Emily & Seth

During the 10 day semester break Seth and I went to stay with our friend Jill Davis. Jill is on the Speech and Debate Team with us. She is a master veteran. It was so fun to stay with her and her family. They were so nice to us, and they have an awesome house! It was built in the 70's, and is totally decked out. It has a bowling ally, 2 pool tables, a ping-pong table, a dentist office, a home theatre (we watched a Coldplay concert on it, and it was unbelievable!), a badminton/basketball court, a pool, a jacuzzi, a volleyball net. It was a pretty crazy cool house. The Davis' took us to Red Rock to go hiking one day. I thought it could be really fun, and thought I was up to it. Little did I know that Red Rock is exactly that, a whole lot of rocks, some huge boulders, some loose rocks that you can break your ankles...just rocks as far as the eye can see. It turns out I wasn't up for boulder hiking in 95 degree weather in the middle of a desert. Most of you know I was really sick last year for a long time. I am still trying to overcome muscular dystrophy, so hiking on these rocks was way difficult. Thank Heaven Seth was there to help me. Jill is the one in the green, and those are her sisters and her Mom.

I really cannot figure out this blog thing. No matter how hard I try, I can't get this picture to rotate. I tried saving it that way before I uploaded it, and a number of other things.... well I though this picture was funny, so I'm posting it sideways anyhow.

From here, it looks really beautiful. It was just that during the hike I had to stare at my feet the whole time to keep from tripping and breaking my ankle or my neck. It's a good thing we got some pictures.

On one of our trips downtown we went to Mandolay Bay to see the Shark Reef. We got in for free because we mailed in our taxes on tax day! Good deal, huh? It was awesome to see all the fish and sharks.

This one was certainly the most ferocious.


We walked through a lot of other casino/hotels, and I thought Bellagio was pretty cool. They have a beautiful display there completely made out of flowers, and crazy stuff on the ceilings. It was very pretty. I was really looking forward to the fountain show, but it was too windy every day, so they weren't doing it...bummer..maybe next time.

I have been told by many a native of Las Vegas that the buffets are the best, and they were right! We went to one at the Red Rock Resort, and it was awesome! We went right before dinner, so wee paid for lunch, and got lunch AND dinner! Pretty sneaky...OK, not really, but it was fun. The saddest part about it was that I couldn't eat anymore. Jill ate an entire plate of shrimp, and one of sushi as well. I think that in a period of 5 days Jill ate sushi almost 10 times. I am not exaggerating. She is in love with sushi. I tried it for the first time at the buffet, and I thought it was gross. I was told that the sauce was bad though, and I 'ate it the wrong way,' whatever that means...so maybe I will try again someday.

It was really nice that we got to see Seth's sister Sarah a few times while we were there. One of the times we went to Red Lobster together because Seth and I had a gift card. It was my first time eating Lobster and Crab. Sarah thought that it was funny enough to be a show in Vegas. I'm sure it was pretty funny watching Seth and I try to get the meat out of the shells. We had no clue what we were doing. Maybe I am just not a real seafood eater.