The Pierrel Pack: Vegas Vacation

Nick and I joined our friends, Jerry and Sam, on a much needed vacation last Friday - Tuesday. It was very hard to leave Marshall but I knew he was in good hands at my parents' house so I didn't worry too much since he always has so much fun there. I worried more for them because I knew they would be so exhausted at the end of the stay and they sure were. We flew out to Vegas on Friday night and had an early night because we were driving to the Grand Canyon the next day. We got up early Saturday morning and drove out to a restaurant that was on the show "Diners, Drive-In's and Dives," called the Coffee Cup in Boulder City. Nick had the same thing that Guy Fieri had, some egg omlette type dish with green chile sauce and I had an AWESOME bacon waffle. I've been to Vegas a few times and it always seems that some of the best memories and highlights of the trips all revolve around food! We then drove on to see the Hoover Dam, which was pretty amazing, but the new bridge they are building is just as cool. After that we had about a 2 hour drive out to see the Sky Walk. We drove through pretty desolate areas until we hit a dirt road and followed that for about 20 miles and finally ended up at our destination. Little did we know that we were going to have to pay extra money to get on a bus to actually get to the sky walk plus pay money to get on the actual thing. I was really close to not doing it but we drove so far and we all will read the fine print next time we are checking out something on a website. So, the views were AMAZING and I absolutely loved seeing the Grand Canyon and will definitely make a trip to see it again, just not this particular one to. It was pretty cool to look straight down to the bottom of the canyon from the sky walk but the views were just as good from everywhere else. At the end of the day we were all pooped but we still ventured out, minus pregnant Sam, so I could finally see the Bellagio water show, which was breath taking and I could have stayed there for hours.

The rest of the trip we: had a yummy champagnae brunch, had a nice dinner at a place called 9 at the Palms, hung out at the pool a few times, tried to sleep in, gambled too much (only Nick), Nick and Jerry shot machine guns, and ended the trip by seeing Carrot Top. I'm not usually one for comedians, but he was pretty funny and definitely made me laugh! We came home on Tuesday, Grammy picked us up at the airport, and Nick met my parent's half way to pick up Marshall. It was so good to see him when he came home and I am glad to be back but definitely had an awesome time! enjoy the pics.