24+ hours in Vegas . . .

What a packed 24+ hours it has been, too!

We flew out of Mid America airport on Allegiant Air. I gotta say I understand why folks will drive over there to go somewhere. No huge lines, no obnoxious walks, no waiting an hour in line on the tarmac to take off. We may just have to go somewhere else out of there, too. Good enough to just want to fly out of there whenever we go!

So keep in mind that the plan was to land at 9:45 pm, grab our luggage, grab a car and get to the courthouse to get our marriage license then come to the hotel.

Well, we landed in Vegas right about on time but it took longer to get to the baggage area and rental car area than i'd anticipated. McCarren reminds me A LOT of Dallas/Ft. Worth with needing to take trams everywhere. We did finally reach Enterprise's desk about 10:30 or so. As we were waiting for our car, the fellow asked how we liked the humidity out here . . . I just laughed and told him we were from St. Louis and this was absolutely nothing compared to home. Here they are bitching about 20% humidity. HA! It was about 99 degrees and felt cooler than it usually feels at home when it's only 85! I'll take 20% humidity any day.

So we turn on our tomtom and ask how we get to the courthouse. Silly us, we decided not to use the route suggested and go up the strip. On a Sunday night late, how bad can it be????

IT WAS AWFUL!! But at least it was pretty while you were sitting in bumper to bumper traffic. Waiting for people to get out of the way once the light has turned green. And yes, in Vegas, the cars actually realize that peds have the right of way and they wait till you're out of the street before proceeding. Except for the taxis. They don't care....

We made it to the courthouse at 11:55. Great thing about that was there was absolutely NO line to get a license. Walked in, got our license and got back in the car within about 10 minutes.

Got to the hotel (I'd called earlier and told them we were running late) and they didn't have our confirmed room, but put us in a different room till the next morning. Great.

Finally in a room, McDonald's eaten at about 1am (the hotel has a McDonald's, Sbarro and Panda Express in the lobby), having been going since about 6:30 am STL time, I was exhausted and went to bed. Hoping the next day would be a fabulous one - afterall, I'm getting married!