Vegas Baby!!!

I know it throws everyone off when I tell them we went to Las Vegas this weekend. Our ten year wedding anniversary is tommorow and we were supposed to go to Maui for our big Ten. We were talking about it all last year and then around Christmas time we started asking each other if we had made any arrangements. We had not picked a date, saved money, got a babysitter, nothing. So I said the most grown up thing I think I have ever said since "I do", I said lets just put our yard in and go next year. I really want nice grass again and shrubs and rocks. I was so spoiled at our last house to have grass done when we moved in. But it will make the wait worth it when my kids can stay outside to play and I won't have to sweep every night all the dirt that gets tracked in. So back to Vegas. We always get the winter blahs and head to St. George this time of year. But it has not been that warn there and gas prices are crazy. So I found a trip and we flew there with no children for the first time in our parenting years. We have left them overnight with grandparents but never for more than 18 hours. We stayed out late and slept in even later. We ordered room service for breakfast (another thing we have never done) and I took the longest shower in my whole life! (Sorry to waste water but once in my whole lifetime?) I am sure people who go to Vegas do a lot worse. We ate long dinners and went to a couple of shows. We walked and walked! We watched the Bellagio water show from the top of the Eiffel Tower at Midnight. This was such a fun trip for us to reconnect as a couple who got married because we were interesting to each other. We sometimes forget to check in with each other on that flirt level that brought us together in the first place. Some weeks we are "mom and dad" and that is great but we need to remember what started this whole thing we have here. So home again, tired and a few pounds heavier but very happy.