Viva Las Vegas!

Last month was the anniversary of our friends, Taylor & Jill. Taylor had never been to Las Vegas so they decided that's where they wanted to go and they invited a few of us to join them. They all left on Friday to drive to St George and spend the night before proceeding to Vegas but Mike and I had already planned on the Brad Paisley concert so we stayed to watch the concert and caught a flight to Vegas Saturday morning.


Mike in the Vegas airport

My idea for the trip was to be nice and warm, relaxing by the pool. This did not happen unfortunately. The gang wanted to hit the strip mid-day and see the sites, so we decided to tag along.


This is all of us at the Aria



They have a whole mall within this place and they have these cool vortex cylinders that we stopped and watched for a bit.




This is the happy married couple, Taylor and Jill


Can this really be here? It was definitely designed by a man. I mean, seriously?








Mike "motorboating" the statue. Some Asian guy was laughing so hard I think he peed his pants.


This is what Vegas is all about right?


This is where we stayed, The Luxor




This car was in the parking garage, it hadn't moved either day we were there and I couldn't help taking the picture. I felt like a total creeper taking a picture of the inside of someone's car, but seriously? This is hoarding! Or just terrible clutter? How many plastic bags do you need?! I mean, only one person can fit in this whole car because there are so many bags!


Sunday morning we headed back to St George. Jill's parents have a house there so we planned to stay the night. It was a nice way to save on money and only have to spend one night in a hotel. Our neighbors, JJ and Brandi, were also staying in St George at JJ's parent's St George house and they invited us for dinner. We took them up on the offer, it's always fun to hang out with them, plus it gave Taylor and Jill a chance to go out alone for their anniversary.

Little Atley watching football with the boys. She'd just slammed her hand in the door and was giving it a little R&R.


Mike and Atley playing Operation



The boys playing darts at Jill's parents as we were packing up to head home


Mike attempting the unicycle


Someone convinced me to get this "7-day sucker" it actually only took me about 5 days to eat it. It was pretty good, like a jawbreaker on a stick.

I glad we got to go and get away for a weekend. We don't get to do that too often with work and school. It was nice, warm weather and a great weekend with friends!