So we are here and as always I LOVE VEGAS. Everything is just so decadent and over the top - how an a person not love that. I am stressed though as a mom - my poor little baby Jack is sick and has been since just before we boarded the plane yesterday. Nothing is worse than leaving your kids and finding out they get sick. Thank GOD for my mom - she has totally stepped up and was at my place all afternoon yesterday and back again for the day today. My poor babysitter works full-time and didn't bargain for having to miss work of course. Sometimes leaving the kids is just more work than its worth. Thankfully we don't leave them often and just take them most places with us.
So on to my day yesterday - in my world it was a great day. We woke up in Detroit at the Embassy Suites and I had an egg white omelette with peppers and tomatoes with one little slice of bacon. Perfect breakfast for a travel day. Our flight was at 1100am and there really wasn't anything we could find to take on the plane for that duration to eat so we figured we'd just order the food you pay for on the plane. This was our first time flying Spirit in years and guess what? They only offers crap to buy, like not even a sandwich. So the only thing that wasn't chips or crackers was a Mr Noodle chicken noodle soup soI got that. Once we got to our hotel, which by the way is pretty fab, Tom and I went directly to the pool and ate at the outdoor restaurant there. It was a bit of a strange menu for me - I was hoping for a great Cobb salad or sandwich - nothing like that - beef kabobs, fish tacos....ewwww. So I ended up with a chicken caesar salad which was excellent, very lightly dressed, tons of chicken. Perfect. And the great thing about Vegas is its so dry you drink water, water, water all day long.
For dinner we went to one of my favs The Palm which is at Caesars Palace at the Forum Shops - my all time favourite area to shop. Made a pitstop with hubby at Chanel where I picked out my Christmas gift.....you know your husband is the best when you pick out your beautiful necklace and he sees the price and goes, "that's it? for a Chanel necklace? That's pretty good". God I love him. Another little pitstop into Jimmy Choo for the gold clutch I've been dying for and a gorgeous huge coffee table book for my living room. Dinner was so wonderful. I had a glass of wine, Tom and I shared the beefsteak tomato, mozzarella and basil salad and I had the lobster Cobb salad for dinner. This salad was amazing - chunks of lobster (if you eat without butter nothing wrong with lobster), greens, peppers, tomato, cukes, egg, no cheese and tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette - I felt fantastic after dinner. No dessert and then we walked probably 3 miles. I'm such a nerd, I always pack my flip-flops in my bag in Vegas because no way am I walking all over the place in 4 inch heels.
So by the time we got back to the hotel I was about 80% full, we had gotten a ton of walking in, shopping was a HUGE success - it was a great day.
Today Tom is off to his trade show so Kari and I are sitting at the pool all day and then Tom and I are having date night tonight. Hoping to eat at The Venetian tonight because then we want to hit David and Goliath - the tshirt store for some ideas plus to get Jack some hilarious shirts. Then another huge walk back to the Forum Shops for some more shopping for Avah and back to our hotel. Can you tell we aren't gamblers???
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