San Jose del Cabo Vacation: Downtown Art Walk & La Lupita

Alas, we come to my last vacation post.

Our last night in San Jose del Cabo we spent downtown at the "Art Walk".

We were lucky because it was the last one of the season!

The Mission of San Jose del Cabo is right in the town square.

 I regret that I did not explore a little bit more in here, and that I did not really read about the history.

 I will have to read up a little on my own.

 There are art galleries all surrounding the historic town square, and local artists set up shop in the town square as well.

 It was a feast for the eyes and I was in color heaven. 

 We went to dinner at La Lupita, at the suggestion of a local at our resort.

P.S. I highly recommend TOMS for traveling.

Not only are they super lightweight and easy to pack, but I have worn them all over Disneyland

 and Cabo and my feet never hurt or got tired.

 I loved all of the colors and decoration.

 I don't remember what they name of this cocktail was. I think it had Lupita in the name, but it was good. It was basically like a margarita. La Lupita has about 20 different types of tacos. I tried two, and Joel tried three. I don't even remember what all we had, but I do remember the "cheese crust pastor". It's a taco with a fried cheese crust and pork. It was very good, and also probably pretty unhealthy, but hey we were on vacation right?

You can't really tell in this picture, but there is a stage right below the sugar skull, and they often have live music perform. 

Joel and I were there to early in the evening though.

 They served us our check in this cool box! 

 Random cool car parked downtown. 

 

 We purchased most of our souvenirs at the shop pictured below.

 We bought ourselves this beautiful blanket, shot glasses, and a Christmas ornament.

 We didn't make to the glass factory that I posted about before we left, hopefully next time!

We pick out 1 special ornament to represent our year every Christmas. This will be our special one for this year to represent our first vacation out of the country together!

I love all of the random paintings and bright colors.

 

 Oh the colors!

 This art gallery had sensors hooked up to the stairs so that when you walked on them they made music.

 This was the entrance to a plaza of several shops. The most beautiful glass lantern shop. I would have loved to have taken pictures, in more of the shops, but I didn't think the artists would appreciate it. Here's just a small set of the glass lanterns,

 and this picture really doesn't do it justice. 

After we finished our shopping we watched a local dance troupe perform in the town square,

 and finished our night off with some churros :) 

 The next morning it was time to go back home :(

Our checkout time was a couple of hours before our airport shuttle pickup, 

so after checking out we went and viewed the Eiffel Tower...

We said goodbye to some of our friends...

 

 

We had lunch at Mama Mia's one last time.

 I had my first and last pina colada of our trip.

 We indulged in one last Pacifico...

and then we were off...

My $5 turkey says: Until next time Cabo!

Newsies come to Portland!!!!

Last weekend, I got to fulfill my childhood dream: Seeing the Newsies on Brodway!!

Not that, when I was a child it was on Broadway, but it has been a family favorite since I can remember. "Spot Collins" was so dreamy haha. 

It came to Portland close to my Mom's birthday so I treated us to the show :)

It did not disappoint! The music and dancing was amazing! I got teary-eyed as I watched, because I love dance and music so much, it's really amazing to see such talented people present their talents live. I really miss performing.

These songs always get stuck in my head! I totally wanted to sing along to every song!

I even got my picture with a Newsie!

We later went shopping at Bridgeport Village and caught happy hour at Twigs Martini Bar, which we have wanted to try for a long time!

 We shared bbq chicken flat bread and Kahlua pulled pork tacos--they were yummy!

 We got to sit by the cool fireplace, people watch, see some high school girls in beautiful prom dresses--saw lot many lovely things from Anthropologie to Charming Charlie and Barnes and Nobel. We're making plans to go back and buy a complete outfit from Talbots.

 Oh and we indulged in this lovely lemon drop :) 

Las Vegas Vacation: Shopping and Gordon Ramsey Pub & Grill

On our second full day in Vegas...

I really wanted to have lunch at the Beer Garden in Unami Burger at the SLS--it's outside, and look how cool it is! I love the antler chandeliers.

Unfortunately, it wasn't open...not sure if it opens later in the evening or if it was just too windy.

So instead, we ate inside, and it wasn't quite as cool.

Joel had the unami burger and sweet potato fries. I had the beef barbacoa nachos and a margarita.

After lunch, we walk across the street to take a look at "the world's largest souvenir shop".

It could be called the worlds most expensive junk shop. It's really not that cool, although we did purchase a bottle opener and a magnet.

The lights of the store look awesome at night though!

After that little outing, we just relaxed until our evening outing.

What I wore: Romper: Target// Shoes: Target

Ready for our night out!

We had reservations at Gordon Ramsey's Pub and Grill at Caesars Palace, so we went early and did some shopping...mostly window shopping. The displays in some of the stores are so over the top!

After years of watching Hell's Kitchen, Joel finally made it to a Gordon Ramsey restaurant.

He had chicken curry, and I had Shepard's Pie and a "God Save the Queen" cocktail.

To be honest, it wasn't really that amazing for all the hype and the price of the dishes, but we had a nice time talking and people watching as our seat looked out into the casino.

After dinner, we walked over to the Bellagio Fountains to see the show, but after waiting in the cold for 20 minutes, they announced they were cancelled because of the wind. Boo. So we walked over the the Flamingo and discovered that they actually have real Flamingos!

We wrapped up our night in the LINQ promenade area with a cupcake sundae from Sprinkles Cupcakes. Red velvet cupcake with mocha almond fudge ice cream. Yum!