I am back... actually I was back a few days ago... but you know how it is. All I had time for was to post a picture. I didn't get home until LATE on Sunday... technically it was Monday (that late).
Plus since getting my fake nails, I really have had a hard time typing... so I guess I was kinda putting it off! Here it goes.
1. Traveling with music... I haven't traveled with music in many years. Mostly because I have not traveled by myself in that long. As I walked through the Dallas airport listening to the Marie Antoinette soundtrack (which I highly recommend) I flashed back to my younger years. I found myself making mini music videos in my head with the music in my ears and the strangers all milling about. It was completely awesome!
2. Since moving to Abilene (and flying out of Abilene) I have never had a delayed flight. EVER. Until this trip. Both ways were delayed by a few hours. At one point I called Mason to tell him that I may not make it at all.
3. Seeing the family was great! Everyone had a good time visiting and talking. Sitting in the 4 hour gradation however was not so great. Don't get me wrong...I am very proud of my husband and how hard he worked over the past 6 months, I just don't really get into the whole "hey aren't we great" thing about the military.
4. Vegas was HOT... like hotter than Abilene hot. Even at Midnight it was hot and stifling.
5. People people and more people. It was like Disney World x3 but worse. Walking anywhere was an experiment in patience and weaving. No matter where you went, it was crowded. And you waited. Waited for a table, waited for the elevator, waited for the rest room. Waited to get out the door. Lines for Taxi cabs 20-30 minutes long. and to top it all off it was LOUD! The casinos, the restaurants, the streets, the shops... well maybe not the shops. Everything was over priced. Everyone was selling something. A show, a meal, a t-shirt, themselves. Actors, Singers , prostitutes. It was quite overwhelming.
6. At 1 am on the Vegas Strip I saw children. Children in strollers, some awake some asleep. Children being carried (mostly asleep). None of them looking like they were having ANY fun. And for the record, the parents didn't look like they were enjoying themselves either. I don't get it. Am I that old? That strict? I just couldn't think of ANY reason why there were kids and BABIES out at 1am in Vegas... it was beyond me.
7. Everything was big .... BIG. Hotels were like mini cities, taking up multiple blocks. You could spend a week in each one before running out of things to do. Don't even get me started on the buffets, more food than one human could possibly eat in one day, let alone one meal.
8. My Mecca. I finally made it! I knew I didn't have much time in Vegas, but there was one thing I knew I had to do! Go see the staircase where Julia Roberts comes down in Ocean's Eleven. Mason said that he had looked for it and couldn't find it, his cousin said the same thing. "Silly boys" I thought to myself "I'll find it"! Well I did and I didn't. I walked and walked around the hotel looking for this ginormous staircase. Couldn't find it at ALL. I walked and walked and looked and asked. No one knew what I was talking about, until a bell hop informed me that they tore the staircase down 5 years ago! WHAT!!?? This whole time I had been walking and looking and all those other people didn't tell me (or didn't know). We made our way back to where the staircase once was. and Matthew (another of Mason's cousins) took my picture. It was as close as I got :-(
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