City of Dreams Come True!

Wednesday was yet another busy day day for us. Mary and Becky went to Eleven Spa, which is owned by parents at the school where they work, to get massages and manicures. Kyle, Janet, and I decided that we didn't want to spend over $100 on a massage so instead we took a $25 cab ride down to Fremont Street in Old Vegas since none of us had ever been.

For those of you who haven't been either, Fremont Street is one street in downtown Vegas that's been blocked off from car traffic. There are old casinos, like the Golden Nugget and the Pioneer, on either side of the street and kiosks selling jewelry, clothes, etc. in the middle. They've covered the whole stretch with a gigantic LED canopy, which features what's supposed to be a fantastic light show at night. Being that we were there at 11am, there wasn't a heck of a lot going on, but I'm sure at night it's a great time with the lights and the bars open and a ton more people.

We took about an hour and strolled from one end of the street to the other, past all the old casinos.

We even went inside the Golden Nugget, which is probably the most famous casino on Fremont Street, just to say we had been there!

Our "favorite" casino, however, was Mermaids - the smallest and dirtiest casino I've ever set foot inside! Our feet were literally sticking to the floor.

We went in there because on this year's season premiere of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List, Kathy brought Bette Midler here to experience their deep fried Oreos and Twinkies.

We, of course, wanted to have our own deep fried good time, as Kathy Griffin called her experience with Bette, so we went back to the food counter and ordered deep fried Oreos and a deep fried Twinkie. They fry them fresh as you order them, so they came out piping hot and covered with powdered sugar and chocolate sprinkles! Let me tell you, those bad boys were delicious!

We even managed to snag the table that Kathy and Bette ate at when they visited and chatted with the gentleman that served them!

After wandering around Fremont Street for awhile, we spent another $25 on a cab ride back to Caesar's Palace to scout out some restaurants for dinner that night and to browse the shops and kiosks. We narrowed it down to Trevi, an Italian restaurant next to a replica of the Trevi Fountain and Wolfgang Puck's Spago.


We left Caesar's and headed on down to the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood to break up the walk back to our hotel since it was another scorching day. After cooling off for awhile, we trekked down to MGM Grand to see the lions again. Thankfully they were there and they were actually somewhat active!

Once we saw the lions, we head back to our hotel to begin getting ready for our night out. All five of us were going out to dinner and then Kyle, Janet, and I were going to see Bette Midler's The Showgirl Must Go On and Mary and Becky were going to Cirque du Soleil's O.

Kyle, being a guy, took about 5 minutes to get ready. Meanwhile, I was slaving away in the bathroom doing my hair and makeup. I finally came out in my dress and shoes, my hair and makeup did and Kyle was sitting on the bed waiting for me. I asked him, "How do I look?"

He said, "I don't know...I think you're missing something."

I was like okay...I have some other jewelry I can put on.

As I'm thinking this, he pulled out a box and said, "Maybe you're missing this." and opened the box to reveal an engagement ring! He then proceed to drop down on one knee and asked me to marry him!

Of course I said yes immediately and then, being us, we had to take pictures!

We finally made it downstairs to meet up with the girls, who of course were in on what Kyle was planning as was practically everyone we know, and headed to dinner at Trevi. During the cab ride and throughout dinner Kyle and I made our phone calls to let everyone know we were engaged!


After an amazing dinner, Mary and Becky headed over to the Bellagio to see O and the rest of us headed to The Colosseum and saw Bette's show. It was amazing, as always. Even when Bette messed up one of her Soph jokes, she made it even more hilarious, proclaiming, "If I have to tell this f***ing joke again, I'm going to kill myself!" She then retold the joke and got the punchline right causing the audience to laugh twice as hard as they would have if she got it right the first time!

After yet another awesome show, we headed back to the hotel on cloud nine to catch some rest before our last day in town.


All in all, today was the most wonderful day of the trip! Thanks, babe; I love you!