Halfmoon Bay Pumpkin Festival

La Jolla Beach in San Diego

Our four-day stay at the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas felt extremely brief. We slept a lot…and ate a lot…bouncing from decadent buffet to fine dinning to Chipotle for some cheap yet fabulous burritos =)
We saw the signature show at Wynn, Le Reve, which supposedly costed Steve Wynn 90 millions to create. It was money well spent…the show was brilliant! Just entering the theater was enough to let us know that the show was going to be good. Unfortunately, we were not allow to take photographs inside the theater. We were itching to take pictures; all the actions were happening 10 feet away from us! Our words are unable to capture how entranced we were by the dancers, the lighting, the sound and even the stage itself, which could be magically transformed in seconds. Le Reve is definitely a must-see for Vegas visitors. O at the Bellagio and Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian are on our to-see list the next time we visit Vegas. We’ve come to the conclusion that the shows in Las Vegas are more worth our money than gambling (a rather late revelation that came up after our losing streak at the Black Jack table).

The Pinnacles National Park is about 2 hours driving from San Jose, east of the central California’s Salinas Valley. The Pinnacles is the remain of a volcano that was split by the San Andreas Fault millions of years ago. During the spring season, The Pinnacles is a spectacle of wild flowers, plants, condors and other wild animals. Spring seems to come late this year, so unfortunately, we didn’t get to see much of the wild flowers we were hoping for. We’ll definitely come back later in the season.