Tuesday, November 24, 2009

A Thanksgiving Post: 25 Vegas Things I'm Thankful For (and a link to a Vegas4Visitors list to boot)

A friend over at LV4E shared Rick Garman's Vegas4Visitors weekly column with us and pointed out a holiday-related portion for our perusing pleasure. Check out the bottom article titled "Thanksgiving Special: Things in Vegas To Be Thankful For" that includes 25 things that the author is thankful for in Vegas - http://www.vegas4visitors.com/column/index.htm#feature2

That made me think: What are the Vegas things I'm most thankful for? Let's just see, shall we?

1. Breakfast - or dinner - on the patio at Mon Ami Gabi in Paris

2. Bellagio dinner buffet

3. Watching the lights come on over the Strip at dusk

4. Seeing the Bellagio fountains in action, day or night

5. TITO tickets

6. Comped rooms

7. Cocktail waitresses with good memories and quick feet

8. Video reel slot machines

9. Lucy in the Sky, With Diamonds

10. Wynn breakfast buffet

11. Gold Fish machines that let you play and play and play

12. The chandelier at The Phantom of the Opera

13. Random Elvis sightings...thankyewverymuch

14. Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, paying me a lovely visit

15. The Venetian lobby

16. Eggs Benedict in all its incarnations

17. Mardi Gras beads for a blackjack...or just because

18. People-watching at the Forum Shops

19. Grand Lux Cafe appetizers shared with friends and family

20. Encore's red butterflies

21. Seeing snow on Mt. Charleston - from the Strip - in June

22. Tix4Tonite

23. Meeting new friends

24. Seeing the Strip for the first time as the plane comes in for a landing

25. The promise of new things to see and do every time I visit


My list could change next year, too*. Who knows? I hope it does, because it'll mean I've found something new - and exciting - to do in Vegas yet again.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

*I would've included the dolphins at The Mirage in my list, too, but I was trying to be different. Not that I don't love the dolphins, because I do. They are part of a great attraction that should not be missed if you have the time and would like to get away from the noise of the casinos for a while.

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