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Ninja Mom's guide to Las Vegas- no kids!

1) Remember that village I told you that you NEED.  Well we dropped the kids off with my BFF for the weekend and we flew to Vegas for nephew's wedding.  The wedding was Friday night.

2) Saturday:  We got up- walked the strip, had breakfast at our Hash House a Go Go (tradition), then walked... walked a ton.   I took my Back2Mac stuff to the MAC store for my FREE eyeshadows :)

3) nap time :)  UBER'd back to hotel.  (timeshare off strip)

4) got ready for the night.   Ghostbar was Plan A, then we ended up at Hakkasan- see my other blog please!

5) We love the Linq Promenade... In n Out, and a Piano Bar in Harrahs... draft selections at the various bars.    Then we went to Bellagio to have dessert as we watched the fountains.

6) GhostBar - the view alone is worth it!

7) we slept in...  never get to do that!   Then headed to the airport and hung there fore 4 hours-  ate a great lunch and had a beer.  Read magazines, took a nap...  then on the plane back to Fresno.


UBER hack:   The airport has a whole RIDESHARE level.  request Uber/lyft and head towards that place.   Signs are everywhere.  Once your ride is there, he/she tells you the space number (B5 etc).   You show the text to the security guy and he lets you thru.   EASY!   NOTE: we went on EDC weekend- a huge ass RAVE- so our UBER bill night one was $22.  Price surge.  But UBER realized they did not want any part of the EDC Rave, so by day 2, prices had gone back down = no demand!

We UBER'd everywhere== we spent $100 in UBER's- worth every penny!

Every casino has a "Rideshare" area-- -follow the signs.  You may have to walk some.  the HighRoller (ferris wheel) there is a pick up at the bottom of it.   We kept that as our central drop off point.

Save money by eating at Panda Express, In n Out, etc.  We tried to avoid Sit Down restaurants.. that is the big money sucker.

Water!  Water!  more Water!  You cannot intake enough water.    We carried a water bottle around with us and filled it numerous times int he filtered water stations. For every 1 drink = 1 water.  We were never hung-over.

The Quality time with  my husband was the BEST ever.   We did everything together.. and had a blast.   We plan to do this every year!

We never face-timed the kids.   In fact when we picked them up 2 days later-- they didn't run to us.."oh I missed you"- nope.  It was more like "oh hey, your back...cool".  They had a blast with BFF's kids.  Star wars weekend... CARS 3 - weekend.    I went to VEGAS guilt free!!!!

Find  your Joy!- Auggie



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