Vegas, baby!

So, we went to Vegas! We decided to go and planned the whole thing very sporadically (which is quite unlike us), so we were extra excited about it. We knew we wanted to take a short vacation by ourselves, and Vegas had been on David's "must see" list for awhile.

We got a great deal on our flights and hotel, but we wanted to be sure we were getting the best bang for our buck on the rest of the trip. We're pretty cheap frugal people in general, so we tried to think of ways to maximize our vacation. We wanted to see Vegas, but neither of us are big drinkers or gamblers. In fact, we didn't drink any alcohol or spend any money gambling (we did each get free coupons for slot play, so we used those). We didn't intend to do this, but in the end that definitely saved us some moolah!

Rather than spending our money on food and drinks, wanted to see and do cool stuff. SO, we did! We bought Power Passes, which turned out to be worth the money! It ended up saving us more than $115 and enabled us to:

• go to observation deck of The Eiffel Tower at Paris
• go to the top of the Stratosphere
• visit Madame Toussads Wax Musuem
• take a day tour of the Hoover Dam & Lake Mead
• ride the NYNY Manhattan Express Roller Coaster
• spend $20/day at Planet Hollywood (which were our lunches on Monday & Tuesday)

We also bought gift certificates from restaurant.com with an 80% off coupon, so our other lunch was really inexpensive too.

We also saw some great shows:

• America's Got Talent LIVE (the top 7? acts from last season's show)
• Blue Man Group (David has seen them in NY, Cincinnati and Vegas now!)
• KA (the tickets came with our hotel package)

We bought our tickets to America's Got Talent and Blue Man Group the day of the shows at one of the Tix4Tonight places. That saved us tons of money!

After reviewing our trip, we decided a few things. First, we're glad we went, but not ready to go back. I can definitively cross Vegas off my list of places to go. Second, our second favorite activity was seeing the Hoover Dam. It was the educational part of our trip and SO worth it! Lastly, our very favorite thing in Vegas was KA- the Cirque du Soleil show. Oh. my. word. It would be worth going back to Vegas just for that show. Unfortunately, we saw it at 9:30pm (which was 12:30am to our bodies) so we were sleepy through the whole thing.

Overall, the best part of the trip was just spending time with David. We hadn't been on a vacation by ourselves since our honeymoon, and it was so fun to get away! We made some great memories and loved being together.