Las Vegas Adventure Day 4: Mario Kart Racing, The Cosmopolitan, and Homeward Bound

Yay, I'm finally on the last post!  On our last day in Vegas, we took Akemi to go go cart racing.  She opted for this instead of going to the aquarium at Mandalay Bay with her cousin.  

We bought some pass that allowed us to go as many times as we liked within a 2 hour period.  Since school was in session in Vegas, we pretty much had the track to ourselves.

I don't know who enjoyed it more, Akemi or her Daddy!  It was like real life Mario Kart racing.

OK I couldn't find the actual footage, but my husband decided to video tape while driving (dummy) and ended up crashing into Akemi!  Geez!

They also had other stuff to do at the racing site.  Akemi didn't go on the other stuff though... This fun slide reminded me of Checkers and Pogo?  Didn't they have a big slide like this?

They also had an arcade.. Akemi was trying to win on Deal or No Deal... I gotta admit that game was kinda fun.

After we finished up kart racing, we headed back to the strip to meet up with everyone else.  Stef never went to the Cosmopolitan and we wanted to eat at Wicked Spoon, so we headed there for dinner.  Here's the amazing chandelier bar!

I think Stef was in heaven with that shoe!

Upstairs, we found this store with a cool display of vintage sewing machines!

Very cool...

Throughout the hotel there's a lot of artwork.  I don't think it's supposed to be this interactive though...

Alas, we made it to the Wicked Spoon.  We ate there the last time we went to Vegas, but were a little disappointed this time..  The food wasn't as good as I remembered.

But if you do happen to go there.. you should stand in line for this!  It's made to order and you can choose what kind of seafood you want in your bouillabaisse. It was pretty awesome.  Best part about the buffet.

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I took a bunch of desserts but none really stood out for me this time.  I think I liked the ones at Bacchanal better.

After we finished eating, Stef wanted to play at the casino.  We settled on Brittney Spears and Stef got to hit her baby one more time!

After dinner, we headed back to the Luxor to get ready to check out.  This by far is my favorite picture of the entire trip.  Somehow we fit everyone into this selfie and I think Kyle's facial expression wins!  Makes me happy everytime I look at this pic!

Someone was grouchy that the vacation was ending...  Can you tell who?

I got her to smile later though.

Look who was sleeping on the way home!  He always gets me, but this time I got him!

So ends our Vegas Adventure.  As I'm writing this post, I'm finishing up packing for my next adventure!  Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with my posts this time.  Linda and I are headed back to LA to go to CHA and meet up with some crafty friends!  So excited I'm not even sleepy!  Please check out our next crafty epic adventure right here and on my youtube channel:  Crafty Hilo Girl.  See you soon!

Las Vegas Adventure- Day 3: Shopping, Joe's, and Schmamble

Sorry soooooooo late on this post!  I'm gonna try real hard to finish up my Vegas posts before we leave for our next LA trip.  What can I say, but life just got really hectic around the holidays.

So hopefully I can still remember what the heck happened. I'm going to try to piece things together based on what I find on facebook and what pictures I find in my stash. Man...I really gotta be better about doing my posts right away!

So, Day #3 started off by going to eat some fast food chicken from Raising Cane... Don't let the photo fool you, that basket was pretty huge.  One could easily feed my whole family.  I think we ended up taking half home and my husband ate it later as a snack.

After lunch, we headed to the other outlet mall for a little bit, then we split off from the group and tried to find more craft stores.  I think we ended up in Summerlin or around there.  On the way, I got a photo of the artwork along the freeway.  See the goats?!

After we got back from our shopping trip, I was finally able to get a photo from the Luxor balcony looking into the casino.  My hands are sweaty just looking at this picture.  I had a hard time looking over the edge.. and I'm not even that scared of heights!

For dinner, we headed to a fancier restaurant called Joe's Seafood & Stonecrab in Caesar's Forum Shops.  We had a hard time finding the restaurant cause we went in from the casino.  It was really good!  Our friend Roy had the tomahawk steak.  It was much bigger than this picture makes it out to be.

