What a week!

Eric and I left early Saturday morning to drive to Indianapolis (approx. 2 hours away). We caught a 9:18 AM plane to Minneapolis, then took another plane to Las Vegas! This trip was planned by the company Eric works for - it was their "Christmas party". They'd gone 5 years ago, but as I was 8 months pregnant with Conner, I couldn't go. I was definitely on board for this one!

We had a great long weekend. We spent Saturday afternoon and evening wandering around Fremont Street, which is where the Golden Nugget is located (the hotel/casino we stayed at). Sunday we toured the Hoover Dam and wandered around the Strip with another couple. On Monday we had breakfast with Eric's boss (among others) and then went with them to a place called Primm, which is right on the Nevada/California border. There are 3 casinos there, one of which had a roller coaster that Eric wanted to ride. We drove past the "Welcome to California" sign and then did a u-turn in the median of the highway (just so I could say I've been to California!). From there we went to the Red Rock Casino, which is on the western side of Las Vegas - it was really nice!

Our plane left Tuesday around noon, and the car rental people recommended that we return the car around 10, so we didn't get to do anything else on Tuesday. Everyone was worried about getting home - the word from Ohio was that they'd had a bunch of snow with more to come! Not great traveling weather. Everything went ok with the planes, though, which was a relief (it ended up being a good thing traveling back to Indianapolis instead of Cincy!). The drive home from the airport was an interesting one; it took about 4 hours instead of the 2 that it should've. But at least we made it safely!

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I'd actually planned on calling in sick on Tuesday but ended up not needing to because of the snow - we actually had a snow day! After getting home around 2 AM on Wednesday morning it was nice to hear that we had a day off Wednesday, too! Our electricity went out Wednesday morning, so we drove up to Milford (Eric's folks' house) for dinner and a shower for me just in case I had school on Thursday... which I didn't! Three snow days in a row! I'm not sure that's happened in the 8 years that I've been there. So far we're scheduled for school tomorrow... but I'm still hopeful for at least a delay! Still, I can't complain about a one-day work week.