Vegas Baby

I'm getting real bored of my vacation photos from two months ago, so I decided today to write a little blurb on our trip to Vegas this last weekend. My mom, sister and I went for mother's day AND my cousin - Scarlet's - graduation.

We arrived on Thursday night, and walked clear from our hotel Luxor, to Caesar's Palace. This was such a walk we took a cab bag to the hotel! Our feet were sore and tired the next day but
I HAD to take my mom to the cheesecake factory (remember she is from Vernal, where their fanciest place to eat is Golden Corral ya'll!) I was excited and hyped it up pretty good. The cheesecake factory we always hit is right in Caesar's Palace in the Forum shops. Everything was so fantastic my mom was not disappointed at all, in fact she personally told the server it was the best service she had ever had! As is my famous trademark, I had to try everyone else's food. My mom ordered fish and chips and if you are a fan you gotta try these! Then full of food, we went to lay in the sun by our pool, caught some rays, took a nap and then out on the town we went.

On Saturday we did the whole graduation thing from 9 am - 3 pm then left to come back home. What a short trip, it was fun though to spend time with my family.

We were home just in time to celebrate Mother's Day. I took my mom to Vegas, and we hosted dinner for mother Carolyn on Sunday night. Just a shout out to our mom's and everything they do for us. Thanks mom(s), we LOVE YOU!

Pics

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Mexico. We had such a great time, we would go back in a heartbeat...but it's good to be home.

Hangin out.

This is at Xel-Ha, we took a nap on the hammocks. Can I get one of these by my office please?

We drove along the coast of Cozumel.

This is downtown Cozumel.

This is us getting ready to go to dinner..

This is the view from our room...well I guess it is back to real life now.

Hasta Luego!

So tonight is our last night and I am soo sad! I can definitely see now how people can stay here for 10 days. I am seriously thinking we should just happen to miss our flight tomorrow. No, just kidding we'll come home, but we had the best time. Tonight I was pondering the thought of living here full time, would you want to? I wanted to for about 5 seconds, and then I remembered how you can't flush toilet paper in the toilet in town, and then I was grateful to be an American!

Let's see, here is how our itinerary has gone for this week:

Monday:
We took the ferry over to Cozumel for the day, we rented a jeep and cruised along the shoreline. We were nervous about this, but it was all good, there was one road for local traffic (hardly any on this deserted highway) and then a dinky highway for us touristas! Beautiful coast, that is an understatement, that is all I can say. We had lunch at this famous cantina, Coconuts, on a cliff overlooking the shore, then stopped at a beach and laid out for awhile, breathtaking AND our favorite part of Cozumel.

Tuesday:
We stayed at the resort and laid out at the pool allllll day, I could do nothing but lay out all day every day, but I do not want skin cancer. (Tyler got a little burned this day so he was a little miserable, poor guy). We are staying at an all inclusive, so food is included. BUT you have to make dinner reservations at night if you want to eat at the restaurants, otherwise its the buffet for you. (The buffet is ok, but we LIVE for the a la carte - they are so fancy, AND the service, is impeccable, seriously nothing I've ever experienced before) We went to the french restaurant and it was... well amazing. I can't find words for the dining experience you get. Five course meal, and it takes two hours to get through it. I LOVE IT HERE - We didn't get pics this night, I could just kick myself.

Wednesday:
Today we went to Xel-Ha (shell ha) and it was very beautiful. It 's like, well Seaworld, but instead of going around seeing animals, you snorkel with them. Nothing like sharks or anything, but just schools of fish and stuff. It was a beautiful day, very hot and humid. I am not looking forward to coming back to 30 degree weather and snow to say the least. You have to understand, we have pretty much lived in swimming suits and shorts while here and it has been fantastic. We love the heat and can't wait for summer now, this has just been a little tease. So we leave tomorrow, and we got some good pictures, so we'll see you all real soon. We do miss being in the states, but I wouldn't mind ONE MORE DAY here!

Viva La Mexico

So yeah, by the way we are in Mexico! We made it safe and sound in case anyone was worried (I think I was the most nervous from all the propaganda going on lately) It takes getting rained in, and sitting in our hotel room in order for me to update the blog. I know, I know I'm lame, but I'm updating it now, so there. Now don't feel sorry for us we are having a GREAT time, it is just rainy today. AND I wanted to have a record of what we did because when we get home, I'm sure I'll have forgotten each day what we did. (I will have to post pics when I get back, I didn't bring our cord with us to put pics on the laptop).

We traveled all day on Thursday and arrived here at around 1 in the morning. We had to change planes twice, but got in 10 episodes of Lost Season 1 on our I-Pods. Things went pretty smoothly, and our broken spanish got us around the Mexico City airport (we had lunch there with our 5 hour layover). We had the best nachos in the world! Our resort is pretty cool, not too stuffy and definitely doesn't suck. On Friday we went into Playa del carmen (we are about a 15 min drive from Playa and 35 min drive from Cancun. There are lots of cute shops and a pretty beach there, hence the name Playa del Carmen I suppose. We just kind of explored on Friday, and I was pretty in my element with shopping!

