Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Melanie's 30th Birthday in Vegas!!

Okay, here's a brief, okay somewhat summarized look at the weekend I spent in Vegas for her 30th birthday. Friday night we drove down to Beaver to stay the night at Melanie's sister's house. The next day we ambled around for a little while. Melanie's two nieces are so cute. The older one who is I think is 4 or 5 really took a liking to me. She had me read to her and color with her. So cute. Then we headed on down to Vegas and the Luxor hotel where we were staying (it's the big pyramid). I had some surprises for Melanie as this was her actual birthday. So I had her open her first gift which was...


That's right her very own birthday cake that I sneakily hauled all the way from Salt Lake and it stayed packed really well.










Then onto her present. She recently bought a bike so I gave her some accessories for it and the ever elusive dvd for Twister. She has wanted it for like years and I have always meant to get it for her but it never fit in with the theme of the present. It doesn't here either but I really wanted to get it for her. Her is her reaction...(She's gonna love me for that picture)

And then we ate cake. Silly me forgot utensils. There is a picture of me doing this as well but I don't have it with me so we'll just focus on Melanie. She's much more photogenic.











We ate dinner at Caesar's Palace and then caught the show KA by Cirque du Soleil. Afterwards we hit the penny slots. Melanie didn't do so well, but I was on fire. I nearly tripled my money and then I lost it all. Two dollar profit lost just like that. Also, we barely caught a glimpse of New Kids on the Block. Their after concert party was at our hotel so we strained to see them and get a picture but there were lots of people around.

The next day we went walking along the strip again. This is us in front of our hotel.
We went to the M&M Factory and played around and then to the Bellagio for the fountain show.





















I had a really great time with Melanie in Vegas. It was kind of nice, it just being the two of us. Thanks Mel for a fun trip!!

6 comments:

Framed said...

Great photos. I'm glad you had fun in that den of iniquity. :)

julie said...

Great pictures! The cake looks absolutely yummy! What kind of cake was it (please don't say chocolate - it will kill me!)? You are always so thoughtful with gifts!

I think you are mega photogenic!!! I love our turquoise sweater with the yellow purse!

Glad you had a fun time!

Booklogged said...

Such a cute birthday cake and it was neat that you figured a way to get it to Vegas without Melanie finding out. Sounds like a very fun weekend. I would love to see Cirque du Soleil and that fountain show looks fun, too.

Cardine said...

Wow! That is such a cool photo of the fountain show. I love it!

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much Cassie for a great weekend!! You're the best friend ever!

julie said...

Come. To. Cedar. This. Weekend!!!

And bring stuff to make chicken spinach pizza (or we can buy the stuff here - that's a better idea). I was looking back on past October posts on my blog and you offered to make it for me sometime. See here and look at your comment! :)