The past 24 hours have been a BLAST!!!

Flights were delayed and changed, but we both got to Las Vegas on the night that we were supposed to :)

The plan had originally been to meet at the airport, check in at the hotel and then head to New York, New York for some of the best pizza ever, which was where this whole trip idea started!

But, due to the flight changes, we weren't able to get to the pizza place in time, it was 'only' open until 1am on Thursdays (tonight it is open till 3am and so we are definitely going to make it!)

So we found ourselves rather ravenous at 1 am local time (3 am for me) as neither of us had been able to get a dinner with our flight schedules.

We checked in at the hotel smoothly and were happy to find out that they did indeed honor Matts platinum status with the hotels parent company. We were switched from a terrace studio to a wrap-around terrace suite. We were also given free champagne breakfast buffets for the length of our stay. When we entered the room we couldn't believe our eyes!!! It was crazy how big the place was (1200 sq ft).

The hotel itself is absolutely beautiful on the inside. To be honest the outside is pretty appauling. I like how the 'old' hotels on the strip (New York New York, Ceasers Palace, Bellagio, Treasure Island) have interesting buildings. Cosmpolitan does not. I is like any non-descript high rise sky scraper and I think it's presence is a sad thing for the strip, as are the other hotels that are going up around it.

But inside it is absolutely beautiful!! There are details everywhere, there is no surface of the hotel that hasn't got something going on. It's hard to find places to take photos (you're not supposed to take photos in gambling areas) but I shall try and find a way to get you an idea of the next couple of days.

Anyway, hungry and tired we headed to the 24 hour restaurant 'The Henry' where I had fish and chips (with malt vinegar) and a Mojito.

Matt had steak and eggs with a seltzer water (BORING!)

This morning we had breakfast at the buffet (photos on facebook, I'm going to start putting them all on here from now on). I'm looking forward to trying some of the stuff I didn't get to today, tomorrow :)

After breakfast we headed to the pool for some sunbathing, swimming , talking and, of course, margaritas!! (my vegas drink). Here I am with my second drink

After a couple hours at the pool we headed out for a walk down the strip. I didn't take many photos as I think that video gets a better feel for the place (stay tuned!). We went as far as Treasure Island and ate lunch at their restaurant 'Pho' where I had, you guessed it, Pho and a margarita :)


Matt had Beef with lemongrass and vermicelli.

After lunch we headed back to the hotel, but went up the opposite side of the strip where we stopped at the venetian.
and Harrahs

All this walking was thirsty work in the desert heat.

Here is our hotel, see what I mean.... nothing special to look at.

Here is a shot of the Paris hotel, I tried to get a photo similar to the photo I got of the actual Eiffel Tower....

Once we got back to the hotel we headed back down to the pool. At that time the sun had lost its heat and it was nice to sit in a breeze and drink (another) margarita.

We are super lucky with our terrace, it is always shaded, has lovely comfy seats and always has a breeze going.

So now I'm sitting on the terrace writing this blog before we head out for the night.