For Christmas I was truely spoiled by Ty. He got me tickets to go with him to the MW Basketball Conference in Las Vegas. . . FULLY AWESOME! I have always loved watching March Madness, you can even ask my mom. I would watch it on Saturdays when I wasn't at school. Anywho so it was really fun to go and watch it in person. Ty and I met up at the good ole Las Vegas airport and then made our way to the MGM for our show of KA. But first we made a little diversion to this little place. . . . what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas:)
This is coming out of the show, sorry it's so blurry. The show was pretty good. I really liked the stage the best. This stage would move in circles and then stand strait up while the people were doing acrobatics. It was hard to follow the story line. Characters were coming in and out. I was watching it and then Tarzan comes swinging out onto the stage in his loin cloth. . . it was weird.
This kind of gives you the idea of what it looked like inside. Once again the photo is not the best, please don't judge. We walked in to find our seats and I was just amazed how beautiful it was. Poor Ty kept hearing that from me again and again and again and again. . . well you get the point.
After the show we walked the strip to look around. Okay the last time I was in Vegas is when my family was trying to go to Disneyland and 9/11 happened. Our plane took an emergency landing in Vegas and we were stuck there for a day trying to get home. Needless to say my family and I didn't have the greatest memories from there. But after 11 years a must admit that my feelings have changed a bit. It was fun to walk up and down the street and to see different shops. Ty wanted to stop at the M&M store. Four levels of just pure joy.
Here is the wall of almost every color of M&M they have. It was fun to go in and look around.
The Next day was the beginning of the games, four all together! When I first heard that I about died, seriously. But it turned out to be a lot of fun! During the half we would get up and walk around and then when one game ended and before the next game would start we would also get up and walk around.
Besides watching the games we also watched other people. It is a known fact that I am a people watcher. . . AKA creeper, but not in the bad sense if you know what I mean. Anywho this lovely couple in front of us was a real treat. They got at least five rounds of some red happy juice and everytime the man left to get it, the little boy in the far right corner got a treat too. Ty and I were waiting for him to throw up from all the junk he was eating. By the time the couple finished their fifth round of happy juice, they were all sorts of entertainment. My favorite was his move of trying to touch her face romantically. . . it turned out to be scrubbing her face. The end of our show happened when she got ticked over who-knows-what and left him without saying a word. Pure entertainment.
The next day we had two games to go to in the afternoon so we decided that we needed some exercise and to be outside. We made our way to Red Rock Canyon and did a hike there.
We hiked up into this canyon and there were these rocks that were pretty rad. They looked like the had the bad case of the chicken pox.
The scenery was BEAUTIFUL! We were only able to do one hike. Next time we will plan in more time to be able to do more.
More pics of the games.
The fans were yet again just as enjoyable as the games. This Lobo fan really got into it, bless his heart. The last day for the championship it was New Mexico University vs San Diego State Univeristy. This poster was hilarious to me. It reads: San Diego is not a State. That is all:)
This was the rush to the floor when NMU won. GO LOBOS!!!!
After that game we met up with Ty's friend and his fiance at the Bellagio for dinner and then to watch the fountain show. Ty's friend was awesome for letting us stay at his place! This is us trying to get a picture in front of the tower across the street. Such a pretty picture uh?:)
Inside the Bellagio after entering the building. This glass art is on the ceiling. It was really pretty!
This was a chocolate store inside. This chocolate fountain started on the ceiling and then made its way down to the floor. Pretty impressive it was.
The after effects of trying to book it to a game and having my inserts rub me the wrong way. It happened to both heels. That night I could feel my heart beat in my heels and it kept waking me up. It hurt to walk but got better. Now comes the nice procedure of draining the blood from it:)
