Saturday, July 28, 2012

Day 12 and 13

It was bittersweet to leave...but at least our first destination was Las Vegas! We got to our hotel in record time, and they let us check in early at 1:30. We stayed at the MGM Grand, which I've stayed in before, but it was still as great as it was in the past! We couldn't wait to get to the pool. It really didn't feel hot at all. The humidity on the east coast really does kill you.

Then, we got ready to go out to dinner. We checked out this one place but weren't too into the food, so we called and made a reservation for a restaurant called Stack in The Mirage. It was really confusing trying to navigate our way there on The Strip. Sometimes you could cross the street and other times you had to cut through a hotel and it took us a while to figure it out. Anyway, we got to the restaurant and shared some appetizers and a salad. The drinks we ordered looked so classy and were very different than anything we would normally order.

We attempted to go out that night. All of the bars we went to either seemed really boring or had more of an older crowd at them. We almost gave up, but then went past Coyote Ugly on the way back to our hotel. We figured we would check it out, since there really wasn't anything else left and didn't really want to play in the casino too much (I did learn how to play Blackjack, but I didn't do very well). So we went into the bar, and the bartenders were dancing on the bars like in the movie. Eh, whatever, we figured there would be other young people in there. Well, it seemed like there were mostly girls our age and creepy guys. We didn't stay too long. We'll have to go back when it isn't a Wednesday, when there are more places open at night. Only going to Vegas for one night is really a tease.

Thursday morning, we had breakfast then headed to the Grand Canyon. We were going to stop at the Hoover Dam on the way, but since you had to pay to park, we just drove by. We got to the Grand Canyon and it was raining. It wasn't too hard though, so we were able to take pictures. Even though it was the third time I've been there, it really is incredible to see. Then, we drove to Albuquerque and stayed there for the night. We didn't get to do anything too exciting because we gt there pretty late.

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