Friday, December 23, 2011

our travels...

... to Joshua Tree National Park. we stopped at the Joshua Tree Home Depot to buy our own Joshua Tree and they told us to just dig one up in the desert (which clearly means it's legal and next time, i'm soooo taking my spade and dirt weasel thingie)



Aaron says these rocks totally look like a buttcrack :| please just try to focus on the boys playing on the butt :)


we took the dogs with us as an early christmas gift :) they were overjoyed


next stop: Vegas, home of everything cool that you can't find at home like Dunkin Donuts!


i fell in love with this hotel room at Rio (the ridiculously cheap room that i was worried about....) even with the discombobulating little window from the bedroom into the shower ;) it wasn't super fancy or tres chic in the least, but it was just heavenly and warm/cool, and bright/dark and cozy.... and that bed was so blissful i had to check out the brand. last time we stayed at a Caesars hotel my heart broke a little when we had to check out, it was just that amazingly lovely and cozy and warm/cool... and it was the same feeling here ;)


they even gave us free money to gamble (which we lost naturally:)


this huge severed head in the sky had spooky eyes that followed me everywhere (they were actually just big TVs not eyes at all... completely awesome!!!)


ever since 1987 and this video and this album i've been in love with Joshua Trees and Las Vegas (and Bono too and the part where he lifts his arms and everything turns to color:)


... which is why getting married at this little chapel in deepest, downtown-est Las Vegas was like a dream come true :) did i mention Jon Bon Jovi got married there too :) and the Thompson Twins? (who i never really liked...) and Billy Ray Cyrus? ALL KINDS of people!!!!

1 comment:

  1. Trish McCoy4:55 PM

    Carol when we would go to vegas in the past we always stayed at the Rio they are actually really nice rooms. If you ask for a room in the old tower you don't get the window into the shower. Unless they have updated it by now. and also I can't remember but I think it's the rooms in the old tower that are bigger than the ones in the newer tower. or maybe vice versa.

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