Anyway, we went back to the airport and headed off to our terminal. Our next stop? You guessed it (or read it, since it’s in my blog title XD)

Vegas, baby!

We actually stayed there for two nights, two days, but I’ve got other pictures to show you for Day 4, so I’ll just be posting all the Vegas pictures here.

My parents, brother, and my sister tried their luck at the slot machines, but I didn’t. It didn’t matter though, because my sister gave me some of her winnings, so I ended up getting more money without risking my own.XD Also, I don’t think they would allow me to gamble. I might be of legal age, but I don’t think I look it. I think it’s the height.x_x Heck, when we were in the baggage counter at the airport waiting for our luggage, I had one of the attendants ask what my age was simply because I was standing beside a slot machine. Crazy.x_x

I think it was in Vegas where I gained the most weight from, since we were always eating in buffets. Granted, we only ate breakfast and dinner since we were out a large part of the day sight-seeing and stuff, but we ate a lot during those times to compensate. Hotel restaurants we ate in were in MGM Grand (incidentally, we stayed over at the Signature), Mandalay, and Paris (we had one of our dinners on the road, since we were still out until 9, and we got pretty hungry). My favorite was Paris in terms of food, even though my family disagreed with me and said their food was a little bland. Meh. The others had pretty good food too, though. Funny though, since we spent more time in Caesar’s Palace, and we didn’t even eat there!

We didn’t catch any of the shows, since we’d always arrive pretty late at night, so we were tired. Too bad, because I wanted to watch the Lion King live. Oh well.

Anyway, on to the pictures! I just resized them to not mess up the layout.

Can you see Yellow in the picture?XD

It’s only in Vegas where you can visit Paris, Venice, and Egypt in the same day.XD

The famous dancing fountains of Bellagio. It got the “Viva Las Vegas” song stuck in my head.XD

The next few shots are taken from Caesar’s Palace. While my family’s playing at the slots, I was busy taking pictures of the place.:P I loved reading Greek mythology when I was younger, so it was fun walking around and seeing the statues.

You definitely won’t get claustrophobic there, because the ceiling’s painted to look like you were outdoors.

Strangely, they also have an aquarium there. It doesn’t fit in the whole Greek thing, but what do I know, right?:P Love how the kid is so fascinated with the stingray. 

Oh, and I discovered one of the best places to buy sweet stuff in Vegas! It’s in the Bellagio, and it’s called “Jean-Philippe Chocolates and Pastries”. They have the best ice cream. Ever.

It’s the creamiest I’ve ever tasted. Yum! Just thinking about it makes me drool.XD

And if that’s not enough, check out one of their displays:

Three kinds of fondue! Waaah! And that’s just one part of it, because it’s actually higher than that. There are more of those container things on the upper part.

Anyway, here’s the list:

1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I’ve been so excited to catch this since it’s going to be featuring Gambit, who’s one of my favorite X-Men in the old cartoons (along with Rogue). Was disappointed, really. The storyline was bleh. It’s like the writers and the producers just thought of bringing one mutant after another to fight Wolverine, who would, of course, end up beating all of them. And their treatment of Gambit was pretty lame, too. It’s like they made him to have the ability of shuffling cards really, really fast and smashing his staff on the ground hard. Bah.

2. Hotel for Dogs. This was the movie they showed on the plane. The only movie. And it was a 12-hour flight. I know I’ve blogged a lot of times that I love dogs, but if you watch a movie four times in a row, you’d get sick of it, especially if it’s not the kind of film you watch in the first place.

3. Taken. I watched this on Blu-Ray in my sister’s place. I already watched this back home, but it was still pretty cool. Liam Neeson was awesome.

4. Star Trek. I loved this one. I never was a Trekkie. Heck, I never watched a Star Trek episode in my life! My main (er, actually only) reason for watching this is for Zachary Quinto, who I love in Heroes. He was completely awesome in this film. He was definitely Spock, not Sylar. The effects were pretty good, and Chris Pine, as Kirk, was pretty funny, but I loved Dr. McCoy more, who had great comic timing.

5. Angels and Demons. My mom’s a Dan Brown fan, so she got us to go with her to watch it. I never read the books (it’s not my interest, and to be honest, I think Dan Brown just picked a controversial topic to sell his works, but that’s just me), so I can’t really say if it stayed true to the story or not. It was okay, the twists were interesting, but ultimately, it’s not the kind of film I’d go for.

6. Wall-E. Yeah, yeah, sue me for only watching it now.XD It was pretty cute, but I liked some other Pixar movies (like Finding Nemo and The Incredibles!) more.

7. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Also saw this on Blu-Ray. It’s odd watching a movie and knowing how it would end, since the plot of that was already given back in the first Underworld movie, but it was still pretty cool. For the first time, I was rooting for the Lycans (other than Lucian, anyway) as opposed to the vampires.

8. Terminator: Salvation. One of my fave movies of all time is T2, which I watched way too many times when I was a kid (yeah, T2 isn’t really a children’s movie. Blame cable for that.), so I definitely had to see it. It’s definitely better than T3, which was the worst movie in the series. It’s pretty cool how they developed John Connor’s story, as well as bringing in another plot in the movie, what with Marcus’s story. I was hoping for more of Kyle Reese, since he essentially started it all, but he didn’t get as much screen time as I wanted. Still, it was a pretty good flick.

Other movies I caught on cable were “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”, “The Mummy Returns” and “What Women Want”.

Yep, May’s definitely my movie month this year.:P