We were desperate to do something different for Christmas. My husband and I are both from Michigan and we now live in the South. Typically, we go back home for Christmas to visit our families. This past year, we decided to mix it up.
We have no children and do not need to play Santa Claus and we decided that we really wanted a nontraditional experience; we wanted something to "shake it up" a bit. We decided on Las Vegas.
We both love Vegas, we love the gambling and the restaurants, we love the nightlife, and it really is our adult sandbox. However, we had never been there in the winter before, let alone over a major holiday, especially one like Christmas.
We arrived on Christmas Eve and checked into our hotel. The first day we explored, shopped, ate, drank, did the normal Vegas day sans the poolside drinks, after all, December in Nevada is not toasty.
On Christmas Day itself we decided to break all the norms and bust every preconceived tradition we had ever had. First, we started off eating heavy Tex Mex food at Tacos and Tequila at Luxor, then we headed to shoot... read more >>