Well for 4th of July weekend Hannah flew out and then we went out to Vegas to celebrate. It was going to be one last hurrah for summer and before I had my first foot surgery. We had such a blast. We stayed at the New York New York. Our first night we went to a Cirque du Soleil show, 'Ka' and it was fantastic. The sets constantly changed and it was really amazing. On our way back to the room however, the hotel was blocked by police and crime scene tape!? I thought someone had made off with some loot, but come to find out some dude went crazy and started shooting from a balcony AT PEOPLE in the lobby playing slots!!!! I'm glad we were at the show!
The next day we walked around town and had sushi at Todai's which is an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet. YUM!!!!! On our way back we see choppers circling the strip and we're like what's going on???? A car had burnt to the ground in the middle of the strip! It caught on fire with a family inside, they made it out safely and then it was Disco Inferno! A tourist we talked to said people started running like Godzilla was coming, b/c explosions were coming from the car!
Went to MGM grand later that night and danced the night away. The next night we went to a piano bar in our hotel and it was so much fun. But at one point Andy and Sam had gone to the bathroom, so Hannah and I were dancing, when this guy comes up beside us. He then proceeds to give us the worst pick up line I've ever heard...
He lifts up his shirt, shows us 1 of his nipples and says "look what I've got" haha! and we looked at him and said wow that's great. Then he lifts up the other side and says 'there's plenty more where that came from' HAHAHA!!!!! It was so funny, Hannah and I just laughed and laughed and dubbed him "The Nippleman"
Our last night we went to the Palms Hotel where we went to 4 clubs inside the hotel. By far Rain was the coolest club I have ever been to. There was this flamethrower that would come down over the dancers and just go to town shooting fire from the sides, it was so friggin cool!
On our way back home, we were detoured in Utah for 4 hours! Lighning had started a massive wildfire, and it ended up burning over 150 miles! So it was quite a long car ride back, but Andy kept us laughing pretty much the whole way. He comes up with the most random funniest stuff I have ever heard, I'm so glad I married a guy with a crazy sense of humor!
Sorry it took so long to get the post up, but enjoy the pics!!!!!
Hmmm......I wonder if Oscar would let us do this to him?
I want to ask all of you who are reading this post right now to do something for me. I need you to pray for one of my very best friends in the world, Keri. Many of you met Keri at our wedding, fot those of you that have not, we've been friends for over 20 years now and I consider her more like a sister to me than a friend.
Just a rainy day and got some cool pics of a a rainbow that was right over our home. And this is one of Oscar's favorite places to sleep. Curled up on the backpack that he pulls under the coffeetable. For some reason he loves sleeping on bags. Workout bags, in our suitcases when we are getting ready to pack, laptop bags, you name it.
Well, something very funny has been happening the last couple of days at our house. The Air Force Thunderbirds are in town for Cheyenne Frontier Days and have been doing flybys and practices over our house. They come swooping in, 4 of 'em and zip overhead go way up in the air and swoop by again. When Andy and I first heard it we were really excited and went to the windows so we could see.
This is what my desk will look like by the end of the week. Just thinking about how much I can't wait to leave and how every day that goes by is one day closer to that time. I can't wait to not have to come home and still have another 3 hours of work to do. I am just having a tired day and wanted to post since I haven't put one up in a while. But we did do well on the midterms today, so that's a bit of good news. Hannah I really can't wait to see you and get away and have some fun!!!!!
On one side of us we had the ocean, and on the other was the jungle. It rained almost every afternoon maybe a couple of hours, cleared up and was gorgeous the rest of the day.
And of course no trip to Mexico would be complete without tequila shots! Our waiters insisted we at least take one, they poured it into our mouths, and yelled ARRRIBA!!!! after we took them. Lots of fun!
And they even made us our own special dessert plate after I told them (en Espanol) that we were on our honeymoon! This dinner we actually ordered and did everything in Spanish which was pretty cool to me. I'd been brushing up on my Spanish for about 6 months before we went and let me tell you, a tall rubia Americana gringa speakin' Spanish is enough to stop the whole room. Andy and I were treated very well, better than other patrons of the resort just because we spoke some Spanish. If we couldn't finish the entire conversation, at least we'd start and end it in Spanish. It shows respect and you're treated better for it.
This one was funny. We got on the plane to come back home and the plane was filled with fog. The inside was alot colder than the outside and it created the fog in the plane that you see here.
Andy at Mundo de Azulejo (World of Tile)
