Saturday, September 19, 2009

What happened in Vegas

For Klint's graduation/taking his certification test we gave ourselves a little present. We left the kiddos with my siblings for a few days and Klint & I went to Las Vegas. Klint had never been & I hadn't been in about 7 years. It was a really fun trip & just what we needed. Thanks so much to the Scott, Stacy & Emily fams for watching the boys. It's was a vacation for them too. When I asked Jameson if he wanted me to call him while I was gone he said "No. I'm having a slumber party with Chandler" (Chandler is Emily's son who is 10). I tell myself that what he meant by that was he was going to have as much fun as I was.
Klint & I got a REALLY good deal so we stayed at the Venitian Hotel/Casino right on the strip. The hotel was amazingly gorgeous, and we would have been happy to just sit in our room (that in square footage was almost as big as our house), but there was so much else to see. Every day we walked, and walked, and walked some more until we couldn't walk another step, but we got to see a lot. It was all so amazing and fun. We did a little relaxing too in the gorgeous pools & just enjoying our suite. We also rode the roller coaster on top of the New York New York hotel/casino, which was crazy, & we rode the gondola ride at our hotel twice because it was so relaxing. The gondola was one of my favorite things of all so we did it twice. I loved that they sang to you in Italian too. One night we went down to Fremont Street to see the old Vegas style strip. It was fun. They ended up having an army rock band (they were actually really in the army, which I thought was even cooler) playing. It was so fun we ended up standing there watching them for about an hour. They were really good. We also got a little rebelious & each played $1 on a slot machine just to see what the big deal was. We still don't get the apeal. Mostly we just wandered around and took lots of pics. Here they are.
Our amazing room.
Our hotel lobby
The shopping & the grande canal where we did our gondola rides.
Another part of the hotel

Us on the gondola ride w/Mario our awesome singer/gondola driver.



I'm having a fight with my blog right now, so stay tuned for the rest of the pictures.

5 comments:

Courtney said...

I bet that was so much fun to get away, especially to viva las vegas! Does it get easier to leave the little ones? It makes me crazy to think about leaving Behr..aww!

Unknown said...

i am so glad you guys got to go!!! Kam and i stayed there once and it was soooo pretty. we never had a chance to go on the gondola, sounds like it is a blast!! Glad you guys made it home safe and finally got to get away!

Karen said...

How fun. I am glad you had a good trip.

CASSIE said...

Gorgeous room! I am sooo jealous! We missed the boys! We'll have to start swapping and doing temple dates! :) So glad you had fun!

Missy said...

That's great that you two got to get away for a little bit. The Venetian is one of our favorites to walk through but we've never stayed there. That's awesome that you found a good deal! Gondola rides sound fun too.