Spring Break Part 1

My spring break is almost over. It has been a great week away from work. Brian and I headed off to Las Vegas last Friday. Here are the highlights:

We took a tour of the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam.

We're smiling in the picture below...but not so much once we were on our drive back from the Grand Canyon. It ended up being a lot longer drive than what we expected. Basically we were on the road from 7 Am to 10 PM and only stopped at the Hoover Dam for about 10 minutes and the Grand Canyon for 2 Hours. The rest of the time was spent in a bus!!!

I wouldn't say that it wasn't worth the bus ride there, because it was absolutely breath taking. But, we probably would've done it all a little differently if we would've known how long the drive was and how little time we were going to spend at the Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon.

The following day, we met up with my friends from Texas. We spent the day and night gambling, people watching, and walking. A lot of Walking!!!

Here's the hotel we stayed at: The Luxor. It was pretty on the inside and out. The only bad thing was the fact that the bed was pretty hard...but who sleeps in Vegas anyway?

We also went to the Shark Reef exhibit at the Madalay Bay Hotel and Casino. Here we are petting a stingray that was trying to burrow under the sand.

One of the most exciting parts of the trip was playing in a Blackjack Tournament. It was a $20 buy in, and you got to play with $2500 worth of fake chips. They gave cash prizes to the top 10 people out of the 96 that signed up. Brian can probably tell the story better, but in short I was so nervous to play for some reason. My heart was pounding and my hands were shaking the entire time. Especially when I put all of my chips in on the last hand which was $15,000!!!! I won that hand and that put me in second place overall!!! But that didn't last very long because Brian beat me out of the second place position. Oh well...if someone was going to beat me, I was glad it was him. So we ended up taking 2nd and 3rd place!!! It was a lot of fun!!!

Here's a picture of us with our winning certificates!

We also visited the M & M World Store. It was 4 stories tall and one of my favorite stores we went to while being in Vegas.

And here's a picture of us prior to leaving. It was a great time and we can't wait to go back again!

The last part of our spring break will be spent apart. Brian is headed off to the Bataan Death March in New Mexico and I'm going back home to Nebraska to see family.