Viva Elvis and Happy New Year 2010!!!

Christmas afternoon after all the presents were opened, we packed up the kids and headed to Vegas for some R & R and to ring in the new year.  I met up with a good friend of mine, Barb, who had flown into Vegas to visit her neice for Christmas and see her perform in the new Vegas Cirque de Soleil show called Viva Elvis. 

I joined up with Barb to see the show while Blain babysat (thanks, Babe, you're the best).  It was a great show and a really fun time.  Her neice is one of the dancer/acrobats in the show - very talented and impossibly cute!  We met her and her parents after the show for a late dinner, all wonderful people and I had an absolutley marvelous time.

For New Year's Eve, we were staying at Sam's Town and had a view in the distance of the buildings on the strip.  In Vegas at midnight they shoot off fireworks from the tops of several of the casinos on the strip.  We had a great view of all the fireworks from our room.  We tried to get the kids to stay up until midnight to see the fireworks, but one by one they dropped off to sleep.  We even tried to wake Lindsey up because she had really wanted to see the fireworks, but no luck with that.  So Blain and I shared a kiss and a toast at midnight and enjoyed the fireworks sans kids.