The following post was written last night and I lost it but then… recovered it! Woo! So here it is, written by yesterday me. 
Hello from home again! I don’t know if I previously mentioned this but Saturday morning Matt and I left for Las Vegas to spend the weekend there celebrating my sister’s 30th birthday. Today is her actual birthday so let me say, happy birthday Lindsay!
Saturday morning we woke up early, cleaned, packed, and got things taken care of before leaving.
Bathroom self portrait before leaving for a small, local airport.
Our flight got delayed about 2 hours, so there was lots of waiting (with my parents). And waiting means having people take pictures of you, or eat. That’s pretty much the two main things I do when I’m free 
When we finally boarded, I realized I was flying in a sardine can. Seriously, that had to be the smallest plane ever.
And there was a really annoying lady behind us bitching about not catching her shuttle in Vegas because the flight was behind. And she was talking about it forever before hand, too. It’s like, lady, do you want the plane to be safe or do you want to potentially die to catch a $12 shuttle? Ugh, people can be annoying sometimes.
Once we got to our hotel—we stayed at The Cosmopolitan because that is where our group stayed—we checked out the balcony and sweet bathroom. (I took tons of photos but am too lazy to take them off my other camera right now!)
Even though it was hot out, I somehow got kind of cold (AC in the room too low, maybe) and was fighting the goosebumps in the above picture. I realized when I uploaded these to my laptop that I must have been flexing because I was cold because the other one’s look dumb, like I’m trying to suck in only, you know, with my legs.
Although if I was going to fake/suck in for pictures, I’d wear a long skirt to cover my thight chub. Whatcha gonna do about it? 
It was a great first night. We gambled a little drank a little, walked around the hotel, and relaxed. For dinner we bought pizza by the slice at a little pizzeria in our hotel.
I had two slices the size of my face (almost) and that’s big! That’s why Sunday morning started off with a trip to the gym! There I ran 2 miles and biked 3 miles, in addition to around 1/2 mile or so on the elliptical. We wanted to work out all three mornings but when we found out it was $15/person/day, we cut that down to 1 day. $30 to work out was ridiculous but we did it because we’d rather pay than skip!
The gym in our hotel, aside from being pricey, was very nice! Didn’t love the bikes and ellipticals but the free weights and weight machines were very nice.
After the gym we got breakfast, ate it out at a longue area, then enjoyed the rest of our coffee on our balcony. Nice morning!
I had my first black and white cookie, by the way, and I absolutely loved it! Probably not as a breakfast choice (heh..) but then again, it was pretty damn good 
Seriously! Moist and googey and oh that chocolate topping was soo good. Yum.
Need to move on now!
Sunday we shopped and gambled, both unsuccessfully.
Lunch was a win, though:
And so was my afternoon snack:
Feast your eyes on $66 worth of alcohol, my friends. (The two red ones were ours). They good. Not $66 good but it’s Vegas. You have to.
We then met up with the “birthday party” (see what I did there!) and went to dinner at The Sugar Factory.
My sister got some drink that looked like this:
Nuts, right? I don’t think she drank the whole thing because that wouldn’t have been smart! But she said it was good. And strong. Everyone tried it and confirmed!
After dinner we went to my sister’s room where she got her cake:
We watched the water & lights show at the Bellagio from the balcony in their room, visited, enjoyed the view, and then headed back out for a bit before calling it a night.
The next morning we gambled and did some shopping before checking out of our hotel, taking a taxi to the airport and heading back home.
Same tiny plane and this time the pilots left the sliding doors to the cockpit open and we watched them fly the plane the whole time. Some of the stuff they did made me want to land immediately but I guess it was all legit since I’m alive
After we got home, I unpacked all of our stuff and Matt and I relaxed with the dogs. Now it’s just a low key night and preparing to get back to the real world tomorrow! BOO to vacation being over! 
So here’s yesterday in a nutshell.
It was stalker Wednesday so I got stalked, of course. 
But TOMORROW after work I am FINALLY getting my roots done. 
Haha!
But I’m leaning toward aftermath of my burn.
I have a curling iron that I’ve been using since 2005! Now that’s quality! 
I planned to hit up the gym again this evening to run, so I knew I’d need to refuel in the afternoon to be able to attempt a run. Since there was no protein around, I got the next best thing: coffee!
