July 2-8

Today, my cousin picked my family up (at 5:30) and drove us to the airport. We got there, printed our boarding passes, checked our bags, got breakfast, and waited for our plane to arrive. Where, you might ask, were we going? To Las Vegas! This was a pretty big deal, because my sister and I had never been farther west than Texas. The purpose of the voyage was to go to a family friend's wedding, but my family made a trip out of it!




When we landed, we drove around a bit, got lunch, and went to the church! It was a very pretty, simple ceremony, and the bride's dress was gorgeous!




Afterwards, we went to our hotel and took a nap! We then got ready and dolled up to go to the reception, which was held at a resort in the mountains.


The view was incredible!

The food was great, the music was pretty good, and the dancing was fun! I kept an eye on my little cousins, which is always a blast.

The night ended late, and we slept in the next day. :)

On the 3rd, we checked out a bunch of the swanky casinos, one of which being Paris. We, of course, went up in the Eiffel Tower, which was crazyawesome! My sister forgot about her fear of heights until we were up there, so she stayed glued to the middle of the viewing deck.




We went to Hoover Dam on the 4th of July, and I thought the video that they showed us before we went up was pretty dang cool (mostly because it looked like it was made in the 60s, which I love). :D The view here was pretty breathtaking, too. My sister and I got the obligatory one-person-standing-on-each-side-of-the-Nevada/Arizona-boarder picture, which was fun!

The next couple of days, we traversed from casino to casino, and had a whole lot of Panda Express. Here are some more pictures from the trip:

(My first time zip-lining - pretty fun.)

I think this post or my next one will be the last in this series, because I don't really feel like writing about every single thing I did, and I'm sure no one really wants to read that. Plus, I have some cool topics to write about.

Laytah.