Las Vegas Encore....and meeting Mel Gibson!

Matt & Cathy (Matt's my cuz) met us back in Vegas and were ready to party! The first night we ended up playing roulette with Mel Gibson...well Matt did while we all watched...! It was kinda weird how no one really recognized him - he was on his own when we first saw him and Matt shook his hand - so we kinda turned into his stalkers...! He had some kind of guard that made a point of not letting Cathy and I take pics no matter how discreet we tried, but here (in one of my snap attempts) you can see his ear and bald patch next to Matt leaning across the table. Ha! Matt and Chris regularly reminisce about the many Braveheart annecdotes they should have cracked out.

The next day we took a trip up the Stratosphere which is the highest tower in Vegas. It gives you an amazing view of Vegas and the desert, and at the very top is the highest thrill ride in the world which shoots you up another hundred odd feet into the air which we all just had to conquer. (it seems we've seen/done a lot of 'most in the world' things this trip - but I guess it makes the trip all the more epic...!). They caught the funniest picture of us 4 on the ride that we all laughed about for days. Chris was trying to overcome a hangover when we got on it and so his 'on the brink of death' face will get you everytime.

Then that night Matt & Cathy had got us a VIP table at the nightclub Tao at The Venetian. It was one of the craziest nights we've ever had. It was the bizarrest, the wildest and the most fun time, including a personal security guard, waiter and lingerie clad server, state of the art toilets, girls in bathtubs, escorted toilet queue jumps, two of the largest bottles of Vodka we've seen and, of course, Donna's boobs...! She was our server I mentioned, but her chest was truly a thing unto itself. We excuse ourselves to our parents for the news and pics on this night but it was so mad that we had to give detail about this landmark night out. And if its any consolation, Donna was actually the nicest, sweetest girl who was amazing at her job. This pic cracks us all up on so many levels...!

Chris and I had a night either side of Matt & Cathy's visit and so we mixed it up a bit and stayed in a couple of different casinos along the strip. We stayed at Sahara, Imperial Palace and Circus Circus, but The Wynn that Matt & Kathy stayed at, by far outstripped them all in elegance.