Yeah, I suck...

So it's true, I SUCK at blogging. Update:

Andrew and I just got back from a wonderful long weekend in Las Vegas. His brother lives there and we have been trying to get out there for months, but it just wasn't happening. However, we finally scheduled a flight and spent 4 fabulous days there! Since we were in Vegas we had to do the normal things such as walking the strip and a little gambling, but we were also able to do a few other outings that most people skip, such as:

1. Hiking around the Valley of Fire. Gorgeous red rock formations swirled with yellow, white and orange. It was probably my favorite part of the trip! Nothing really makes you think about how amazing nature is more than beautiful surroundings, PERFECT weather, and great company.

2. Enjoying culinary treats such as liquor milkshakes (just imagine...bailey's, bryer's, milk, and alcoholic whipped cream), free all you can eat tacos and all you can drink margaritas (don't ask me about this, I do not know why it was happening or how the restaurant made money, I just know it was awesome), and homemade mini burgers and beer can chicken on the grill.

3. Seeing a Cirque du Soleil show. Now I know this is a typical thing to do in Vegas, but since Andrew's brother works for VIVA ELVIS, we were able to get a backstage tour and see how cool productions can be when you have 200 million dollars to spend. For example, the sets guide themselves into position through lasers. That's right, LASERS! The set piece has a laser on the bottom that turns on and guides the piece into position through mirrors placed on the floor. Welcome to 2011!

4. We also visited "CBS's Television City". Here we watched a proposed show and rated it on how much we liked the concept, characters, etc. Lucky us. The show we were selected to watch was entitled "Swamp Queens". The idea was to explore the tiny beauty pageants in rural Louisiana, introduce you to some "colorful" characters and let you explore the life of a beauty queen. It was awful! First of all, the narrator had a thick, artificial southern accent which grated at my ears until I wanted to find the voice over man, sit him down, and explain that he should really quit his job. Secondly, the characters we were supposed to care about were so one dimensional that it was impossible to form feelings about them in any way, even if you did care about small town beauty pageants. The saddest part though? I really can see this show making it to TV...