Dan and I had the opportunity to go to Vegas in Dec. I had been begging him to go to visit a friend down there. Work finally presented an opportunity to use when it scheduled a business trip for Dan down there. All we had to do was find someone to watch the kids! Ed had said he would love to come and help us if we needed someone so when we called him up, we thought he would back out with such a huge responsibility of all four kids for four days! But when Dan asked him he instantly said yes! As the trip got closer the weather got worse! We thought for sure he wouldn't be able to make it, but he did! Daniel and I flew out on the 15th of December! I was so excited to go! (My friend ended up moving very suddenly! I was sad I didn't get to see her, but we enjoyed the time that was just the two of us! I have never been to the strip before so it was crazy to see everything! When we booked the tickets to go it was 85 degrees and when we arrived it was 35 degrees! For those of you, who are thinking that’s miserable, don't! We left 12 degrees so 35 was a heat wave! We had a great time down there! We saw Chris angel (BOOOO!) and Blue man group (AWESOME!!!!!! when they come to Spokane we are planning on taking the kids!!)!!! Dan and I also went to Twilight (Dan thought it was stupid! I think if you like it the first time then don't go back for a second!) Dan showed me the Bellagio! The water fountain is awesome!! We stayed at the Wynn and LOVED our room! The view was incredible and the room its self was unbelievable!! We had a great time! The Fantastic weather followed us from Washington!! It snowed for the first time in 10 years in Las Vegas! Because of this a lot of flights out of Vegas were canceled. Most of Daniels co-workers had to spend 1-3 extra days in Las Vegas. Daniel and I headed to the airport early on Thursday to make sure we made our flight. We actually were able to get on an earlier flight! Awesome!! We flew out of Las Vegas feeling relived we were headed home! We landed in Seattle still thinking we were good to go. When we saw the first departure board we realized we had a problem! All the flights to and from Spokane were cancelled! Ed had called and told us that we had the worst snow storm in Spokane and it had dumped more than 31in in 1 day! The problem wasn't that the airport was closed, it was open! But no one could make it to the airport to make it run! So we stood in line for new tickets for either later that day or the next. After waiting for 2 hours we got the great news, we would not be able to fly out until SATURDAY!!! We tried everything to get some good news. After spending most of Thursday at the airport with no good news Daniel made some calls and found us a hotel in down town Seattle (every airport hotel was sold out! And some taxis wouldn't go to the "hilly" parts of Seattle!). We left the airport with horrible weather and everything icy! Seattle was worse than Vegas!! Ed was a trooper!! We were supposed to come home 4pm on Thursday. The only news we had to give him was that we had tickets for Saturday! (AT Ed’s house it was 40 below! He had about 92 sheep that he needed to get back to take care of! Besides being alone with 4 kids for 4 days and 3 feet of snow outside isn’t enough!) We crashed at a beautiful hotel, Sorrento!! We crashed, extremely tired! I forgot to mention that when we picked up our bags to go to the hotel I recognized mine by the swimsuit hanging out! So the next morning (Our 8th wedding anniversary!!), Daniel duck taped my bag closed for the trip home! And we headed to the airport by 9am (We had planned on earlier but we wanted to make sure planes were flying out of Spokane before we stood in lines at the airport!)! We got to the airport and the lines for everything were crazy! As much traveling as Dan does he said he had never seen it so chaotic! We went from one line to another and our miracle happened and we got on a flight for later that day at 6pm. She got us stand by tickets for a flight at 2pm! Yeah!! So we ran back and ate a good lunch!! Ran to put our names on standby and they already had 192 people on standby! And so the day of hanging out began! We found really comfy seat, watched a movie, played games, talked to everyone, argued, and slept! By 4pm we realized how truly lucky we were to have tickets at all! We bumped into friends of Dan’s who had been in Seattle since wed. And didn't have a flight out until sun. And the weather reported another storm on Sat. Yuck! After all of that we made it home!!! Our plane landed in Spokane around 7:30pm on Friday night!! We all cheered when it did land!! We dug our truck out of the snow and headed home! I don't think there was anyone happier that we were home than Papa Ed (ok maybe Emma!)! All in all it was a great trip! We had a great time! But I can honestly say we were soooooo happy to be home!!!
trying on "looks"
the bellagio christmas decorations
great food!
can you say food!
happy to be together!
bellagio water show!
you can't tell but it is snowing hard! we are soaked!
trying to win big at penny slots! lost $11! Learned gambling sucks big!!! yes we learn fast!
Daniel trying out for blue man group!
you should see the blue hand print on my bum!
It's hard to tell but dan is on the left!
Once again! never roam alone!!
we LOVE TRAVELOCITY!!!
Dan tring to figure out flights!
Seattle snowed in!!
the reader lied on the last flight! It was cancelled also!
Lines, lines, lines!
my busted suite case!
Daniel duck taping my busted suite case! How lucky were we it was black duck tape!
spokane from the plane!!
our truck ! It was worse than it looks!
5 comments:
Crazy weather!!! I am glad that you had a good time and got home safe. I am so sad that I was not there to see you! We will have to try to get together again and maybe this time I won't move!
What a fun trip! I'm glad you made it home safely. Steve and I did a Vegas trip Daecember 2007, it was fun. I LOVE the water fountains!
My mom got stuck down in Salt Lake because of that same snow storm. She flew into Seattle also. I wonder if you were there with her. Oh, and her back didn't get tore up. They just lost it. Nice, huh?
Sounds like you had an awesome time there. Its good to know you were missed while you were gone. love ya. :)
Yikes! That sounds like it was an interesting trip, to say the least. The good news I see hear is you got an escape with no children!!! I would LOVE to have that kind of get away...maybe some day.
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