1st Day in Vegas

View From the Plane

We touched down from Phoenix after an awesome flight which took us over the Hoover Dam and landed with a view of the Strip. Got right into a cab and arrived at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. What a hotel this is. It is HUGE. I was told that there are 4,000 rooms per a hotel, which is completely crazy. We walked around a little bit and then went to Dinner at the Mirage. Just a quick informal dinner at BB Kings as we had two shows to see. First we saw Terry Fator, who is a ventriloquist comedic act; and actually he won America's Got Talent a few years ago. He was pretty funny, but most of all just very talented. He could imitate most singers perfectly, without moving his lips, both guys and girls. It was pretty cool.

Right after we saw Seth Myers, head writer for Saturday Night Live, and he was absolutely HILARIOUS. We were all dying and Jessie and I were having trouble breathing by the end of it. A great way to start off Vegas. Tomorrow we'll get a tour of a strip...Can't wait

Flying to the West

Just got off a long flight to Phoenix. Nothing like sitting down for four hours and not moving. However luckily I got Exit row seating, and I got the seat with no seat in fron of it. For the first time on an airplane I could stretch my legs completely out and not touch anything, not too shabby. 

I don't think I've ever been to Phoenix before, but it was quite an interesting city to fly over. It is a HUGE urban sprawl, but an unusual one. First of all it appears out of nowhere. You fly over the desert and all of the sudden you see a few small towns and then it just appears. Like a line drawn in the sand the civilization starts next to a highway and just goes forever. It sits next to large rocky mountains, not be confused with The Rocky Mountains, that are completely barren of soil and life. Even the houses look barren, none of them have yards. Seriously not one house had grass, they all just had dirt or sand. I've personally never seen anything quite like that. The reason I find that so strange is that although they couldn't use water to maintain a yard, which they shouldn't anyway, practically every other house had a pool. I guess the priority here is to recreation over life sustaining water. Maybe they wouldn't be in a water shortage if they didn't give it to people's pools, but who knows. 

Just waiting here in the airport until we get on our short flight to Sin City, which promises to be a much better sight.