La Reve The Dream Trip

Mackenzie getting "comfy"

Vegas Road trip again!!  We wanted to drive down to watch Le Reve, a show with aquatic acrobatics that was supposed to be phenominal.  We planned the trip with 5 of us:  Me, Shantell, Mackenzie, Angela, and Jane!  10 PM rolled around on Friday night, and we were off!  Mackenzie sits in the front seat of Beyonce and immediately starts to pull down her pants.  When I give her the "what the heck are you doing?" look, she replies, "I want to get comfy."  Apparently, driving in levis is too "uncomfortable."  Mackenzie rode the whole 6 hour drive in her little brief pant thingies.

  The trip started off good.  We knew we had a long drive ahead of us that would take us late into the night, but there was plenty of entertainment to keep our senses heightened.  We were driving down the road when I saw a vehicle with those stick figure people decals in the window.  It looked normal enough.  2 parents, some kids, a couple animals, and then some large person at the end.  Usually, the order goes from biggest decals to smallest.  This went against everything I believed about stick figure family decals.  My first reaction was to say, "Who is that large person at the end of the family?"  After a good laugh, we concluded that it was Consuela the maid.

Mackenzie and I share a love for Broadway, especially Wicked, so naturally, we listened to the music.  This led to Mackenzie playing other Broadway music for us, including songs from Rent.  Idina Menzel's signature song is called "over the moon."  If you haven't ever heard it, listen to it!  It's whack!  At one point she's singing, "moo with me."  This did not inspire Shantell to stop teasing us, especially Mackenzie, about liking Broadway music.

At another point, Mackenzie was sharing her favorite musicals, Hairspray being one of her favorites.  She then went on to confess that she "went through a Ricki Lake phase."  She even saw a video of Ricki birthing her second child.  LOL.  Who can honestly say that they "went through a Ricki Lake phase?"  I think that is unique to Mackenzie.  Needless to say, we stayed entertained most of the drive.   Up until the 1-2 hours when both Mackenzie and Shantell offered to help drive.  A couple seconds later, I would look over at both of them to see their heads cocked back and snores coming from their mouths.  I'm definitely not trusting them with Beyonce. 

 We arrived at the hotel at 4:15 AM.  I made my bed on the floor and went to sleep.  

 The next day we made time for the pool.  I LOVE THE POOL!!  I could spend hours on end just relaxing by the pool and dipping in the water anytime I felt a little sweat on my brow.  There were entertaining moments but mostly sleep and relaxation.  I fell in and out of sleep for a couple hours.  I would occassionally wake up to someone heckling me, "Hey lobster, you might wanna turn over."  One time I snapped back, "I'm not a lobster."  I do not take any responsibility for what I say or do while I'm tired. :)


 We decided to have a little dance party in the pool.  I don't know why the single men didn't come running.  We also decided to play a little dunking game that I like.  It took a lot persuaded to convince someone to finally play with me.  Basically, you choose a topic like, types of cereal, and then hold someone in your arms.  They try to guess the type of cereal you have in your head, and for every wrong guess, you get to dunk them.  I started off dunking Angela.  I was thinking of lucky charms.  She first guesses some random cereal.  Dunk.  Then she says, "life savers."  Dunk.  When I brought her back up, we made sure to explain the rules again to her while emphasizing the topic, "types of CEREAL."

Next, it was my turn to be dunked.  Mackenzie, our resident alcohol lover of the trip, decides to pick the topic for us, "types of alcohol."  Angela thinks of one and the guessing begins.  I try to rack my brain for any type of alcohol I could think of.  "Crown Royal."  Dunk.  "Seagrams 7."  Dunk.  My mind goes blank.  I don't know any more alcohols.  Angela sees the panic in my eyes and says, "I don't know a lot of alcohol either. Think really easy and generic."  I say, "Jack Daniels."  Yay!  I got it right.  Good think we both don't know any of those unique, fancy ones!

 After a couple hours at the pool, and a few sunburns later, we decided to go get ready for the rest of the day.  We headed back to the hotel room.  Side note on that.  When we purchased the room through a 3rd party site, it said that our hotel was 4 stars.  It was apparent it wasn't.  Angela is our resident justice seeker, and had them switch the room 3 times before

 feeling satisfied with the quality, but it was still far from 4 stars.  She called the hotel

 front desk and let them know about the deception in the description.  Later in the day, she would jokingly say, "welcome to 1990 when this hotel was actually in its prime and considered 4 star."  It even had curtains that would open when you pushed a button.

At one point during the trip, the freckle by my knee was exposed.  This started the usual discussion, "oh my gosh, have you ever had that checked out?"  The group began to lecture me on the ABC's of moles, even though mine is a freckle I've had my whole life.  Assymetrical, BIG (according to Shantell), and we couldn't remember what C stood for.

 We decided to go eat at a sketchy looking taco place on the strip.  If you have ever been to the strip, you know that all the food prices are jacked up, so when we saw $2 tacos, we couldn't pass it up.  We walked in and saw a rotating carcass where the meet was being cut from.  I'll take 2 tacos please!  Yum!  They were actually pretty good.  I would go back.



After eating, we went into the Wynn hotel and casino, where our show was playing.  I promised my co-worker Kyle that I would bet a dollar in the slot machines for him.  I stopped at one machine, but Mackenzie grabbed my arm and said, "No, you're not far enough into the heart of the gambling yet."  We went a little deeper.  It was scary.  I found a slot machine that actually let me pull a level because, well, that the only fun part, in my opinion.  I bet my friend's dollar and didn't win.  Sad.

Its apparent by the pictures that I have no idea what I'm doing.  I even had trouble getting the machine to take my dollar bill.  Bob Barker playing The Price Is Right slots had no problem, so I persisted.  I decided to play my own dollar, now that Kyle's dollar warmed up the machine for me, and I won!!  $5 never felt so good!  I immediately quit while I was ahead.  Shantell took her hand at luck as well.  $30 later she came out with 21 cents.

  At 7 PM, it was time for the show!  IT WAS AMAZING!!!   By far the best show I've seen in Vegas!  All I have to say after it is that there are a lot of strong people in the world.  Some of the stunts required so much muscle.  It was spectacular.  There were some women whose bicpes were so buff, it blew my mind!

We were 2nd row and right there in the "splash zone" for all the action.  Before the show started, there was a creature from the black lagoon swimming around and jumping out of the water to scare people.  It got us.  We totally screamed.  At the end of the show, some of the divers through red carnations into the crowd.  Mackenzie and I both caught one.

After the show, we walked around and saw the usual sites, including a fan favorite:  The Bellagio Water Show.  The next morning, we drove back to Salt Lake City.  Shantell got comfortable with Lowell in the back seat.  He never disappoints!