Mini Vacation

Last weekend we took a mini vacation to St. George with three other couples. The four guys are all mechanical engineering students graduating this semester so they thought it would be fun to do a little senior trip. One of guys has a family vacation home in St. George so we decided to go there. The house was amazing. Here is the front of the house.

It was like a 5 star hotel. Each of the rooms had King sized beds with their own bathroom, walk in closet, and walk out patio. Our room had two patios. Here's a picture of our room.


And here is one of our patios that also led to the front door. I relaxed out here one of the mornings, reading and listing to the fountain you can see on the right side of the picture. It was awesome!

It was tricky to take pictures of the rest of the house, mostly because everything was so big my camera wouldn't fit it all in, and also because I was embarrassed and worried that the people we were staying with would catch me. Here is a picture of the beautiful kitchen that I want so bad. I loved the kitchen

Here is a view of the pool with water slide, and at the top you can kind of see the hot tub.

And here is the view from out of the huge floor to ceiling window in their sitting room. They are literally on the edge of town.

There was also a theater in the basement with three rows of stadium seating and recliners for chairs. And tons of other little things that I will probably never have the money or room for in my house.

The first day we were there we mostly just relaxed and went swimming. We watched movies and played our PS3 in the theater downstairs. It was fun playing Guitar Hero on a huge theater screen. We also went on a hike to this crack and Ryan and mostly everyone else hiked through it.

Me and another one of the girls didn't hike through it cause our pregnant belly's wouldn't have fit. We hiked around and took pictures from the top.

And this should give you an idea of how skinny the crack was.


We also made a stop off at Sears but I'll explain that in the next post.

The next day we went to Las Vegas. I've never really been there before and we all thought it would be fun since we were so close already. I'm not going to say I didn't have any fun, but it was a disappointment and I'm definitely not planning a trip back any time soon. We really wanted to go to M&M world and the Coke factory while we were there because last time Ryan was there as a kid they went to those two places and went on tours and saw how M&M's and Coke were made and got to try different soda flavors from around the world and got some M&M's (all for free). Well, I guess they don't do that anymore cause what we went to was a 4 story gift shop with M&M stuff, and another two story gift shop with Coke stuff. What a let down. That didn't stop us from taking a picture with an M&M, though.

We walked the strip for a bit and looked around at different things. All the while we had to avoid looking down at the porn that had been littered on the side walks, and avoid making eye contact with the guys on the sides trying to hand out more. We stopped to watch the water show at the Bellagio.

We walked through a few casinos, ate some yummy food, and I think I saw two hookers trying to proposition some guy. When Ryan walked by though, (without me of course) they didn't say anything to him. I think his ego was a little hurt.

The next day we did some more relaxing and then made the drive back to Provo. All in all we had a lot of fun and got to spend a weekend together. It was a nice break from school and work, and nice to be some where warm too. I'm getting excited for summer.