Robert and I decided to go to Las Vegas this year for our anniversary trip. It was quite the job for me to prepare to leave Kaylee for almost 3 days. That is about 80 oz of milk that needed to be stored for my mom to use. My mom was an angel and agreed to come up for the weekend to watch Kaylee. It was a much better plan than us sending her down to their house. Kaylee was able to be in her own place, with all of her normal stuff. One of the most important things for her was her crib. She just doesn't sleep as well in the pack n play. Still, I was beyond worried about leaving her for so long.
After writing down Kaylee's schedule in explicit detail, showing my mom the freezer full of Kaylee food, letting her put Kaylee down for a nap or two, and kissing our little angel goodbye, Robert and I left on Friday morning. It is a long 7-8 hour drive to Las Vegas, and I only managed to sleep for about 15 minutes of it. Boo!
We got a wonderful package deal at the Luxor casino with tickets to several different attractions there. Our room was nice, and the bed was great! King size beds are always a plus. The first thing we did was get our tickets to Criss Angel. I was excited for the show, but a little worried that it would be a darker "magic" show since some of the stuff I have seen of his is a little weird. Then we went to get food from the buffet, and ate enough dessert to last us the whole trip. It was SO good!
Oh, about half way to Vegas I realized that I had forgotten the camera, so this is going to be a picture-less post. Forgive me!
After dinner we went to watch Criss Angel's show, which was interesting. His stuff looks a lot more legitimate on his show on TV. There were a few pretty cool "disappearing" acts, but the rest was the usual stuff. The little helper magicians on stage with him were hilarious though!
We walked from casino to casino and down the strip a ways late at night. It was wonderful to just spend time together, and get away from the grind of being parents to a new baby. By the time we got back to our room it was almost 2 am Nevada time, which was 3 am back home. Ugh, so much for catching up on sleep.
I was expecting to sleep in on Saturday, but I woke up at 8:30 after only 6.5 hours of sleep. We ate a big brunch and went into the casino to gamble with some of he $25 we set aside. I didn't want to be tempted to spend all our money, so we agreed that once that 25 was gone it was over. We lost some, won some, and ended up walking back to the room with about $40. I didn't like gambling as much as I thought I would. The only thing I really liked was putting money on the horse races. I only bet on one, but the horse let me down so I didn't try again. It was really fun though! Roulette was the only game on the floor that I really understood and could strategize, craps was WAY too complicated for my little brain.
We went to the Body World exhibit, which was smaller than the one in SLC, but it was still amazing, and had some new things in it. We also went to the Titanic exhibit. That was really cool! They gave everyone a card detailing someone who was on the ship. Then at the end you could look up your person's name on a wall that named the survivors and people who perished. Robert ended up dying with all but one of his family, and I lived along with my husband and servant. There were a bunch of artifacts that had been brought up from the bottom of the ocean. They were amazing!
Saturday night, after dinner, we had planned to go to one of the dance clubs at the hotel, but neither of us really wanted to go and be around everyone drinking and smoking. We are still tempted by those things every single day without hanging out in the middle of it all. We instead decided to look up a casino that had less expensive roulette tables. The ones we had been playing on were $15 minimum bids, and we eventually found out that Circus Circus had tables with $4 minimum bids. We took our lives in our hands and drove down the strip to the older part of town.
This is where the best part of the day happened! We brought all $40 we had and sat down at the first $4 roulette table we came to. After only about 5 minutes of playing, we hit a number. It was a last minute gut decision on Robert's part to put $2 on Red16 and it paid out at $70! Great! We had won back more than double our starting money. I pocketed what we had first invested and we decided to play with the winnings. About 5 minutes later we hit Red16 again, this time with $4 on it, paying out at $140! In the half hour we sat at that table we won on Red16 4 times!! That is pretty unheard of, especially sense they changed dealers and balls while we sat there. We won on other numbers as well, and soon had $415 to our name!
We decided to stop while we were ahead and cashed in our chips....all but the last $15. We went to a different table to see if our number was still lucky.....it wasn't. After a few minutes we decided to go home and call it a night. We walked past our old table to see if Red16 had hit again since we left.....it hadn't. Just for the fun of it, we decided to see if we were just that lucky. We sat down with our last $10 and played for a minute. Just that quickly we won again on Red16 with $5 whole dollars riding on it. In that same roll we won an additional $20 on something else, making our winnings for that round $195, bringing our total winnings for the evening to $595......on one number!
We stopped and went back to the hotel with that final win. We didn't want to push our luck any more than we already had. It was a wonderfully lucky evening and a great end to our trip. The next morning we headed home to our little daughter. Refreshed as parents and ready for the next year as a couple.
