Viva Las Vegas!

If you want to do any thing else in Las Vegas besides drink a lot, eat a lot and walk around aimlessly a lot, then you need to make a plan! I did not do this so, I did a lot of the drinking, eating and walking around aimlessly. Don't get  me wrong that is fun too and is definitely part of the quintessential Vegas experience, but Las Vegas has so many cool things to see and do that you don't want to miss them. 

I had done some planning ahead of time of things I wanted to do but, didn't get the chance:

The Mob Museum

Circus Adventure Dome

Las Vegas Neon Museum

Zipline Down Freemont Street 

Pinball Hall of Fame

See a Show

I went to Vegas for a my best friends wedding, so that took up significant chunk of my time. The rest of my time was spent wandering from hotel to hotel, lounging at the pool, drinking ... lots of drinking, and acquiring a slot machine gambling problem.

The Aria Hotel, where we stayed! Definitely the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in my entire life.

I guess that just means I'll have to go back to Vegas to do all of those other awesome things. Oh bummer! (wink wink)

Have you ever had all of these ideas about what you'll do on a vacation and then when you get there it all goes out the window?

Summer fun.

There is a joke in Paraguay .... There are 9 months of summer and 3 months of hell, and I am happy to say that I just made it through my first full 3 months of hell aka Paraguayan summer. Let me tell you, it was HOT. I've never experienced that kind of heat before. Therefore lots of my free time was spent sitting in the shade drinking t-ray ... not blogging. So I thought I'd give you an update on things I did this summer.

First I went to a Paraguayan wedding! My host brother was the one getting married. It was actually a super nice wedding and we danced all night until about 5am. It was a ton of fun.

Me and some of my host family before the ceremony

Bride and Groom after the Ceremony

At the reception!

 I also went down to Encarnacion, a city in the south of Paraguay, that has the biggest Carnaval celebration in the country. One of my fellow volunteers Yihana was actually dancing in the parade! It was so much fun, Encarnacion is a great city, if feels very different than the rest of Paraguay.

Me and Yihana before the parade!

My neighbor kids have been bugging me for months to make pizza for them so one day when I had all the ingredients I finally did. We made the dough from scratch, and I even splurged and bought pepperoni at the grocery store! It was delicious.

Mariana and Me with the finished product

Elena chowing down.

Fatima 

Finally last week I was given (without really being asked) a cat. I hadn't really planned on having a pet here, but she is just so darn cute I can't give her up now. I haven't thought of a name yet, ideas are welcome.