Top of the World

Yes, I'm still in Vegas. We come home today. I'm sorry about not posting to the blog yesterday. I will try and write two today and catch up.

Spending Monday in Vegas reminds me that the show must go on. My family had school and work and I didn't prepare myself for how worried I would be over some dang peanut butter sandwiches. One kid likes creamy and one crunchy and you have to make sure you put it on both sides of the bread. One likes strawberry jelly and one grape. Of course I can't help but worry about what they are wearing because I didn't lay their clothes out before I left. Matt is an amazing father but I'm the mom and these things are my job. 

Landon also had his first baseball game of the season. Two other parents and Matt said he had a awesome game even though they lost by one run. It is great the kids can still enjoy what they love even while crying buckets of tears because they are missing their mom so much. I still have to wipe away a tear because they are growing up so fast.

Vegas is amazing! Everything is so pretty here. It is like a dream come true even though I have been here before. This time had such a different feel about it.   

Today was filled with more tourist stuff. We shopped a little and gambled some. I lost my $40 and was done with that. My baby works to hard for his money. Oh yes, we ate and drank. Lets talk about drinking water for a second, not that I'm a water connoisseur, but the water here is terrible. I drank a sip from a glass in our hotel and spit it back in the glass. Last night I just needed some good water. It had been three days and I needed water. At the restaurant I asked the waiter if they had Voss water. That was the best $22 I have spent on this trip. Matt doesn't care how much I spend on water because I have to have it to live. Matt is the Public Works Director in our town. I will blog more about that later. You don't know how much you take water for granted till you don't have it or it is nasty.

I talked mom and Diane in to riding the roller coaster at New York, New York. We got on feeling like spring chickens and got off feeling like the Grim Reaper was at our door step. My mom and Diane will turn 60 next year. They are so dang cool. 

Today also was our no taxi day so city bus transportation it is. Everything was all good during the day but at night it was rough. We had nice dinner reservations at a very nice restaurant a ways down the strip so we get on the bus looking like a million dollars to go to dinner. So far all good and when we exited the bus it was still going good.  After dinner we had to wait at the bus stop for ever, all dressed up. Not good, not good. At one point I turned to mom just to give her a look of reassurance because she was kind of pushed in the corner at the bus stop. When I looked down she had a huge rock in her hand. Her exact words were, "nobody is going to sneak up on me. I watch to much ID Channel. I will leave DNA and I'm going to startle them with this rock." It took us over a hour to get back to our room. When I returned to the room I got a sweet message from a friend that said,  "ride the bus it will take you to Fairmont Street. Only go during the day not at night." To late for that info...lol We are alive!!

We ate at the Top of the World for dinner. The food was delicious and the view is the best in town. It revolves around 360 degrees every 80 minutes. The atmosphere was very soothing .At the end of the night they brought me a cake with a candle lit. I haven't blown out a birthday candle in almost 20 years. As our waiter set the cake down and I looked up to make my wish it hit me like a ton of bricks why this time it felt so different being in Vegas.

This story will be continued tomorrow. I want to go enjoy the rest of my day till I get to see my family tonight. I love y'all.