So my wife has a CME thing going on in Vegas early next week. We leave Sunday. We are going with her! Since she is going to be tied up all day, I need to figure out what I am going to do with Lain. So I query for baby-friendly activities. I was thinking about going to various casinos and having our picture taken outside of them. Also, does anyone know where I might could go to get her picture with Elvis?
Also, as mentioned, if you’re going to be in Vegas from Monday to Wednesday, shoot me an email. I’ll buy you lunch! (If I have a vague idea of who you are. Otherwise we split the tab?)
Below is my favorite song ever about Las Vegas.
One Hand on my chips, The other on my drink
It only comes with the waitress sees I’m gamblin
The phone near my bed, smells of wine and cigarettes
From the other night when I called you up ramblin’
And I’ve never claimed to be no broken heart mender
But I just heard Elvis sing “Love me Tender”
Meet me in Las Vegas
I’ve got to let you know
I’m not the man who left you days ago
Meet me in Las Vegas
In this city of sin and I don’t care
If I lose all my money if I never lose you again
Where are you staying? I know of hotels that have day care, although I don’t know if Lain is a bit young for many of those.
I don’t think I can make it out there during the week, unfortunately.Report
Well nuts….we’re going to vegas but not for two weeks.
Have you ever been to Hoover Dam? May not be exactly baby centric, but its not far out of Vegas. NPS is generally baby friendly in their history exhibits. They have done a great job with the history of building the dam. Plus you can take a pix of Lain with the dam in the background and post it to Facebook with a clever line like “the cutest baby by a damn site.”
There is an aquarium in the Mandalay Bay.
Sadly the Star Trek Experience closed so you can get her a drink at Quark’s Bar and her first Vulcan Ears.Report
Ooooh, Mandalay Bay is where we’re staying!Report
Mandalay Bay is nice. At least it was when I was in Vegas in 2002.Report
Well, I think the best thing about vegas is it’s proximity to zion, but I will say that the food and the massages at our hotel, when we stayed there for the ex wife’s conference, were very nice.
We also managed to take in an exhibit of Ansel Adams photography but missed the “star trek experience”. There is always jerking around the jewerlry store attendants. 🙂Report
I like the Pinball hall of fame.Report
We honeymooned at Zion.Report
Time for another one then! 🙂Report
There’s always geo-caching. Somehow, I felt like Vegas might be one of the more interesting areas to do that.Report
geo-caching? meh…..Orienteering takes more skillReport
Dry panning for gold?Report
Lain’s probably too young to enjoy the theme-park hotels or ride the roller coaster at New York, New York. But MGM has a pretty cool lion exhibit (and lots of lion-related kitsch). One of the other hotels–I forget which–used to have a tiger display. We were never able to find it because the signage is terrible. They clearly want you to throw down money at the gambling table.
There are a lot of high-end stores in the new urban chic Vegas because baby’s never too young for her first pair of Pradas.Report
Oops! No more lion exhibit. I guess MGM canned it not long after one of the lions attacked a trainer.Report
Baccarat for High Stakes.
I was somewhat amused to see the high-stakes gamblers in Vegas. They let the hotel staff but all their luggage onto a cart except that one bag…..Report
Hit the buffet. What do you have back home? Golden Corral? Feh! (sweeps hand dismissively)
The baby is not yet five, that means that she eats free! Take advantage of that!Report
Sir, that beef steak you’re putting onto your tray is as big as the baby.
She’ll be ravenous when she wakes up.Report