There is just something about Vegas. People either tend to love it or hate it. Darron and I love it....every couple of years at least. We stopped over in Vegas on our way to Texas when I was pregnant with Preston. We really enjoyed it and just over two years ago Darron TOTALLY surprised me with a 4 day trip when I was pregnant with Payton (surprised as in "get up and pack, our plane leaves in a few hours.")
Now that I'm pregnant again, we had been talking about not wanting to leave this baby out....we needed another trip to Vegas! :) Actually, we just really wanted to leave reality and parenting for a few days and spend some time together before baby number three joins our world. For us, Vegas is "close", "cheap", and fun.
So, we left the kids with Darron's family (we are forever grateful for them) and headed to Vegas for 5 days (but it actually turned in to six days since we gave up our seats and got free vouchers on the way home). Here are a few pictures from my iphone.
We stayed in the Paris hotel and really enjoyed it. It's in the middle of the strip, and we were upgraded to a corner suite for free. This is towards one end of the strip looking back at our hotel (this is the day we flew in so I was pretty tired as you can see)!
On our last day, we put a $10 bill into a penny slot machine. We had been playing differnt penny slots while we where there, and had our favorites. This was a new machine we thought we'd try out while killing time before heading to the airport. We struck it rich!! Well, for penny slots anyways! We turned our $10 into $155......it was so fun!
Eating crapes at the Paris hotel.
View from our room.....we had a half view of the strip and could see the Bellagio Water show from our room.
Eating lettuce wraps at PF Changs. We had here almost every day for lunch. We LOVE PF Changs.
We had such a wonderful trip together. We tend to travel out of Alaska a couple of times a year, but it is generally to visit family....which we love. But there is something to be said for flying with no children, staying up late and sleeping in, eating when you want to without being interrupted, and not listening to a whiney two year old! :) Being parents makes you appreciate every moment of an adult only trip! It was so relaxing and a great marriage booster. And yes, we definatly missed our kids and are thankful to be home with them (most days anyways)! :)
We stayed in the Paris hotel and really enjoyed it. It's in the middle of the strip, and we were upgraded to a corner suite for free. This is towards one end of the strip looking back at our hotel (this is the day we flew in so I was pretty tired as you can see)!
On our last day, we put a $10 bill into a penny slot machine. We had been playing differnt penny slots while we where there, and had our favorites. This was a new machine we thought we'd try out while killing time before heading to the airport. We struck it rich!! Well, for penny slots anyways! We turned our $10 into $155......it was so fun!
Eating crapes at the Paris hotel. 
View from our room.....we had a half view of the strip and could see the Bellagio Water show from our room.
Eating lettuce wraps at PF Changs. We had here almost every day for lunch. We LOVE PF Changs.We had such a wonderful trip together. We tend to travel out of Alaska a couple of times a year, but it is generally to visit family....which we love. But there is something to be said for flying with no children, staying up late and sleeping in, eating when you want to without being interrupted, and not listening to a whiney two year old! :) Being parents makes you appreciate every moment of an adult only trip! It was so relaxing and a great marriage booster. And yes, we definatly missed our kids and are thankful to be home with them (most days anyways)! :)
2 comments:
Yea for adult trips! Looks like you had a fantastic time and you look fantastic too!! Also, just noticed your dad's grandpa name is Peepaw! Love it! Did you know that Peepaw is what I called our granddad, your dad's dad? So appropriate that Peepaw is your dad's name now!
Hey girl! It looks like you guys had a fun trip! Maybe next time we could meet you there! We've only been once so you could show us around! Your kids look like such sweet kids, and they both have grown up so much! I can't wait to see you with three!!! :) Love ya! MC
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