The conspiracy

We had planned an overnight trip to Fremont Street since all of us like it so much. Its really too far to drive back to Pahrump after a night at Fremont Street.

Here we are parking to go eat at the buffet before checking in to our rooms.
Little did we know that their was a conspiracy afoot.


We stayed at the Fremont Hotel. For $40 a night, we we very impressed.
The rooms were very nice, and clean.


Here you can see my dad innocently talking on the phone to my brother.
In reality, he was putting the final parts of the conspiracy together.

While we were eating, I heard Karen say "Oh my GOD!!!!" I looked up and my brother, Brian, and his wife, Mia were walking up to our table with their food!!!
We were in shock. Karen started crying. We knew that they were talking about visiting us, but they kept saying they wern't sure when. They couldn't come out when my parents did because they needed someone to watch the kids. They got us good!!!



Unfortunately our car only has seating for 5 people.......


We all wanted to see how the Bellagio was decorated so off we went:














Then we were off to the New York New York.



After Brian at the hot dog we decided to go eat at the Mexican Restaurant:


Followed by some window shopping.


Then we went to See's Chocolates where mom and Brian practiced spelling Pahrump on our window.



Neither could spell it correctly!

Then we headed back to Fremont.....

....and did some gambling. Karen won...$15 which made up for what I lost.

Then we hit Fremont Street:


We stopped by the Golden Nugget to show them the swimming pool/shark tank.




We also saw Carl "Safe Sax":

Again mom requested her song, and he played it. She was wearing one of his shirts which probably helped:)



Here are the ladies posing with Snoop Dogg:




My new cheap sun glasses which cost $1.00:








Here we are hanging out with Ed. We see him every time we come out here.


While we were walking around Brian said he thought he saw Jimmy Caughey, our cousin, walking around with a child. My dad said, no way, your mistaken. We went into the bathroom and when we came out Brian was indeed talking to Jimmy and his wife who were there with their two kids Keegan and Mikka.




What are the chances????

Here is Mia and Ed:


We had a great night!!! They tell me we had steak and lobster later, but I think they are lying to me:)

Fremont Street

No trip to Vegas is complete without a trip down to Fremont Street.

There were two pretty good bands down there Friday. We almost didn't go because of the weather forecast calling for a 70% chance of rain. One thing I've learned about Vegas is that the weather forecast means little. It never did rain that night.


















Even the dogs like Fremont Street. As I normally do, when I take someone's photo I offer them my Flickr card so they can see the photo on my site later. The two ladies on the right in this picture told Karen they wanted to speak to me. They wanted to pay me to photograph them. They asked how much. I asked what was it worth to them? They offered me $100. They were feeling no pain at the time and I knew I couldn't take $100 from them...it wouldn't have been right. We settled on $20. One of the ladies grabbed a vendor's stool for her friend to sit on. The vendor demanded $10 to "rent" the stool to them. Little did I know at the time they only had $14 between the two of them.....So I made $4. Almost enough to buy a beer. But it was fun so I didn't care. Below are a few of the pics I took:









This couple was listening to Carl play the sax while dancing the night away.


The important thing in this picture is....the beer temp!


By this time mom was REALLY having fun! She wanted her picture taken with James Thunder, a Samoan Boxer. When we firs moved here, Karen had her picture taken with him also.














Here is Karen sporting her new cowgirl hat.


Even the little ones were out dancing. They were sooo cute!







All in all, we had a great time on Fremont Street.