Christina and I went on a double date with her parents to the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, CA today.  The fee is $15/person but you definitely get your money’s worth because all the games are free.  There are 4 or 5 large rooms filled with pinball machines that range from the 1930s to 2011.  I loved it…

Each year for my birthday my parents would ask me what I wanted to do on my “special day” so I think just about every year I said I wanted to go bowling.  So what to do for the big 34?  We went bowling baby!  I am absolutely terrible at it but I still have lots of fun and it was Tyler’s first time.

Christina and I went to Totem in San Francisco on Friday afternoon.  According to its website:

“TOTEM traces the fascinating journey of the human species from its original amphibian state to its ultimate desire to fly. The characters evolve on a stage evoking a giant turtle, the symbol of origin for many ancient civilizations.  Inspired by many founding myths, TOTEM illustrates, through a visual and acrobatic language, the evolutionary progress of species.  Somewhere between science and legend TOTEM explores the ties that bind Man to other species, his dreams and his infinite potential.”

I loved the acts but I don’t know how congruent they were.  They all didn’t seem to tell much of a story, it was a little bit disjointed in parts.  Le Reve was so much better but we certainly still enjoyed ourselves.  If you’ve seen Totem, what do you think?

Not the most exciting video but as you can see it started raining pretty hard at the end of our tour which made it that much more exciting.

My Favorite Hotel & Casino: The Venetian

Le Reve Opening Stage

The Venetian Fall Decorations

View From The MGM

Ah Yeah: Bert & Ernie Time

We went to see Le Reve at the Wynn which was amazing on Saturday night.  I hadn’t seen a Cirque de Soleil show and let me tell you I was so impressed.  I loved every minute of it.  Here are the rest of our miscellaneous Vegas pics.

I think the Blue M&M was liking Christina more than me.  What do you think?

For our last day honeymooning we drove up to Vegas but more on that in a bit.  One of our first stops once we started exploring on the Vegas Strip was Coke World.  I didn’t want to tell the polar bear I’m actually a Pepsi fan.  The best thing if you get to Coke World is they offer a flight of Coke from around the world.  In order of personal preference I liked: Stoney Tangawizi from Tanzania, the Sunfill Blackcurrant from Mauritius, and the Inca Cola from Peru the most.  The manager of the store was super friendly and gave us some free samples from the new Coke machines coming to McDonalds, Wendy’s, and Five Guys.  The Vanilla Coke and Orange Coke combined tastes like an orangesicle.  Definitely worth a stop if you are in the area.

Christina and I decided to go hiking today in Sedona.  The Devil’s Bridge Trail was probably the most fun hike I’ve ever been on.  Toward the end of the trail it gets very steep and you find yourself literally crawling and climbing up rocks like a ladder for a hundred or so feet which was so much fun.  I didn’t have enough guts, (or I had enough sense) to not to go onto the “bridge” but as we went back down the trail we could see someone went across it.  If you ever are in Sedona and get the chance, it was my favorite hike so far.  Tomorrow we’re going to the Grand Canyon! By the way, I went onto YouTube to see what videos were out there of people going across the bridge and sure enough there are lots of people crazy enough to do it! Here is one..

We woke up early this morning to head over to the Pink Jeep Tour.  The tour was fantastic and we had a lot of fun.  As you can see we were taken to some beautiful vista points.  Christina even walked right into a cactus.  I would have had pictures of it but the guide was pulling the spines out of her leg.  She said she didn’t even feel it but a few minutes later she said it was stinging.  We could see the storm coming in from the distance and could tell it was looking ugly.  Luckily by the end of the tour it started raining so we got a full tour in and the rain made things even more adventurous.  The rest of the day we are staying in and the good news is no more rain for the rest of the week.

We were having a nice Mexican food dinner last night when the rain clouds came in and a nice rainbow appeared.

For day three we went over to Jerome, AZ for a haunted hamburger.  Jerome is a really great tourist stop at 5,000 ft above sea level and I could really feel it walking around town.  We then went over to a ghost town a few miles from Jerome and then back to Sedona in their “uptown” area for some shopping (or at least some looking).