Jet Lagged

Today was a tough one. After I snoozed my alarm at 6am, I overslept and showed up to class 20 minutes later...super awesome. It was just a long day all around. All I wanted to do was take a nap but I was willing myself to stay awake so I could get back on schedule. After class, my friend and I decided to go to a gym class, which I thought would help keep me away. It didn't. I went to bed at 8pm and woke up at 11pm, thinking it was the middle of the day. The rest of the night was more sleeping and waking up about every two hours. I think I should be acclimated in the next few days, lets just hope I don't get an altitude headache. Oh, the joys of world travel ;)

Welcome Back?

I finally made it back to Lausanne and I am exhausted. It was nice to get back to my room and attempt to unpack (I didn't get very far). After going to the vending machine to get my dinner I heard a few people were having a "Welcome Back" party. It was great to see a everyone again and have a real dinner. It was funny when someone said "it's good to be back!", I replied "I'm not so sure yet". I know I will get back into the groove of things in a few days but I am already missing my parents, my cats, tacos and margaritas. I know the next 8 months will be full of adventure but right now my heart is still at home. That's ok, I'll buck up eventually.

8 bags of catfood, 2 buckets of cat litter and a travel sewing kit

My last purchase before I head back to Lausanne. I have set up my cats for the next 8 months and purchased the sewing kit that my Mom was appalled to realize I didn't already have. I supposed I am ready to go back. I thought about going out one last time but I still have to pack tonight and I am exhausted. Sorry, next time Bakersfield, if I ever come back....mwwaahahahahahahaha ;)

Leaving Las Vegas

After a huge breakfast at Hash House A-Go-Go, we hit the road. It was a fun couple of days in Vegas, my Mom had a great time and I got to spend time with my best friend and best cousin. I am really a lucky girl.

Chris Angel, Coyotes and Cans of Beer!

Today was our last night in Vegas and oh did we have fun. First, I wake up this morning around 7am and find my Mom in the bathtub. I thought she was sick but no. She decided to sleep in the tub because she was coughing all night and thought she was disturbing my cousin. I took a picture of it because it was super adorable. Since Steve and Brittney were tired and me and my Mom are early risers we decided to get dressed and see if we could get her the tattoo she wanted. We got our Starbucks and it looked like the Hard Rock was right behind our hotel. We decided to have an earlier morning walk but 1.5 miles later we realized we should have taken a cab. Oh well. We went to the tattoo parlor and my mom decided to wait on getting the tattoo. Next on the agenda was taking a taxi to the Luxor and getting my Mom tickets to see Chris Angel. OMG, my Mom was so excited and I was glad for her!

Next, we walked through the hotels,stopped at Fat Burger for lunch and then went back to the hotel. My Mom decided to take a nap to get ready for the night. I changed into my suit for my meetings and led Brit and Steve to the food court for lunch. After my meetings were over I called everyone, Mom was at the show and Steve and Brit were already 2 drinks in. They informed me that there was vodka in the room and I knew it was going to be a good night. I got back to the room, took 3 shots, prepared myself a drink, shoved the last 2 bottles of beer in my purse and caught a cab to the Luxor.

When I got there Steve and Brit were already at it. We decided to walk to the Excalibur so I could go to the food court and I handed the beers over to Brittney. We didn't have a bottle opener so Steve was smart enough to open the beers on a Thunder Down Under sign, clever bastard. After dinner, we headed back to pick up my Mom from the show. I found her in the gift shop so excited and buying her souvenirs. I am so glad my Mom really got to enjoy Vegas. After the show, I bought my Mom and I a couple of tall boys and then we headed to Coyote Ugly. The details of the rest of the evening are classified. In short, Steve is a fantastic dancer, Brittney should quit her day job and become a Coyote girl, My Mom has definitely still got it and as for me, well, it's better if I don't say.

After Coyote Ugly, Steve and Brittney had this weird trance dub step moment as we headed back to the hotel, we put Steve to bed, had a midnight snack and called it a night. Overall, I would say we did Vegas right, good job us!

We rocked Vegas so hard we were in bed by midnight!

After getting the car loaded and driving for 4 hours we made it to Vegas and boy did we go ;). We checked into the Planet Hollywood and I quickly changed and headed off to a meeting. While I was in my meeting on could only imagine what was going on with Brit, Steve and my Mom. When my meeting was finished I headed back to the hotel to find all of them at the bar going at it. Steve was 2 long islands in and my Mom and Brit killed a bucket of coronas! And we were just getting started. I went back to the room and changed. Then we took my Mom on a tour of the strip. Just when things we were starting to get crazy.......we decided to go to bed. We took my mom and got her some food. Then after we tucked her in we tried to pick up the pace and went to the main hotel bar. After Steve and I spend 20 minutes being fascinated by the chandelier we decided to call it a night... Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

Happy New Year!