LAS VEGAS--BYU Basketball Games Played; Buffets; Home to Snow

 Friday morning we tried breakfast at Hash House a Go Go. 

The restaurant was very nice inside. Much nicer than the usual breakfast places we had been trying. 

Glen orders the exact same thing pretty much every morning (except the morning he ordered pancakes).

I ordered a breakfast skillet which was a very fancy presentation. 

Then it was back to The Orleans Arena to start the marathon watching of basketball games. It is so festive with the school flags hung from the ceiling all down the long hallway. 

Thankfully, we had good seats this year. One year we were on the back row with no knee room. Those were such horrible seats!!!

We watched the BYU women's team play and half of another women's team play. In the break between the women's games and the men's games we would go to an early dinner. This night we went to California Pizza Kitchen.

We hurried back to watch the BYU men's game. Hurrah--both BYU teams won that day!!!!

Well, the next day, Saturday, was great for BYU as well. Both the women's team and the men's team won again!!

That morning we ate breakfast at Golden Corral and then our main meal we ate at the Garden Buffet in the South Point Casino.

The late game that night between SCU and USF was so exciting. They ended up having two overtimes with USF finally winning.

I took a picture of my phone when the game ended. The announcer was pretty funny when he announced the first overtime. He said something funny like call your babysitter and say you will be late.  

Then when the second overtime was announced, he said we would be playing "tomorrow." He was right. We went right into Sunday to see how the game would end.

Despite the late night, we got up and went to church the next morning. 

Our one meal for the day was the buffet at the Wynn. We had to stand in line for what felt like hours. At least we got in on the brunch price which was our goal. At 3:00 they really up the price for dinner.

Monday morning we had breakfast at Broken Yolk Cafe.

We watched the women's games that day. Our team lost. SAD!!

We decided to eat at Lazy Dog later in the day. 

The hamburger and sweet potato tots were the absolute most delicious ever!!!

Then back to the men's games in the evening. "Sadly BYU lost this game as well after a valiant comeback that didn't quite come to fruition" (Quote by Glen Thomas).

Breakfast on Tuesday morning was at EGGscellent.

Glen wished we had gone back to Broken Yolk because that was his favorite breakfast all week--especially when we saw the American cheese slices on top of his omelette.

We had some time after breakfast to go back to the Bellagio to see if, by chance, they had changed out the conservatory and botanical gardens. We found out they were in the process of changing everything out to their next seasonal display. 

There was a TV showing what the new scenes will look like.

Not as great as seeing the real thing, but we did think it was quite fascinating looking at the empty canvas and marvel at all the plants and decorations that were going to soon be filling that huge empty space.

In another part of the Bellagio, we walked through an area of sculptures by the artist Richard MacDonald. 

That day was the championship games. The winning women's team was Portland.

For our dinner we went back to the Lazy Dog Restaurant because we both had loved our meal so much. So YUMMY!! One thing about that area is it is right in line for the airplanes landing at the airport. 

The first time a gigantic plane flew over us and it felt so low that I was deafened and it scared me to death wondering what was going on. 

This day I tried to capture the experience, but only small planes were landing right then. Just take my word for it that it was very unsettling.

Back to the men's game to see who would be the winner of the tournament. No surprise when it was Gonzaga. I feel like Gonzaga wins every year.

Well that brought our fun vacation week to an end. Wednesday morning we headed home to Utah. Should I say we headed home to SNOWY Utah. UGH!!

It had been nice to escape the snow for a little while.