Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas was a lot more fun than I expected. When we pulled up to a hotel to get directions I didn’t suspect a thing. When we went in I was still oblivious. I became a little suspicious when we went out back and my mom asked if I wanted to go swimming. When I asked where she had gotten an access pass she told me that dad had just asked for one and they had given it to him.  Wow, at that point alarm bells should have been ringing in my head, but cut me some slack. I was hot and tired, and we had stayed in one hotel the entire trip so I wasn’t expecting my mom to tell me that we were staying the night at a five star Vegas hotel. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. The hotel had a pool and a 1/8^th mile long lazy river. In addition it meant we would have more time to explore the city of sin.

Needless to say I spent an hour in the lazy river before realizing that there was so much more to do. When I got out I ordered a sandwich and a Sprite, then kicked back is a beach chair in the sun.

After a while we finally went into Vegas.  My first reaction was “wow,” some of the things in Vegas were just inappropriate. In fact, I don’t think teachers would be OK with me talking about them. There were lights everywhere, and all the things that I had heard about before, such as the Statue of Liberty, the MGM, the Eiffel Tower, a giant Harley Davidson, the pyramids with a sphinx, and a giant balloon that was completely lit up. 

Public art on about five benches,
completely made out of Legos

 
We started walking through the city and before long we came to Hershey World where everything was chocolate. There was the world’s largest chocolate bar, Hershey kiss, and peanut butter cup. There were also two statues of liberty, one made out of chocolate, one made out of Twizzlers.

When my parents finally managed to drag me out of there we started looking for a place to eat.  Eventually we settled on a place called Margaritaville. Thankfully there was more than margaritas. I gorged myself then for desert I got key lime pie. Everything had something to do with lime, Key Lime pie, Lime dressing on the salad. It was all really good and made me wish we could eat like that every night By the end of dinner I was so full that it hurt to walk, so we took the shuttle back to the hotel and turned in for the night.