This was our time....

My hubby and I haven't been on a vacation without the kids for 5 years, and that was just overnight. D had a work conference in Las Vegas for 4 days. We thought it would be the perfect time for a little time to ourselves. My parents came and watched the girls. I am sure the girls drove them crazy, but we sure appreciated them for watching them. They took great care of the girls, and we didn't worry about them having a good time with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandma always has fun things planned to do with the kids.

We got to fly there instead of driving, which would have been great if I didn't get so motion sick. Dramamine is now my new friend. I wish I would have had it on the way there! Here we are waiting around the airport.

We got there in the afternoon and got settled into our room. We hadn't really had any lunch, so we found an all-you-can-eat buffet in the hotel and pigged out (I am sooo not kidding!). It was sooooo good. They had lots of different kinds of food....asian, seafood, mexican, bbq, and a super tempting dessert bar. The General Tso's chicken was both of our favorite. Yum. I am drooling even now.

We decided to go see a movie that night to let our food settle. We wanted to call home and say goodnight to the girls, so we bought tickets for a later show and went to call them. We had about an hour and half until the movie, so we decided to look for a grocery store to buy food instead of spending so much $$$ eating out. We looked grocery stores up in the phone book and found one close by. So we walked across the street to find it. It ended up to be just a super pricey convenience store. We thought there was another store close by, so we headed off to find it. A half hour later we came across a Wal-Mart (not what we had been looking for, but they still had groceries). By this time it was dark and only 45 minutes until our movie would start. So we booked it through the store each grabbing what we would need and met back at the check out stand. We each ended up with a couple bags of stuff to haul back. We started walking as fast as we could to get back. We made it back with about 10 minutes to spare before the movie. We figured we walked about 4 miles all together. That is one way to work off your dinner!

We watched Nights in Rodanthe. D said it was a total chic flick. I guess so because I cried. It was good though, and fun to see a movie together. We haven't done that for YEARS!!!

The next day D had conference stuff to do, so I hung out int the hotel room. I ironed all of our clothes, finished a sewing project, watched a little t.v., went to the pool, and just enjoyed a bit of quiet without someone saying, "MOM!" every two minutes. It was nice.

That night we headed to the strip to have some "fun". Well I don't know if we had fun, but we saw lots of smut and garbage. I really hate Las Vegas. It just gives me icky feelings.

We did see some cool things in some of the casinos and hotels. Like this large aquarium:

We wanted to find a little something to bring home to the girls, so we headed to M & M World. And look who we found:
We ended up searching for the cheapest and coolest thing to bring home to the girls. Everything was so expensive there. We got them some fun pens that had water and glitter and M&M's floating in them. We were going to buy them some custom colored M&M's, but they were $12 a pound. We stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home and got them a pound and a half for $3.50.

The next day D had conference stuff again, so I hung out around the hotel pampering myself with a pedicure, manicure, and a little tanning time by the pool. That night we headed to the Venetian to see the Blue Man Group. This was definately a highlight of our trip.

We got there early and decided to look around at some of the hotel shops. When we went to find our seats there were already people sitting in them. I guess they had double booked our seats, so they gave us an upgrade to the $60 more per ticket seats for free. We didn't mind. :) The show was great. We didn't want it to end. Every pause in the action made us worry that it was the end, but it wasn't. Even after the end, they came back to have a little more fun. I could have sat there and watched them all night. It was a blast.

We had a great time together. We stayed up late talking every night and just enjoyed the time we could be alone. I love my little girls, but it was sure fun to be away from them for awhile and just remember what it was like to be a couple instead of parents. I can't wait until my hubby's next conference. :)