Viva Las Vegas

As I pack for yet another trip, I am reminded that I needed to publish my post on Las Vegas… so here it is!

Less than a week after getting back from Chicago I was re-packing my bags & heading the other direction to Las Vegas. This trip was for my other “job” since I was in Vegas to shoot a friend’s wedding. I was shooting this with Christine Tremoulet so I met her at the airport (we flew at the same time but out of two different airports, LOL) a couple of days before the wedding activities.

We were staying at the beautiful Aria with the rest of the wedding party so we checked in and waited in our room for our luggage to be brought up to us. In the meanwhile, we tried to figure out our curtains. I could NOT figure out how to open them! Christine finally found a switch that opened & closed them and then we found a whole control panel that did various things like turn on & off lights and radio & TV and open & closed those dang curtains. It also served as a way to adjust the a/c, set an alarm and Christine even accidentally found a way to get our room into flirt mode (the curtains closed, the lights dimmed and jazz music started to play at the touch of a button)!

After exploring our room, we headed to Tom Colicchio’s Craftsteak where we had a delicious steak dinner. We were both exhausted though (due to the time zone change) so we went back to the room and crashed for the night.

Thursday was an open day for us so I headed to Mon Ami Gabi for lunch with an ex-co-worker who happened to be there at the same time. We caught up and had a lovely lunch out on the patio.  I then had some spare time and I wandered the Strip a bit. I checked out Caesars Palace where I had a gelato, crossed over to the Bellagio and checked out their Botanical Gardens (they change it seasonally) and was able to watch the fountains while I was walking back to my hotel:

That evening we headed back to Caesars to watch Absinthe – a very raunchy, sexy, expletive-filled version of a Cirque du Soleil show.  It was great and had us laughing AND oohing.

Friday night we met up with the wedding party and other guests at the West Wing Bar for drinks then we hit the Wicked Spoon Buffet for dinner afterwards. Saturday was the wedding day – which was beautiful despite the poor bride still recovering from a sinus infection. Since we knew several guests and the bride and groom, we joined the fun too, even as we worked. Once again, congratulations to April & Jason! Mazel tov!

Sunday was the day we headed home but I had a little bit of time before our flight left so I trekked over to New York New York to ride the roller coaster! It was awesome! As we headed out to the airport, we had a quick day-after photo shoot of the newlyweds around the Aria and made a stop at the famous Las Vegas sign. And before we know it, we were leaving Las Vegas already… the slideshow of pictures is below…