Saturday, December 5, 2009

Viva Las Vegas Fools!

My life has been pretty amazing lately. Here's a list of all that's going on (no particular order of importance!)

1. The wedding came, it saw, and it conquered.
2. I am married to my very bestest friend on this planet, and I have inherited the best family a gal could ask for!
3. Our little niece Avery was born! (Although we're yet to see her, we were sick, then got busy =( Soon though!)
4. Chris back got really crappy- bad. Chris's back is getting better-good!
5. Chris's parents sent us to VEGAS for our honeymoon!

I'm pretty sure that Chris and I will last forever. Now I know EVERYONE says that, but I have a good justification other than we really love each other-we drove over 2,000 miles (36 car hours) together and I didn't kill him. That has got to stand for something, right? Just agree please!


That's right folks, Chris and I like car rides, so I guess we decided we'd enjoy the drive to Vegas? It really wasn't that bad, we left at 5:30 on Wednesday night after I got off work, we drove through the Willamette pass, got kind lost looking for gas in Klamath Falls, and ended up in Reno about 2 am and stopped at a La Quinta for some sleep.


We got up at 6 AM, but I convinced Chris that sleeping for 2 more hours was a good idea. I won.

This is us tired, and ready for Vegas!



Our view for about 500 miles


We finally arrived though! Here's our room



The thing I had to see as soon as we got there, although none of the pics turned out-the lions in the MGM!

Big paws!

MnM world!



I don't support Nascar...ever


One of the things we were looking forward to most was Hoover Dam. Here is Chris in his saftey hat...he doesn't believe in hard hats (or plastic ones that don't fit his big head!)



Did I mention I am a little afraid of heights?




It was so bright, my squinty eyes couldn't handle it!


These power the whole dam, it's amazing...How can this even be real?!


The inside walls of the dam


This is my fave


The inspectors used to come every now and again and keep track of cracks and whether they were expanding or not, here's some old writing from 1943!


From inside walls of the dam looking out


A really, really long ways down







And then there was Cher....



We couldn't take pictures while inside the show, but she was AMAZING! So amazing! I love her and would pay to see her again. No one has made 60 look so good and rhinestones look so good, or lack there of I should say!!

Some Pete Rose baseball guy...Apparently he's important, I dk why. All I know is we spent a lot of money to get his autograph


I make the picture better =)











We took tons more of hotels, but I'll spare you now! It was an amazing honeymoon, and pretty relaxing, we came home a few days early and were able to rest up! Thanks to Debbie and Byron, best vacation ever!!!

4 comments:

Patty Stephens said...

SO MUCH FUN!!! Cher is the hottest thing on two legs. Meow. So glad you got to see her! Your room was really nice too! I want to see more pictures. You will have to show me next time I come over.

Anonymous said...

You got lost in Klamath Falls????

chris said...

looking for a gas station! the gps was lying to us saying there was gas stations where there wasn't >.<

Michelle & Luke said...

NICE!!! love the big cat paws. and the pic of chris w/pete rose. isn't that guy scandelous? Now he's selling his autograph? how does that work. sign me up for that gig. or the cher gig, I look good in rhinestones too.