Eddie's Birthday

For Eddie's birthday, August 28th, we went to Vegas!

We started at the Las Vegas Temple with a session and lunch!!! I think the Celestial Room in Vegas is our favorite. The white, silver and crystals is just the best!

Great rolls at the Las Vegas Temple!!!
We woke up the morning of his birthday and took the Monarail to the Venetian!

I love this hotel. It's so cool how they made it look like you're actually outside in Venice!
This is St. Mark's Square. The night before his birthday there was a Trio playing and singing in the square. This is a right turn off of St. Mark's Square. It is where the gondolas are!

We wanted to be first for the Gondolas so we went really early. We got to check out the hotel next door that is attached to the Grand Canal Shopping Area.

This is the view of the Palazzo Hotel from the Venetian. We went down the escalators to take a better look and more pictures.

It was so cool! I'd never been in this hotel before! I didn't even know the waterfall was there until we went downstairs!!!
This is our gondolier! She was wonderful! She had the most beautiful voice! She sang us an Italian love song and then she sang Happy Birthday to Eddie in Italian!

A photo back by St. Mark's Square.

They have living statues through-out the day in St. Mark's Square. I took a picture of her and then she beckoned Eddie to be in the picture with her. So cool!

Eddie couldn't resist picking the Travelocity Gnomes nose!

We took pictures of the paintings on the ceiling too. But after uploading them to the computer we realized that there were a lot of naked men in the paintings and Eddie didn't want them on the blog!

For lunch I took Eddie to the Nascar Cafe at the Sahara hotel. We stayed at the Las Vegas Hilton because they gave us a great deal and we get points too!!! We were able to take the monorail to several places, so we didn't have to drive!!!
The Nascar Cafe wasn't everything I had hoped it would be, but their sandwiches were huge!!! This is the Monster BLT I had!!!

Of course we took pictures of the NasCARS on display!

Of course...Senior's!

We ended his birthday at Leatherby's! We couldn't believe with all our trips through Vegas we never knew there was a Leatherby's in town....and right around the corner from the Hilton on Sahara!!! We got our favorite Hot Fudge sundae!!! We love their homemade Hot Fudge sauce.

It was a great trip and a needed break and I think he had a pretty great birthday!