I'll start with some commentary from our first day to add to the pics I posted.
My mom and I flew from Phoenix to Vegas Friday morning. My mom drives me a little crazy when we travel because she worries way too much. She gets all worried about getting through security. I always tell her "you don't have anything bad in your luggage so you're fine." But she still worries.
Wouldn't you know that they stopped her and searched her carry-on after it went through the x-ray. She was fretting so much and saying to the TSA people "it's just shoes in there. Really, it's just shoes." I told her not to worry, but she was freaking out! It turns out there was a big ol' pair of scissors in her carry-on. Oops! Who put that in there? Um, it was me. I
have a travel first-aid kit that I take everywhere. I have scissors in there with which to cut my moleskin. I forgot about the scissors and put the kit in her carry-on! After they measured the scissors and confirmed that the "blades" were less than 4 inches, we were good to go.
The flight was only an hour long. We arrived in Vegas and went to our hotel, the Las Vegas Hilton.
We were given a 25 dollar gaming chip upon check-in, so we put it on black on the roulette table. And we won! Then we put that money all back into the roulette table. Well, all but 7 dollars, which my mom wanted to use on slots.
Then we checked out some of the hotels and casinos, stopping at various slot machines along the way.
We had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. Not very exciting, but my mom's stomach was bothering her and she knew the food there would be predictable.
Sidenote: I wore Teva Mush flip flops while we were there and they were AWESOME! Loved them! I'm excited to have shoes aside from
Crocs that will be good Disney shoes! Sidenote over.
I can't tell you how many times my mom said "Oh, this is just like Disney" about so many things in Vegas! The theming of all the casinos, the streets of Paris, the water show at the Bellagio (compared to Fantasmic 1,000 times.) It cracked me up!
I did some shopping in the Forum shops at Caesar's Palace. Can't stop the shop!
We called it a night at about midnight. It was a good first day.
Saturday, we woke up at our leisure and had breakfast at our hotel. Then we headed out to check out some more sights. My mom wanted to stop at EVERY slot machine group we walked past. I had to explain to her that you only stop at the machines that "call" to you.
After seeing lots of sights, we had dinner at Le Village Buffet at Paris.
It was incredible. For anyone with a Vegas trip coming up, I highly recommend Le Village!
Here are my plates from the Buffet. Some of it is French food, which I find to be delicious!
And dessert: mousse au chocolat and a cannoli. Yum!!!!!
Even the inside of the restaurant was beautiful!
After dinner, we headed over to Treasure Island for Cirque du Soleil!
We saw these guys on our way (Sigfried and Roy)
The Cirque show we saw was Mystere. And it was amazing!
Here's what Gordon and I looked like after I won all my money in Vegas.
At this rate, I'll have an entire new wardrobe for the trip!
Of course, it would also help if disneyshoppingl.com shipped to Canada without charging a bloody fortune for it 
Where are you going in Greece? My best friend and I vacationed in Greece "back in the day" LOL Athens was wonderfully historic and architecturally diverse, Santorini was gorgeous (except for the black sand beaches - ouchies on the feet!) and Mykonos was party-central 
The food was great and the locals were incredibly friendly and welcoming 
I really enjoyed your last TR, and just found this one. Your October TR is actually the very first TR I ever read!
I've heard about dogs everywhere, but not cats!
