• If you drive into Vegas on July 4th, every hotel/casino puts on their own aerial firework display that makes you feel like you're in frikkin' Beirut...in a cool ass way though.
• Living in the suburbs of Vegas can actually be like normal life and have nothing to do with the Strip.
• When you're amazed at how cheap sparklers are, it's because when you open up the box, they're 6 inches shorter than from what you remember as a kid.
• There are no front yards or back yards...only desert gravel.
• Little boys who say "this is awesome" ALL the time...are awesome!
• The Vegas desert wind can chap yours lips bad within hours.
• People who have actual basketball courts on their property (and not just a hoop in the driveway) are in true ways baller.
• Enough Hawaiian people live in Vegas that it's called the 9th island.
• You will get dehydrated in Vegas if all you drink are Hawaiian Sun juices and no water.
• No matter what combo you get, the best part of a Hawaiian mixed plate is the MAC SALAD!
• If you stay at the Riviera Hotel, choose the Monaco Tower as those rooms are newly renovated.
• Saturday night stay in hotel = $169...Sunday night stay in same hotel = $30.
• A leisurely stroll from the Riviera to Caesars Palace is 50 minutes.
• You *can* be outside in 108 degrees when it's that dry desert heat vs. high humidity.
• There is a freaky ass Poseidon animatronics show in the Caesars Forum Shops that makes you feel like you're in Disneyworld.
• Never buy Balenciaga shoes in the actual Balenciaga shop when they're on sale at Barneys.
• The Wynn maintains the lush look of its front lawn with ASTROTURF!
• Treasure Island & Planet Hollywood are doing the annoying thing of wanting to be known as TI & PH.  Laaaaaaame!
• The Vegas Shanghai Tang is only 1 of 2 stores in the USA.
• Elvis LIVES...in front of McDonalds.
• Even at non-prime meal time...In & Out Burger is PACKED!
• If Lance Burton has a super fly ass mansion on a hill, I can't even imagine what a real celebrity's home in Vegas would look like.
• Does there really need to be a bebe store in both Caesars Forum Shops & Venetian Canal Shops?
• Venetian rooms have sunken living rooms, remote control blinds & 3 TVs.
• The only point of gambling in Vegas is to win enough money to buy shoes & purses at Intermix.
• Molecular gastronomy does not exist in Vegas...and certainly NOT at Guy Savoy.
• Next time I go out to a bar or club, I will again wear a dress with pockets & not even deal with a purse!
• If you register online to get onto the guest list for clubs in Vegas, it works!
• When you go to the ghostbar & there's NO line, they will still separate the girls into the ladies comp admission line & the boys into the men line pass line.
• There is a section of the outdoor balcony of ghostbar that is heavy duty Plexiglass...like a glass bottom boat & at 55 floors up, I dare YOU to stand on it!
• Drinking with your brothers & cousin is fun...until family drama comes up.
• Usually when I get drunk, my vision clears & my teeth hurt. This was the first time I cried like a baby.
• So Co + lime shots = YUMMY!
• Trying to go to sleep so you can get up for your uncle's wedding the next morning is NOT the same as passing out!
• Little Chapel of the Flowers does not allow photography of ANY KIND in the chapel during a ceremony. BOOO!
• My dad can sleep standing up through anything!
• Watching your cousin & grandma cry during a wedding will make you cry.
• A Vegas wedding is the only appropriate time to wear clear heels!
• There is *always* traffic along the Strip.
• All the hotels have free garage parking...quite a pleasant surprise from Boston's constant parking headache.
• When in Vegas, you can't help but make a LOT of Ocean's Eleven references.
• I agree with most Yelpers that Cafe Lago Buffet in Caesars Palace was so-so...good prime rib with horseradish sauce, but sucky dessert selection.
• The swimming pool at the Riviera Hotel is salt water! Tres cool!
• Head waiters at Kristofer's Steak House are hard on the junior waiters!
• The dealers at the Riviera Casino are kinda surly & rude, but that's like old style Vegas.
• If a single deck blackjack dealer named Bruce offers you tickets to Michael Jackson's funeral, don't take them!
• It is possible to go to Sin City & have it be all about good ol' family fun time!

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