Vegas!

Jason's work made him take a week off of work (it was a week that he had to carry over from last year, so he had to take it or lose it), so we decided to go to Vegas for a week. Our flight left on Monday February 16th at 6:00 at night. We left our dogs with my parents and my dad drove back down to the airport with us and brought our car back. Such a nice dad. By the time we got to our hotel, Excalibur, it was 9:00pm so we just stayed in for the night. the next day we decided to go shopping. We went to an outside mall and Jason got some good deals at Old Navy but that was the only place that had any. So then we went to an outlet mall, the deals there were even worse than the regular mall! So we finally gave up on shopping and decided to go back to the Excalibur (the hotel that we stayed at). Then that night we walked through some of the casinos and down the strip to the M&M factory. Then on Wednesday we decided to go to Hoover Dam. We took a tour of the power plant. I hadn't been there for quite a while and Jason had never been there so it was pretty fun. Then we just bummed around our hotel for a while, and later that night we went to The Tournament of Kings. It was a dinner show that was at our hotel. It was really fun, you had to eat dinner with your hands, and while you were eating they had a whole show going on about King Arther and different knights from certain countries. Our knight was Ireland. He didn't win but it was still really fun to watch. On Thursday we head downtown to Fremont Street for more shopping, That night we ate at Hard Rock Cafe and then went to Planet Hollywood and parked our car so we could make it further down the strip. We made it as far as the Mirage before we turned around and headed back to car, but we did hit the Mirage about the time that they were doing the Volcano show, so we stayed and watched the show before we went back to our car, and the hotel for the night. Jason said that Vegas was not our town, we were in our by 9:00 by the latest every night! Most nights as we were getting ready to go back to our hotel we would stop and get small ice cream (we had a Cold Stone in our hotel) to share, or some other kind of treat (there was also a Krispy Kreme in Excalibur). Then on Friday we went and ate brunch and then had to head back to the airport to return our rental car and to wait for our flight back to cold old Idaho Falls. When we got back to Idaho my dad came and picked us back up. It was a fun trip but we were sure glad to home again.