Marguerite and Jude took themselves off for a wee holiday in the wonderful city of Las Vegas where they stayed in The Venetian Hotel. The 5 day stay was initially booked on their 2nd wedding anniversary as a gift to one another but as the trip ran over the 11th of October it also doubled up as Jude's birthday celebration. Jude is now officially an auld lad as he turned 39 but thanks to his mate Carmel he has learned to enjoy his age rather than loath the fact that he is getting older. Happy 39th!
The Venetian Hotel was so big Jude got lost a few times. In fact, it was so big that some times it was hard to find your way out of the bloody place.
This pic was also taken inside the hotel, aye inside the hotel. I think you might start to get the message. Check out the gondolas in the background there.
Here Marguerite posing, again inside the hotel......
......and it's yer man on the Gondola thingy again.
This is the Paris zone of Vegas. The Eiffel Tower you see there was.....eh...huge. A trip to the top was taken but it scared the life out of poor Jude. In the assent to the top he started making weird howling noises before he even got to the first level (which was only about 1/5 of the size of the full tower). Neices Megan, Aideen, Amy and Riona experienced this before on a trip to the Belfast Wheel, only this was worse. You see when going up in the lift you could see out through the steel structure and this got the better of him. By the time he was at the top he was sweating like a dog and hyperventilating while completely oblivious to the fact that folk were staring at him in amazement in the lift. He spent the following 30 mins at the top of the tower walking around going 'waaaooooow' every 30 seconds or so while jumping back from the edge like an edgit.
However he did manage to take this pic from the top of the tower, it is of a neighbouring hotel.
Back on solid ground and back to normality, thank God.
The Pallagio hotel is another amazing place. This mad fountain malarky goes to the sound of classical music every 30 mins or so. It's a pretty impressive sight and sound. All those wee houses around the edges are actually parts of the hotel where wedding are celebrated.
Oh yeah, it was Jude's birthday and Marguerite said if she had the money she would buy him this car. So he'll have to do with just a pic then. Jude reckons his brother Kevin and David (Emma's boyfriend) would like to get their mits on this little number.
Marguerite nearly got her head bit of by thon Alligator there in the MGM Grand. The city of Las Vegas is focused around hotels, with each one providing lots of entertainment via shows, casinos, restaurants, pubs. For Jude's birthday he chose to go see the Lion King at Mandalay Bay. Jude joked that he had bought the usual row x seats, but on this occasion he decided to surprise Marguerite by nailing 2 seats in the middle of the very front row!!!! Wha? Unfortunately taking pics at the show was not allowed.
This pic speaks for itself, it's just mad. That is a hotel in the middle of vegas called New York New York. All the New York favourites are there such as the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and even a roller coaster running through the middle of it. Of course Marguerite and Jude went on it and bloody good it was too!
Here Jude does his best 'Liberty' pose. Various people had told Jude and Marguerite about how brilliant Vegas was, Charlene, Lisa Marie & Ryan, Jude's brother Paul (even though he has never been there - he says he saw it on the Holiday show!) and Marguerite's aunt Pat. Well it lived up to and exceeded expectations.
On another evening the show of choice was the Rat Pack show (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jnr, Dean Martin tribute). Ah sure ye can't beat the auld Rat Pack music folks. Brilliant it was. Here Marguerite is outside the venue for the show. When standing in the line to get in Jude got talking to a man originally from Co Leitrim who has been living in the Bronx area of New York for 40 years. Anyway Jude took a shot in the dark and asked him if he happened to know his old school friend Jerome Edge. Sure it only turned out that he did!!!! Mad? Wha?
For the show you could either sit at shared tables or for an extra $10 each you could have a wee private comfy, cool booth thingy. Naturally Marguerite and Jude took the booth and started their 'tab' as is the way. You square up the bill and pay the tip altogether at the end. But this place was a throwback to the 60's and the 'mafia' dude who allocated the seats insisted on his $20 being paid in cash. Anyway when Jude dug deep to hand over the $20 he found he only had $16 in notes and added to Marguerite $2.18 in shrapnel they were shy by the guts of $1.80 odds. Our man flint came back and forth with a wee torch looking his $20. After telling him there was only $18 in cash and telling him he would pay the $20 on the tab the man said, 'I need my $20 now, in cash'. Now Jude has seen 'Goodfellas', 'Casino, and 'The Godfather' often enough to understand that a twenty is a twenty and when the man asks for a twenty.......you don't hand him eighteen. Que a mad dash through the casino to scoop the cash from the ATM. He got his twenty eventually......weirdo!
Here Marguerite does her cowgirl pose while Jude looks very frighteningly like that dude standing behind him there.
Fremont street is in the old Vegas area and was well worth the visit to see how the place was in those old days.
A spectacular 'Queen' show was shown on a screen that was 1/4 of a mile long. Seriously, no joking, like previously said this place was mad and you really had to see that to believe it but I'll understand if you think that is an exaggeration.
Marguerite nicks yer man's hat and then asked him to play Guns n Roses or Kings of Leon. Whatever happened to Boyzone and Westlife then?
