More Las Vegas Pictures

I finally got the pictures off John's laptop. Here are several of the pictures from our trip last week.

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Visiting the M&M store

This makes John feel like he won the Tour de France!!!

Saturday morning we ate breakfast at the Rainforest Cafe in the MGM Grand. It was a really neat place to eat. And as you can see I was all ready for the SEC Championship game later that afternoon. Unfortunately, the outcome of the game was not to our liking.

After breakfast, we took the guys over to Mandalay Bay to collect their race packets and all the great free stuff. This was an excellent photo opportunity! AND LOOK MA, I GOT THEIR FEET IN THE PICTURE!!!!!

Sunday Morning...5:30 am Pacific Time! By this time we had been up for an hour and a half. Everyone is bright and cheerful!

The beginning of the marathon...John and Jeff are around here somewhere!

This was the very beginning of the marathon. Sharon and I made it from Mandalay Bay to the pedestrian bridge going from the Excalibur to the Tropicana just in time to see this. It was so cool...I wish that it wasn't so dark because this just doesn't do the experience justice. There were 18.000 people that ran underneath this bridge at 6:00 that morning! It took approximately 15 minutes for everyone to get across the start line!

This is a video clip of the beginning of the marathon. The first group of people you see pass are the Elite men. These are the men that finish in the top 5 -10 spots. They get to start at the front of the pack and usually finish in about 2 hours and 15 minutes. The winner this year walked away with a $20,000 prize!

This is a short clip of the rest of the pack beginning the marathon. Unfortunately, I ran out of memory space on the camera so that's why it's so short.