Wild Times in Vegas

I got back from Vegas last Sunday, but it's taken me all week to recover from my wild and crazy times with my roommates from BYU-I. These girls were my very first roommies my freshmen year and although it took us a while to warm up to each other and figure each other out, they are some of my best friends in the world. Even though we haven't spent any real time together since I got married almost six years ago, it was like we had only been away from each other for the weekend. Our personalities were the same, our funny little quirks, and while we had all grown up and had different experiences, it was great fun to be back together.

We arrived in Vegas on Friday afternoon and all screamed, ran and hug when we saw each other in the airport. We then went searching for our hotel- Cancun Resort Villas. It was a fun resort type hotel off the strip with great pools, a spa, and large condo type rooms. We promptly headed out to the huge pool (pictures of which are above) and enjoyed racing each other down the waterslides like kids. It was so hilarious because all of us were expecting them to be kinda lame, but we had all lost our sunglasses, topped end over end, and ended up with wedgies by the bottom. Then we got all dressed up and headed to the Strip for a great dinner at Samba- a Brazilian Grill Restaurant. If you've never eaten at one of these- you should- great food and a great experience. We laughed and laughed all the way through dinner. Then we made our way along the strip checking out a few sites that we had all wanted to see. However we did make it back to the hotel early enough to have ice cream sundaes and a NERTZ tournament (just like the old days!)

Saturday we laid by the pool and worked on our tans until noon then went to the MGM Grand for a buffet lunch/dinner. You HAVE to hit a buffet while in Vegas right? Then we shopped the Miracle Mile of shops (or the Mile High Shops as I kept calling them- I don't know what I was thinking) rode the New York New York roller coaster, bought souveniors and then headed to downtown Vegas for the Freemont Street Experience. It was so stinkin cool! They had a huge light show with live bands. We all got our VIRGIN drinks (as shown in the pictures below- I wanted to clarify that while we had a blast and may have looked drunk, we were dead sober), gambled a little in the old casinos, and danced like wild women to the live bands. Downtown Las Vegas was a definite highlight of our trip and we had a such a blast watching the crazy people that were dancing down there- one video of our favorite is below and hopefully another video of Bridget dancing with the runner-up is coming soon.

Sunday morning was filled with goodbyes and who know how long until we see you agains. Hopefully this will become an every other year tradition, but until then girls- I promise to stay in touch better and I miss you all already.