What Happens in Vegas...

...is, of course, documented on my blog!  The week before Spring Break, I was feeling super down and ultra stressed.   I came to the conclusion that I did not want to spend a week at home doing nothing and stewing about all of things going on, so I randomly started looking up plane tickets.  I haven't been to Washington DC and Virginia in awhile, but plane tickets were about $1,200.  Ummm...yeah right!  I looked up several other places and because I would be leaving in less than a week, ticket prices to pretty much anywhere were astronomical.  So, I decided to look up flights to Vegas and ended up booking!  I promised my sister I would house/dog-sit for her from Monday through Wednesday, so I decided to fly out early Thursday morning and fly home on Saturday night.  When my parents saw what I was planning, they asked if they could join me and, of course, I said yes.  They drove to Vegas Wednesday afternoon and picked me up from the airport the next morning.  We went to the hotel so that I could drop off my stuff and change into presentable clothes (I fly in the comfiest/most ghetto clothes ever...don't judge me!  haha) and then we went to the Luxor to get tickets for the Titanic exhibit and decided to get lunch at the buffet there.  Then, we went to Hoover Dam, which was awesome!  I had never been there before and it was definitely a bucket list item.

That evening, my mom and I took a walk down the Strip, specifically to see the fountains at the Bellagio and the Volcano at the Mirage.  Since our hotel, The Excalibur, and the Bellagio and Mirage are at opposite ends of the Strip, we took quite a walk, but it was fun to spend time together and see Vegas.  Here are some pics from our evening:

In front of the hotel we stayed in!

Just a shot of me and my mama!

I finally got to see the fountains in front of The Bellagio!

 In front of The Mirage before the volcano show!

 The Volcano was awesome!  Now I can check it off my bucket list!

At the end of the night, we took a taxi back to the hotel and got some much needed rest!

The next day, we went back to The Luxor to see the Titanic exhibit.  I saw it last year when Nancy and I went to Vegas for my birthday on a sister trip, but it was so good, I definitely didn't mind seeing it again and I was really excited for my parents to see it.

Afterwards, Mom and I went to the Vegas Temple to do a session.  Dad's back was killing him, so he didn't end up going with us, which was a major bummer, but we still had a really nice evening.

The next morning, we checked out of the hotel, went to Denny's for breakfast, and then headed back down the Strip to go to the M&Ms store and the Coca-Cola store.

Our favorite part of the Coke store was that you could get a soda float with any type of Coke brand soda and they had red cream!  Soooo delish!  My parents shared a float and I got my own!

After we were done with the Vegas scene, we drove back to the temple so that we could get pictures of it in the daylight; then, we went to grab some dinner at Long John Silver's, where my I forced my parents to wear magical pirate hats!  Don't let their faces fool you, they were so excited to wear those things and couldn't wait to put them on!  ;)

After that, my parents dropped me off at the airport and they headed home.  As it turned out, we boarded the plane and then sat on the runway for an hour an forty minutes.  It was awesome!  haha NOT!  My parents actually beat me home eventhough they were driving and I was flying.  Oh well!  I had a great weekend and really can't complain about the little airline snafu at the very last minute.  I'm really glad that a  Spring Break that was going to be super lame turned out to be such a great adventure!