Guys Weekend in Vegas

Last Friday afternoon, my friend Ray and I headed to Las Vegas for the weekend. We had been talking about doing a guys trip a little while and this weekend also worked as it was Ray's birthday on Sunday.
We arrived just after 6pm and made our way to our hotel, The Excalibur, the one that looks like a Disneyland castle. We checked in and headed out for dinner. We found a great Mexican restaurant and then made our way down the famous 'Strip'. We both enjoy photography, so we would try to photograph interesting things along the way and check out the various hotels. If you have been to Vegas before you know you usually end up doing a lot of walking, I wish I would have kept track of how far we walked, my legs were pretty sore by the end of our trip.

On Friday night we turned in relatively early, at 1am, as we had both been up early that day. On Saturday morning we woke up at 9am and headed out for the day to the parts on the Strip we had not made it to the night before. We continued to take photos and tried our hand at gambling, we are in Vegas after all. We aren't big gamblers, so the quarter slots seemed to be a good start. I put $5 in and on my 3 spin I won $50! I used my 'winnings' to fund further wagering and am happy to say I came home with overall winnings of $42. I can't say my friend Ray was as successful, but we had fun.

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On Saturday night we went to the Blue Man Group show, we bought discount tickets that day and ended up getting great seats. The show was entertaining and we ended getting a photo with one of the Blue Men. The show ended near midnight and at the stroke of midnight Ray began another year of his life. We had a goal to stay up till 3am which we made(we're getting older so it's not as easy as it once was:-)

After another 9am wake up, we went to the Stratosphere to to see the view of Vegas from above. On Saturday there was thin cloud all day with a temperature of about 12C and Sunday it was blue sky and and fairly warm at 16C, which is a lot more comfortable than the 42C Shelby and I had last June.

Last time I was in Vegas I took this ride at the top of the Stratosphere around midnight and the pictures of me didn't really turn out, so you can imagine me on this ride and yes it is pretty scary.

I think we packed in as much as we could in a weekend and had a great time. We eventually landed back in Bellingham at midnight on Sunday night and life resumed as normal Monday morning.