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4-9-09 – Welcome to Vegas

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Wow – what a whirlwind first day! Jenn pulled out all the stops on this one. I thought we were ‘just’ coming to Vegas, but I had other things in store.As I mentioned in the previous entry Jenn sprung for a limo from the airport and we had it for a full hour, not just your typical trip striaght to the hotel. The driver, Robert, was an Ex-banker that got out (can you blame him) and it was just his 3rd day on the job. We knew this pretty quickly when he hit a child on the way out of the airport with the limo. j/k, he was great, and he gave us more time than we were allotted, probably by accident.  The driver opened the limo door and handed Jenn a rose, which I took slight offense to. Then he popped a bottle of champagne and I was ok again. We cruised towards our hotel, the Paris, and we stopped at the famous ‘Welcome to Las Vegas’ sign.

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After taking pictures at the sign the driver took us for a short tour of the strip and dropped us of at Paris.This is when I found out that in a short time we would be having our vows renewed…….by ELVIS. No I’m not kidding. Since next week is our 5 year Anniversary Jenn booked a vow renewal ceremony at the Little White Wedding Chapel!  Since we were just renewing and not getting married, Elvis was able to handle the event. And a fun, if not odd event it was. You are welcome to take a look at the photos!www.dotphotopro.comUsername: GracelandPassword: mjcolNow for a little detail. A white limo picked us up in front of the hotel to take us to the chapel. We could defininately get used to being carted around in a limo full time! Heres a pic of the limo:
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And here’s the happy couple: 

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The ceremony included the two of us, Elvis and a photographer…that was it. So Elvis did his thing, we did a little dancing, a little singing and before we knew it we were married again! And just like last time there was a strange man with side burns and a white jumpsuit involved……j/k.When we were finished at the chapel we were limo’d back to Paris where we had dinner reservations at Mon Ami Gabi’s. We were seated with a view of the Bellagio fountains, which make a GREAT backdrop for a steak dinner.Dinne was GREAT. Jenn got the ‘classic’ steak, while I got the steak bordelise. And to top it off we split a side of macaroni augratin. That mac and cheese was a small bit of heaven. After dinner we played slots for oh, 10 seconds, before losing $10 and went back to the room. We are both still on Columbus time, so we were really tired and crashed so that we could start off early tomorrow.Here are a couple pics of the room:

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Well, thats it for now! More to come! 

Can’t talk long

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Things have been AWESOME so far. The flight went smoothly and we arrived on time. Jenn surprised me with a limo vs. a taxi! More to come later…running late!

It’s official!

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Our 2009 Out West vacation has begun! Jennifer and Angela picked me up from work no more than an hour ago. Jenn and I have already cleared security and are chillaxing at Chili's. Jenn has a Corona in hand and I ... [Continue reading this entry]

Woo Hoo! Vacation day!

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Today is finally the day!  Our flight departs in a little over 7 hours and we are stoked! This will be jenns first time in Vegas, and my first time actually seeing it. I went with coworkers last year, but we ... [Continue reading this entry]

T’was the night before Vegas

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
and all through the house...everyone was stirring, especially my spouse!

Well, well, well

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
I need to stop starting off posts with "well,"

1 Day

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Well, one day until our trip! Jenn has packed pretty much everything, and for the record no...I did not help much...yes, I am a bum.

T-Minus One Week

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Well, the countdown has officially started.

The Trip

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
So we will be leaving April 9th for our trip. Here is a brief (and Jenn was sure to mention this is extremely brief. She has things planned down to the nanosecond) description of where we are going, and what ... [Continue reading this entry]

Welcome back!

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Well, it's been a good 2 years since we wrote about our trip to Riviera Maya. To be honest, we didn't realize that this blog was still active and were looking to start a new one. To our pleasant suprise, ... [Continue reading this entry]