Saturday morning we dubbed as my official unofficial birthday!! The big 2-1! I haven't actually turned 21 yet, my birthday is this Saturday, but we planned our trip early so we could see the one and only... CELINE DION! This has been my life dream for so long, and I was so excited when the planning to see her all worked out, and finally after many months of waiting, the day had come!
We also had another fun thing planned on Saturday. When discussing the trip before we came, Brittany told me she really wanted to see a real Las Vegas show, and I was unsure of that because of their reputation. I did some researching on Pinterest and Google for the trip and I came across an advertisement for a backstage tour of the Jubilee! which is Las Vegas' only remaining traditional show. I read about it and it seemed fun, so to surprise Brittany, I told my mom we should do this and so we scheduled it for 11am on Saturday!
We met our wonderful show girl guide, Julie, and she took us all around the stage, sets, backstage, and my favorite part, the wardrobe where all the costumes are! It was amazing! Julie told us that some costumes and headpieces weigh up to 40 pounds. Absolutely incredible! We had such a fun time looking at everything, and by the end of the tour, Julie had completely convinced us to come see her in the show, so of course we had to do that! More on that later!
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| Julie, our 6'1 tour guide! We love her! |
After the tour, we grabbed some lunch and went back to the hotel to get ready for our big night, CELINE! We were so excited! We got all dressed up and headed to the Paris for dinner at Mon Ami Gabi, it was fantastic. We then took more pictures (duh) and trekked to Caesar's Palace to see Celine in The Colosseum.
By this point I am freaking out, and we are practically running through Caesar's! We finally get there and I might have screamed a little and insisted upon this picture.
We then headed to our seats, which were amazing, and waited patiently for Mrs. Dion. She finally came out, and I can honestly say it was the best concert ever. She is so passionate when she sings and truly inspiring. She sang all her hits of course:
Power of Love
All By Myself
River Deep Mountain High
It's All Coming Back to Me Now
Beauty and the Beast
and ended the show My Heart Will Go On.
Incredible. We were all pretty much speechless and crying. After the show, we all sat in our seats until the worker came and told us we had to leave, oops! I didn't want the night to end, but I will cherish those memories forever.
Sunday, was pretty much a repeat of Friday except we started off the day with a wonderful devotional led by Sarah. It is so encouraging to have her as a friend. She's truly gifted with words only from God. I love listening to her and am always encouraged in her presence.
We hit the pool after that and soaked ip the sun, until it went away. :( It started raining, which is totally random in the desert of Las Vegas, and they even closed the pool deck, for about 5 minutes. Which was enough time for us to pack up all our stuff and leave only for them to re-open, but we decided to go have some lunch before going back, so we went to a place in the mall and ordered pretty much everything on the menu...when in Vegas, right?! We just ate and talked for a couple hours at the restaurant and then proceeded back to the pool. Lazy days! Reality hit us hard when we returned home.
As you may have guessed, next we went back to hotel and got ready for our third show, the Jubilee!
Before we left we opted for a quick photo shoot in our amazing floor to ceiling windows in our room.
We had plenty of time to eat and make it to this show, because we opted for the 10:00pm show. We had another wonderful dinner and then walked around the Paris taking lots of pictures.
Then came time for our show! I have to tell a funny story from the beginning:
When you first walk into the doors they have a huge sign saying "NO FOOD, DRINK, OR FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY!" As we are sitting in our seats, Sarah and I are taking pictures of ourselves and my mom has sneaked in a cookie, so she is digging in her purse and sneakily eating her cookie. We look up, and see a man working for the show point to us, and we immediately thought we were getting kicked out. We tried to play it cool and act like we didn't see him, and then he kept motioning for us to come with him. I was freaking out, because i did not want to be in trouble. We grabbed our bags and followed him, and it turns out he was actually upgrading us to better seats in the front! We were so so excited!
We really loved the show! There was *some* nudity, but it was really classy and we mainly loved the costumes and the dance routines, and especially cheering for and waving to Julie! She even gave us a wink! It was a blast!
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