For Christmas my parents bought Graham, Ashley, Josh and I all tickets to see Cirque du Soleil's "O" in Las Vegas. Graham and Ashley would already be in Vegas that week for a photography conference and we were just a short drive away!
So this past Saturday morning Josh and I headed out of town, leaving Sophi in good hands with our sweet friends Kyle and Lahela. Josh and I both relished our time alone in the car, quite peace where we could actually focus on what the other was saying. We arrived at our hotel a little after noon where we were pleasantly surprised to receive a free upgrade on our room upon check in!
We stayed at the Trump International Hotel just off the strip! It was fantastic, quite, and just close enough to all the action without being right in the middle of it! And our room was fabulous! A one bedroom suite complete with a full kitchen and two bathrooms, one with a two person jacuzzi tub overlooking the city! If only could have stayed a little longer!!
The show was to start at 10:00pm that evening so after strolling down the strip to check out a few of the resorts we quickly headed back to our room to take a nap. It had been a long time since we had stayed up that late!!
We met up with Graham and Ashley, who had just arrived that afternoon, at the MGM Grand to eat a yummy Japanese dinner at Shibuya! The food was awesome! After dinner we walked over to the Bellagio, where "O" was preformed, and caught one of the water fountain shows on our way in!
We, of course, all took a hand at the slot machines (unfortunately no one came up lucky) then headed on over to the theater.
Our seats (thank you Dad!!) were on the front row!! It was so amazing to see everything going on in the show from that close a veiwpoint! The performance is done around and in a 25 foot deep, 1.5 million gallon water pool where the "actors" dive, jump, swim, and do almost every type of acrobatics over the water. It was AWESOME! I even got to be a tiny part of the show when during one of the scenes a performer had me come up and handed me a flower! Too cool!
"O" ended around midnight and Josh and I decided to walk the mile or so back to our hotel. If you are in Vegas, you might as well walk the strip at night right?! Needless to say we were pretty tired when we finally reached our room!
We slept in the next morning, ate some room service then headed back to Pasadena. We laughed a lot on the way home listening to The Ricky Gerveis Project podcast!
Sophi seemed to have done pretty well with Kyle and Lahela while we were gone and I think we were more excited to see her than she was to see us!
We are so thankful for the occasional weekend away to reconnect, refresh, regroup and recharge! Thank you dad for the amazing tickets and awesome dinner. Thanks Graham and Ashley for being willing to share the experience with us! And thank you Kyle and Lahela for being willing to give up your weekend to watch our little girl so we could have a break!
Now back to the realities of life....
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