Vegas Day 4!

I thought I would share some pictures of our amazing hotel room. I have not stopped thanking the Lord for this opportunity for us to come and have such a lavish vacation. Day and I are always blown away and humbled by the many opportunities that working at Alcon have given us. We do not feel deserving, but hope that we can be faithful and obedient to what the Lord continues to bless us with. Today was much less busy. Day was in the conf. from about 8 until noon, then we met for lunch and he had more stuff until around 3:30. I spent the morning swimming, (the only free form of exercise they offer;) and after lunch went venturing out on my own to find a shoe outlet that I had seen advertised everywhere. I found some good deals and got some cute shoes. Later that night we decided to see the Blue Man Group show since we’re not planning on coming back to Vegas, probably ever. It started out pretty slow, but the last hour was awesome! Being our last night in Vegas and all…we had to try our hand at the slots. We had a $25 voucher from Travelocity, so we couldn’t let it go to waste. I think overall we left with about $40 or so dollars. Not to shabby! I think it’s going to take us a week to recover from this “vacation.” We head home tomorrow evening, so I’ll probably spend tomorrow packing and waiting for Day to finish up. Thanks for keeping up with our trip and thanks again to everyone who made it possible for us to come! We love you all! (Mom& Dad, Janie& Ernest, Jennifer, Natalie & David, Tracy & Charlie & Julia)

Vegas Day 3!

We had a much more relaxing day today and yet very much fun. We skipped working out all together and headed straight for the breakfast buffet and noticed that the computer nerds were out in droves today! After we ate, Day went down to the conference to register and got to do some things he was looking forward to working on. A few hours later he came back and was now an official computer nerd, backpack, badge and all! Then we were off to the pool for some more r&r. Later on we got cleaned up and headed out to dinner and a Gondola ride. We had a 20% off coupon, but even still it was pretty over-rated. After the sun went down we went down to the Bellagio to watch the fountain show. It was very cool. I’m always in awe of the constant over the top nature of everything here. The hotels, the food, the shows, the entertainment…it’s all bigger, better, more exciting. Crazy really. We had another fun filled day, but now it’s off to bed. Day will be at the conf. most of the day tomorrow so I’ll have some time alone…sounds wonderful to me!

Vegas Day 2!

Today we went to the Shark Reef Exhibit at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. It was really neat, and all I could think of was how much the boys would have liked it. We walked around a few other hotels then went to the Las Vegas Outlet mall and Day and I both got us some new clothes, and I got me some new running shoes...not that I'm getting a lot of running in here. We woke up and got ready to go run at the fitness center here in our hotel. After walking all over just to find it we were informed that it cost $35 per person per DAY to use the workout facility...ARE YOU KIDDING ME! If I run for 35 minutes that a dollar a minute...not to mention that I spend less then that a month for 24 Hour Fitness. "No thank you." we said and quickly left and went out to the pool area to see if maybe we could just run out there. After walking around to find a good pathway, we started jogging only to be quickly stopped by a very manly female security guard who informed us that we were not allowed to run out here and if we wanted to run we had to go down to the street. So, feeling very defeated and deflated, we headed back to our room, got dressed and headed to the breakfast buffet! So much for our workout, maybe we'll try running on the street tomorrow, we'll see. After our busy afternoon, we headed down to the pool for some r&r, then we got dressed for a night on the town with dinner at Maggino’s followed by the Cirque Du Soleil show called Mystere. It was amazing and we loved it. Day will start his conference tomorrow, so tomorrow should be more relaxing.

Sorry I had to resort back to the slide show method, but I spent over an hour trying to use bloggers format w/ a few pictures and Day even tried, but we couldn't figure out the issue, so slide show it is:)