Keeping up with the Bragassas: July 4th in Vegas

We stayed in Vegas the night of the 3rd and 4th and had a great time! The city seriously never sleeps and is always eye-opening! On the 3rd, we went down to the strip to eat dinner...Brian paid $6.99 and got a big beer, a 10oz rib-eye, baked potato, and veggies! It was a ridiculous deal and it was really good! After we ate dinner, we went out and walked along the strip until about 1 am and then went back to our room. Brian was in shock at how intricate the hotels were and how huge they are...if you've never been there, you should go - it's unreal!

On the 4th of July, we slept in and then Brian had to go to Nellis Air Force Base to get his uniforms taken care of so that when we arrived in California he would be ready. I just laid around most of the day since it was 110 degrees outside...absolutely miserable! That night, we decided to go and see a show, so we looked up what was playing and decided on Blue Man Group. It was AWESOME! I highly recommend it to everyone! The entire show is entertaining and tons of fun. The audience is asked to participate frequently and the Blue Men actually come out in the crowd and crawl around a little bit.

After we got out of the show, we went to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Last time I was in Las Vegas, I went here and loved it so I wanted Brian to experience it. He enjoyed it and couldn't believe how short some of these famous actors/actresses are. When we finished up with the was museum, we met up with my dad who was on a lay over for the night. He got in around 9:30 and we went to a late dinner, and then we hit up the casinos. Unfortunately, Brian and I both lost $50, but my dad got lucky and made it all back! Although the city was still crawling with people, we finally decided to call it a night around 2 am...we had a long drive ahead of us the next day!

Madame Tussauds Wax Museum has life size mannequins of all kinds of famous people. This is me and Shaq...he's gargantuan!!! Notice I'm on my tippy toes and can barely reach his arm pit!