Vegas Baby!!

Last month Mom, Diane and Carroll surprised me with with round trip tickets and hotel to Vegas to celebrate my 40th Birthday. Everyone knows my mom but a lot of you don't know Diane. Diane has been my mom's friend for 47 years. They lost touch over the years and when my Grandmother passed away Diane came to the funeral it had been almost 25 years since they had seen each other. I feel my grandmother sent her back to us.

VEGAS BABY I'm in VEGAS!! This town never sleeps and food oh the food is amazing. We are staying at the Mirage. Today we have walked and walked, my feet hurt. We did some window shopping, laughed, ate and people watched. It was my day to pick the restaurants for dinner. Guess where I picked?? The Eiffel Tower Restaurant at the Paris Hotel. 

On our way to dinner We got a taxi because it was to far to walk in my hooker shoes. The second we got into the Taxi I was thinking we were going to get kidnapped, It stunk so bad and he didn't look like a normal taxi driver! When we told him where we were going he turns to us and said " is it okay to take the long way" Fuck no it's not okay it's my turn to pay for the Taxi. Of course with a nice southern mouth I said " Just get us there fast please." $20.00 for driving us one block. I was so aggravated but we were alive and at our destination. 

The restaurant was breathtaking. The view, the drinks and the atmosphere was just as I imagined and more. The only thing missing was Matt. We got seated at the window right in front of the the fountains. It was unbelievably amazing until this fishy smell hit us. Lets Pray it was something someone was eating and not someone. We get the menu and everything had nuts or meat on the main course. After asking the waiter what could I eat he said this seafood platter so I ordered it. Well Houston we have a problem. It came to the table the WHOLE lobster, crab legs, oysters and shrimp that I had to peel. YOUR KIDDING ME RIGHT??  I promise to blog about my food issues one day. So y'all will understand this moment fully soon. There was a WHOLE animal on my plate and they wanted me to crack it and eat it. Long story short the waiter peeled all my food for me. I have never had cold lobster before it it was interesting . I will be honest dinner was rough!! I'm sure it was rough on the waiter too because I know he was thinking he was going to get paid in penny's thinking these are some white trash people.

We got a great taxi drive from the Paris Hotel back to the Mirage and the ride and tip was $8. Just saying!!! As the night ended we made it back to the room safe.

 I couldn't help but feel like I had failed as a mom missing Landon's Opening Day of Baseball today. Farrah was out of water and Matt could have really used my help. Thank God for a good husband and father who never made me feel bad for not being there.

I'm still holding on to Friday's blog post in my mind. I wanted to share something that happened while I was writing it. After I was finished with my rough draft of the blog about the kids school. I realized so much about an important part in my life that had came to a end. It was like I seen Leon in a whole new light. I learned I had never accepted my role in elementary of helping had ran its course. The kids were really happy with me not being there and the school was doing a great job without me. The pain was so real I decided not to blog anymore because it was such raw emotion day after day,  I just never wanted to feel that venerable. After publishing the unedited version that night totally embarrassing and I also deleted 4 paragraphs just because it was to boring. I was like why am I doing this. This morning when I was editing it I realized it healed my soul in a way nobody could understand. So instead of sharing my food collages on my Facebook page I will continue to blog .