Vegas Report, The Real One...Part One

OK now that I've tormented you all with the teaser report, I'm writing my real one!

I left here Tuesday morning and flew to Salt Lake City. Silly SW Airlines routed me through Vegas for a 2 hour layover, and charged me $40 less to go on to Salt Lake! So Stasha picked me up at the airport in her DD's car, since hers was in the shop! We drove out to the Great Salt Lake and attempt to visit an LNS, which was closed! Then we had to pick her car up at the shop. So I got to drive her DD's car back to her DD. Trying to get into the car was interesting. FOr those who don't know us, Stasha is about 10 inches shorter than I am, so I had to do some major seat adjustments before I had any hope of fitting behind the wheel!

While Stasha was rescuing her car, I picked up my voicemail to discover I had been offered a 5 week temporary assignment in Phoenix...oops I don't live there anymore! So I called them back and told them, I'd love to take it, but had to be able to tele-commute the entire assignment. That didn't work for this client, so I hung up and ensured their file was noted with my updated information!

After returning the extra car, we went to this neat little Greek restaurant for dinner and had some laughs! Then it was running a couple of quick errands, and replacing my dead discman with one that would work. Upon arriving at Stasha's house we promptly spent a couple of hours in her stash room, which is packed full of goodies. I could have happily fondled her stash all weekend. Then we surfed on the Internet for a little while and she let everyone know I'd arrived safely!

Wednesday morning we did a little shopping and I got some supplies for RAKs and such taht I'd been collecting. I also found a pretty pair of scissors for DD. Then we went and had lunch with Cat, which was great fun! I'm so glad I got to meet her. After lunch we hit the road to Las Vegas! After many stops for potty breaks and drinks we reached southern Utah, where we did our grocery shopping for the weekend. While we were shopping a snow flurry came in and we got pictures of me in the snow brrrr! An hour later she was ready for dinner and we stopped at the local Wendy's. Stasha had the burger and I ate the potato from a Value Meal...big mistake, the sour cream was bad, but I didn't realize it at the time!

So we finally get to Vegas, get checked in and I lie down, since all of a sudden my tummy didn't feel so hot. A half hour later and feeling a little better we were up and headed to the airport to rescue Suz. While waiting for Suz, I start feeling really lousy and I'm sitting down trying to recover and not doing a very good job of it. Finally we collect Suz and her stuff and head back to the car. About halfway across the parking garage, my tummy shows its total and utter displeasure with the sour cream and I'm throwing up all over the place. Talk about embarrassing! I don't throw up to begin with, and now I'm doing it in the parking garage in the Las Vegas airport! Once I'm done with that we head back to the hotel and I pass out.

Thursday, Stasha and Suz go back to the airport to get Ann, I sleep. They come back after lunch and I sleep. They go get dinner and I sleep. They bring me some banana muffins, I eat them and sleep. They bring me some soup and a sandwich, I sip the soup and sleep. Notice a pattern here yet? LOL

Friday, I wake up really early because I'm sick of sleeping and I head off to the coffee shop. I eat 2 pieces of dry toast, some hot tea and a yogurt (ick). Everything seems to be ok, I go back to the room and lay down for a little while. Then I head off to CATS to attempt some shopping. I find two cuts of PTP fabric which will be perfect for my next two mermaids and buy those. Then I spend a little time at teh Stitchers Paradise booth, and learn that the shop is still open. So I go back to the room, lie down for a little while then we're off to Stitchers Paradise. There I find my Q-Snap extenders and the final goodie I needed for my RAKs! I order some rice from the Chinese place next door for lunch and we head back to the hotel. I go back to the room, eat and lie down for a little while before venturing back down to the Stitcher's lounge and to do some more damage in the Mart!

In the stitchers lounge I meet Darla, Beth and several others and have a great time laughing. I go back to Mart and buy Shiraz Sampler and the threads from Diny Dyes for it! I also get the Commemorative Sampler chart and a CATS shirt. After that I head back to the room to rest before dinner. Dinner was at Margaritaville with Stasha, Suz, Ann, Susan, Debbi and Darla (I think I got everyone, but I'm still sort of lost in regards to the whole weekend). We had a waiter with an imperfect memory, and my steak had some seasoning on it, which I promptly sent back. Ann's meal was even more messed up and it was removed from the bill! We were celebrating Suz's "0" birthday which actually happens this Friday, but we wanted to have fun with her in Vegas, so we did! She got a balloon hat from a great balloonman, who cracked lots of good jokes! After dinner we headed back to the room and passed out!

Saturday morning, I finally met Bev who'd I'd been trying to meet all weekend, but we couldn't manage to be anywhere close to the same place at the same time. She's great, and we had a great visit. We all went to IHOP for breakfast, which I ate a little of! I was still hiding in the room more than anything due to my attempting to recover. After a post-breakfast nap, I went to the luggage shop with Suz and bought a new set of luggage, which I needed. Then I hit the stitching lounge for an hour or so. I know I saw more of you in there, and if I didn't mention you, I apologize. After that it was time to get dinner and take Suz back to the airport!

Dinner was at In-n-Out Burger, which I've missed way too much since leaving Phoenix! I ate over half my burger and some fries. Yay me for finally starting to eat again! Then we saw Suz off, and Ann, Stasha and I headed back to our room for our last night in Vegas. We spent many hours discussing the weekend, and I got filled in on many of the things I'd slept through.

Sunday morning was buffet breakfast, taking Ann to the airport and heading back to Salt Lake. Stasha was going to take me up to the canyons (or somewhere) where we could get a picture of me with a huge snowbank, but it didn't work out. Back at her house we had a quiet evening of surfing and relaxing after our big weekend. Then Monday morning it was my turn to say goodbye and get on an airplane! I'm back home now and still recovering from the weekend, which is twice as hard since I was so sick for half of it, and the time change and travelling.

But there's my basic events of Vegas report, and although there are many more stories, I'll get them and the exact stash report posted later!