Las Vegas Trip

Last night, Andy and I got home from our little vacation in Vegas. We had so much fun! But we decided Las Vegas is not a place we will be vacationing again soon. Although we did so many fun and exciting things, everywhere we went it was full of cigarette smoke, swear words, and mostly naked women. (We got free accomidations for this trip or we wouldn't have gone). I definitely know that we will never be taking our children there!!!

Anyway, we left on Sunday night and stayed at Carrol's house in Porvo (we wanted to get past SLC before the morning traffic and the big storm). It was so fun staying up late laughing with Carrol and Seth! Thanks for letting us stay Carrol!

While on the rode we heard the news of President Hinkley's passing. I was pretty shocked but not sad. What a wonderfully inspiring man he is! So we listened to tributes to him on the radio. That is one thing about Utah that is so warming is to see the respect of all the flags at half mast and to hear all the tributes on every radio station. Once we were out of the Utah border that warming sense was gone.

Monday we drove the rest of the way to Vegas. That night we ate at planet hollywood, walked part of the strip and went to a comedy club. It was fun but some of the comics got a little offensive.

Tuesday we did a lot of site seeing and went to a show called Mystere . It was a fabulous show. So amazing and very funny! We also tried out the food at the House of blues. Wednesday we hit one of their famous buffets and then to the Mac King Comedy magic show. This was so fun. The guy was very funny and did some amazing magic tricks with people from the audiuance.

Some other things we did and saw included:

-the Billogio fountain show

-the Treasure Island outdoor live show (which I have seen before but don't remember so many skimpy costumes. :( Do you remember that boat fight show Alisha?)

-walking out of our hotel, just after someone had been hit by a truck and killed

-learning how to use the Las Vegas bus system so we weren't having to walk 10 miles everyday.

-being stuck on the bus for a very long time because the Strip shut down for the arrival of Pres. Bush.

-meeting some halarious men from London on the bus that told us all kinds of stuff.

-going to the very top of the Stratosphere (no rides because they were shut down due to the high winds)

-telling the comic that we were from Utah and he asked if our bikes were parked outside.

-we definitely felt younger at the end of this trip. We were asked several times if we were old enough to be there and if we had just gotten married. People were comletely shocked when we would tell them we've been married for 5 and 1/2 years. After telling one guy he asked if I got married when I was 14. :)

It was just so wonderful to have some real quality time with Andy and to be able to stay out as late as we wanted and go when we wanted and to sleep in! We owe it all to the Grandmas!!! My mom stayed with the kids from Sun to Wed. Then Andy's mom stayed Wed-Thurs. They took such good care of the kids. They drove Maddie to all her activities, they played with the kids and they left my house cleaner than before!

Thursday morning we enjoyed a beautiful breakfast buffet, then we stopped in St. George on our way home and went to the temple. Neither of us have been in this temple before so we wanted to take this opportunity. It was nice to be in such a peaceful place after leaving Sin City!

The ride home was great until Tremonton. There we hit the bad roads and the snow. It took us awhile to finally get into Logan. What a great trip, but it was good to be home. The kids were in bed but we went in and gave them big hugs anyway. I missed them so much. Garen seemed like he grew up so much just in those five days!

Do you remember this Alisha? I think it's my favorite thing to watch in Vegas.