Viva!

My best friend Annie and I went to Vegas a couple weeks ago for a girls trip.
We thought it would be fun to get away from the cold and sit by the pool for a couple days. I cant say Im the biggest fan of Vegas but I was SO excited to go to the warmth and swim and even possibly come home a bit sun kissed.
Little did we know were had booked our trip right in the middle of a cold front!
The weather had been in the high 70's early 80's a couple days before we got there.
Right as I was heading out to the airport I had a nice little surprise from the boyfriend.
He surprised me with a very thoughtful "care package" for my travels. Every time I fly somewhere I always buy candy, a people magazine and of course gum.
He stopped in and had a nice cute bag full of this...

What a great way to start off the trip. So thoughtful!
Our flight was supposed to leave at 9 something. We got all loaded on the plane and sat there, and sat there a little longer until we had been sitting there for 3 hrs! They had to D-ice the plane before we could take off. Good thing for the Netflix app.
We landed, got our rental car and checked into our hotel at it was 4AM Utah time.
Vegas was not hot and sunny as planned. It stayed in the 50's but we still had a GREAT time.
We spent the whole first day shopping!
Annie and I could not be more different, in every single way. We have been best friends forever, and It just works for us. Same goes for shopping. We have totally different styles. It was so funny.
This is Annies totally happy in her store.

We spent a lot of time and money in H&M. I am so sad that they are coming to Utah by the way. I love going out of town and buying clothes you cant get here.
After shopping literally all day, we went to dinner, saw a movie and then sat in the hot tub. So nice!
We stopped by the Mirage the next morning for a little Beatles runway.




We ran into my friend Karen and spent some time with her.

Has anyone been to the Sugar Factory? I was so excited to go, and was kind of disappointed. Come on...$30 for a pimp my sucker stick? No thanks. But I guess thats what Vegas is all about right?


We spent some time walking through the gardens..

And of course, shopping some more!
Annie in her boot store, me in my high heel store :)




We waited until dark and rode the New York New York Roller coaster. SO dang fun. I had never been on it so it was so fun to go in the evening and see the whole city and all the lights!
One of my favorite things about flying Delta is the silly video they play before take off. The red headed flight attendant in the video says all seductively with her hand in front of her face "Smoking is not allowed"

We walked past the sign for Thunder Down under and couldnt help but laugh and think, "Thunder down under is not allowed"

Maybe one day Annie we can talk those boys into letting us go ;)
We missed the show we were supposed to see so we went back and of sat in the hot tub. Nothing like soaking after a long day on the strip. Such a long day, I lost the heel off of my right boot!

The next day the sun was shining and it was WARM! Still only in the 60's and we heard on the radio it was supposed to get back up to the 90's a couple days after we flew home. Oh well, we still got to soak up some sun on our last day :)

We went to another fishing hunting store for Annie which worked out really nice for me. I got to sit in a big ol lazy boy and get a massage while she browsed.
We went back to the strip and people watched while we were waiting for our show to start.

Man I love to people watch. So entertaining.
We saw a very funny comedy show/magic show. Then headed back to our hotel for a fancy dinner, and even fancier dessert. Too bad my pizza slipped off the plate and on to the floor. (But not too bad because Annies was better and she shared ;) )

We treated ourselves to yummy dessert. I had creme brulee and Annie had some kind of chocolate ice cream.
We wrapped up the night with some hot tub time.
The hot tub was empty all but the last night so it was perfect time for BFFs to bond.
Probably because just the time everyone was getting dolled up in their fancy shmancy outfits and high heels they cant walk in, we were settling in and relaxing in the hot tub.
Annie, this part goes out to you...thank you for making me laugh so dang hard at your run in on the black jack table. Thats all Im sayin.
Everything else? What happens in Vegas...stays on Facebook.