On Saturday, we went scuba diving. We were very happy with the company we chose to go with, they were very professional and it was only the two of us and our instructor. They had good equipment, and a good boat, you never know because there is a dive shop on every corner in town. We just got certified last week so we went on a very beginner dive. It was fun, we saw an eel, AND a seahorse. I've never been down that long (about 45 minutes) so it was a little challenging. Tyler and I are both so proud of ourselves since it isn't really something we thought we would ever do. It takes control and skill to be able to control yourself underwater while controlling your breathing also. Then we just had lunch at a cantina in town. It is fun trying to order in spanish, and the service is incredible here. We have a much better feel here than we did in Cabo when we went.

And...today, well it poured when we were eating breakfast, and I don't think it will clear up but we are still having such a fun relaxing time. It is thundering and is overcast with very dark clouds.

We have no phones which was a little challenging at first, but is a good thing now. I think everyone should go somewhere where they have no phone service for a week, but definitely bring your I-Pod :) We'll be watching episodes of Lost season 1 now, if anyone asks.

November (Cont)

I just need to add a great big I love you to my husband for his b-day. I talked about what we did, but most importantly I want to say how grateful I am to have such a wonderful, strong, intelligent man in my life. I am lost without him and am deeply in love with him. Happy birthday babe, and thanks for all the wonderful things you do to be a wonderful, good person.

November

Are you kidding? I haven't blogged in over a month, that is so lame just because of all the fun things we did. Here are the highlights for the month of November (not in any particular order of importance or fun factor)

1. We went to St. George with friends for a weekend. It was so fun, it was warm and just fun. We had dinner at Ruby River and the service in St. George was terrible, but we were rowdy and kept it, well fun! I gambled a little in Mesquite and played Pai gow Poker (sp:?), it was fun because I didn't lose, but also didn't win anything, but it was well you guessed it, F-U-N.

2. Tyler's birthday. Tyler turned 32 on the 24th, it was a Monday which he thought was kind of a bummer, but we went to Texas Roadhouse, which is kind of one of our favorite places. It was just a small gathering of friends. I got him the DVD season 1 and 2 of Family Guy at his request.

3. Tyler's birthday. We went to Park City with Papa Paul and Ray for the weekend before Thanksgiving, we had such a blast. It was such a nice break, good food, lounging, shopping AND we celebrated Tyler's birthday. He got a nice sweater and some earplugs for his IPOD from Ray and his dad. We are now addicted to Guitar Hero and are attending GHA (guitar hero anonymous). There are lots of fun pics, just click on the "papa paul" link on this page...

4. Tyler's birthday. Friday before his bday we went to Outback (also gone downhill lately) with his mom and gramma. (sorry gramma for coughing my guts out the whole time, oh did I mention I was sick the entire month of November, the doctor said it could have been a bacterial infection whatever that means, but I think it was bronchitis). He got some money from his mamma, and mo money from his gramma, and mo money from Garrit, Millissa, Saige, and Elle.

5. Thanksgiving in Vernal. Oh it is always nice to go home to Vernal of course, my hometown. Thanks mom for the great Turkey, and candied yams are my favorite. (if you ever want to get on my good side...) I couldn't believe how beautiful the weather was, it was so sunny and warm.

6. Dogsitting Gracie. We had Tyler's mom's dog for the week of Thanksgiving. I took her back home today (Monday), and I was so sad, I was shocked when I shed a tear. She is such a good dog, AND she liked me over Tyler:) which never happens with dogs. I would actually consider getting a dog now after having her, if we had a yard. Sigh, someday a yard.

7. The beard is back. Oh yeah Tyler is growing another beard this winter and he has a pretty good shot at winning best beard contest (oh that doesn't exist, ok then well watch out Santa) pictures to follow at a later time!

So now I am going to work on Christmas shopping and cards! I better blog before January or I am officially LAME!

Ok I was tagged by Rachel here s my attempt by eights:

8 TV shows that I love to watch...
1. Grey's Anatomy
2.The Hills
3.Everybody Loves Raymond
4.Chelsea Lately (Millissa's fault on that one, I'm hooked)
5.Family Guy
6.Desperate Housewives
7.Ugly Betty
8.ummmm I can't think of anything else...
9.
10.

8 Favorite Restaurants
1.Olive Garden
2.Texas Roadhouse
3.Johnny Carinos
4.The Roof
5.Mi Ranchito
6.Burgers Supreme
7.Zupas
8.Your mom's house

8 Things I am looking forward to
1.Eating my guts out at Thanksgiving
2.Eating candied yams at Thanksgiving
3.Eating Turkey at Thanksgiving
4.Eating mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving
5.with gravy
6.Eating pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving
7.Eating applie pie at Thanksgiving
8.with ice cream mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

8 people I tag
1. Tyler
2.Chelan
3.Julie H.
4.Shauna C.
5.Marty
6.Mary
7.Ray
8.Paul