Happy 11 Years.....

Friday March 25th Jeff and I celebrated our 11 year wedding anniversary and spent the extra money to enjoy a LONG weekend with just us. Many thanks to my mom and dad and sisters who took my four kids for the weekend (something that I know was not a walk in the park). We made reservations at the Luxor in Las Vegas and purchased tickets for the Cirque Du Soleil "Beattles Love" show. Thursday morning I drove the kids to mom and dad's and we left when Jeff got off of work. We didn't get checked in to our hotel until 2:00 a.m. Friday morning, but knew we would be able to sleep in (no kids to wake us up).



The view at night!!!(Ours is the one with the light shining out the tip and it looks like a pyramid).

Friday during the day we walked and walked at least 5 miles, and then that evening we had a "VERY NICE" dinner at "Tenders Steakhouse" inside the Luxor. Then we enjoyed "Beattles Love" that was simply amazing. We enjoyed every minute of it. Then Saturday we put in close to 10 miles walking I am quite sure. We started our day at the Luxor and saw the "Bodies" Exhibition, that was eye opening and amazing. Then we decided to go down to Mandalay Bay and visit the Shark Reef Aquarium. Once again we were not disappointed. No they didn't have the full grown great whites but the fish and sharks were amazing to see. Our final adventure was a ride on the roller coaster at New York New York. It scared me more than the roller coasters we did at Disneyland, but we had fun and I didn't get sick.


A couple of shots from the Aquarium. Unfortunately no cameras inside the Beattles show or the Bodies Exhibition.

We got a message that on Saturday night between 8:30 and 9:30 all the lights along the strip would be turned off in honor of Earth Hour. We thought the difference would be a bit more drastic than it actually was.

Picture with the lights off, this was as dark as it got


Just a couple of miscellaneous pics from our many miles of walking.

Sunday we got up and went to an 11:00 sacrament meeting and then headed for home. We stopped at Hoover Dam to see the sights and check out the new bridge that was built. We walked a couple of miles that day and I have to say I was quite sore trying to climb the steps and just walking in general, but the bridge was an amazing sight to see.



Our final excitement for the weekend was on the drive home. On the road between Hoover Dam and Kingman we passed a motorhome that was swerving on the road and shortly after Jeff saw in his rearview mirror it roll over. So we turned around to go help. We were the first on the scene and Jeff was talking to the couple inside. There was not an easy way to get them out and the driver was stuck in the seatbelt and the passenger had not been buckled in and was toward the rear of the motorhome unable to find an escape. It took close to 10 minutes for the paramedics to arrive and by then Jeff and the several others who had stopped to help had figured out a way to get the passenger out. She came out with a sore shoulder and that was it. When we left they still hadn't quite got the driver out but he was close and he never complained about anything hurting. The pictures shows the damage and to us it was quite amazing they walked away with only minor injuries.