7-20-2010

Does this picture inception you into thinking about cat faces?

NOT REALLY A SPOILER ALERT: This doesn't really give anything away, but don't click here if you're worried about that sort of stuff.

Here are some assorted vacation snapshots from the little plastic camera I got for Nicole. I just grabbed a few random ones that I liked a lot, but they were all pretty awesome. I actually prefer the lo-fi aesthetic of these over some of the pictures I took of the same stuff. I think we're going to put them in an album.

Border Patrol checkpoint
Tuscon
Mt. Lemmon
Me as a cactus
Somewhere
Road Warrior
All I ever really want to do with my life
Sedona
Skully Sedona
Grand
Viva Las Vegas

7-19-2010

This is me sitting on my couch doing absolutely nothing but watching SyFy shows on the DVR and loving life.

7-18-2010

We flew all night until the sun came up in Chicago. Then we flew some more. Then we got home and slept.

7-17-2010

After crepes for breakfast, Nicole cashed out a big $20.00 winner. I won 45¢ on my last dollar game, so I guess I left up. Then we went to visit the Pawn Stars TV show set. None of the cast was there, but there were more tourists here than on the strip...all jammed into a building the size of my living room. Nicole actually almost bought something, but they were selling antique rings at TV show prices, so we left to look down the street. The shops that aren't on TV aren't quite as busy. Then we saw this sign and got married again. We honeymooned in Old Vegas. Old Vegas is cool. It's grimier and a little trashier than the strip and has more character. I like that about it. We saw the Partridge Family again and it reminded me of Tuscon. We also saw my friend from Tuscon I got the tattoo of. Then we left Las Vegas to do this all night. Nicole saw another old friend flying out of the airport.

7-16-2010

After my first night of sleeping in a real bed in a week, I woke up here. We ventured out into the hotel, and ate at an all-you-can-eat cotton candy and fortune cookie buffet. Then we went to see a stripper and do tourist stuff. We got sucked into a swirling vortex of shopping, walking, and looking at things. Nicole played every cat related slot machine we saw while I got in trouble for taking pictures in casinos. Then we went to Wynn's main theater to see Le Reve. I didn't take any pictures of the show because they told us it would make the performers die, but it was really incredible. Unfortunately, this is all you get to see. Obvious Vegas tourist must. Nicole got to eat more seafood than what's left in the Gulf Coast. Then we got to watch this classy gal "dance" while we played 1¢ slots all night.

7-15-2010

On the road again for a day in the car headed North and West. We stopped to see Montezuma's Castle, drove through places like this, pulled off the road in Sedona, took more pictures in Sedona, looked at skulls in Sedona, drove up windy mountain roads, saw Oak Creek Canyon, climbed on a huge giant hole in the ground, drove on some road named Route 66, and drove past bed time. Nicole was very excited to see the Hoover Dam because she's a huge nerd and her favorite movie ever is Fools Rush In. It was the equivalent of me visiting the Death Star (which makes me an even bigger nerd).

Finally, after a long and eventful day in the car, we made it to Las Vegas. These are Nicole's "first time ever seeing the strip" faces. We checked into our hotel room before embarking on a marathon tour up and down the strip.