Thanksgiving

Thad and I traveled to Vegas for Thanksgiving. We spent 6 hours in the car on the way there (as opposed to 3 1/2) ... and that was nothing compared to the ride home.

But we had fun with my family the 3 days we were there. We saw the water show at the Bellagio and walked through the autumn display in the Conservatory and Botanical Garden. It was cool!



I also found out some cool things about my niece, Ashlyn, during the holiday. First, she learned the Pledge of Allegiance in preschool and is pretty dang good at reciting it:


And second, she is a whiz at Wii. We gave her a controller, told her "just move your hand up and down really fast," and she unleashed some stinkin sweet moves. She beat me at tennis.


Friday night was a "girls' night out" of sorts, and me, my two sisters and my sister-in-law all went to hit some sales at the mall and to see "Twilight." I brought Analyn with me because she doesn't take a bottle just yet. So she fell asleep while we shopped, she slept through all of the movie previews, and of course she woke up a moment before the movie started. Yes, the opening scene of the movie was met with her unhappy, echoing cry. So I rushed her out of the theater before I was mobbed by all of the teeny-boppers who had been waiting anxiously for months to see this movie.

I spent the rest of the movie in the hallway trying to get Analyn to fall asleep. A security guard took pity on my and gave me two free tickets to any Rave theater -- which I can't use because there aren't any around here. Oh well. I got some cute slippers and two new shirts (at good sales prices) out of the evening. And a detailed movie review from my sisters.

We rounded out the vacation with the flu. I got hit Saturday morning around 3:30 a.m. (I'm really sorry about your carpet, Kath), Lori got sick shortly after me, and Thad came next. But all in all, it was a fun weekend!