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Tuesday 27 February 2024
U2 at the Sphere, Las Vegas
Big Elvis Las Vegas
Toronto Maple Leafs v Las Vegas Golden Knights
Vegas food
Okay, am warning you in advance, these photos are just horrific.
We arrived in late Wednesday evening. It is quite crazy how big America is, how far away we are from everything in Key West, and how long it took us to travel to Vegas - we might have been quicker coming from Ireland!
So, we quickly checked in and headed out to explore. We decided to go to Battistas Hole in the Wall which we liked from our last trip but while googling the directions I noticed it would be closing in just 45 minutes at 9.30pm. Rather early closing time I think, don't you?!
Because we were outside New York, New York we decided to go into Nine Fine Irish Men as it served food and had a good band playing (a bit of Irish diddley eye is always good in my book lol).
Horrific photo number 1 coming up:
I had the mussels. Patrick had clam chowder. And they were both great. Hard to believe that from this photo but I assure you on this.
The next morning, similar to last trip we woke up very early and couldn't sleep - jet lag! We decided to throw caution to the wind and head out for breakfast/brunch Las Vegas style - yes we decided we were going to have a little alcoholic beverage with our food. We did a quick google and decided on the Pyramid Cafe in the Luxor - it was convenient to our hotel (Mandalay Bay) and the menu looked appealing. We had fabulous chorizo burritos and we were set up for the day - they were so filling that we didn't even need lunch!!
What we did need was a nap though! And I made sure to get one in the late morning/early afternoon - we were going to a hockey game that evening after all.
Sunday 18 February 2024
Valentine's Day 2024
Cero Mackerel
Monday 12 February 2024
Birthday brisket!
Super Bowl Food
New sitting area out front!
Monday 5 February 2024
Literal pain in the neck
Good news. Since Christmas, I had been covering Front Desk a lot, plus also training new starters, meaning that I had been working strange and awful hours. That is now finished I hope.
My neck (crick) and shoulders have also been very bad for the last month or so. It started on the left side and I started immediate treatment with NSAID's for a straight two weeks. Just as the left got better it moved to the right - not as painful, but still quite bad. I did a few more days of NSAID's and then started really focusing on treating now and preventing in the future. After doing my peloton class I started doing stretching exercises, swimming and doing pool exercises in the evening and went for an expensive but BRILLIANT massage. Next week I am thinking of doing a bikram class on Monday. The heat and the stretching will do it the world of good I think. Am feeling a little worried for the future, I seem to be getting this pain yearly if not even 6 monthly. Really need to be proactive and stay on top of it now - stretching daily etc.
And I really want it better for two weeks' time when we are going BACK to Las Vegas to see U2 - need to be able to throw my head back and look at all the views in the Sphere!