{"id":15031,"date":"2017-05-25T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=15031"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:26:20","slug":"thursday-vegas-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/travel\/thursday-vegas-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"thursday vegas doors"},"content":{"rendered":"

first, my thursday doors…this is an entrance to the signature suites at the MGM; the place has so much glass and it’s all mirrored plus i’m sure it’s top of the line anti-reflective and triple paned to keep out the blazing heat. \u00a0i’m standing at the entrance to one of the pools; there are three giant towers at the signature and each has its own pool. \u00a0this is at the end of a fairly long run i took on the morning of may 4th.<\/p>\n

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this is just one of the beautiful places at the Wynn Las Vegas\u00a0– the entrances to the Wynn and Encore theaters, with a big statue of\u00a0\u00a0popeye in front.<\/p>\n

i just read about this statue – it’s by the artist jeff koons, and it cost $28 million! \u00a0an art expert at Sotheby’s auction called it “one of the great sculptures that nobody knows.”<\/p>\n

because we’d been doing so much walking around the property i didn’t take more than a moment to stop and snap this photo. \u00a0i also read that they’re going to move it to boston eventually, so i hope that i get back to vegas and stay at this hotel before it leaves.<\/p>\n

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as for the rest of my morning – i decided i wanted to run up the strip because it was a beautiful morning and i knew it’d be fun to run and see all there is to see. i ran all the way up to the Mirage, the hotel where kevin and i stayed with mom and dad back in 2007.<\/p>\n

the cirque du soleil beatles “love” show was playing at the mirage back then, and it was still there. \u00a0amy, mom and i talked about going to see it that night, and i stopped by the mirage to take a little break from running.<\/p>\n

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here’s the aquarium on the back lobby wall at check-in. \u00a0two people were cleaning it, but i think you can only spot one.<\/p>\n

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their lovely jungle-like area next to the lobby.<\/p>\n

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here’s the section of the bellagio that was recently damaged in a fire.<\/p>\n

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i love the long esplanade in front of the bellagio, and i loved running early enough so that there weren’t hordes of people.<\/p>\n

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i stopped in at the new hotel, the cosmopolitan, and here’s the chandelier bar.<\/p>\n

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this is the view from the walkway over las vegas blvd.<\/p>\n

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this is a mighty recruitment sign. \u00a0it seems that las vegas would be a challenging place to work, not that it’s not challenging to be a cop anywhere right now.<\/p>\n

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this is a panorama of the entire new strip of stuff that hadn’t been built the last time i was there.<\/p>\n

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this is how tall the signature suites are – there are 38 floors, and we were on the 26th.<\/p>\n

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the lonely pool at our tower – the funny thing is that it got more and more crowded at the big mgm lazy river and their multiple pools, but the pools at the signature were always almost deserted.<\/p>\n

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i ended up running a total of 45 minutes, much longer than i normally do, just because it was fun to keep running and looking around.<\/p>\n

we spent quite a bit of time at the lazy river, but then we later walked and walked and walked all around the Wynn. \u00a0i walked a record-setting number of steps that day!<\/p>\n

whew.<\/p>\n

ok then,<\/p>\n

mrs. thursday doors hughes.<\/p>\n

This posting \u00a0is part of Norm 2.0\u2019s Thursday Doors. \u00a0If you\u2019d like to see the vast array of doors that people from around the world are posting, or if you want to post your own photos of doors, click\u00a0 here<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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