Honeymoon: Vegas Excursion - Day 4

I haven't checked in since the starting point of Kaley and I's journey but it has been for good cause. Besides the obvious obstacles of having an amazing wife and wanting to spend every second of every day with her, from sunup until way after sun down, there have been a ton of things to do in Vegas that simply leave Kaley and I exhausted at the end of the day.

Today marks the end of the second full day of our adventures out on the strip and we have yet to conquer all of it. We have only gotten as far north as the Wynn hotel (which is breathtaking - definitely in Kaley and I's top three) to see La Réve last night.

From photo album: Vegas

It was a jaw-dropping cirque du solei show that Kaley and I were blessed enough to sit in the second row of (called the "splash zone" apparently). But more on that in a sec.... let me walk you through where we left off previously.

The flight over was quite long. Five hours of cramped up, sky mall, old people downing alcohol, try and do 12 things to keep you sane awesomeness

that culminated in the overview of part of the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam (which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World fyi), and the safe landing at LAS airport where we were immediately greeted by slot machines.

We found a shuttle to our resort, checked in, and a short time later were in a heap on the master room bed. We stayed in and ordered pizza to our room.

The next day we had quite "the adventure"....Haha. this was the original plan for the day - go to macy's for some wedding gift card shopping, hit up In and Out Burger for lunch, and then Target to do some more gift card shopping for groceries and other essentials for the week. Our choice of transportation: the city bus.

In hindsight... I think this would have been a lot more successful excursion if I would have... asked someone... for directions. But how can you bring yourself to do that and retain your man card? Impossible. Or so I thought.

Long story short, we found ourselves trekking through the parts of Vegas they have never, and will never, show you in the movies, rode more than 7 different buses and walked 3+ miles... I am happy to report after all this, that I am still married and am all in one piece :-) ...I love you Kaley! Haha!

At the end of that day we vowed to never leave the strip so we jumped on the free shuttle at our resort and got off at New York New York.

And wow! were our senses hit hard during our first "Resort on Las Vegas strip" experience. And it was just that - an experience.

As soon as we got off the shuttle we ran inside to ride the enticing roller coaster that wraps itself around the resort. (New realization #2 about Kaley: she loves roller coasters :-) ). In order to do so we walked through a small city that held a casino, more than 15 different restaurants and shops, a full two-story arcade, and a wall with more than five stories of tvs just to watch sports on (we found this is commonplace in all the strip resorts). Simply mind-blowing. We rode the coaster three times, grabbed some Starbucks coffee downstairs, took our first Gorillapodded picture, visited the four levels of the M&M store,

had three Elvis sightings (count ongoing), rode the shuttle to walk through another small city in Mandalay Bay to go to the shark reef aquarium,

and went back to the resort to chillax and prepare for the night on the strip.

Since I failed to make dinner reservations early enough on valentines day to take Kaley out (and because we were too tired) I made reservations to eat at the Paris Eiffel Tower. This is a resort with a half scale replica of the Eiffel Tower that has a restaurant in the middle of the tower overlooking the Bellagio Fountains.

Simply jaw-dropping. Afterwards we walked all the way to the Wynn Resort to watch our first Las Vegas show (and Kaley's first Cirque show).

I don't even know if I can adequately describe the show except for the fact that it was almost entirely made up of seemingly superhuman feats and displays of acrobatics. Just AWEsome.

Today we slept in until 10am (seems like we're finally getting over our jet lag) and decided to venture a little more north on the strip. Our shuttle drops off at the Mirage and this resort ended up claiming most of our time.

They had an attraction called The Secret Garden where they have dolphins, white bengal tigers, lions, llamas, and panthers.

It was pretty awesome to say the least. One of the tigers even decided to get a little more personal than I would have liked. He walked all the way to us at the fence, turned around and lifted his tail to pee. At that exact moment the wind decided to gust and spray his pee all over my face (I got all this on video...below...).

Next we headed to treasure island, the palazzo, and the venetian. They are all amazing resorts that make it feel like there are small cities hidden inside them.

We had received some coupons earlier in the day for B. B. Kings at the Mirage. It was pretty awesome to eat there with a House of Blues type theme and atmosphere.