Ben and I had been looking forward to this trip since early Spring when we booked it for our Anniversary celebration this year (even if it was a month later), and I can’t believe it has already come and gone (where has 2014 gone?), but boy did we ever have ourselves a BLAST our first day of our vacation! Since we were coming down for a company retreat at Lake Las Vegas, we decided we might as well make good use of the gas to get there and come a day early to see the sights this time around. I was bummed when we came down for a business even in January of 2013 and did not get to see anything, so this experience was long overdue in my opinion. We even managed to get a hotel for 27 bucks, and with the sight-seeing not costing us a thing we figured it was well worth the venture! Boy did that 110 degree heat ever test our desire to see all the sights, but we made it and we have some AMAZING memories that will last a lifetime! These memories include a long drive to talk and jam out to music together, shopping and lunch in St. George, finding a plant that Ben remembers from growing up in new Mexico that he LOVED the smell of, touring all the hotels-especially the Venetian (my personal FAVORITE), picking out my own oyster and getting a beautiful pearl as a souvenir, enjoying a smoothie and some rejuvenation together, making really good friends with the water mist machines and fans, watching the water show at the Bellagio, swimming and cooling off back at our hotel, and my personal favorite and the high-light of the exciting day in Vegas-ZIP LINING!!! I had seen the Freemont Street Zip Line in a couple of movies and t.v. shows and I decided I wanted to do it one day! Well we made it happen and it was a small victory for me with my extreme fear of heights and a desire to sky dive one day. The zip line is 77 feet high and 1750 feet long and you go between 35 and 40 mph. It was such a rush to experience it alongside Ben and for $20/person it was SO worth it!!! It was the PERFECT ending to a WONDERFUL day together.
P.S.-You may notice that I am wearing three different outfits in this post, but it was all in one day. What can I say, when it is that hot outside and you hate feeling gross you may take a few showers and change your outfit a few times. Good thing I planned for that and packed accordingly. :)
It was a day full of exploring and adventure together!
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