Jill Marie Runnion - Things to Do in Las Vegas

Jill Marie Runnion is a retired Special Ed teacher and former computer training franchise owner who is filling some of her days now as a part-time nanny. She has also been flexing her imagination in work efficiency and decorating, helping people to organize their homes and offices.

She has done a lot of traveling during her career, and like most people who travel a lot has certain favorite destinations. One of them is Las Vegas, Nevada, and as she knows, there is a lot more to do in Vegas than play roulette or feed money into a one-armed bandit.

She has enjoyed the High Roller Sky Wheel, a five hundred and fifty foot tall Ferris wheel. It’s been thrilling Las Vegas visitors since 2014. Located on the Las Vegas Strip in neighboring Paradise, Nevada, it is billed as the tallest Ferris wheel in the world.

The Parasol Down at Wynn provides visitors with some of the most breathtaking spectacles in the city. It’s a semi-secluded lounge, accessible only by riding a spiraling escalator down from Parasol Up, its sister lounge. When you’re there, you’ll see a spectacular, forty-foot waterfall cascading down a pine-topped mountain above the Lake of Dreams.

And then there’s the Mob Museum. Known officially as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, the Mob Museum offers its visitors a history of organized crime in the United States, and the efforts of law enforcement to stem its tide. It’s all there, the bloody history of the mob, from its origins more than one hundred years ago, up to the present day. It’s been thrilling tourists since it opened on St. Valentine’s Day in 2012, a nod to the notorious St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago in 1929. The Mob Museum is now the home to the bloody wall where the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre actually took place. Seven gangsters were machine-gunned there during a power struggle between rival gangs. You’ll also see plenty of other genuine mobster artifacts, along with the stories that make up a dark but colorful part of the history of the United States.

One of the biggest draws of the Mob Museum is a courtroom on the second floor, the location of one of fourteen hearings into organized crime held by the Kefauver Committee in 1950 and 1951. By then organized crime had been operating in the U.S. for many years, and Senator Estes Kefauver decided the time had finally come to investigate.

Jill Marie Runnion also likes some of the city’s other attractions, like the Voodoo Lounge, where she enjoys great food, great music, and a great view.https://www.behance.net/jillmarierunnion

Jill Marie Runnion is a retired Special Ed teacher and former computer training franchise owner who is filling some of her days now as a part-time nanny.