Just over ten years ago, my roommates and I made an escape from the watch-eye of BYU and on a whim after dinner at the Cannon Center one Friday, decided to high-tail it to Vegas (and then LA) for the weekend. We had a reunion in LA last year and this year it was Vegas, Baby!
The baby part being quite literal. Brooke and Liz just had babies and this was their first trip away from them. Being as they are nursing, they had to pump every three hours of the trip. It certainly put a different feel to this Vegas trip than our last one. At a gas station in St George? Pumping. In the hotel room? Pumping. In the Mandalay Bay parking lot? The Ceasar's Palace parking garage? Oh yeah, pumping baby. Who knew electric pumps had car adapters? I kinda wish I didn't.
Somehow between all the pumping, we managed to lay out at the pool, go to the movies and see Baby Mama (I told you it was the theme to the weekend), see Mamma Mia! (more motherly themes), and shop H&M. And H&M Baby. My old women friends were not up the roller coasters I wanted to ride. boo! I did, however, take a belly dancing class while the old ladies had massages. (Nikki, you'd be proud). OH and we went and ate at Toby Keith's "I Love this Bar and Grill" at Harrah's and watched the Jazz whip on the Lakers.
The next night, while we were wildly cruising the strip (ok, driving to The Cheesecake Factory), Deana Carter's "Strawberry Wine" came on the radio straight from 1997 and we sang along at full-volume. We were feeling pretty nostalgic until when the song was over, the DJ came on and said, "Wow, it BLOWS MY MIND how OLD that song is!". Haaa. Perfect.
Oh yeah and Brooke put $5 in a slot machine and accidentally bet it all on like one pull. It was pretty funny.
Since I'm feeling nostalgic, here are some photos from both Vegas trips.
2008- I drank two full Mason Jars of Diet Pepsi at Toby Keith's restaurant. NO ONE in Vegas had coke products. A major, major flaw of that city. Oh and I loved Toby's awesome top model face in the poster behind us.
I loved it so much I copied it the next night in our photo shoot at Mamma Mia!
Liz wasn't quite tall enough to reach the cut-out. Haaaa.
The three of us posing with a poster? Not sure what we were thinking here. We stood there awkwardly for like ten minutes until we mustered the courage to ask someone to take this perfect photo-op for us. What a bunch of weidos.
OK, now for some throw-back pics.
1998-Luckily, Liz could comfortably reach this cut-out. (And the neon-colored background is from my awesomely-designed Freshman year scrapbook.)
Brooke and I with our collection of casino cups, which for some reason we thought was cool. (This was back when they had casino cups and not all these new-fangled electronic machines). And apparentally we thought wearing overalls and wrapping sweaters around our waist was cool too. Ah, the 90's.
I was one of the few BYU students NOT looking to get married off during my college years. Ironincally, I was the one married just over a year later.
So there you have it. Let's do it all again in ten years, girls.
So there you have it. Let's do it all again in ten years, girls.
4 comments:
Um, do you remember that Strawberry Wine was our senior class song? It's sad, but true. I may have even voted for it. Crap, I think I've already said too much.
Looks like a fun trip!!
are we ALL wearing overalls in those throw back pics? nerd alert
I'm so glad you got away for a bit. It's always so nice to have a break from the every day grind. I love the pic of you with the cutout! Hopefully I'll see you soon. We missed you at club.
So glad you had such a fun trip and as always your blog cracks me up!
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