Our Little Getaway

Since Scott had time off of work, we wanted to take a little getaway and we love taking advantage of where we live and all that is close around us.  So we headed to Nevada.  We left Wednesday and came back on Friday.  Wednesday our first stop was Hoover Dam.  And if you aren’t afraid of heights, you would be after being there! 

It was absolutely magnificent though! 

     

Afterwards we headed to our hotel.  I think the boys favorite part of “vacation” is the hotel room.  They really think a slumber party and sharing a bed with each other is the best thing.  Or it could be that they love doing this:

We had a nice dinner in the hotel (which was huge).  Vegas does it up right. Our hotel room was huge.  We even had a walk-in closet and the bathroom was bigger than the boys’ bedroom at home.  Our hotel itself had 11 restaurants. 

Thursday we headed out to the Vegas Strip.  We played at Coney Island Emporium in the New York New York Hotel. 

After some serious playing, we went to M&M World.  And if you plan on going there ever, be prepared that the M&Ms cost $13 a pound!!!  Ridiculous!  

  We saw a fountain show and ate lunch at the Miracle Mile Mall in Planet Hollywood and then went to The Bellagio to see the fountain show.  And talk about perfect timing.  We didn’t know they only have shows on the hour and we got there at 3:59pm just in time to see the 4pm show.   We of-course had to play more games and then headed back to the hotel. 

It was then Scott got hit really hard with being sick so we stayed in for the night.  The next day we ordered room service for breakfast which the boys loved!  

We knew we had to get home since Scott was incredibly sick but we first made a stop at Ethel M’s Chocolate.  They have a botanical garden of cactus’.  We came in the day light so we couldn’t see but all of the cactus had Christmas lights on them.   Wouldn’t you love to be the guy that got to string the cactus with lights?!!!!  On our way home, our car broke down.  Traffic didn’t help with everyone wanting to get out of town for New Years weekend.  We did make it home and Scott made it to urgent care right before they closed.  Turned out he had a double ear infection. We took our car in the next day and it cost $1000 to replace the water pump.  Also the fuel pump is going out but that is another $939 to fix so we are trying to hold out.  But I don’t think we will make it through the week because it took 6 tries at Wal-Mart today to get it started.  Ugh!  When it rains, it pours!  We know we really need to think about getting a new car but we love not having car payments. And we cannot afford to add another expense to the budget right now.  And to top it off, William went to urgent care today.  He had 102.2 fever and cough.  They said he “just” has a viral upper respiratory infection and Tylenol should help. Then tonight he started vomiting A LOT!  So yeah Tylenol?  I don’t think so.  So our mini getaway was nice at first and then things have spiraled out of control since then.  Happy New Year!  But hey, I am doing better about blogging, right?!