Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Vegas Baby

We celebrated Jim's Birthday in VEGAS this year! The big 4-0 baby!! We had a blast. Here's the weekend in pictures... (in random order)

Dinner our first night there at Charlie Palmer's Steakhouse. The food was exceptional but it was a little pricier than we expected. We had a great time though.

Jim and I at dinner


Jim's sister Elaine and her fiance Ty at dinner

Joaquin and AnnMarie

Ok...so I warned that this would be random...the following pics are in haphazard order....enjoy!

Jim and Joaquin playing craps (I think?). Jim is wearing the cowboy hat that Joaquin and AnnMarie gave him for his birthday. I've never seen Jim in a cowboy hat before. It was pretty funny paired with his shorts and sandals. Everyone was calling him "Tex".
Joaquin wearing the cowboy hat. Did I mention we all stayed at Hooters?

Not really sure what THIS face was all about exactly....

My brother Scott....with some refreshments....

Jim found his own refreshments....in the hallway..outside someone else's room. They'd been there for awhile.

Funny story. I was in the bathroom getting ready to go out and Jim thought it would be funny to open the sliding glass door to the balcony, to make me think he'd gone outside. When I went out onto the balcony to look for him...he wasn't there. I looked down thinking...."did he jump?" Turns out he was hiding on the floor next to the bed. Ha Ha Ha...right? Yeah...he was drinking. Why do you ask?

Jim and Joaquin



Scott and Me


Elaine and Me


Julie and Me

Yeah...I pretty much mastered the "self-portrait" technique while in Vegas...

Jim and Elaine


He loves his sister so much....

She's so lucky....

Here we are having drinks and munching on wings at hooters....

Joaquin telling a story of some sort...

His "sexy face"?? AnnMarie looks excited right?


Ty was thirsty...


Jim and Ty with our waitress. No, they don't get out much....

Jim and I
Pretty sure the waitress got a restraining order....

Elaine and Ty

Me and my brother Scott. I totally mastered the "Self Portrait" technique during this trip...

We spent some time walking the strip...where we ran into some celebrities....



We took this picture for Madison (my niece) who loves guitars...


Scott and Jim....pretty close to a PDA there guys


Julie posing with some drunk guy who passed out in a casino downtown....



Eating McDonalds at 2 am



Julie and her husband Nathan...also known as "Nut Puncher" (don't ask)

The birthday boy himself....doing his "hey there" pose...


The last night we were there was Jim's actually birthday. He started the night off by opening some gifts....

Elaine and Ty got him this 40th Birthday survival kit with all kinds of goodies inside...


Scott and I enjoying some time out by the pool while Jim opened his gifts...

I think it's fairly safe to say that my gift was his favorite.....took us a while to get it all set up...but once it was working...he wouldn't put that IPhone down!


After the gifts....we went to dinner at the Rio Seafood Buffet ....


(Scott and I opted to grab a burger somewhere else instead)

And then we went to see the Frank Caliendo show.

Picture of Frank onstage...

It was great!

Afterwards...it was back to the drinking, gambling, and....well....

On Sunday we got up (semi) early, packed up, and went to breakfast before hitting the road.

But not before I dared my brother to pull his own tooth out....in true "Hangover Fashion"....


The end.

1 comment:

JULIE R said...

I am now completely caught up on what you've been doing since March! This is the best blog ever, I can totally stalk you and your family and you're none the wiser!
You got a lot of great pictures from the Vegas trip. I know that Nutpunch and I missed a lot of the daytime action (unfortunately:( ), but I'm pretty sure that is Vaseline wrapped in a rubber glove. Did we miss more than you led us to believe???