Diva Las Vegas (Part 1)

As some of you may know, over the July 4th weekend my mom, best friends Sarah and Brittany, and I all took a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate my 21st birthday early! It was a completely wonderful trip I will never forget! It couldn't have come at a better time, and I am so thankful for everyone who helped put it together.

We were there for 5 days and did a lot of sight seeing, relaxing, chatting, and a TON of laughing. I would like to give you an overview of each of our days! I hope you enjoy hearing about our fantastic time in VEGAS!

The first day we left super early, like earlier than bright and early because it wasn't even bright yet! I think we all woke up around 3am, yikes! We loaded up my mom's car and headed to the airport where we pretty much went through security and walked right onto our plane! Didn't even have time to sit down, we had an easy flight complete with lots of laughter and possibly a mean joke from my mom.

       ***We were trying to take pictures of ourselves on the flight 

and the guy infront of us said it would be hard 

because it was such a small space, 

but my mom thought he said because we had small brains! 

It was so funny at the time and probably even funnier 

because we were all going on 3 hours of sleep!***

Three best friends!

 After a smooth flight, we proceeded off the plane and directly to taking pictures!

We then headed to baggage claim where we waited patiently for Sarah's bag that never came (womp womp!) After my mom "pulled a Laurie" and we got a refund for that bag, we only had to wait 45 minutes because it was on the next plane to Las Vegas. We considered ourselves very lucky!

Next we headed to our hotel and man it was fantastic! My mom's boss, graciously let us use his membership with the Hilton Grand Vacations and so not only did we get to stay in an amazing hotel, but we got treated like royalty too! Our hotel was called the Elara, and it was fantastic! I recommend it to anyone going to Vegas.

Our perfect room wasn't quite ready when we first got there since we arrived at about 9 am Las Vegas time, so we checked our bags and hit the strip! First stop: The Cosmopolitan! This was a perfect first Vegas hotel for me to see because it was so elegant and beautiful complete with so many sparkles everywhere! It was so girly and glamorous! (Can you tell why I liked it so much??)

Next Brittany guided us to the Secret Pizza place that her friend told her about when she came to Vegas last year. It is a pizza place, but basically a hole in the wall down a hallway, but they dont have a restaurant name and they dont advertise. It is only heard about through word of mouth. It was really really good! 

The rest of the day was spent exploring around the Paris hotel just walking, people watching, and when we got tired we would stop, have some ice cream and chat! It was perfect. We then headed back to our hotel and after waiting a little longer, we were finally able to get into our room and it was well worth the wait! 

It was absolutely fantastic! We were on the 55th floor, with floor to ceiling windows in every room overlooking the strip with an especially great view of the Eiffel Tower and the Bellagio Fountains. I mean what more could you ask for?? 

Next we refreshed, changed clothes, and headed out for a bite to eat. Our hotel was connected to the Miracle Mile shops, which turned out to be really convient because it allowed us to walk through that to hotels instead of the blistering 108 degree heat! Anyways, we got food in the mall and then headed back to our room to change into our pjs for some great girl talk and then we set up to watch the Caesar's Palace firework show from our hotel room!! Incredible!!

The next morning we woke up and went straight to the pool to reserve our cabana. (Since we were "members" we were able to get a cabana for free! SCORE!)

We quickly changed into our swimsuits and hit the pool where we stayed for the entire day. We laid out, read, napped, chatted, and swam. It was the most perfect girl day! 

Can you say DIVAS?!

Around 3 we headed back to the hotel to start getting ready for our night which consisted of dinner and a show! It was our first night out in Vegas so of course we wanted to look our best! We planned out all our outfits and spent lots of time getting ready. It was so much fun being so girly with my best friends! 

When we were finally ready we took a taxi to the Wynn hotel. It was an interesting cab ride because my mom's seat was wet from the driver's drink, and the three of us in the back were burning up! It was pretty hilarious though and we did get this picture out of it!

We finally made it to the hotel, took pictures of course, then headed to the box office to pick up the tickets for our show. It's a good thing we decided to do this before dinner, because we found out it started 30 minutes before we thought, so we had to rush dinner a little bit and then run to our show which was pretty hilarious because 4 dressed up girls running in heels was quite the sight! We made it to our show in perfect time.

The show we saw was Le Reve. It is like Cirque de Soiel, but not owned by them, but it is really unique because the whole thing is in water! It was really amazing and literally breathtaking. I would highly recommend it!

That concludes our second day in Vegas and it is safe to say we had a great time so far!!