This week we had Fall Break on Thursday and Friday, we orginally we planning on going on a cruise with my sister Becca and her husband Jesse but that didn't work out. So we planned a little get away to Las Vegas. Neither Steve and I had ever been there so we thought it would be fun. We left early Thursday morning in our car- we stopped off in St. George at In & Out for lunch. Yumm! While we were there we saw one of my students from last year and his family- what are the chances!
We arrived at about 2 o'clock and headed for the Stratesphere where we were staying. After a quick rest and freshening up we left for dinner at Chili's (out of the places in Vegas we went there!). Then we headed for west Vegas to go to the "Assylum," this was an old haunted insame assylum. It was ranked one of the ten scariest hanted houses in the country! Steve and I were both a little apprehensive about going- especially Steve, if you know him at all you know that he gets scared so easily. So we all went through and it really was scary but so hilarious at the same time! Steve would not open his eyes and in the end there was this guy that literally chased you with a chain saw. Well, we had to make a train to go through the whole thing and Steve was in the back. When the chain saw guy chased Steve and I, Steve started running pushed both me and Becca out of the way and into a wall. He was quite entertaining.
After the haunted house, we headed down to the strip to ride the New York, New York. Again, Steve was very entertained seeing as he HATES roller coasters! But it really was fun. We then walked around down there, saw the lions in the MGM Grand, took lots of pictures, and just had a good time being together.
On Friday we woke up, went to the breakfast buffett at our hotel and went to the pool for a quick relaxing dip. Of course, in Vegas the pool was filled with drunk people who I have to admit are very fun (but sad) to watch. There was this one group of guys from Colorado who kept thinking that Becca and I were swedish twins! After we got ready for the day we went up the elevator at our hotel 107 stories to the top of the Stratesphere. We didn't ride any rides but just had fun looking at the city- and yet again since Steve is afraid of heights it was all quite amusing.
This is what Becca and I call our Swedish twin picture...
Later we headed back to the strip to go to Madam Tussauds wax museum in the Venetian hotel. This was so cool and we spent a really long time there! We walked around some more and looked at lots of stuff and then went back to the hotel to get ready for dinner.
For dinner we went to the seafood buffet at the MGM Grand- it had the most amazing food and dessert. It was expesive ($30 a person) but totally worth every single penny. Later we went the M&M store and the Coke factory and then walked to the Belagio for the water show!
Saturday morning we got up, got ready, packed our stuff, ate breakfast and headed back for Spanish Fork. After the 5 hour drive home and some more memories, we were back home safe and sound.
