Hello Everyone! I know, I know...it has been FOREVER since I blogged and I know you are dieing to know what happened in Vegas and if it stayed in Vegas or not. So let me begin....
I got there on April 23 and that was a long flight...for some reason I was thinking a short 2 hour flight...nope 3+ hours. Yikes and let me just say the landing was AWEFUL!!! Because Vegas is located in a valley there are some nice gushes of wind that rock your plane back and forth... I seriously felt green after landing! Yuck!
So we get to the hotel and it is the coolest hotel I have ever been to in my life...it was great. It was the Red Rock Casino, Spa and Resort....if you saw the movie 21 that recently came out then you have seen the inside of the hotel....most of the Vegas scenes in that movie where shot at that hotel. Here is their website if you are interested to see it...
http://www.redrocklasvegas.com/ Anyways...we get there, check into our room (which is the picture above...me and my room) and then we headed down-stairs to begin working. And let me tell you we worked really, REALLY hard all week! The first few days were prep days and so we would get ready for the convention and then at night our boss would take us out to dinner....speaking of which I have a few tails to tell regarding my "dinning experience in Vegas".
So the first restaurant we went to was called Terra Rosa and the chief there was one of the Hell's Kitchen winners. I had Sea Bass and Swordfish for the first time and let me just say....FABULAS!!!! YUM! I will definitely have those dishes again! Hello!! The second restaurant we went too was called T-Bones...it is the really expensive steak place... I mean just the steak itself for $50. You then had to purchase each side item by itself...prices ranged from $10-$20 per side item...needless to say it could easily cost $100 per person! Yikes!
Anyways...so me and another lady I work with, Kelli, decided to spilt the T-Bone and the New York strip and a loaded baked potato. As our server was bringing out our food he ran into another server and I saw this container go flying in the air...all this white stuff just flying through the air and I thought, "Oh! That must be our cheese!" Well has it splattered on my head, shoulder, back and leg...I realized it was NOT cheese, but SOUR CREAM!!!! All up in my hair, and all over the ONLY suit I brought for the conference…I was wearing the suit because you had to dress a certain way to dine at this restaurant. I of course immediately started laughing...what else could I do?!
As I am sitting there turning red from laughing and my co-workers are just staring at me like I am nuts and if it had been them they would be yelling at the guy…2 of the biggest managers I have ever seen came over and surrounded me. It was like something out of an Italian mafia movie. As they hovered above me they were telling me that I didn’t want to get my dry-cleaning compted but rather would want something taken off of the bill that way I could see instant results. Because if I got my dry-cleaning compted they would have to see the bill and mail me a check and that could take up to a few weeks. So I told them okay…take it off the bill. I really just wanted them to stop intimidating me by breathing down my neck…I told my boss they were going to reduce the ticket cost some and he very kindly said he would take care of the dry-cleaning since it would be about the same amount that was coming off the bill! So for the rest of the night as we continued to prep for the conference I had sour cream hair! Let’s just say after we were done that evening I went up stairs and took a nice long, hot bath in the world’s largest tub…no joke. If I were to try to touch my feet to the end of the tub I would have drowned easy…it was really long, and deep…very nice!
Anyways…here is how the rest of the time went….work until 12,1,or 2 am, then get up and at 5am to be at work by 6am and do the same thing….work until 12,1,or 2 am. Many days this occurred….one of my main jobs was the money lady. I was assigned to registration but when we got there the money took on a life of its own….we had a 50/50 Raffle, a Silent Auction and Live Auction and I was in charge of all that cash!! There were times when my raffle sellers would be there to pick up more tickets and hand in cash AND some one would be wanting to pay for an auction item…I was the only one allowed to take money basically so let’s just say I went crazy with money…every time I ran out of tickets to sell I had to go downstairs to the safety deposit box and get more, put up the money and tickets stubs, etc. I went down to the box so many times the people working the front desk knew exactly who I was…no joke!! I would be walking up and they would say, “Do you need into your box again?” They were my friends during the conference…ha ha!
The last day of the conference we were done at 12 noon, but we had to pack and ship things back to Little Rock…so we finished about 4 pm and I went outside for the first time since getting there 8 days earlier… I lounged by the pool! It was great! I spent about an hour and a half out by the pool and then I met up with my co-workers and we ate at this HUGE buffet place….$25.00 a person! It was good! I actually got to go to bed at a descent hour that night…keep in mind by this time I really have only had about 14-15 hours of sleep in 4-5 days!
We got up early to catch our flight and it was a great trip home… I tried to sleep but that just didn’t work since the man behind me was coughing up his left lung and I was afraid he would hock a loogie into my hair! It was nasty!! Coming home was great…Aaron picked me up and he even had a welcome home present…he bought me Becoming Jane!! Then he took me out for a wonderful steak dinner! I was so great coming home! I think I slept about a million hours the next day! We went and saw Lucy…who has just turned 1 years old! She is getting so big! Merlin wouldn’t leave me alone… I think he missed me!
Well I think that is all the details on Vegas….more to come on life in Little Rock!
Hello everyone....we have some great news!!! Our house is going to sell!!! We have a young couple with 3 kids who are doing a lease-to-purchase on the house. That means they are going lease it from us until July 2009 at which point we will close on the house!!! There is a light at the end of the tunnel!
payment on a house here. I have to be honest I think we are going to opt for the former rather than the later.... I know on one hand that will probably mean more days of sadness for me, but on the other hand I keep thinking we will FINALLY be able to get our feet back under us financially! Thus allowing us to buy a house here without a fear of where is the money going to come from! Yippy!
