Dec 27, 2007: Without a decent costing internet connection until tonight here in Anaheim California I have been unable to post. Will write up the missing days over the next couple days, when we are not in Disneyland.
December 24, 2007 Monday Las Vegas Nevada Day 6
Happy Anniversary Shirleen!!
December 23, 2007 Sunday Las Vegas Nevada Day 5
Started out looking for food, seeing it was around 10:30 am and n coffee as of yet, we went to The Banquet Restaurant right in the Wynn. It is supposed to be the best in town according to Shirleen’s reading. The hanging chandlers were loaded with fruits and vegetables. The foods were more than plentiful beef, seafood, Italian, Spanish. The one most remembered by me was the horseradish that went with the prime beef. It brought tears to my eyes, and I have tasted strong horseradish before, at St. Elmo’s in Indianapolis. Wow.
Shirleen went to find her free 25$ from the Wynn. We finally figured out how to operate the red card given to us. She hit a 50$ 7’s. Walked out with 65.75$.
We visited all the adjoining hotels to look at decorations, most minimal. We had a nice time in The Venetian, brought back memories of Venice. We strolled through a number of stores that had Murano glass and Venetian pictures. So we moved hotels. The Luxor was south of us and the traffic heavy to get there. The pyramid was neat looking and immense internally. The check-in fellow directed me to Starbuck’s for free internet.
Went through the gambling portion in the Luxor and saw a 500,000$ Baccarat invitational tournament. It was towards the end of the games and high stakes were evident. The highest was 76,000$ final bet, won by him and he moves to tomorrows quarter final. Off we went on to see different registration areas. Walking was the way to go. We ended up eating a pizza in the New York - New York hotel. The wine and pizza was great, wish I was hungry enough to eat the main meals. The Il Fornaio a highly rated Italian restaurant. Back to the hotel for the next day, 41st Anniversary Day. - jerr
December 22, 2007 Saturday Las Vegas Nevada Day 4
Reason for not posting, the hotel wants to charge me 12.95$ for 24 hours.
Off this morning at 9 degs, looks like we didn’t leave the cold and snowy weather behind. As we had small drifting along the high lands of Utah, crossing from I-70 to I-15 south. It was a straight 77 mph all the way. We arrived noon and the navigation system took me to the driveway of the Wynn. We were off to a quick noon lunch, but where? End up at the hotels Sugar & Ice restaurant. A nice view of a waterfall. The hamburgers and French fries and potato chips were really good.
Time to check-in but where is the front of this place? We found the slots and figured we were getting closer. Here we found a nice Christmas exhibit of highly white light decorated trees and multiple arches. And here is registration, we were gently ushered to an open smiley clerk. A quick check of Shirleen’s drivers license, she made the reservations, think I found a clue here. He said there were about 9,500 people who worked at the Wynn and more to come as they were expanding on the north of the building. We asked and received a Vegas strip view of the downtown. The highlight of this hotel is the Ferrari and Maserati dealership is housed in the Wynn, they sell at least one Ferrari a day, it is also a garage to do work on those cars for people who drove here. To the room shed our bags, I put my Vegas clothes in the Disneyland suitcase.
We are going to meander down the strip to look at the sights Michelle and Mark told us to see. Well they have done 9 trips, we are trying to do it in one trip and four days. First the Bellagio to check for tickets for O, Circus du Soule. All sold out till Jan 6th. But we were there and found a spectacular Christmas display. Will post the welcome Christmas sign later. It just glistened with highly decorated trees, immense ornaments, deer which were covered with whole walnuts for the brown skin texture. Around the back of the display area was a Chihuly shop, one of a few. We moseyed around the small shop and struck up a conversation with the sales lady, who drew our attention to a special item for the Bellagio store. It was what I was looking for in the glass blowing Island of Murano, Venice Italy. This was a piece made by Chihuly and the master glass blower from there, saw a program about this a number of years ago and that’s where I saw my first Putti, this one in a dish both infused with a light coloring of gold. Cost, 12,000$ another 970$ shipping. Would someone check our door step to see if the package arrived? The saleslady showed us the Christmas card from Chihuly’s family. We went around the corner of that shop and found a chocolate shop, Jean Philippe. It has a six stream cascading white and brown chocolate waterfall. We were tempted to buy some neat chocolate Christmas houses, Santa Clauses and other trinkets to melt in the car on the way back home. The top off to this hotel is the registration area which has a multiple saucer, multiple colored wavy saucer Chihuly work. we walked through many other Hotels and viewed their decorations, next best was Caesar’s Palace with the decorations being dark red blown icicle ornaments hanging from leaf and bark-less tree branches. This decoration followed throughout the hotel. Here we ate supper, not very hungry so we ate in their café at the registration area, nice place to watch people, many talking on cell phones. Shirleen had here French onion soup with a glass of cab and I wonton soup with pork and shrimp wontons, thin noodles, mushrooms and cabbage. Accented with a saucer of highly spiced red sauce, this I used a couple times. Most of mine was eaten with chopsticks, soup with spoon and a pino region wine.
Walked back to the hotel and watched the waterfall exhibit in the Parasol room, really neat highly parasols twirling in the air, the water fall has a colored display with statues in the small pool of a man half submerged and a women walking and visa versa with the other two. Neat display, can be seen from three of their restaurants.