Here's my plate.... I had the king crab and filet...  So yummy!

The sides were soooo ono!  You need to have the corn if you go.  You need to char the corn first- super yummy!  We also had the hash browns and sorry, I can't remember the last dish.  I'm junk.

Here's our dinner selfie.  We had so much fun getting full!

 We all had to toast.. Even the kids..

After dinner, we headed to see if we could catch the statues show.  My daughter missed the show twice and was really disappointed, so she was happy that we were finally able to see it that night!

Had to get a better view...

Since we were nearby, we tried to catch the fountains at the Bellagio...  Success!

 After the fountains, we headed back to the Luxor to Schmamble (gamble) a bit.  We all were playing blackjack, but everyone stopped playing but me.  I seemed to get good luck with the Jabbawockeez chips, so the dealer kept looking for them to give me whenever I won.

See the guy standing behind me?  If he starts yelling, "DOUBLE" while you are playing, don't listen.  I fell for it everytime and lost double the money.  LOL!

Nevertheless, we had a blast!  Hope I can remember what we did on Day 4!

Las Vegas Adventure- Day 2: Outlet Shopping, Bachi Burger, and More Shopping

Wassup from Vegas!  Yesterday the group split up and the guys (excluding my husband) went golfing.  I got dropped off at the outlet mall and the rest of the gang went to the natural history museum.  Sorry, I only have the outlet shopping stuff..  I'll add more photos of the other stuff If I can get it.

I stopped off at the Disney Store.  This guy was looking at me and wanted to come home with us.

I was surprised to see Tsum Tsums at the outlet!  I don't think it was cheaper though  I resisted  and didn't get all of the new ones.  When the gang joined me, Akemi picked the Hulk out of this batch.

I found more Tsum Tsum stuff.  Check out the mugs- sorry not a good pic but you get the idea. I didn't get any of them cause I didn't want them to break in my suitcase.

Here's the other wall of Tsum Tusms.  The mini ones are actually the winking ones.

 Finally met up with the gang, by then I was tired.  Akemi took a break with me.

Here's my big purchase of the day!  I got me a new Kate Spade bag.  My first one! I needed a black bag and for some reason I wasn't feeling the coach ones (gasp!).  Got a good deal on this baby- 50% off and additional 20% off that!

Here's my Disney Store haul.  I love all the Tsum Tsum stuff.  The BB8 is for hubby and Star Wars shirt for my daughter.

Took this photo while we were waiting to re-group.   

I wish this photo came out better.  It was too backlit, but we thought the name of this store was so funny!  We had time to spare, so we took the kids to Excalibur to play at the arcade.  Glad we were able to take them to play a bit.

Then we headed to eat dinner at Bachi Burger!

The wait was a little long, but it was worth it! Here's a peek at the menu.

Here's our group selfie...

 Started with the Oxtail chili cheese fries.  OMG- fricken plate lickin good!

Also had the truffle garlic fries.  Mmmmm....

Paul and I decided to share a salad and a burger.  The salad was pretty big- this photo doesn't do it justice.

I picked the Miyagi san burger.  It was pretty epic.  Had fried egg, furikake, and fried onion rings.  We need a bachi burger in Hilo!

Then we had milkshakes for dessert.  Loved that toasted marshmallow salted caramel one!  We also tried the strawberry guava and tahitian vanilla with orange.  Everyone agreed the toasted marshmallow one was the best!

 Surprisingly, we headed out for more sight seeing and shopping.  We were able to check out the Hershey store. I don't think I ever went there before!  Here's the wall of Kisses.

These are the huge kisses!

I thought the cupcakes looked ono.

Here's the chocolate Statue of Liberty.  They had another one upstairs made of Twizzlers.

Then we headed to M&M World.  Z liked the life size M&M Nascar.

And here's the view from the bridge going back to New York New York.

Will try to add more photos as I gather them from everyone.  We headed to Mandalay Bay last night but didn't do too well.   Not sure what's happening today....  Who knows what new adventure awaits?