Seeing the Sights!

An old college friend of mine and her buddy came into town last weekend. I was a little nervous about being the "tour guide" for these two because I don't feel like I know the city well enough to keep people entertained. But it ended up being lots of fun and they were very forgiving in my lack of Las Vegas expertise. I shot quite a few photos though because I realized I haven't gone exploring the city- city part of Las Vegas much since moving here so I felt very touristy as I stopped and took pictures of the main sights along with the thousands of other people walking the strip on a Saturday night.






The main exciting part of the weekend (at least this was in my opinion) was a fun adventure we had that is not even a "typical" Las Vegas tourist spot. Extreme Makeover Home Edition was in town, bulldozing a lucky family's home and building it up from the ground up. Who could pass up an experience like that?? So we trekked it up to a small community near North Las Vegas and saw the action taking place live! It was interesting to see it real. This house was crammed between two others, had no backyard, and there was very little space for spectators to watch. It will be interesting to see how it appears on tv. I really really wanted to be there to yell "Move that Bus!!" But the only info I could find was that the family was coming home Tuesday. No time or approximate time or anything! I worked that day obviously and I wasn't sure if it would be worth it to drive up there to see what was going on. I am really curious to see how the house ended up. Maybe I will drive up there sometime soon and take a little gander. :)



I was quite bummed to see that there was no real big fun sign hanging up for a good picture opp. So I squeezed my way to the front of the crowd (which actually was no crowd at the time) and wedged my way next to a worker with his shirt on- and his back to me. Perfect right? Another lady was watching me do this, she found it quite humorous but I know without a doubt she probably did the same thing after I left! We ended up not staying too long. . . afterall. . . they were building a house, and the fact that it is going to be on tv didn't make the process any more exciting. I was really hoping to catch a glimpse of Ty, the host of the show. . . but I probably had better odds of seeing him on the strip then at the house anyway. . . no such luck. Oh well . . .it was still fun.