December 24, 2007 Monday Las Vegas Nevada Day 6
Happy Anniversary Shirleen!!
December 23, 2007 Sunday Las Vegas Nevada Day 5
Started out looking for food, seeing it was around 10:30 am and n coffee as of yet, we went to The Banquet Restaurant right in the Wynn. It is supposed to be the best in town according to Shirleen’s reading. The hanging chandlers were loaded with fruits and vegetables. The foods were more than plentiful beef, seafood, Italian, Spanish. The one most remembered by me was the horseradish that went with the prime beef. It brought tears to my eyes, and I have tasted strong horseradish before, at St. Elmo’s in Indianapolis. Wow.
Shirleen went to find her free 25$ from the Wynn. We finally figured out how to operate the red card given to us. She hit a 50$ 7’s. Walked out with 65.75$.
We visited all the adjoining hotels to look at decorations, most minimal. We had a nice time in The Venetian, brought back memories of Venice. We strolled through a number of stores that had Murano glass and Venetian pictures. So we moved hotels. The Luxor was south of us and the traffic heavy to get there. The pyramid was neat looking and immense internally. The check-in fellow directed me to Starbuck’s for free internet.
Went through the gambling portion in the Luxor and saw a 500,000$ Baccarat invitational tournament. It was towards the end of the games and high stakes were evident. The highest was 76,000$ final bet, won by him and he moves to tomorrows quarter final. Off we went on to see different registration areas. Walking was the way to go. We ended up eating a pizza in the New York - New York hotel. The wine and pizza was great, wish I was hungry enough to eat the main meals. The Il Fornaio a highly rated Italian restaurant. Back to the hotel for the next day, 41st Anniversary Day. - jerr
December 22, 2007 Saturday Las Vegas Nevada Day 4
Reason for not posting, the hotel wants to charge me 12.95$ for 24 hours.
Off this morning at 9 degs, looks like we didn’t leave the cold and snowy weather behind. As we had small drifting along the high lands of Utah, crossing from I-70 to I-15 south. It was a straight 77 mph all the way. We arrived noon and the navigation system took me to the driveway of the Wynn. We were off to a quick noon lunch, but where? End up at the hotels Sugar & Ice restaurant. A nice view of a waterfall. The hamburgers and French fries and potato chips were really good.
Time to check-in but where is the front of this place? We found the slots and figured we were getting closer. Here we found a nice Christmas exhibit of highly white light decorated trees and multiple arches. And here is registration, we were gently ushered to an open smiley clerk. A quick check of Shirleen’s drivers license, she made the reservations, think I found a clue here. He said there were about 9,500 people who worked at the Wynn and more to come as they were expanding on the north of the building. We asked and received a Vegas strip view of the downtown. The highlight of this hotel is the Ferrari and Maserati dealership is housed in the Wynn, they sell at least one Ferrari a day, it is also a garage to do work on those cars for people who drove here. To the room shed our bags, I put my Vegas clothes in the Disneyland suitcase.
We are going to meander down the strip to look at the sights Michelle and Mark told us to see. Well they have done 9 trips, we are trying to do it in one trip and four days. First the Bellagio to check for tickets for O, Circus du Soule. All sold out till Jan 6th. But we were there and found a spectacular Christmas display. Will post the welcome Christmas sign later. It just glistened with highly decorated trees, immense ornaments, deer which were covered with whole walnuts for the brown skin texture. Around the back of the display area was a Chihuly shop, one of a few. We moseyed around the small shop and struck up a conversation with the sales lady, who drew our attention to a special item for the Bellagio store. It was what I was looking for in the glass blowing Island of Murano, Venice Italy. This was a piece made by Chihuly and the master glass blower from there, saw a program about this a number of years ago and that’s where I saw my first Putti, this one in a dish both infused with a light coloring of gold. Cost, 12,000$ another 970$ shipping. Would someone check our door step to see if the package arrived? The saleslady showed us the Christmas card from Chihuly’s family. We went around the corner of that shop and found a chocolate shop, Jean Philippe. It has a six stream cascading white and brown chocolate waterfall. We were tempted to buy some neat chocolate Christmas houses, Santa Clauses and other trinkets to melt in the car on the way back home. The top off to this hotel is the registration area which has a multiple saucer, multiple colored wavy saucer Chihuly work. we walked through many other Hotels and viewed their decorations, next best was Caesar’s Palace with the decorations being dark red blown icicle ornaments hanging from leaf and bark-less tree branches. This decoration followed throughout the hotel. Here we ate supper, not very hungry so we ate in their café at the registration area, nice place to watch people, many talking on cell phones. Shirleen had here French onion soup with a glass of cab and I wonton soup with pork and shrimp wontons, thin noodles, mushrooms and cabbage. Accented with a saucer of highly spiced red sauce, this I used a couple times. Most of mine was eaten with chopsticks, soup with spoon and a pino region wine.
Walked back to the hotel and watched the waterfall exhibit in the Parasol room, really neat highly parasols twirling in the air, the water fall has a colored display with statues in the small pool of a man half submerged and a women walking and visa versa with the other two. Neat display, can be seen from three of their restaurants.
2 comments:
So glad to have you online again. I've been checking every day-more than once a day! :-)
Love,Mary
Who took your picture?
Mary
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