For staying at the Venetian a $50 voucher was given free. This was spent on the last evening and Jude and Marguerite ended up winning about $20, which is not bad considering folk lose millions at joints like this. Well it was Las Vegas!
The Venetian Hotel was so big Jude got lost a few times. In fact, it was so big that some times it was hard to find your way out of the bloody place. 
The room was really big and was one of those split level jobs with 3 huge flat screen TV's, including one in the bathroom.
Here are two pics of the reception area. When the auld guy there heard Marguerite's accent he started playing 'The Wild Rover' on his accordian. Cool!
This pic was also taken inside the hotel, aye inside the hotel. I think you might start to get the message. Check out the gondolas in the background there.
Here Marguerite posing, again inside the hotel......
......and it's yer man on the Gondola thingy again.
This is the Paris zone of Vegas. The Eiffel Tower you see there was.....eh...huge. A trip to the top was taken but it scared the life out of poor Jude. In the assent to the top he started making weird howling noises before he even got to the first level (which was only about 1/5 of the size of the full tower). Neices Megan, Aideen, Amy and Riona experienced this before on a trip to the Belfast Wheel, only this was worse. You see when going up in the lift you could see out through the steel structure and this got the better of him. By the time he was at the top he was sweating like a dog and hyperventilating while completely oblivious to the fact that folk were staring at him in amazement in the lift. He spent the following 30 mins at the top of the tower walking around going 'waaaooooow' every 30 seconds or so while jumping back from the edge like an edgit.
However he did manage to take this pic from the top of the tower, it is of a neighbouring hotel.
Back on solid ground and back to normality, thank God.
The Pallagio hotel is another amazing place. This mad fountain malarky goes to the sound of classical music every 30 mins or so. It's a pretty impressive sight and sound. All those wee houses around the edges are actually parts of the hotel where wedding are celebrated.
Oh yeah, it was Jude's birthday and Marguerite said if she had the money she would buy him this car. So he'll have to do with just a pic then. Jude reckons his brother Kevin and David (Emma's boyfriend) would like to get their mits on this little number.
Marguerite nearly got her head bit of by thon Alligator there in the MGM Grand. The city of Las Vegas is focused around hotels, with each one providing lots of entertainment via shows, casinos, restaurants, pubs. For Jude's birthday he chose to go see the Lion King at Mandalay Bay. Jude joked that he had bought the usual row x seats, but on this occasion he decided to surprise Marguerite by nailing 2 seats in the middle of the very front row!!!! Wha? Unfortunately taking pics at the show was not allowed.
This pic speaks for itself, it's just mad. That is a hotel in the middle of vegas called New York New York. All the New York favourites are there such as the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and even a roller coaster running through the middle of it. Of course Marguerite and Jude went on it and bloody good it was too!
Here Jude does his best 'Liberty' pose. Various people had told Jude and Marguerite about how brilliant Vegas was, Charlene, Lisa Marie & Ryan, Jude's brother Paul (even though he has never been there - he says he saw it on the Holiday show!) and Marguerite's aunt Pat. Well it lived up to and exceeded expectations.
On another evening the show of choice was the Rat Pack show (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jnr, Dean Martin tribute). Ah sure ye can't beat the auld Rat Pack music folks. Brilliant it was. Here Marguerite is outside the venue for the show. When standing in the line to get in Jude got talking to a man originally from Co Leitrim who has been living in the Bronx area of New York for 40 years. Anyway Jude took a shot in the dark and asked him if he happened to know his old school friend Jerome Edge. Sure it only turned out that he did!!!! Mad? Wha?
For the show you could either sit at shared tables or for an extra $10 each you could have a wee private comfy, cool booth thingy. Naturally Marguerite and Jude took the booth and started their 'tab' as is the way. You square up the bill and pay the tip altogether at the end. But this place was a throwback to the 60's and the 'mafia' dude who allocated the seats insisted on his $20 being paid in cash. Anyway when Jude dug deep to hand over the $20 he found he only had $16 in notes and added to Marguerite $2.18 in shrapnel they were shy by the guts of $1.80 odds. Our man flint came back and forth with a wee torch looking his $20. After telling him there was only $18 in cash and telling him he would pay the $20 on the tab the man said, 'I need my $20 now, in cash'. Now Jude has seen 'Goodfellas', 'Casino, and 'The Godfather' often enough to understand that a twenty is a twenty and when the man asks for a twenty.......you don't hand him eighteen. Que a mad dash through the casino to scoop the cash from the ATM. He got his twenty eventually......weirdo!
Here Marguerite does her cowgirl pose while Jude looks very frighteningly like that dude standing behind him there.
Fremont street is in the old Vegas area and was well worth the visit to see how the place was in those old days.
A spectacular 'Queen' show was shown on a screen that was 1/4 of a mile long. Seriously, no joking, like previously said this place was mad and you really had to see that to believe it but I'll understand if you think that is an exaggeration.
Marguerite nicks yer man's hat and then asked him to play Guns n Roses or Kings of Leon. Whatever happened to Boyzone and Westlife then?
For staying at the Venetian a $50 voucher was given free. This was spent on the last evening and Jude and Marguerite ended up winning about $20, which is not bad considering folk lose millions at joints like this. Well it was Las Vegas!
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