There's no place like Vegas

I had been planning my trip to Las Vegas for over a year, and it had a sole purpose: watch Shania Twain’s concert at the Colosseum. Well, my priorities didn’t change, but my plans did. My good friend wanted to take a little vacation after he graduated from college in the spring and before starting working in the summer, so we decided to go to Vegas together and actually stay a couple of days. We randomly started looking for hotel and airfare prices one night and BOOM we had bought our tickets and made reservations in less than one hour. It was spontaneous, but I had been saving for this trip for a year, and that same night I bought my ticket to Shania’s concert. I already made a post about the concert, but now I’m going to talk about the trip because, well, it was epic.
We stayed four nights at the Quad Hotel and Casino, which is affordable, comfortable, and conveniently located on the strip, near famous hotels such as Caesar’s Palace and the Flamingo. Our hotel’s attraction was Frank Marino’s Divas Las Vegas, which is a drag show where Frank Marino starts as Joan Rivers then introduces men impersonating the biggest divas of pop music. We had a guest discount and went to see it, and it was such a great show, definitely worth watching, I’ll always recommend it to anyone. Special praise to the guy who impersonated Cher and Celine Dion, his gestures and facial expressions were flawless!
My friend and I spent our days in Vegas sight-seeing and looking for cheap entertainment. We visited most of the famous hotels: we went in the pyramid at the Luxor, visited the Excalibur, rode the roller coaster at the New York New York, saw real flamingos at the Flamingo, watched the Sirens of the TI in front of the Treasure Island (it’s free, thank goodness, because it’s so silly), the Volcano eruption at the Mirage (free as well), visited the Secret Garden of Siegfried and Roy and Dolphin Habitat also at the Mirage, went on a Gondola Ride at the Venetian, saw the talking statues at the Forum Mall inside Caesar’s Palace, had a super fancy meal at the Eiffel Tower restaurant at the Paris, gambled a little (we stopped after we lost 3 dollars), enjoyed the pool at the Quad, and of course, we had to see and take a picture at the famous “Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.
Never has a city impressed and awed me as much as Vegas did. It is so over the top fabulous that thinking about it takes my breath away. Not even Rio de Janeiro or New York, both gorgeously amazing cities, had that effect on me. I had a great experience and would love to go back there. Shania’s concert on our last night was the cherry on top, of course, but the whole experience was simply surreal. I had to blog about it so I can come back and read and reminisce whenever I miss my days in Sin City.