurant open at 11pm.
THE FOOD: We split a pizza, each had a salad, and one beer.
Bright and early Thursday morning I took a taxi to the most magical place on earth ;-) Before class I had an apple. Then when we pulled in I saw that Whole Foods was right in the parking lot so I headed over and got some grilled veggies & eggs before class.
Jackie, barre3 Henerson's owner, and myself!
I took a class by Meredith and she taught a really fun class.
THE FOOD:Eating my Whole Foods salad in the window of our room at the MGM.
barre3 Henderson is in the same parking lot as a whole foods! Amazing!! I headed over before class and got two big salads for lunch before the wedding, apples, and a few other healthy treats!
A little barre3 in the background!
barre3 ball plank!
Thursday afternoon Penny and Mike got married!! Jason was the best man.
All the Eeds!!
The whole group that came down for the wedding!
I wore this tight dress without Spanx!! NON SCALE VICTORY!!!
I did wear tights but they were a size to big!
After the wedding we headed back to our hotel changed and headed back to the Bellagio to do our one day of gambling & drinking before their wedding dinner. I don't have any pictures from inside the casinos because I was told we couldn't take pictures (by someone) and I didn't want to get in trouble! Though, I can now officially say I understand how people can get "the Hangover" drunk in Vegas!! We sat at a video Roulette table and made a bunch of "safe" bets and drank way too much wine. Then we headed into dinner where we ate WWAAYY too much. We had a salad, this amazing chicken & potato entrée, and then cake of dessert. I was SO full I couldn't even finish dessert which is pretty much unheard of! I figure, if we only did that for one night in Vegas we aren't doing too bad!
Jason's first time seeing the Bellagio Fountains!
Friday morning we decided to head out to see the Hoover Dam! Jason, Matt, Chris & Alex had never been. I had been once but it was 2 months after 9/11 so we couldn't go on a tour.
For breakfast I honestly can't even remember what we had! Heehee. We were busy trying to get the rental car!
Jason looks pumped to drive us hooligans to the dam Dam!
Ps. I had to have heard over 50 DAM jokes that day. UG!
barre3 at the Hoover Dam!
There was water in that tunnel. I was scared.
We don't use the "leak" word here. We use the "seep" word. Same different. The rocks were wet!
The turbines.
That's a L O N G way down!
US <3
Hoover Dam from the lookout on the new bridge!
This wasn't here when I went in 2001 so it was fun to see it from a new vantage point.
THE FOOD: We had sandwiches, apples, almonds, and water for a picnic lunch by the dam.
barre3 core ball warrior 3
Once we got back from the Hoover Dam we headed up to Fremont Street to see what that was all about!
It was fun to see the giant ceiling TV in person! Fremont Street definitely wasn't our thing.
BURGR by David Ramsey. AMAZING!!!
We headed back to the strip before we made our way to see "O"! We happened upon the restaurant BURGR and it was SO worth the wait!!
Burgers at BURGR!
THE FOOD: We each had a burger (DUH) and split the fries. We also each had to 2 beers. This was definitely our one night to go all out, well, maybe there was the wedding dinner too ;-) I wish I could go back there tonight!
The "O" curtain! This show was definitely worth the money!!
Saturday started out with sleeping in followed by lunch! We ate at a Japanese restaurant in our hotel and each had some kind of rice meal! Then...
sunshine & beer!!! It was about 75 degrees and we needed a little Vitamin D!
Side Note: We make a quick mess of hotel rooms. It's quite humorous!
Saturday night we were hanging out with Jason's brothers, Alex, and their friend Ethan. We had a BLAST at the Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas. I'd definitely recommend you go there if you like lots of beer! Mine was so big I couldn't even finish it!
Jason in beer heaven.
It was a 2 hander!!!
The group minus Alex!
THE FOOD: Beer, bread, brats.
Where'd I go?!?!
Then we went to something I wish I hadn't paid $60 to go see - Tournament of Kings. The boys all wanted to go and they had a good time but the whole time all I could think of was "Where is the GD silverware" and "Horse poop is going to fly into my food".
Last night. Exhausted.
I'd say we did a lot of walking!!!
Monday after Vegas. Gym time at 6:00 am.
All in all we had a great trip but I would have been okay with it being 2 or 3 nights, not 4! I gained about 2 pounds while there but lost it within a week so I determined that is also a success!
Fingers crossed {that our next vacation is to the beach}!!!
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