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| Elise posing with daddy by The Luxor Sphinx |
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| Mommy and Elise by the Sphinx |
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| The Luxor lit up at night |
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| The busy Vegas strip after dark |
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| Vegas night lights |
Vegas after dark, really is the ideal time for site seeing and exploring. 1. It's much cooler (translation: still damn hot, but not 100+ scorching degrees out) 2. You can walk a mile without sweating to death 3. The Vegas night lights shine all bright and things feel more festive 4. People watching goes into full force. The only downside to Vegas after dark is kids and their nightly schedule. This is why for one night, and one night ONLY, you let the kids stay up way past their bedtime and drag them along with you. You convince them that it will be fun, by telling them they may get to see a pirate show, a volcano erupt, and/or fountain display, then you choose one of those because unless you have multiple days or you've planned everything meticulously in advance, you will likely only get to fully see one of these options. As we all know, kids wear out fast, they are unpredictable, and are surely guaranteed to resist compliance at the most inopportune of times. That being said, out of all three of those options above, we ended up watching the Mirage Volcano strictly out of convenience. The girls were excited at first and walked all the way up to the railing for the closest view possible. When the show began, their excitement turned to indifference. Once the first round of scorching hot flames shot up from the water, they both made a beeline for the exit (translation - ran and hid behind daddy). After the show was over, Elise expressed how the pirate show would have been "way more fun". Note to selves, volcanos and kids don't mix, but hey at least we got to see a bit of Vegas after dark.
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| The Mirage after dark |
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| The girls ready for the Volcano |
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| The Mirage Volcano Eruption |
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| Um yeah, they were not fans. No future volcanologists here |
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| It was much more dramatic than what I remember as a kid |
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| We managed to get a family shot after the chaos |
