Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 7

Sculptures, stained glass, statutes.

Splendiferous examples of architecture!

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 6

Food!  Tasting treats from bakeries to restuarants to the M and M store and Hershey's (where I forgot to take any pictures).

The Dragon Breath at Chocolate Chair was unique-they were crunchy, slightly sweet balls of cereal with liquid nitrogen added.  The result is everyone expelling "smoke" like a dragon after eating some of the concoction.  While not extremely tasty, it wasn't bad and was a fun group activity since one cup is plenty for a small group of people.

Daisy contemplating all the choices in milk, dark, peanut, almond, other flavors like mint and cherry, and colors along with skittles in the huge room-sized display of bulk wares offered at the M & M store.

All of us holding different highly priced dispensers.  We just bought our treats and ate them straight out of the bag.

Daisy playing around at Sushi Roku in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada. Notice Mica pointedly ignoring her.

This was a random local place that we found just driving around but they were so nice and the food was good.  If you're in the area, check out Tasty Island Jamaican Restaurant.

 Carlo's Bake Shop was the number one place we definitely did not want to miss on our trip-all the other food outings were just incidental and we just stopped at whatever was in the neighborhood.  Here's Daisy, Mica, and Hedgehog waiting in line.  Daisy and I had watched some of Cake Boss in earlier years.

 So many treats from eclairs...

 to  chocolate dipped strawberries...

 to cake slices and brownies...

to cookies, cannolis, and the famous lobster tail pastries.  The lobster tail pastries were delicious as were the other treats we bought.  

We enjoyed eating out but we also bought groceries and had breakfast, lunch, and snacks in the hotel room.  

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 5

And the wax museum in  Las Vegas?  Yes, it's worth the price of admission.  https://www.madametussauds.com/las-vegas/en/  Here's just a smattering of things we saw:

Bette Midler, Mica, and and Celine Dion 

 Hedgehog flanked by Elvis and Louis ArmstrongDaisy and Dwayne "The Rock" JohnsonUpper photo-the kids staring up at Shaquille O'Neal.  Me with Marilyn Monroe and Donny and Marie Osmond and Wolfgang Puck in the background.

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 4

The Mob Museum (per Mica's request) was more interesting than I originally anticipated.  Mica really wanted to see the museum on our trip to Las Vegas.  It was not crowded at all and there was adequate parking which is now a rarity in the tourist parts of the city.  They have their own distillery in the basement.  For more information visit their website: https://themobmuseum.org/

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 3

Coca-Cola!

Samples of Coca-cola products served around the world.

 The store where we had our picture taken with the Coca-cola polar bear.

Sunday Randomness #245 : a little leap to Las Vegas for a few days part 2

We did the Polar Journey as an extension to the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay.

They had a realistic interactive chunk of iceberg and other exhibits from the polar region.

And in the aquarium there were, of course,

 lots of fish and other creatures like cephalopods!  There was also a scuba diver cleaning and I did ask if I could take his picture-he gave me a thumbs up that it was okay.

 Turtle