Livin' it up in the AC

Okay, so I know I am horrible at keeping up with my blog, but I do my best. I have computer/camera issues that I haven't gotten fixed yet. On to better things......

I recently spent a few days in Atlantic City with my mom. She was there for a conference and I was there to keep her company and spend her money. It was a great trip for me!! Neither of us had ever been to Atlantic City, but I can imagine it is like a mini Vegas (although we have never been there either). There are two really cools things about Atlantic City. First thing, the Miss America Pageant was held there for years and they are very proud of it. Second thing, the properties in the game Monopoly were all named after streets in Atlantic City, i.e. Baltic Ave, Boardwalk, Park Place, Atlantic Ave, you get the idea. There best things about the AC were tons of shopping and eating, which we definitely took advantage of, and then there was gambling. Being non-gamblers that we are, we each put a $5 bill in a nickle slot machine and won nada. The precise reason why we don't gamble, but we were told by Ashley that it would be a sin to come home without gambling at all.

We stayed at the Sheraton and I would definitely recommend that to anyone. For one, it is not a casino, so it didn't have all the commotion. And also it is on Miss America Way and I just thought that was pretty cool. Yes, I had to be a tourist and have my picture made with the road sign. Yes, a car had to wait on me to cross the road and then they watched and laughed as I posed for the picture. My motto......they don't know me and I will never see them again.

Mom and I definitely did plenty of shopping. We could walk out of our hotel and be right on Michigan Avenue, which is pretty much 3 blocks wide and long of stores. They were all right at our fingertips.

We went and scoped out a few of the casinos and took a few tourist pictures. My favorite was Caesar's because they have this huge pier that is called The Pier Shops at Caesar's (how clever). It is three stories tall and on the bottom floor on the end they have a huge water and light show every hour on the hour. We thought this might be a bust, but I have never seen anything like it. It was really great! On the third floor are restaurants. We ventured to two of them, The Continental and Buddahkhan (I can't spell), where we had crazy good food. The highlights were lobster macaroni and cheese and edamame ravioli. It was all wonderful!!

On our last night in the AC, we went and ate at Bobby Flay Steak. For those of you who don't know, Bobby Flay is a chef on the Food Network and is on two of my favorite shows.....Throwdown with Bobby Flay and Iron Chef America. Well I can't tell you enough how awesome this steak was!!!! We ate until we couldn't eat anymore and then we had to get back to our hotel which wasn't fun, but we made the sacrifice.

Here is mom paying our bill at Bobby Flay Steak...she's so proud!

Acting like a tourist again.....

Lastly, in our hotel was the Shoe Bar. The Shoe Bar was named after all the shoes from Miss America Pageant Parades. There is a parade during the week of the pageant and it was initially just a parade, but some of the contestants were not wearing shoes. I guess the officials didn't like that and required them to wear shoes, but to make it more interesting each contestant had to decorate their shoe and the parade was the time to show it off. Well, here is the shoe of Miss South Carolina 1994. Although it may look tacky, it was much nicer than some of the others.

Well, I have more pictures of the boardwalk and different casinos, but I hate to bore you anymore.