It's been a long, long time! I am bad at updating this. Mainly because I have a hard time navigating this website. It's kinda sad because I usually don't have too much trouble figuring things out on the computer, but this blogger thing kicks my bum.
Looking back at some of the posts I have posted, wow, I'm a nerd. I guess it's mostly for my own records anyway since no one reads this anyway. :P
And once again, wow, it's been like 6 months. Looks like I have some ground to cover! We just finished up school for the summer. It's nice to have a break! And I have decided to stay another year at SUU. It just feels right to me after praying and weighing my options. I have decided to stay and get a minor in Library Media and develop my skills and knowledge in art further. Plus, I get to keep my super chill job at the college for another year. Wahoo! So I know I made the right decision. Many people are wondering what my deal is, but I know it's best for us and that's what matters. We have a plan :]
We just celebrated our two-year anniversary last month! It was sooo much fun! We decided to go to Vegas again and wow, that was an adventure. First, we get to our hotel next to Fremont Street called El Cortez. I do NOT recommend it! We booked a "vintage room" which is an original room from the 40s that had been restored. The pictures looked SO different from the actual room! It was teeny-tiny and smelled awful like smoke. We told them that our room smelled when we had booked a non-smoking room, so they send the maid up to spray some air freshener in our room. Um, hellloooo? That's not going to work. We asked them to put us in a different room, but they were totally booked. We decided to leave for the evening and walk the strip. Despite all the sin, Vegas is still an amazing place! There is so much talent and beauty in it. Sometimes it's hard to see with all the nasty ads and partying, but it's there! Nathan and I always feel so out of place when we go, but we try to focus on the good. When we got back to our room, it smelled even worse and then our tv wouldn't turn on. Nathan called the front desk and the lady said she'd send someone up. We waited for awhile, and heard nothing. Nathan and I were ticked off and really just wanted to leave. We decided to go down to the front desk and the lady totally gave us attitude and told us since it was an old room, we had to flip the switch on the wall. She lied and said she tried to call us back, but we never heard anything. So Nathan just said we wanted a refund. They told us they couldn't refund us for the night, but they could for the rest of the weekend. So we stayed the night in a smelly,junky hotel room. Haha, what an experience!
The next day, we drove around for over an hour calling places trying to find a decent hotel room. Almost everything was booked or way out of our price range. Motel 6 was one of our last resorts and when we pulled up to look at the place, Nathan was disgusted and said, "Just book Circus, Circus, this place isn't romantic at all!" It was great and well worth the extra money!!
Later on, we were walking through the Luxor to pick up our tickets for the Titanic Exhibition. A lady walked up to us and asked if we wanted to see a free show. We asked what the catch was, and she pulled us over to a desk to talk to this guy about it. He made it sound so different than it really was. He said basically we can give two hours of our time to go tour a new hotel opening up and give our opinion and we'd get free Criss Angel tickets. We decided to do it. It ended up taking 4 hours of our time and they were pressuring us the whole time to buy a time share. It was miserable, but the Criss Angel show was worth it! It was so fun and a lot better than I thought it would be!
The next day, we went to the Titanic Exhibition. WOW! SO worth the money! They gave us each replica tickets of actual passengers on the Titanic and it gave a short background on the person. They told us to look at the lists at the end to see if our passenger survived. They had so many awesome artifacts and replicas of actual rooms from the ship, including the staircase! Nathan and I got a picture in front of it (still need to scan it in). They also had an actual chunk from the Titanic! It was 12 x 26 feet, huge! There was still glass in the windows, oh my goodness, it was so neat! They also had wine bottles with wine still inside and perfume vials that still smelled like perfume! It was so awesome. Oh, and my passenger survived, she was a first class female and Nathan's passenger perished, but he was a third class male, so I kind of expected it. But his daughter ended up surviving and was the longest living survivor from the Titanic. Soooo neat! So we had a great time in Vegas, Nathan and I always have fun together. I love us! And I'm not just saying that ;]
We have a lot of fun plans this summer! Including two trips to California! Hopefully I'll be better at updating! I added some other random pictures taken over the past couple months!
