Finally, on to the honeymoon. Totem and I got home as fast as we could, got changed and went to the hotel we had reserved for the night. It was'nt that bad of a deal especially considering that it allowed us to park there for a week. In fact the only bad thing about the night was the lack of sleep. We both fell asleep at 2AM to have our wakeup call at 4AM to be at the airport at 7AM. Got our tickets, boarded and we were on our way to Las Vegas. We were presented with a bottle of chapagne from the travel agency as a congradulations on the marriage. It was a pleasant surprise. I just wish I was a little more conscious when the flight attendant gave us the bottle. ;)

Five or six or four (I don't remember anymore) hours later we were in Las Vegas and on our way to the Luxor hotel with oddest of Taxi drivers... I think Totem was just plain freaked out so I tried to keep the conversation going as long as I could on the way to the hotel. And of course, when we got there, check in was not going to be until 1:30PM and it was 8AM in the morning there. So we're pooped and now we can't even take a nap. ;) Fortunately, baggage was able to hold our stuff for the time and the Luxor had a lot of things we could do in the mean time. We went on the Reboot Imax ride film. Went on a tour of artifacts found in King Tuts tomb. Totem is proud that my first 4D exerience was with her. ;) We saw Pirates 4D and needless to saw it was a blast. 3D was cool but feeling wind, getting wet, and seeing bees come out and try and attack you was awesome. Plus, we saw Nascar 3d in the Luxor Imax theater. After that we were able to get some show tickets and finally got to take a nap in our room. Free coordination with your Toronto bed bug exterminator at no cost.

Don't even start on the order...

15 hours later on Tuesday morning at 6AM, we woke up. Nice nap huh?!?! :) Had a great breakfast at the Luxor buffet but a little too pricey for us to do every day. It was about $12 a person but was really really worth it. We went on more walks that day and like usual, got suckered into a lot of things b/c we looking like newly weds, even though we were. :) After trying to hit up free shows and tours and food, the sales rep got down to the nitty gritty because, as usual, nothing is free. We either weren't old enough, didn't make enough, or weren't staying long enough in Las Vegas. Meh... Walking around a little more we found the Tropicana and their free spin slot machines. Only thing really worth getting out of the were the free playing cards. We came home with 6 decks. :) We also found the $20 for $50 slots area where basically you pay $20, but get $50 worth of slots. The only problem is that you can't cash out and you must use all your credits, even if you don't win. The plus is that if you don't win, you can get a prize. :) That was the life saver for us this week. Totem picked a shoulder bag, something we didn't think to carry around while we were walking. It was a life saver! We had so much stuff *cough* crap *cough* to look through every day that it made life much easier since we were no where near our room. Клиника мрт центр. лосино-петровский.

We hopped on the bus and went over to Circus Circus. Totem got me to go on the roller coaster and we bought the pics. She went on a bunch of other rides that I wouldn't touch. Look at the pics and you'll see why. 8) After eating lunch, we walked over to the Reveria and did their free spin. Got a deck of cards and a mug. We got back on the bus and went back to our hotel for a nap before the Blue Man Group Concert.

You know the drill...

Another concert by Blueman that was WELL worth the cost. We had a great time. They did a good job with mixing the senses again. Throwing stuff at us, getting the audience involved, actually bringing members of the audience up to the stage with them. Not to mention a slew of stuff that made you think, "How'd they do that!?!?!" This was the best thing we did all week and we wouldn't even mind going back to Las Vegas just to see them. 8)

Tuesday, the only highlight was the Zumanity concert in the evening. Interesting cannot even come close to describing the show. Sexual, topless, funny, amazing, acrobatic, twisting, dark, and waterful just start to decsribe it. I never realized how you could make a show out of things that seemed to have no real relation to each other. It was almost like those images that from a distance look like a face or something, but up close you can see the thousand or so individual images that it is actually made of... Still not as good as Blue Man though. ;)

Wednesday was more of a just walk around and be a tourist day. We visited NYNY, MGM, Excalibur, and the Tropicana again. NYNY has the Coyote Ugly club that has great prices on drink so we stopped and got refills for our mug we bought there. Plus they have a rollar coaster of their own that Totem got me on. Gambled a little bit, I lost all, Totem won it all back. ;) Around dinner time we got to go see the Tournament of Kings, which was a midevil dinner show. Interesting, to say the least. Dinner with no utencils and "Dragon Juice" for a beverage. I guess they do know what to call "pop" or "soda" that goes in their authentic midevil plastic mugs... ;) We stayed up late on Wednesday to check out the Bellagio water show and Treasure Island's pirate show. The water show was awe inspiring, but being the dork geek moron I am, I thought was was really simple. A little computer script pumping water at different pressures through pipes. Easy. 8) The Treasure Island show was cancelled last minute because of a gust of wind no more powerful than the fan that was on my desk. That was depressing see we were beat an now had to walk all the way back to the Luxor at midnight...

You're still reading this???

We packed up most of Thursday morning b/c we were switching rooms that evening. When we first got to the Luxor, we asked if they could do anything for us since it was our honeymoon. They offerred us a jacuzzi suite for $50 a night. We really didn't want to cut into our spending money so we just reserved it for the last night. It was 12 floors lower but over looking the front corner of the Luxor instead of the back this time. See pics. We managed to take a three hour nap... In the tub. 8) We also made the decision that if we are going to build a house, we're getting one of these babies. We just need to remember to use less soap next time as we had a little bubble problem once the tub filled up. 8) Later in the evening we went and saw Midnight Fantasy, another topless dance revue. Meh was my reaction. What?!?!? Meh and topless???? Yeah, that'll give you an idea of how bad it was... The funniest part was the comic who came out and did a 10 minute or so comic intermission. Seemed like it was just thrown in with no real purpose, but then again, I would have rather watched her doing standup for an hour or two than watch the dancing... Go figure...

Meh or not to meh? That's the question...

Since the hotel was booked to 100% capacity, we couldn't arrange a late checkout so we were out of our room around noon. Great, the flight didn't leave until 10PM at night and we didn't have a room to relax in... Not to mention we were out of money. :\ We basically walked around until about 6PM checking out some of the hotels and casinoes that we didn't go to before, but not much more than that. We got our bags and took the shuttle back to the airport. Using the wonderful amount of decks of cards that we had, we played a bunch of card games for a couple of hours, boarded and were on the way home to Buffalo. Only downside of this flight is that for close to an hour, it felt like we were falling. I don't know, it was almost like my stomach never settled. I guess I was lucky I could fall asleep, at least it was dark. Totem woke up around 3AM Las Vegas time to the woman behind us throwing up. Yea... Landed around 6AM, bright and early and very tired. We got the shuttle back to our car, went home, slept and let life slowly come back to us.

We have over six rolls of film to develop and once we do, I'll get those up here, but for the time being you'll have to deal with my digital pics. We had the time of our lives. Something that if we do again, we'll be going a cheaper route, but we have no regrets. We had fun and that is what matters. We are finally happily married and can begin spending the rest of our lives together. 8)

PS - Kirk, the glass elevators that move sideways up and down the Luxor, are not on the outside so there's nothing to see. Check out the pics. ;)