posted them too, the post would be way too long. :)
This is a cool picture I got of our hotel. Well, not the actual hotel - that's the tower. You can't really see the building that the rooms are in.
This is right inside the front entrance to the hotel that the arena was in. They had this cool statue, as well as the flags from all the Pac-12 schools, although in the pic you can only see 3.
This is some guy from Arizona's band that apparently is pretty famous around McKale (the arena that Arizona plays their games in), but I truthfully had no idea who he was. I was just told to pose for a picture, so I did. :D I had to ask Nana later who he was. :D I guess there was articles in the paper about him, and I guess he stands next to the hoop and makes faces and stuff while the other team shoots free throws and stuff like that. I really have no idea. He looked familiar to me, but again, I had to ask Nana who he was. :D
Wilbur! Sorry, the pics are kind of blurry, but that's what happens when you let other people use your phone to take pictures. :D
This is during Arizona's first game against Utah. They got a first-round bye, so they didn't have to play until the second day. They absolutely crushed them. I think the score at the end of the first half was 39-13. It was so awesome, plus there were so many Arizona fans, it may as well have been a home game. It was like that the whole tournament. :)
Final score :)
The first game of the third day wasn't until 6:00, so we went and did stuff around town before that. This is at Circus Circus. I loved this place. :) It's this hotel and casino, but it has this second level, that is literally like a circus. There's a stage for acts, and you have games and stuff you can play everywhere like at Peter Piper Pizza or something like that. I wish I would have gotten pictures, but we were having so much fun I forgot. :) Aunt Suzie and I played ice hockey (or table hockey, I can't remember exactly what it's called), and let me tell you, it is awesome playing with your 78-year-old aunt. Especially when it gets so intense she stands up out of her walker. :D We ended up tying. This is on the third floor, where they pretty much have an amusement park inside. I only went on one ride; the one in the picture. It's one of my favorite rides at the fair, although here it was bigger, which made it even more awesome. :) There was even a roller coaster, and I thought about going on it, until I saw that it went upside down, and then I was like "Nope, not gonna do it, no way no how." :)
Aunt Suzie got a new hat at Circus Circus. What do you think? It even lights up. During one of the games, Nana and I went to go get an ice cream cone, and when we came back, we could literally see Aunt Suzie's hat from the other side of the arena. :D A lot of people gave her compliments on it. :)
This is blurry too, but this is at M & M's World. Nana and I walked down there before the games the third day. See that in the back? Yeah, that's all m&m's. The lady that worked there told us it was the biggest candy wall in the world. I didn't even get all of it in the picture. Most of them were just different colors, but there were some different flavors, like raspberry, coconut and mint. I didn't get any of those.
This was the text that Dad sent me right before our game against Colorado. :D I still don't think it works quite the way he said, but Arizona did beat them by a lot. It probably was a public embarrassment. :)
I just had to screenshot this. This is Aaron Gordon from AZ blocking one of Xavier Johnson from Colorado's shot. I just found it too awesome not to screenshot it. :D
The morning of the fourth day Nana and I went to the top of the tower that I showed in the first picture. It was 108 stories up. It was amazing.
These are statues at Ceasar's Palace. We went there after we went to the tower. The statues were awesome, but the rest of it was terrible. It's a long story, and I would go into it, but it would just bore you. Let's just say trying to find things was a nightmare.
And on the way home! Unfortunately, Arizona lost by 4 in the championship to UCLA, but it's alright. It was still an amazing experience even though my team lost. We all had fun, but by the time the trip was over we were all SO tired and ready to be home. Even though we left the hotel at 7, I didn't get home until about 10:00 at night, because they brought me straight to church. I'm afraid I probably wasn't very sociable to everyone that tried to talk to me! :D
People have asked me what my overall impression of Las Vegas was. And I think I've determined that I would want to go to the tournament every year, but I wouldn't want to go to Las Vegas every year. Don't get me wrong, it was fun, but... It was crowded, it was loud, and I saw an awful lot of immodesty. Not that you don't see skimpy dresses other places, but it was just pretty overwhelming. Another thing that bothered me was that there was so much traffic. Our hotel was about 3 to 3 1/2 miles away from the arena, but because of the traffic and all the lights, it took us over a half hour to get back every single night. It wasn't that much fun, especially on those days when we'd already been at the arena for over 8 hours.
What I did enjoy was getting to watch all the basketball, and especially spending so much time with my aunt and grandma. That's something I'll never forget. Plus, I got to see a lot of really awesome things! This trip is definitely something I'll carry with me the rest of my life. :)
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