Mandalay Bay Vacation

Well we got back from our Vegas trip today. Had a good time. Not as much fun as last time but it was good. Seemed like there was kids everywhere at Mandalay Bay. Esp at the pool. Which got very frustrating cause no matter where you went it was crowded. Wasn't like that at all at TI last time. 

Gambling sucked too. Hubby likes to gamble so we gambled a few times. Every time putting in a 20 and won nothing. Usually we get some money back or are able to play for a while. Not here. Straight up took our money. :( 

The highlight was the shark reef. That was worth the money. So neat. We got to pet sting rays. See a bunch of sharks, jellyfish, starfish and all kinds of other fish. We even got to see the turtle they recently adopted since he was not able to release him into the wild due to a collapsed lung. (If I remembered right)

Anyways here are some neat picture from the trip.

 Cool Aquarium in the lobby while we were checking in. Dont mind Miss grumpy pants looking at us lol.

 They have some amazing photography through out the hotel and a gallery of the photographers work. Starting at just 3000 bucks for a small one. Thats all. lol

 Mini bar in our room... The bags of snacks were 8 dollars each. Then the bottle of Patron was 40 for a small one. We did not take anything lol

 Well known restaurant called Aureole. Waiters have to buggy chord their way up inside the tower to retrieve wine for customers. Very cool!

 Eatin some lunch at a restaurant called Citizen and it was Delish!!!! Both had the Blue cheese, mushroom burger and it was yummy. Hubby got no blue cheese on his. He doesnt like it lol

 Very cool Japanese restaurant.

 Cool alligator under water. Right up against the glass :)

 Two scuba divers cleaning the tank. Very cool... I would love that job!

 The sting ray touch pool. When we showed up they were actually feeding the rays and we had to wait till the feeding was over to be able to touch them, but the lady went rambling on about them so really it took way longer. We ended up coming back and then were able to touch them. You will see the pic of hubby petting them.

 The jellyfish tank was awesome... to be that close to them was amazing. :)

 Baby rays but they were so hard to capture without the flash on cause they are so quick.

 This was cool. They made it seem like we were in the hull of a ship and underwater. It was so dark in there that the top picture is blurry without the flash since the shutter speed was so slow due to the darkness. The second picture is with the flash on and I hate the way they turn out.

 Sea turtle they adopted. :)

 Yummy frozen yogurt we had....

 Boiler room restauraunt. It was cool. All steam punk like :)

 Cool steampunk hat

 The pool. We spent half the day at the pool. Very crowded.

 This was a headless man outside the Red Square which was a restaurant. Pretty cool.

 Mandalay Bay

 New York, New York

 Manday Bay and THEhotel

 Luxor

 Primm. The border of Cali and Nevada.

These were solar panels out in the desert, thought they were pretty cool.

Well thats it! Thanks for looking!!

Busy Weekend

Its been a few days since I have posted... this weekend was crazy busy. Friday I had off which was the only day I didn't do much.

Thursday I got off early (I know rough life) and went over to my sister in laws house to see the kids while my mother in law was watching them. Went out to lunch at Boudin's... if you haven't eaten there you should. They have the best Tomato Bisque soup. :) Then we headed over to Marshall's and of course I found a pair of sunglasses that I loved.. Check em out:

I also bought this new throw that is amazing. Little piece of heaven on earth! I bought it cause our new colors for the room is gonna be mainly gray and teal. I have this attraction to teal for some reason. (Hence why it was one of our wedding colors)

Then Sunday was nothing but running around doing errands around town. Starting to organize some stuff getting ready for the move into the pool room. We have someone to take the bench and bar stools. And we have to contact a company to come move the pool table. We are going to store it in the garage for now since selling a pool table right now is tough. No one wants them or has room for them.

Anyways... thats my update :) Keep ya posted.

Not much going on...

Well i havent posted in a while. Thought I would update on some stuff... Next week is our Vegas trip to Mandalay Bay. :) I am getting excited. I wanna be sitting by that wave pool with a drink in my hand and relaxing. Doing absolutely nothing. 

As far as the room goes for remodeling, we are slowly making some changes to get it ready. We moved some stuff out of the garage to make room for the pool table since we arent able to sell it. Too many for sell and not many people want em. Hubby moved all of his stuff into one tool box to make more room.

This past weekend we also made a trip up to Ikea. One of my fav stores. lol We needed to get the 2 bookcases that matched the DVD cabinet my parents bought for the living room. And of course... we always go to the as is section and of course they had my moms desk that is normally 400 dollars on sale for 200. We snatched that thing up. Needless to say, amazingly it all fit in my car. We had to take the desk apart. But it all fit!

Here are the desk and DVD case and bookcases:

While we were there we got some Ideas for a wardrobe for our clothes in the new room. Which Ikea has a lot. So we have plenty of ideas.

We also renewed our Disneyland passes for another year and they raised their ticket prices and their annual passes. :( But I cant do without my Disney so we got them. I love Disney. :)

Hmm what else is new... Nothing really. Keep you posted!

Good day :)

Well today was a good day :) I got off early from work and had a pretty easy day. Also got my time off approved for Vegas!!! I cant wait! And as some of you know we own a house in Texas and I think we found a tenant! Our last tenant moved out last month so we were hoping that we would be able to find someone. There are a lot of renters out there so I didnt think it would be that hard. More renters then buyers thats for sure. 

Also just a quick update on the crock pot recipes. So far so good... the sweet and sour chicken was not good...yuck. But so far everything else is good. Today its the honey lime chicken. See how that turns out. :/