time flies when you're in vegas

Vegas was a blast. It was so nice to get out of town with friends for a week and not have to worry about school or work or anything like that.

We flew out of Baltimore on Monday morning at the crack of dawn. Our flight was delayed because of mechanical issues (they stopped the plane and turned around during take-off) but after a few hours stuck on the plane they figured out what was wrong and it was fixed. Our plane stopped in Salt Lake City but traveled straight through to Las Vegas so there wasn't a connection that we had to worry about making, so that was good. We got to vegas around 2ish and checked in to our hotel which was in the middle of the strip, such a perfect location. Our first night we had dinner at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, and as a margarita-lover I was overwhelmed with the vast array of margarita choices they have. I settled on a pomegranate margarita which was sweet and very yummy. After dinner we did some walking and we decided to take a nap, but unfortunately the nap turned out to last the entire night. We were up at 5 am the next morning!


The next day was St. Patty's Day. After getting McDonalds for breakfast (they don't have steak egg and cheese bagels there, it was weird), we continued our tour through the casinos. Steve stopped in the Maserati/Ferrari dealership in the Wynn and got his picture taken in a brand new Ferrari. He loved it, I told him I wanted one for my birthday :) We went down to the MGM grand, the NY NY, and the Monte Carlo, dropping a few bucks in the slot machines as we went. At MGM grand, I put a dollar in a penny machine and won 50 bucks! We then went down to O'Shea's which is an irish casino/bar that was having a big block party to celebrate St. Patricks Day. We were here for pretty much the rest of the day.


Wednesday we were able to sleep in a little bit more. We went to a buffet at Ceasar's Palace for lunch. We had received a 20 dollar voucher when we signed up for a rewards card that worked for a number of casinos. Luckily, the buffet was 19.95, so it was essentially free! We then went to the Venetian where Chris and amanda did the gondola ride while the rest of us walked around and did some gambling. That night Steve, Amanda Janet and I went out to a club at the Hard Rock Hotel. It was a fancy dancy club that had 8 million lines to get into but somehow Janet managed that we could get in quickly. The club was alright, it was super loud with techno music (SO not my favorite) and drinks were easily 10-15 bucks a pop. We didn't stay very long, and we met up with the rest of the guys afterwards.



Thursday we all checked out of the hotel and took our bags to Janets sister's place, in north vegas. She offered her place to us that night so we could save some money. After doing the bag drop we went and saw the Bodies exhibit at the Luxor. It was my 2nd time through it, but I was no less amazed by the whole thing. I could easily spend 5 hours in there just reading. After that we went over to Mandalay Bay and went through the Shark Reef which was really cool. There were huge sea turtles, several types of sharks, fish, jelly fish, all sorts of aquarium creatures. That night we all ate at this burger place at Mandalay Bay and we all went to Jeanne's for the night.


On Friday, we stayed around north vegas and went to our last casino, in which we all walked away with at least 10 bucks. Overall, Steve and I broke pretty much even, which was great. We went to the airport, had dinner at California Pizza Kitchen and flew out around 10 pm. We got back into Baltimore around 8 am Saturday morning.

Since then I've gone back to work and done homework. Back to the boring life!! More pictures to come!

Sarah

Any takers?

Anybody feel like writing a 30 page research paper on diabetes and physical activity? nobody? darn. I guess I'll just have to write it then.

One more quiz and paper until my spring break starts. The weather in vegas next week is supposed to be upper 70's and lower 80's the entire week we're there. I can't wait, especially since it's gone back to being cold here again.

I've started to the registration process at Towson. I'm trying to figure out what classes I need and all that jazz...

Other than that, that's it. It's been a boring week. Update later from vegas!

Sarah

2 weeks until vegas :)

this weekend went by crazy-fast, and we even had an extra day! yesterday we got dumped with about 5 inches of snow, which cancelled classes for me, and school for rache and mom. we took advantage of the day off and went and saw 'confessions of a shopaholic' in theaters. the entire theater was empty, there was hardly anyone in the parking lot. the movie was cute, it's not going to win an oscar or anything, but it was a fun movie to see with my mom and rache.

friday night was a friend of steve and i's 25th birthday, so we went out to a little bar in baltimore called Boomers. it was a cute little bar that had a wii and some video arcade games. i played steve in this video arcade game where we were hunting moose. i totally kicked steve's butt and he spent 8 bucks trying to fix that. it was a fun night!

I worked all day saturday and sunday morning. sunday night we had dinner at my parents house with my parents, rache and steve. we had yummy costco pizza (my favorite). my dad and i went out to costco and bought some wood panels for my bedroom, he's going to pull up the carpet and replace it with the wood flooring. he's already done rachel's room and it looks really good. i'm excited to have a new floor when i move back home this summer :)

i think that's it- until next time!
sarah