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An interview with F and J... What is Tournament of Kings? F: Tournament of Kings is a knight show, where, depending on your seating, you get a specific king to cheer for in the tournament. The tournament consists of multiple different challenges involving jousting, single combat and riding down the
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Before going to our Tournament of Kings show on Sunday night, we headed the other way up the Strip to show the boys The Venetian. It was always my second-favourite Vegas hotel/casino after the Bellagio, though after this visit I think it's now my favourite. Mainly because
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Saturday kicked off with a timeshare presentation to secure cheap tickets to Tournament of Kings. (Previous timeshare presentation experience in 2009: went in not knowing it was a timeshare presentation, thought we were being given a hotel tour, got stuck there for 4 hours, almost bought a timeshare. This time:
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An interview with F, J and B... Who is Mac King and why did you go to see him? F: Mac King is a comedy magic show, and we went to see him because that's the kinda thing you do in Las Vegas, you go to see magic
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On Friday we did some more exploring of the Las Vegas Strip before our 3pm magic show booking... 0:00 /0:30 1× We'll do a separate post about the magic show! But here are a few more pics of the Strip at night on our walk home
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The day we arrived in Las Vegas, we didn't get a chance to eat from 7:30am (breakfast in Seattle with B's cousin) to after 7pm (dinner in Las Vegas), which was a bit ridiculous given that our flight was only 1.5 hours! But that&
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Yet more haikus... Day 113 • 26 Dec • Vancouver It's Christmas feast time, But now TWO plagues are circling And soon we are five. Day 114 • 27 Dec • Vancouver We ride the SkyTrain, Drink melted chocolate shots And watch the float planes. Day 115 • 28 Dec • Vancouver Up on
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Here are some pics from our flight from Seattle to Las Vegas. In 1.5 hours, we went from these forested coastal scenes... ...to this mountainous brown desert interspersed with cookie-cutter housing developments! I find this landscape fascinating, hence all the photos... 0:00 /0:21 1×
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Some photos from our final days of Vancouver socialising... 0:00 /0:34 1× Then we flew to Vegas!
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Between Christmas and New Year, after B recovered from his bout of norovirus, we headed up to Grouse Mountain for an afternoon. This was one of the group plans we'd had to miss out on earlier that week while the boys were under the weather, but luckily the
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Haiku time again! Day 106 • 19 Dec • Victoria to Vancouver Float planes, ferry ride, Op shops, sushi, Oliver!... A real BC day. Day 107 • 20 Dec • Vancouver Ginger Beef, Green Beans And General Tso's Chicken: Wah Wing happiness. Day 108 • 21 Dec • Vancouver to Langley A dramatic day,
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Presents... Playtime... Food... Merry Christmas!