Latest Vegas Trip

Normally I post our Vegas trip pics right away, but somehow, time has gotten away from me. We were in Vegas for our anniversary, Feb 12-20th. We took a ton of photos, so this time I thought I'd just include ones that fall under my "recommendations for cool stuff to do when you go to Vegas." I've mentioned other things before, so these are just some from this latest trip. (I should do a full Vegas trip recommendations blog sometime!)

Freed's Bakery 4780 South Eastern Avenue
We went here to get ourselves a treat for Valentine's day (also our anniversary) from Freed's because that's where we got our wedding cake from. It's not on the strip, you'd definitely need a car..but if you get a chance, all their stuff is DIVINE! Cupcakes, cheesecakes, cakes, cookies...oh my!



The Shark Tank at the Golden Nugget (Freemont Street)

In all our trips to Vegas, we'd never seen the shark tank in the middle of the pool at the Golden Nugget. It wasn't quite swimming weather, but it was still very cool to see. They have a slide that goes right through the shark tank! (I want to go back in the summer for that!)



The Freemont Street Experience

In the "old" downtown of Las Vegas, Freemont Street is something you should definitely see. Not only the light show on the canopy, but also the different performers, casinos, vendors, all make for an interesting adventure! (the girl to the right in this photo "coached" me on how to stand. LOL. I didn't tell her I was a fitness model....)



The Bellagio Gardens

The Bellagio is one of our favourite places to go, not only for sighting the top names in the Poker industry, but also for their magnificent gardens. They change it throughout the year and is always worth seeing.





Mirage Dolphin and Lion Habitat

This is Siegfried and Roy's Animal Habitat. Again, we'd always meant to go but never have. It was small, but enjoyable. Seeing a full grown male lion that close up actually took my breath away. The white lion cubs were seven months old when we were there and absolutely adorable! We took video of them acting just like, well, giant kittens!





That's just a slice of Vegas. If you ever need any recommendations (hotels, sights, things to do) just let me know!!

Catching up

We're back from Vegas, and I'm experiencing the post-vacation consequences..not enough sleep and an overload of work to catch up on.

Aaaaaahhh!!!

Since I didn't blog while we were away I just want to say "hi". I'm still alive, still around, but I'm a little swamped. Plus, I really want to get a writing session in today..somehow!! I did manage to write while were gone. I managed to write six days out of the nine days we were gone. I figure for being in Vegas, that's pretty darn good.

Oh, and I received an official rejection email on my short story submitted to the Tesseracts 14, by Edge Publishing. It had been so long I was pretty sure it was a "no" already, but getting that official word stings, just a little. I do know there were an extremely high number of submissions, and as Eileen Kernaghan put it (Canadian author who's workshop I attend), "Everyone's trying to get in to Tesseracts now." I shall be content for now with my Evolve Anthology story (the review copies are out, presales are happening, I'll be blogging about that more soon!) and will take another look at this story and then send it somewhere else.

Wait, this just turned into a real blog entry by accident! And look at the time, gotta run!!! 

Travel Plans

Cover via Amazon

I haven't blogged for several days, the good news is, I've been busy writing! (no, really, I have been!)

Tomorrow we're leaving for Las Vegas (isn't that a movie? Wait, not quite.) for our anniversary. We're going to be there for nine days, so I'm looking forward to getting writing done. What?! Writing in Vegas?! Yes, there's a lot of distractions in Vegas, but we've been so many times that we've seen and done a lot there, so it's more of a "vacation" and less of an "oh my goodness we're in Vegas let's go completely insane" kind of trip. We have our list of things we want to do and see, but I will also be getting some great downtime. Hubby goes out to play poker, and I get to stay in and enjoy the suite, relax, read and write. Perfect, right?!!

This trip we're staying in two different hotels. (due to my husband's thorough searching for many days to find the best deals in Vegas) First we'll be at the El Cortez in the "old" part of downtown Vegas, by Freemont street. If you've seen the movie "The Hangover", you can see the El Cortez sign in the background of many scenes. (just a random fact for you) Then we'll be moving to the BRAND NEW Vdara hotel in City Center!! I'll definitely have to take some pics and post them. If you want to see some cool graphics of City Center and all it contains, just click here.

We're off to Vegas, baby!