The silver lining

We stayed at a beautiful suite at the Venetian. It was very fancy shmancy, and also very confusing! The place is a maze. If you ever stay there, you'll know exactly what I mean. We didn't end up seeing any shows, but we definitely did some eating (Rio, Margaritaville, Paris, Venetian, etc.)! There was a lot of walking around too, so I didn't feel TOO bad about all the food that was going into my tummy. I didn't do any gambling, but almost everyone else did. If I ever decide to gamble again, it'll probably have to be craps since the group I was with had some good luck with it. Here's what our suite looked like:



Now for the stressful part... Apparently, doing a flight number search on Southwest is NOT a good idea. When I bought my flight ticket home, I did a flight search...and a flight came up with that number, time, and day. As it turned out...I booked flight 1642, leaving Las Vegas 6:55 pm, on the 18th.....but accidentally booked it for JANUARY and NOT FEBRUARY! YIKES! So I was stranded in Vegas, with the next available flight leaving 6:45 am the following day. Stand-by was not a real option because there were 10 people waiting ahead of me. Thank goodness for Virgin America! It was a later flight, but the experience was definitely better than sleeping at the airport over night.


Now for the silver lining... I haven't had much time to read for fun, and I've been wanting to read this for a while now:


Realizing that I would have to be at the airport for a few hours, I stopped by the little BORDERS in the airport, and happily found it! It's a book about travel, love lost, love found, food, spirituality, personal journey...I love it so far.

Also, not that I didn't already know, but my significant other is pretty fricken amazing. I would go into heavy detail about why he's awesome, but that might be far too vomit-inducing for others to handle. Suffice it to say that he has just consistently been wonderful in every situation thus far.

Lastly, I highly endorse Virgin America. I would say it's better than Jet Blue, and I happen to love Jet Blue.