Laugh With Moms

What can I say about Vegas?  We were lucky enough to be able to get away for a long weekend to Las Vegas over the New Years weekend.  My mother and father graciously accepted the job of taking care of my three cherubs while my husband and I headed to the Wild West for some fun in the sun.  Although very little time was actually spent outside in the sun.  We met my sister and brother in law out there and we had a blast.  The trip to Vegas was supposed to be a surprise trip for my hubby for his 40th birthday where he could partake in a few of his favorite pasttimes, most notably a UFC fight and gambling of course.  So I thought I would put a little list together about all the things I learned in Las Vegas:

1.  You can actually get women sent directly to you by one phone call for all types of services.  I think the guy in room 1684 (right next to us) might have held onto those cards they pass you on the street and called the number at 4am.  It was a long and educational hour.

2.  What are people doing bringing their children to Las Vegas?  Seriously, what is there for them to do?  And how do you explain all that graphic information that they pass out to you as you are walking down the street?  It is like baseball cards with naked women on them, are they supposed to collect these?

3.  All the casinos are the same.  They for the most part take your money, have no windows, and have the same bleary eyed people trying their best to win their money back.  We even went to the newest, hippest casino/hotel for a night (Aria)  and yet I couldn’t tell the difference between that and the Bellagio once you got sucked into the place.

4.  Some people have a lot of money and some just don’t.  Both sets of people paid for each and every new hotel that gets erected on the Las Vegas strip.

5.  There is no Planet Hollywood restaurant in the Planet Hollywood hotel.  We must have walked around that place for hours looking for that. 

6.  Going to a UFC fight is a whole adventure in itself and requires a completely separate wardrobe and vocabulary for both men and women.  My hubby loved it and had to sit through all ten fights.  Who knew there were ten fights when only three are actually broadcast on Pay Per View when you watch it at home?  Being the dutiful wife, I watched all ten with him as my sister and her hubby went out to the casino to gamble and win.

7.  What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.  Which is why I rocked it out one night in a short black dress and tall black boots that my friends from home joke that they have never seen me wear at preschool drop off.

8.  Time is completely irrelevant in Las Vegas, you have no idea what time it is until your body decides to fall asleep while sitting at the blackjack table.   When I asked what time it was and somebody said 2am (which would be about 5 am to me), I was shocked.  But then again I hadn’t been outside in over 24 hours.

9.  Drink lots of water.  Even the water is dry out there and you wonder why you have a constant dehydration headache.  It could also be the cocktails you started consuming at 10am while sitting at the blackjack table, but that is even more reason to drink that water.

10.  It is a real bummer to fly 5 hours in the middle seat following a weekend in Vegas.

Despite all that, I would go out there again in a heartbeat.  We had so much fun just being together, knowing that our children were in good hands at home, and not to much that kick ass facial I got in the middle of the weekend.  It being my first facial, I fell in love with esthetician who also massaged my hands and feet while the gunk was doing its magic on my face.   Heaven.  Vegas is so alive at all times that it is invigorating to be a part of it.   So if you get the chance head to Vegas for a weekend (that is all you will need), you won’t regret it.

Due to an unfortunate incident involving my cute and adorable 2 year old, a glass of water and my laptop, I have been out of commission without a computer.  Truth be told, we do have an alternate computer but it is downstairs in the cold, dank basement so very little time was actually spent sitting at the computer down there.  Only the basics were completed and those were completed with winter jacket and hat/scarf.  I would have liked to have gloves on as well, but it is hard to type when you have ski gloves on.  Anywho, santa brought me a new laptop and I have already been reprimanded for having a glass of water on the same table as the computer!  We have had four laptops in 5 years, each one ruined by an industrious, adorable two year old.  Not sure what that says about us and our supervision of two year olds or our laziness in putting the laptop away when the two year olds are in the vicinity.  When my son was two years old (he is now 7), he systematically pulled off every letter on the keyboard.  Have you ever tried to put the letters in the right places on a computer keyboard?  Almost impossible by memory, not to mention he broke off most of the pieces that would allow you to snap them back on.  That was computer number 1 down the drain.  By the way, this always happens the day after the warranty runs out.  Maybe this time my hubby sprung for the extra warranty!  Anyway, computer number 2 met the same exact fate that computer number 1 suffered at the hands of my next two year, my daughter who is now 4.  Didn’t even know it was possible to pull each letter off and yet both of my children managed to do it in the 3 minutes it took me to take dinner out of the oven.   And you know the fate of computer #3, technology and water do not mix.  So this time, I vow to put the computer away when I am not using it, keep all liquids away (as I sit here and sip my iced tea) and buy all extra warranties that I can (hubby just informed me that he didn’t buy the extra warranty, what??????)  I guess we will never learn and we should just start saving our money for computer number 5.  Glad to be back in cyberspace and back to writing on our blog.