First Pictures from Vegas 2008

The Strip from the Stratosphere Tower.

Bob and Jen at Second City in the Flamingo.

Bellagio Fountains in front of Paris.

The mountains on the way to Primm.

Denise and Scott by the Folies butt.

Deep Thoughts by Alex and Mommy

If a jackpot is won in a casino, does the bear still $h!t in the woods or does he rent the penthouse suite at Bellagio?

We are now 5 days away from our trip to Vegas. Bob and I are going with our friends Denise and Scott. Our flight leaves on Wednesday, June 25th at 7am. We are staying at Bally's. Bobber and I have comped rooms. Thursday we are planning to rent a car and drive to Primm. Primm is right on the Nevada/California border. Denise is interested in shopping at the Primm Outlet Mall. I have heard mixed reviews for this area and am more excited to go into California than the shopping portion of the day. After Primm, we are going to Green Valley Ranch. Bob and I have tried, unsuccessfully, several times to catch the shuttle from Mandalay Bay to GVR. Other than that, we really don't have any set plans. Bob and I have talked about maybe going to Phantom. Not sure on that either. I guess it's also my mission to get Bobber drunk this year. He wants to go get a High Octane drink at the bar in from of Imperial Palace when we first arrive.

On the Alex front.......
She has finished and passed her level two swim class. Or as she says she will now be in third grade swimming with the big kids.

Swimming Lessons

Alex started her swimming lessons this week. Her friend, Maddy, is also in the class. They are both doing a great job. Here are some pictures from tonight.

T-1 day til Sex and the City

Can't hardly wait!!!!
Tickets have been purchased.
Mikki, Sam and I will be going to the 7:10 show tomorrow night only because we couldn't get out of work for the 12:45. LOL
So excited, so excited!!!!!!!

Hickory Hills Golf Outing 5/24

Here are some photos from our golf outing yesterday. We started golfing our 18 holes at 4pm. When we arrived, we were so very nicely instructed to take the first row of carts. (How does one note sarcasm in a blog?). So, our options were 16 or 3. We opted for #3 because April wasn't with us. Aren't we nice?! We didn't know the power it would have in store later.
The front nine took us 3 hours to play. We did let three groups play through, Amy and I drank 6 beers and three golf balls lost, total. The back nine we opted to play best ball. The back nine we played in a record breaking 1 hour 45 minutes. PGA watch out! I can't remember how many golf balls we lost in the second half of our game. But, we ended the day having found 4 golf balls, drinking 18 beers, losing the cooler 3 times, going over the bridge on the back 3 times, almost tipping the cart once, Amy falling out of the cart once, and eating combos, pretzels, and starburts so no one would eat their own arm off. Ooh, I almost forgot to mention the scores. A-ha ha ha. Too funny. Scores? Like we kept score!
After our 5 hours at the golf course, we decided to dine at a new establishment in Eau Claire. I think it's called Grizzly's although, I'm not sure. Maybe one of the others will remember. It was an amazingly fun day. Great idea Mik, thanks for putting it together!!!

Amy, Mikki and Jen
Mikki's got a dirty ball. Dirty Baalllll.
Tony and Mikki

Over the bridge on the front nine.
The beer cooler we dumped out of the cart three times. Amy only once. LOL
Amy on the back nine, with the sun setting.
Amy and Jen
Look who magically appeared because we used the #3 Cart. I wonder if there is a Brett Favre or Peyton Manning cart anywhere. Hmmm.

April was magically in town to celebrate Bernie's retirement. Congratulations to Bernie. If you can't sell the Matco truck, we did come up with some options at Grizzly's.