{"id":556,"date":"2003-07-10T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T23:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-08-08T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T00:02:53","slug":"vegas-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/vegas-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"vegas vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re back from our trip to vegas (&#8220;vegas, baby, vegas!!&#8221;) and a good time was had by all. jerimy and i stayed at the mirage, which is a pretty sweet establishment if you ask me. for one thing, their pool area is amazing. they designed it to look like island lagoons, complete with waterfalls and waterslides. i wish i had a picture to share, but stupid me forgot to take one. it&#8217;s an especially dumb mistake considering that we had gotten a free upgrade and had a sweet ass view of the pool, as well as the whole southern end of the strip. [snaps fingers]<\/p>\n<p>The restaurants at the mirage are also quite amazing. we had dinner at our favorite place in vegas, Kokomo&#8217;s, which also happens to be in the Mirage. make no mistake: if you ever are in vegas and happen to be in the mood for the best damn prime rib you&#8217;ve ever had, you need to stop at Kokomo&#8217;s. You seriously get something like a side of cow wheeled over to your table, but it&#8217;s the most tender, most succulent, most flavorful prime rib you can imagine. And if Jer, who is a filet mignon fan (and who ordered the 16 oz filet!!), can attest to the quality of Kokomo&#8217;s prime rib, well&#8230; i think you need to at least consider this place. :) The Mirage also has really tasty ice blended drinks too!! The margarita we had at Kokomo&#8217;s was soooooo yummy, and my strawberry daquiri was also a complete and utter delight. The Mirage also has a drink called the &#8220;White Tiger,&#8221; which is something like a pina colada with amaretto and kahlua, that will deliciously send you to a very happy place. :) I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>So here are a couple of pictures from the trip that almost didn&#8217;t materialize. Jer and i have been deathly ill for about the past two weeks, and even the day before leaving for vegas, we were pretty much walking infections (naaaasty). We actually missed a friend&#8217;s wedding since the process of sleeping off the illness inadvertently led to sleeping through the wedding. (ouch.) We still need to send over our gifts and our congratulations cards &gt;_<\/p>\n<p>jerimy in front of the luxor sphinx.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/ramblings\/images\/jpvegas2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>pearl in front of the paris hotel fountain.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/ramblings\/images\/jpvegas3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re back from our trip to vegas (&#8220;vegas, baby, vegas!!&#8221;) and a good time was had by all. jerimy and i stayed at the mirage, which is a pretty sweet establishment if you ask me. for one thing, their pool area is amazing. they designed it to look like island lagoons, complete with waterfalls &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/vegas-vacation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;vegas vacation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}