Last weekend Josh and I took a trip down to Las Vegas as it was going to be the last chance to get out of Provo since he was starting a new job. Only having my two classes on M,W,F, we left Thursday morning, thus missing only one day of classes, during which I missed nothing because 400 level courses move very slowly (at least these two do anyways).

We arrived Thursday evening and spent the rest of the day at Josh's brother's place. On Friday we got up and made a trip to Fry's Electronics (I wish there was one in Utah). I picked up some rechargeable batteries, and an S-Video Wii cable (so I could finally hook it up through my stereo properly).

Upon leaving Fry's we headed to the Premium Outlets on the North end of the strip. To our surprise there was smoke rising from the strip, and we quickly discovered that the Monte Carlo was on fire:


After some shopping we went to the "Top of the World" restaurant at the Statosphere for lunch.
Josh was particularly excited about his burger:


I ordered the California Chicken sandwich or some such thing:


It's a nice restaurant requiring nice clothes in the evening, however it is casual dress for lunch.

On Saturday we went to the Bellagio and had some pastries from the Jean Phillippe Patisserie, very good. We had a chocolate eclair and a Napoleon:


As we headed home on Sunday morning we had to fight through the rain (luckily there wasn't any snow, as it was on Monday when I-15 was closed). Traffic was backed up a little bit at the North end of the strip because of this accident:

Northbound had 1 lane of traffic moving, but Southbound was completely stopped, messy messy.

That's my quick photo update for the day. Tomorrow I have to pick Mom up from the airport for another stay in Utah, this time so she can babysit for Erin while she studies for the Bar Exam.

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