I don't have even half the pictures uploaded to the gallery yet, but we took hundreds and this is going to take a while to sort. Here's a few of my favorites and a link to the gallery album. I'm sure Kevin will add some here too.

Kevin and Mandy's Vacation Gallery Album

Great pics! Do you have any of VBG without the hat (other than the helicopter pic)? That would be nice to have in case we need to doctor any pictures up.

Nope, the hat was glued on about 3 years ago and won't come off lol

Actually, I had a hat with me the entire time I was out because if I didn't have a hat on in that sun my head would get burned. So in the future I guess PorthosBeachGuy will just have to be wearing a hat... lol

Here's a few that I liked. Like you said though, there's SOOOO many.

Great pics! That hekicopter ride around Vegas must have been awesome!
The Experience pics looked great too. I'm really going to miss that place.

I'm surprised they let RikerChick take her thwacking stick into the casinos.

Yeah, the Strip Tour by air was awesome. I have the whole tour on video. I'll put it up on YouTube and then here as soon as I get it onto a DVD from my camera.

The Experience's Klingon ride video didn't really turn out all that great because of the way I had to hold the camera but I'll put it up soon too so people can at least get an idea of what it was like.

I've got some of the videos uploaded to YouTube now so I'll post them here. I did the Experience videos first but I also have some from the Helicopter tour we took and the Lake Mead Cruise and Hoover Dam tour that we took. I'll post those once I get a chance to process them.

These are of The Experience. Some of the video in the Klingon ride don't show what's happening on the screen but that's because of how I had to hold the camera so they wouldn't see that I was taking video.










This is the water show at the Bellagio from the 20th of August (Wednesday)



This is us walking to the Stratosphere tower and on the tower getting ready to go onto a ride:




This is a tour of my room in the Luxor, if I had thought about it I would have given Mandy the camera so she could have taken video of her room too but I just didn't think about it.



This is at Circus Circus in their Adverturedome park:

My room was a total mess anyway lol

lol So was mine but I shot the video after I packed everything up so it just looked somewhat tidy in the video lol

Nice videos! It certainly brings back some fond memories.

Here's a few more videos from the trip...

This is on the Riverboat Cruise on Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam



This is inside the Hoover Dam



This is walking around the strip (This one was for Amy lol)



This is the helicopter tour of the strip that we took



This was on my plane on the way to Vegas, flying over part of the Grand Canyon

Those were some really nice shots of the Grand Canyon!

Thanks. I had hoped to get more than that but that's all I was able to see out my window.

Here's a few more videos:

Flying over the Hoover Dam:



Right after landing in Vegas:



Standing on the strip in Vegas:



Inside Caesars Palace

Can you tell I really hate having cameras on me?

lol I tried to get you on it as much as you'd let me.

Here's one last one I uploaded this evening. It's outside the Luxor and walking over to Ny Ny for Mandy's first ever Roller Coaster ride. I didn't get video of that though, she said she'd kill me if I did lol.

As I've been looking at the photos and watching the videos, I was thinking that there should have been more pictures of you and Kevin. Although I'm in very few of my own vacation pictures so I guess I shouldn't talk. lol

I'm usually the one taking the pictures so I'm rarely in any. Mandy got me in a few though. As for the videos, I was the one with the video camera so that made it hard for me to be in them lol.

What? Handing the video camera to Mandy would have been too difficult for you???

She refused to do it.

Terrific Pics!

Thanks, we took a lot of pictures and with my camera I can take stills out of the videos so the number of possible pictures is almost endless.

My camera does a great job with video but the stills are just "ok", I think Mandy's pictures came out better.

VBG I think I know what is wrong with your camera, you didn't take enough pictures of the lovely Mandy.

I took as many as she let me lol

Very cool pics of STF's very own "Dynamic Duo"..Kevin and Mandy,all i can say is lucky lucky lucky..lol na glad you both enjoyed it and thanks for sharing them with us.

mabe i could paste myself into the pics with photoshop..kinda like i was in the back ground(and NO not that damn piggy machine kev)..lol

I gotta learn to stop doing that

LOL Well maybe a year from now we'll have a real picture of you sitting at that very machine winning lots of money and becoming a "Rich Little Piggie" lol

LMAO that would make deb very happy and anything is better then hearing "Aww poor little piggy".....vegas on the table so who knows "A Hang In Vegas" would make a sweet title for the home vid..lol i did think of Hang does vegas but i kinda remember another film which is well known on the*cough* x-rated section of the vid store and i dont want to give people the wrong idea

Ok, finally got the videos of Lake Mead and Hoover Dam uploaded. So for those interested (which is probably very few of you lol), here they are.

Part 1 starts off walking from the Luxor to the Excalibur where we got on a tour bus. From there (after going to the bus depot to get on the correct bus) we went to Ethel M's Chocolate factory/M&M World and their Cactus garden. They make really good candy there but very expensive candy. From there we went to Lake Mead and boarded the Dessert Princess river boat for a lunch cruse on Lake Mead to the Hoover Dam.



Part 2 is on the Lake Mead Cruise and you can see Hoover Dam in it also. Once the cruise was completed we took the bus (bus 316) back to Hoover Dam for a guided tour of the Dam itself and then were able to walk from Nevada to Arizona across the dam and back again. It was so hot outside that in the 10 or 15 minutes (or 20 minutes) that it took to walk across the dam and back the sun had heated my camera up so much that it was actually uncomfortable to hold. At one point in part 2 the guide told me that it was over 110 in the shade outside. They actually had to warn everyone not to touch the metal hand rails outside because we'd burn ourselves pretty badly if we did.



Part 3 continues inside the Dam and moves outside for the walk across the Dam from Nevada to Arizona.



Part 4 finishes up the walk across the dam and the ride back into Las Vegas. At the end of the video we were in the Sahara casino (I think it was the Sahara) and my camera was recording and I didn't realize it. So you get to see a little of the casino and it's carpet and ceiling and stuff like that lol.



I wouldn't mind taking this tour again, but I'd love to take the Grand Canyon tour.

wow you guys are camera crazy lol but at least you'll remeber just about everything

lol Well it was my first time in Vegas... my first time being anywhere west of Texas in fact. Plus I had just bought this brand new HD Video camera so there was no way I wouldn't video as much as possible lol.

It's call flip the camera around Dummy and and point lens at self.

LOL I actually did that in this video:

I am like all of you most shots with still camera or camcorder I am not in them. Sheese mine is a 3000 dollar camera! Plus i do have a great Sony camcorder that is just about as expansive, so they pretty much don't go into someone else's hands. Homer uses it a lot only cause he say I am not in many pics.

Yeah, my camera wasn't $2000, it was only about $800 but I rarely get in front of it. After I got back home from the trip I realized that I should have taken more with us in the pics.