Vegas!

So I have been trying to put this post together for several days now. Had the pictures all downloaded and blogger wouldn't post them to the blog...so frustrating. Well anyway, here are what I have but I may have more when everyone else posts their pictures but this is what I got for now! LOL

So I got there on a Thursday night, got to the hotel (The Tropicana) and got ready for dinner. Now let me tell you the Trop may look okay from the inside but the rooms were crappy. They weren't any better than a Holiday Inn. Met up with some friends and we went and had dinner at the Rainforest Cafe in the MGM hotel. If you have never been to a Rainforest Cafe, you need to, it's really cool. After dinner, we went out on the strip for a while and then back to one of the guys suites for a party. It gotta pretty interesting there since there was a hot tub and alcohol was flowing. So much so that one guy actually got naked in the hot tub, lathered up, and proceeded to prance around the suite in his birthday suit. Unfortunately I didn't take my camera for fear of breaking it, so unless someone posts pictures of the evening, I don't have any right now.

This is the Tropicana where I stayed

Jess, me, and Vicki before going to dinner

The Excalibur hotel

On Friday morning, my friend Jess and I got up early and went to see the Hoover Dam. That was really cool.

Walked all the way across from Nevada into Arizona...lol!

Lake Mead...me and Jess...the white on the rocks shows how far down the water is...they have been under a "drought" for the past 6 years

Friday night, I got to get dressed up and go see the live show Phantom of the Opera! Way cool! And then more walking on the strip. We also went and saw Fremont Street which is the old strip.

Standing outside the show with friends

Inside the hotel...looks so real!

On the strip at night

Saturday we went shopping and walked up and down the strip...it's a long way! My feet ached!

New York, New York Hotel

Treasure Island Hotel

Caesar's Palace

Water Show at the Bellagio...fancy hotel!

Paris Hotel...so wanted to go up in the Eiffel Tower...but alas, maybe next time!

Visited M&M World! This is Jess...she took my pic too!

Hanging at ESPN sportszone bar and game room...beer flowing!

Saturday night was our formal dinner at $55 a plate and we celebrated two of our friends birthdays. One of them was so wasted he doesn't even remember dinner or throwing his part of the cake across the table.

My cool dress I bought for the dinner!

With the gang on the strip on the last night!

Sunday morning got up packed my things and went to one last lunch at Toby Keith's bar and grill restaurant. Good food! and then it was back to the hotel to pick up luggage and head to the airport...of course I proceeded to do a bit of drinking in the hotel and was a little tipsy when I boarded my plane to head back to the freezing temperatures of KY...brrrr!

Anyway, there's your pics, at least the ones I had....hopefully more to come when my friends get theirs up!

Powderpuff Football

So I know you all want to see pictures from my Vegas trip but you will have to wait a bit longer for those...they're coming, I swear!

Today I'm going to rant and rave about powderpuff football. I am a junior sponsor at the school where I teach and this year I was in charge of the organization of the junior part of the game. Now supposedly it is a "tradition" that the seniors always win. I say bullshit! That is ridiculous! Of course I told my girls that the game will be called fair and it will go okay. They of course are a bunch of pansies and scared cause the senior team had some big girls on it. Well the game arrived and started with the seniors coming on to the field before the game and dousing my girls with water balloons and twinkies. Yes, I said twinkies...wtf? Real classy! The game gets started and we marched down the field to score the first touch down. THen we go for the two point conversion. Got it. The seniors go down and score but do not convert the extra points. So we are up 8-6 at the end of the first quarter. That's when the trouble began. Next thing you know, the penalties start adding up against the juniors as we consistently march down the field. The seniors are scared and so of course the officials step in and start working their magic so that we can't win. However, we are winning, and unless they score, they can't stop us. However, with the onslaught of bogus penalties, our girls get riled up and start becoming just a bit more aggressive. Nothing is done and the game quickly gets out of hand. Girls are being pushed both ways and getting kicked in the mouth sometimes. Well my co-sponsor has had enough and goes to talk to the referees, telling them in not so nice terms that it needs to be called fair and if there is one more flagrant play, the game is done. No sense in getting someone hurt. Well wouldn't you know it, the next play results in a girl down on the sidelines unable to breathe. She is taken to the ER in an ambulance and that is where the game ends and I spend the rest of my evening. My birthday none-the-less! WTF! Now my problem with this whole scenario is of course the sense of fair play. Now tradition is great and I am all for the kids having a sense of tradition and pride. But to put winning a game above honesty and integrity! To teach our kids it doesn't matter how hard you work, how much you do, you can't win? Give me a break! Just doesn't seem right to me to hand seniors a win regardless of what they do. I thought our job as educators was to instill in these kids a sense of values not a sense that winning is everything. So sad!

Well off to balance my checkbook and check emails! Much love!