Weekend Mirths: Roadtrip

Wow. This has been a long time coming. Please forgive me for not getting around to telling you about the adventurous weekend we spent in Arizona. Life swallowed us up once we returned, which always makes me wonder if vacations are really worth all the additional stress they put into your life. Reviewing these pictures, however, reminds me that memories and great experiences are definitely worth the extra effort.


Vegas at 11 o'clock at night. One word to define it, one word that explains why I want to go back: "sparkly". We didn't stay on the strip...I know know, I mean I didn't know, I had never been to Vegas before! We were down on Freemont Street, and while trying to find our way to the strip we counted three little wedding chapels, and one man who asked if we were looking to get married. Ha. He's two years too late. Been there Mister. Done that.

After we got tired of walking,we returned to our hotel, the Golden Nugget, and discovered that the strip is a few miles away from Freemont. Needless to say, we didn't ever see the strip. Not this time anyway. But I want to go back to the land of the sparkles, so there's always next time.

{our hotel had a shark tank! If you know Jeff, you'll know that's why we stayed here}

{the glittering Golden Nugget}

{after stuffing ourselves at one of the infamous Vegas buffets}

The road trip section of this journey was actually pretty eventful. Sort of. We got stuck in traffic in Arizona on a two-lane highway in the middle of the desert. We literally parked our car for two hours! The weather was absolutely beautiful so we rolled down our windows, opened the sun roof, and pretended like we were doing crossword puzzles at the beach. We didn't actually successfully complete one single crossword puzzle entirely on our own, but who really walks around knowing the capital of Samoa?

Once we finally got to Mesa, in the land of the sun, it rained. All weekend long. It was pretty rain though and during the breaks in the weather Jeff and I would sneak out to pluck some oranges right from the trees and devour them.

Krista and Steve are doing great, living in a cute little house with lemon and grapefruit trees in the backyard. Together with them we enjoyed a relaxing weekend of citrus, fresh Mexican food, movies, and cupcakes.

{from Sprinkles Bakery}

We dreaded the thought of returning from rain to snow without seeing one glimpse of the sun, so Arizona kindly ceased it's deluge for our last few hours and we were able to soak up some sun and catch a refreshing breeze on our way back home.