I am home from my weekend vacation in Vegas with my bff, Eileen! I took SO many pictures, so make sure to check them out. Well, I flew out thursday after school. My first flight got delayed from 6 to 8 pm, causing me to miss my connecting flight in Atlanta. So, they booked me on the 1030 pm flight from ATL to LV. The flight over was ok, I was stuck in the middle seat (aka the bitch seat), but it wasn’t too bad. I get out of the gate, go get a smoothie, and go sit down at what I think my gate is. I sit for a minute, and realize everyone is talking about Tampa. Turns out my gate got chanced from concourse D to the END of concourse C. I barley make the tram, almost falling on a little girl, and I finally get there only to see my 1030 pm flight has been delayed until 1240 am! SO I didn’t get into Vegas until almost 3 am VEGAS TIME. Poor Eileen waited for me at the airport for almost 4 hours.

We finally get to our hotel- Harrah’s on the Strip- and we pass out. We get up leisurely, we go get lunch, and then we walk around. We take a shuttle to the Rio hotel, and we sign up for tickets to see Penn & Teller. We walk around Rio, we shop, and we take the shuttle over to the Las Vegas Paris hotel. Ok, no surprise, but I LOVED THIS HOTEL! lol. It is so cute! It has a huge Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, and inside….it was like you were walking the Parisian Streets. Tinny shops, a painted sky on the ceiling, and lots of french stuff everywhere! I found the cutest Tee shirt that doesn’t look like a  tourist tee shirt, and so many other things! Then we went back to our hotel, changed, and took the shuttle over the Rio again. We ate dinner and then we went and saw the Penn & Teller show. It was a beautiful theater, and it was very cool to see such legends live! The show was amazing! It was very simple and subtle. Nothing to big or flashy (I know, in Vegas right?) but it was perfect. I liked the show because they would explain some of the tricks. Also, Penn talked so fast that you had to keep up with him! It was so cute that Teller never spoke. He still was very expressive.

After the show, both Penn & Teller were out in the hall way taking pictures and giving autographs. So, I actually got to meet Penn, get a picture, and get an autograph! Its not the best picture (it was taken with  my phone), but it was very cool. He kept calling me Boss. It was cute. I told him the show was awesome, and he said “Great Boss!” lol. Then we ended up going back to the hotel. I was so exhausted. Stupid jet lag…

The next morning we got up, got breakfast, and checked out almost ALL of the casinos on the strip. We saw the MGM, New York, New York, the Bellagio, Ceaser’s Palace, etc. We walked through the Forum Shops-where they have all the designer shops there and where we also saw Pete Rose. Then we got lunch at Planet Hollywood. We ended up having Ceaser Salad’s in Ceaser’s Forum Shops!! lol. It was really good too. The ceaser salad we had the night before was amazing too! We went to vegas and found great dressing! hahaha. That night we went to see Rita Rudner (the comidienne). We got to meet her and got a picture with her too! She was really funny.

My favorite line was “I’ve told my husband that he could replace me with another wife, but she is going to do all the same things that annoy him.” lol. After the show, we went to dinner, the venetian hotel (which has a real canal and gondola rides in it!) and walked around. We went back to our hotel late and passed out. lol. Sunday we got up, checked out, and walked around. We went to Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum. (See me here with French Actor, Gerad Depardieu!). Eileen and I had WAY too much fun posing with the statues. lol. So enjoy those pictures After that we went over to the Mile Shops and saw Popavich’s Comedy Pet Theatre. It was completely campy, but the dogs and cats were so freaking cute!!! After the show we went to the Paris hotel and gambled a bit (I sucked at it lol) and we went and had dinner at this AMAZING french restaurant called “Mon Ami Gabi”. The food was so amazingly good! After dinner, we went to the airport, and the rest is history. Nothing really exciting happened on the flight back except it wasn’t delayed or anything! lol. I came home and passed out for 6 hours-and Im about to go to bed again here soon.

Anyways, check out my pictures and enjoy! I had a really fun weekend and it was so great to see Eileen. Ciao!

Hot irish chicks lol

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St Patty’s Day parade!! Mom, me, David, and Meg all went down to teh St Patty’s day parade down town. My brother and Dad were in the parade with the Irish Brigade. We had a lot of fun *(s you can tell by the pictures). Actually one of my students was in the parade!! It was very cool.

We then went for food and drinks at the local irish restaurant/pub with all of the Irish Brigade. It was…..crazy. But I did eat a very green meal-salad and a midori sour! lol. Greenest meal ive ever eaten! hahaha. But it was fun.

Happy St Patricks day! Slìante!

So, I am still going to Paris. My flight is booked. Im going.

Now, i just need to find a place to live. No luck with the possible roommate I blogged about earlier. To me, it seemed like we had a communcation problem. And if we were having this much dificultly discussing the lease, money, etc-than it would be an interesting summer.

So I am still looking, if anyone knows anyone in Paris let me know please! I do have some leads, and I’m sure it will all work out in the end.

On brighter news, I am going to see Jason Mraz perform in Richmond on the 18th!!!! I LOVE HIM! So, I am very excited. Must be the year of concerts. Maroon 5, Darren Hayes, and No Mr. A-z!! Hopefully Jenn will be able to go, but if she can’t I’ll be looking for someone to join me!

and only $30!!!!

Ok, some highlights from the protect post that I can share to the general public and stalkers alike:

*Computer crashed-currently using Mom’s at the moment, hope to have it back up very soon

*New boyfriend is AMAZING. just had to share

*I’m completely happy again. Life is really good right now.

Other things not in the protected post:

* I am going to get my TEFL Certificate (Teaching English as a Second Language) and move to France (hopefuly Paris). I want to teach English to (hot and young? lol) business men. I have always wanted to live in Paris (my soul feels at home there) and I gave that up once before, and I am not going to again. But it is all still up in the air, but that is my goal!

*Christmas was good. Santa sent me lots of movies and cute stuff. Tomorrow Mom and I are hitting the mall!! Family is good, had a nice time. It was a little tough since it was my first Christmas since D Day, but hey what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, right?

*My bro is engaged (since Turkey day-I was seriously sick so I couldn’t blog about it…or maybe i did? Damn you adhd!)

*My best friend is coming to visit me from Cali soon, so I am soooo excited! Look for pictures

*Spent Christmas Eve with the boyfriend’s fam and had a really great time. Really good people who are down to earth and laid back. Lots of fun

I really think thats all. My boyfriend is amazing and life is really really good. So, again if you want my password, just ask. Text me or email me!

So i had the flu for a week. Yea sucked ASS!

I went to work Monday with a fever. Came home 2 hours later and literally slept all day. Had a fever almost all week. Then the throwing up and the what not proceeded. Haven’t really been able to eat anything all week, so Ive lost like 10 lbs! lol. I am still really weak, on acount of not haven eaten and all. So tomorrow, when I go back to work, things should be interesting. Ive spent the past few days at my Mom’s house being taken care of like I was 12 again. It was nice. Especially after being so used to taking care of my self all the time.

Well, she rented ghost whisper season 1 for me, so Im gonna go curl up on the couch and watch it. Back to work tomorrow!