I'm Re-Energized.

I got home from Las Vegas early Friday morning, I went with my bestest friend (besides Spencer), Erin.  We left last Sunday and flew out of Great Falls.  We stayed at South Point Hotel, it's a mile or so south of the strip, it was a nice place.  I really liked that it was far from the craziness of the strip, I'd recommend it and we got Bath and Bodyworks in our room. I would say that we saw more than we wanted to in some regards, Las Vegas means different things depending on your purpose.  I found the hotels very fancy and physically clean, but morally filthy.  We spent some of our afternoon at the Shark Reef Aquarium, it was cool, we touched Stingrays and saw lots of cool animals.  We checked out M&M world, the Lion Habitat at MGM Grand, and a couple hotels.  Our goal was to see a show, and we had a few to choose from,  I was glad that we got to go to "The Lion King" at Mandalay Bay.  It was amazing, the puppets are so interesting, Erin and I wondered how some of them worked and had our own theories... We ate at the Bellagio... I was disappointed, I thought it would be better, but I have simple tastes so I can't not recommend it.  We ate great breakfasts and found a Cafe Rio, and I actually didn't gain a pound, must have been from all the walking and eliminating. 
We only spent a day and a half in Vegas, then we drove to California.  Our other purpose for the trip was to go to Disneyland, it was fun but different going without children or even being one.  I dragged Erin on some fast rides, we shopped, we ate some great parmesan, garlic fries, we laughed a lot and just had fun, it was so good.  That night we went to Cold Stone, pounded some great ice cream (cake batter with Reese's PB cups), and went to Huntington Beach.  We walked the pier, talked, took pictures, found sea shells, and played in the water, this might have been a highlight for me.

 I'm glad our husbands let us go together and managed the kiddies, they are so amazing.  The biggest highlight of the trip was hanging out with Erin, we had so much fun.  We had lots of driving time to talk, and laugh and get to know each other better.  Thank you Erin, that trip Rok(ed) my socks off, I'll never forget it.