Bellagio Hotel – Puma Swede Blog

Me and Amanda went to the Bellagio Hotel and checked out the decorations for Chinese New Year. So cool and was similar to when they decorate for Christmas. You were supposed to wear red, but I had pink panties on so that has to count for something 🙂 And at least I wasn’t wearing black which is a no no…

They have this shop just around the corner and during Christmas they were selling amazing Xmas decorations. Now it was Easter stuff and like I said when I visited the shop during Xmas, if I didn’t have a budget, I’d walk out with half of everything from that store!!!!

Angel brought over 2 big pork butts for me to smoke. They turned out superb if I may brag a little 🙂 Hunter loves fresh meat (and smoked) and he concurs!

This weeks work included me playing a maid, stepmom home from a workout, and got my latex and whip out too 🙂

Finally fixed my hair too. I kind of wait until the last minute since I don’t like sitting on my ass for too long. This hair person is very fast though, gave great book recommendations, and let’s me vape in her room so it’s not too bad!

Workouts and pickleball were great this week! On Fridays the gym has a 2h clinic where winners move up to the 1st court and stay there until they lose. On the 2 other courts the winning team splits up for the next game so you always get to play with new partners. I got lucky and ended up with the coach and he is a pro player so I got to play on court 3 for an hour since we didn’t lose. I must admit it was 90% thanks to the coach, but I didn’t totally suck either hahahaaa… And my outfit was pretty great too so I get points for that! Not sure why I’m man-spreading in both my gym pics? Must be a habit from my work LOL…

Tried a new sushi place in China Town that people have been recommending – Sushi Neko. They are so popular that they have 2 restaurants in the same square. It was great and will definitely go back!

Even better was that I found a coffee shop there too that was great – Broken Coffee. Great coffee, they stay open late and cool interior! They will see more of me too 🙂

Hunter keeps being spoiled like he’s out there saving the world daily. He loves napping close under a blanket and being fed on his heated blanket so he doesn’t have to move! Not sure when I signed up to be his servant?!?

Finished this show Paradise this week and it was great!

Next week looks promising. Got my friend Linda flying in from Sweden tomorrow 🙂 We have a girls trip to Zion National Park at the end of the week. If you’ve been there, send all tips and recommendations!

Wishing you a promising upcoming week as well 🙂

XXX Puma

How have your holidays been so far? Ready to say bye to 2025 and get started with 2026?

I am very happy with my holidays 🙂 Having my sister over, hanging with Sandy, nice Santa, great trip to LA, and a tasty Xmas Eve at Angel’s house to mention a few things.

Here are some pics from when Sandy was over. Enchanted garden maze.

We also did the strip and checked out the decorations at the Bellagio Hotel. Love the holiday shop they have there and I would buy half the store if I had the budget for it 🙂 The kids also required a stop at the M&M store and we checked out some other hotels too…

The next morning after I woke up I had tooth pain again! WTF! And no, not from the wisdom tooth extraction. Another tooth. Off to the emergency dental clinic. Turns out it was a cracked filling this time. Since we had made plans to see the Red Rocks, I made an appointment for later and had it dealt with. I decided that I’ve dealt with enough things this year so 2026 better keep it together! But the Red Rocks were great as always 🙂

Then came Christmas Eve. My sister was jet lagging, so when I got up around 7am, she was already making meatballs hahahaa…

Later we went over to Angel’s house. She was cooking a Czech soup that was delicious! We brought over some Swedish stuff like homemade ‘rödbetssallad’ (beet salad), the meatballs, herring, ham & salmon, glögg (mulled wine) which was a German version and of course there were sweets! I have never tried herring. Decided this was the year I would try it. I ate the one in mustard sauce and it was pretty good. Angel and Abby liked the herring too.

Got some presents and Hunter got a new cat tunnel he was unsure about at first, but loves it now!

Best thing is left overs and Christmas day started with knäckebröd (Swedish Crispbread) with ham and Dijon mustard, a meatball sandwich, and Angel’s soup.

After all this eating, I took my sister to Calico Basin and we did a hike. Beautiful weather and felt good to be outdoors.

On the 27th we hit the road to LA. Usually takes a little bit over 4h. After leaving and about 30min later we hit a standstill. Used Gemini AI and found out there was a semi truck that had turned over in the midsection about 4 miles ahead. Took us about 1,5h to get past that. Had time to throw our packing in our hotel and then Sandy picked us up for dinner. We ate at Sora at The Grove. Wow, some of the best sushi I’ve ever had! If you are in LA and like sushi, go here!!!! The spicy Margaritas were great too hahahaa…

The next morning started with coffee and then brunch at the Beverly Hills hotel with Sandy’s mom. I call her my extra mom and she is super fun!

We chilled at Sandy’s for a bit after before we went to Long Beach to see our friend Cindy. Back in the day when we were young(er), we used to party our asses off together. There are a lot of crazy memories!

Next day me & my sister did a whole day of shopping. My sister loves shiny stuff as much as I do, so the rhinestone shops in Downtown were our first stop. The parking lot was managed by a nice Mexican guy and we talked about Mexico for about 20min and petted his sweet dog!

We were out all day and crashed to bed when back at the hotel.

Since I didn’t know how the traffic back to Las Vegas was going to be before New Years, we decided to make it an early start and left at 03.30 in the morning… Not a lot of traffic at this time 🙂

Took a 2h nap when back though! Hit the gym later and also played pickleball. I was pretty damn good for once 🙂 Then I took my sister to the spa for some red light sauna and cold plunge.

Watched ‘One Battle After Another’ last night. I liked it a lot. De Caprio, Sean Penn and Benicio are great. I’m bad at writing short captions about a movie so google it if it’s something up your alley 🙂

We are going to get mani/pedis soon to make sure we enter 2026 in style 🙂 Going over to Angel’s later and we’ll see if we make it until midnight LOL… What are your plans? Got any resolutions? I plan to keep focusing on my health. Strength training and improving my pickeballing. Hope to start doing pilates and eating healthy. Maybe even laying off vaping because it’s a bit out of control ugh! I hope to be off the Prednisone pills too asap. Next weekend I’m off to Hawaii too 🙂 Very excited about that.

I wish you a fantastic New Years Eve whatever your plans are and the best start on 2026!

XXX Puma

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