*Vegas Baby*

Mark's best friend is Matt. They have known each other pretty much their whole lives. Their birthdays are 3 days apart. Last year Heather, Matt's wife, and I started planning a birthday surprise for their upcoming 30TH birthday!! We decided to plan a weekend in V-E-G-A-S! As it got closer to their birthdays Matt thought he was just spending a weekend in Vegas with Heather alone, and Mark didn't know where we were going but thought it was just the two of us.

Mark didn't know we were going to Vegas until I got on the Carefree highway. He was so excited BUT still only thought it was a weekend for just the two of us. Matt and Heather flew in at 6am so they had been there for a while trying to waste time. Mark and I got there around 3. Heather stalled as long as she could but Matt was tired so they went back to the hotel. Heather left a key for me with the front desk, I told Mark I wanted to check in all by myself since I had never done that before and plus it was my gift to him so he needed to just stay put in the car.

I got the key and drove over to our parking spot. We got all of our stuff and headed up to the room. We walked in and put our bags down. We started to look around when Mark saw a set of keys and some shoes. He instantly freaked out and started saying the hotel gave us someone else's room! I was trying to hold a strait face so he wouldn't get suspicious. He kinda peaked in the bedroom and saw that someone was laying in the bed! He turned around, about running me over and said, "We gotta get out of here!!" It was so funny!! I told him to relax and to look in the bedroom. He didn't have his glasses on so he couldn't hardly see anything. Matt was laying in his bed, I swear he was looking right at Mark but his eyes were half open so I wasn't sure if he was awake or not. Both boys just stared at each other for about 30 seconds until their eyes focused enough to realise who the other person was. Surprise 1 complete:)

Later that night we went to the Bellagio Buffet and about died from over eating! We were there for hours just eating, eating, and eating!! After dinner Heather and I had to get the guys over to the flower exhibit for surprise number 2!! We walked around for a while when the Erb's showed up!! We had told the guys earlier that Todd had to work so they weren't going to be able to make it so both of them were pretty surprised. It was such a fun night!

Surprise number 3 came the next morning. We put the guys in the back seat, I drove while Heather told me where to go. They had no idea what we were doing I think until they saw us pull up to Vegas Speedway! We pulled into a place called ExoticRacing. They each got to drive a exotic car 5 laps around the race track. It was so much fun to watch:) After that Matt took us to this Asian restaurant where I tried Pha....if you know me you know I pretty much stick to the same food all of the time, so the fact that Matt could get me to eat something like this was pretty amazing. To my surprise it was actually delicious! I want to find some places here in AZ that have it so I can go eat some more:)

Later that night we went to a amazing Italian restaurant that Matty knew about....he knows where all the good finds for food are:) We got done with dinner at about 11 and then headed over to the Palms. My buddy from High School is a Host there and wanted us to come down for a fun night. We got there at about 12 I think, there were like 50 people waiting in line to get into this club/lounge. Jon-Karl came out to meet us and walked all 6 of us past the crowd and past the velvet rope! It was so cool...kinda felt important:) He showed us around and then had to get back to work. The view was incredible!! We spend the next hour dancing our butts off WHICH is pretty amazing considering who I am married to. LOL Vegas totally brought a new side of Mark out that I have never seen!

The weekend was amazing and so much fun! It was the first time we have ever vacationed with the Erb's and Wrights which is totally ridiculous! I'm looking forward to the next fun vacation:)