A Weekend Away...

A few months ago, the roomates and I planned a trip to St. George together. It was a great idea because we'd only have to pay for gas and groceries since both sides of my family have condos down there that we would be able to stay at. We planned it for November 3-7. Everyone got work off, and figured it out with school so that all four of us would be able to go! The night before everyone in the aparment could feel the tension growing. Unfortunately/Luckily, the tension exploded the night before we were supposed to leave for St. George. We had a "family meeting" and we all let out our thoughts and concerns. People's feelings got hurt and the mood was definately at a low point. The talk was well needed and we all felt good about the talk after it was over. Needless to say...Michelle and Morgan still didn't feel up to coming on a road trip...bad timing I guess.

So Heather and I packed up our stuff, said our goodbyes, and hit the road around 8pm on wednesday night. Knowing we had a long, dark 4 hour car ride ahead of us, we got munchies, and Dr. Pepper to help us stay awake the whole drive down there. With our music playing and us talking about everything under the sun...or moon in our case...we made it to Beaver around 10:00.

Running inside to pee we noticed in the 25 cent machines there was one that held mustaches.

"When you see a mustache in a 25 cent machine you stop and ask yourself...is this what i'm missing in my life? and the answer of course is yes!"

-Heather

We of course bought them and put them on right away. It took about 10 pictures to be able to get one where we weren't laughing. While we were taking pictures, we looked in front of us inside the gas station and saw the mexican worker staring at us. We caught eyes and then he proceeded to blow us kisses.

Freaked out we decided to leave ASAP

Around midnight, we arrived in St.George at the condo. We unloaded our things and got into bed exhausted. One thing people quickly learn about me after spending a night with me...I get in bed and start to get hyper. Of course me being hyper made Heather hyper. Around 2:00 in the morning we decided we'd better go to bed...for real.

The next morning we woke up to the sun shining and the highs being at 80 degrees. We jumped in our swim suits and went out to get some color on our white skin. It was so heavenly.

We kept saying, "can you believe it's november and we are swimming?"

Thank you St. George for boosting our spirits with your wonderful sunlight.

That same night we went to the Mae concert that Allred opened for. (no pictures sorry..). My good friend Tate from Allred put two tickets in the front for us to pick up. We just walked up to the booth and told him our names and he gave us the tickets...yup that's right..FREE.

Free Mae concert? I love being a groupie for Allred ;)

It was a good night. We hung out with Tanner Stevenett, Tate Law, Nate Abbott, Shane Cottle, Jesse Wride, Trent Davis, and of course John Allred. It was a lot of fun. Sadly they had to leave right after the concert because they were going home that night.

When we got home we went right to bed because the next day we were planning on going to Vegas! The original plan was to go to Vegas because Morgan and Michelle had never been there so we wanted to take them there. We still had a good time even though we wished they had been with us.

We started at the MGM Grand. We figured we could walk on that side first and wrap around and come back on the other side. That changed when we got to the other end and decided we wanted to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe instead of Serendipity 3.

We went in the MGM Grand first to visit the little Lion Habitat.

Then started the long trek down the strip. Along the strip there are many people dressed up as tons of different things from Elvis Presley to Alan from the Hangover.

Midgets dressed up,

Homer Simpson,

Buzz Lightyear,

and of course Woody.

We often stopped to watch these guys. They are very entertaining.

We also saw someone get pulled over right in the middle of the strip...

by two officers on bicycles.

We went into the M&M World.

And the Coco-Cola store as well. As we were walking around the store we saw a few different people with two trays with 8 drinks on them. We were really curious so we went up to the register to find out what it was. The lady informed us that it is a "Tastes of the World" for $7. Sounds fun we thought! So we bought it. We took the tray down to start trying out each flavor. Taking turns we read the name of the drink and where it was from then took a sips.

Some of them were tolerable, but none of them were delicious.

There was one.....

the name was Beverly's from Italy.

It looked like sprite. It was Heather's turn to go first to take a sip. She figured, "the others weren't too bad so i'll take a bigger sip this time." Her face began to contort and she started to gag. We both busted out laughing while she said, "I tried to pretend so you wouldn't know.." I still wanted to try it because I didn't want her to have to suffer through that alone.

I took a tiny sip.

Gagged.

Chugged another tolerable drink to get that horrible taste out of my throat and mouth.

If you are ever in Italy..I don't recommend trying Beverly's. Pure carbonated rubbing alcohol.

NASTY!

After eating at the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner we walked back down to the other end of the strip in front of Caesars Palace to Serendipity 3. We didn't want to eat dinner there but if you've ever seen the movie Serendipity, they have a drink there that is to die for.

Frrrrozen Hot Chocolate.

We waited for a table for about an hour and 10 minutes, because they wrote down the wrong beeper number for us.

We waited about 10 minutes for the waiter to come and take our order.

We waited another 10 minutes for the waiter to bring out our Frrrozen Hot Chocolate.

After all that waiting, we finished the Frrrozen Hot Chocolate in about 2 minutes.

Anytime you go to Vegas or New York. I strongly suggest going to Serendipity 3. They have delicious food and amazing desserts. Well worth the price!

"It's Serendipity good"

Peace. Love. Serendipity.

The next day, we were going to stay and lay out in the sun again but the sky was filled with clouds so we figured we might as well go home. We cleaned everything up and packed up the car.

By the time we passed Beaver again, we realized how dumb we were for coming home.

We love St. George too much to leave it.

Until next time...you will be missed St. George.

Thanks for a great trip Heather!