I am currently on the flight from the layover in San Francisco to Portland. I'll probably post this tomorrow when I can check everything with my laptop.
I'm going in chronological order otherwise I know I'll make a mess.
This long weekend in Las Vegas for the volleyball tournament was one of the best vacation of my life. No kidding.
Friday morning I left Salem at 2:30am, me and my mum got my poor four sleepy siblings in the van and she drove me to the airport up in Portland (an hour away). When we got there she said "Remember that what happens in Vegas does not stays in Vegas" and "Do not get married over there because it is an actual marriage as everywhere else!" Hahahahaha, she was joking of course....I think.
Anyway, I took off around 4:30, after having had the best Capuccino I've had since I'm here, and around 7 I landed in San Francisco. I was so disappointed because the weather was really foggy and rainy, so I didn't get to see anything out of my window.
After half an hour layover, that I spend running from one gate to another one (San Francisco airport is huge) I got on the second flight for Laaaaaas Veeeegas baby.
As soon as I got there I saw slot machines everywhere hahaha, literally everywhere (I noticed a small one in the restroom too). Heading out I met with two of my team mates and we walked out in order to wait for parents to pick us up.
The house that we rented was exactly American/Las Vegas style: big, beautiful and.....with a POOL AND A HOT TUB! Omg I didn't know that until I got there. The vacation just started and I was already unable to contain my excitement.
We took a nap in the afternoon and waited for everyone to arrive. In the evening we went shopping to a big mall. I almost cried when I found Kiko makeup store, it was 7 months since I've seen one and it's so cheap compared to other brands popular here.
Some girls looked for prom dresses and then we came back to the house.
Saturday was first day of the tournament. We played in one of the three big pavilions of the Global Market Center. It sounds really cool but it wasn't actually, it was raining so much that it started leaking on the courts and every minute we had to grab a towel and soak up the water in order not to kill ourselves slipping on it. Also at a certain point, who knows why, the fire alarm started and didn't stop for at least twenty minutes. I'm glad we weren't playing but reefing (still got headache though). We played three teams and none of the matches went well. Sunday though was awesome! We won all three matches and had so much fun. We went to In 'n Out for dinner, a famous fast food really popular in California and other states. It was pretty good and cheap but I'm still not a fan of burgers and fries. I also got my dad a shirt of this year of the place, he said he loves In 'n Out so I hope he likes it.
On Monday we had a single, which means that if you lose you're out, well we lost. At around 2pm we were done so we went to the nearest outlet to shop and have lunch.
Since we had a little bit of time we had fun in the pool until it was too cold outside.
Finally we started getting ready for the night. We went to the strip, meaning downtown of Las Vegas (center). One of the best day ever. Really walking through all those high skyscrapers and shiny billboards was great. We went to the New York City part and we did the roller coaster, we went into the Bellagio Hotel, we walked through the gambling areas in the casinos, we saw the mini Eiffel tower. It was so cool. For dinner we went to Hard Rock Cafe and the owner/manager(/I don't know who he was) told us that we could go upstairs in the private concerts area.
We were all soo happy and we couldn't believe that we were there. It was like a dream. We went on the backstage and sat on the same couch where famous people like Imagine Dragons, Justin Bieber, Nirvana and so many others hang out before performing.
After that (felt like a dream I promise you) we started our tour in the Strip and we walked in a lot of fancy hotel and Casinos. We watched the fountain show in front of the Bellagio Hotel and then we saw the world largest chocolate fountain. Everything was so big and shiny!
We were home around 2 and we were so much tired but so so happy. And that's not even all!
Next day since my flight was at 4, in the morning I went to the famous Las Vegas sign to take pictures and we visited the Pyramid Hotel and the Mandala Bay Center (me and one of my team mate with her mom).
Now that I' on the flight back I can't believe it's over, these girls are so sweet and I had one the best time ever in the fabulous Las Vegas.
I really hope this summer we'll stop them again with my parents during our road trip.
P.S. I just found out that my external camera is broken. I hate myself and my life. What in the world happened.
P.P.S. By the way at the tournament there were 200 teams from almost all the US. We played both in the pavilions and in some big high schools. We placed around half through so pretty good.
BEST THING WE DID: I think the best thing was having the chance to see (and touch the toilet) of the private stage and backstage of the Hard Rock Cafe, and see the city from its big balcony!!
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