Say Cheese... Now Smile!

Vegas was terrific! Not too hot ... not too too cold... it just right. :)

Rather than leaving late Friday night, we opted to drive out early Saturday morning, which turned to be the right decision since there were a whole lot of accidents the night before. The drive was fairly traffic-free and went by pretty quickly due to the on flight entertainment of "OLD SCHOOL" and "BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE" due to Carlene and Sonny's newest hi-techie personal DVD player.

4 hours later, we were finally in Vegas (Baby!). "Where's the slots! I want my Maitai!" Wait wait wait... we stopped at my Tita Rita's place where the moment we walked through the door, we were bombarded with food, then it was off to my Tita Themis's house where more family came and we ate some more and played with my cousins.

Carlene and I with our cousins:
Once cutest baby, but now cutest 2 year old Thea, Esther who was ALWAYS bored, and Stewie, who rocks at "Stop Dance."


Even Penelope joined in on the Vegas Fun... sorta.
But isn't she adorable in her new wannabe Burbury Bag?

While my Mom and Tita Ne spent outrageous amounts of money at the outlet shops and watching MAMA MIA, Carlene, Sonny and I decided to stay home with the kids and rest it up before going out in the evening. When we finally woke up from our naps and got ready, we drove down to the Strip where we met up with my favorite "past govenor under 5'4", darling Pic over at the Venitian's GRAND LUX CAFE for dinner. The table next to us was actually a Wedding Reception, complete with a two tiered wedding cake AND old men sleeping at their seats. Pic and Sonny wanted to start clinging their glasses in order to make the couple kiss, and resisted the urge to pin a dollar onto the Bride via money dance. I guess that's how it is in Vegas. At least the bride wasn't in her dress carrying a tray trying to get Mashed potatoes from underneath a sneezeguard barrier at the buffet. That would be surreal.

After dinner, we went over to The Palms where we met up with Pic's friend, Emily, with hopes of getting into "Rain." HA. After standing in line for about an hour and 45 minutes, we learned that there was an estimated 2 more hours of waiting. Oh my gosh, 4 hours in line for 1 hour in the club.... no thank you! So we headed back to the Venitian and played at "Venus" where we waited about 10 minutes and got to dance on the supercool "Saturday Night Fever-esque" glowing dancefloor. :)

Once we were finished, we drove back to my Tita Themis's place, only to get lost due to a road closure. But after an hour, 1 Krispy Kreme, 2 gas stations with completely clueless attendants, and a man standing by, who was nice enough to give directions we were finally "home." Vegas streets are weird. Really.

Woke up early this morning again, had breakfast and played peek-a-boo with this bedhead cutie...



And it was back on the road. One stop for gas and outlet shopping (of course) and we were finally home. Had dinner and knocked out. Slept through the Oscar fashions... but learned it all later courtesy of E!Online. :) Goodnight!