Enjoying our Second Anniversary Together

Our first two years together have flown by. We decided to get out of town for a couple of days for some much needed R&R.

We reserved a hotel for a couple nights down in Las Vegas. Most of you that really know us, know that R&R to us means "Rippin and Rarin" to go...seriously....we love being busy....maybe when we get old we'll slow down for awhile and take a vacation in the mountains by a lake with no cell service...but...until then....we have chosen to be busy.

We stayed at the Westin Casaurina just a block off the strip. It is a really nice, almost a boutique kind of hotel. We had lots of great food and saw some pretty amazing entertainment.

We went to the Mirage on Friday night to see Terry Fator, Fator is the dude who won America's got talent a couple of years ago as a ventriloquist. The guy was amazing. Be fore we saw the show we went to grad a salad at BB kings restaurant and was entertained by some blues group that was playing. BB King they weren't...but...if you like Blues (and I do) they were pretty good. After Fator's show we walked the strip and went through Casear's Palace Forum shops where Sue and I went to eat at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant. it was really very good .

Saturday morning  brought a new day of fun and adventure. We ate breakfast at the Hash House a Go-Go (Man vs. Food) was there not too long ago. i had the sage fried chicken and waffles....mmmm good, Sue just had the vanilla waffles.

We then spent the day walking around Vegas, people-watching, and doing some shopping. Then when night time came around we headed over to our favorite Italian restaurant, Maggiano's. We had a perfect near window seat overlooking the strip...a view that we really hadn't seen before. The meal was delicious as always but the time spent with my beautiful wife was priceless. After dinner we went over to Treasure Island so we could see Mystere',  a Cirque du Soleil show that is kind of like a bizarre circus performance. Pretty amazing though.

We wrapped things up on Sunday and headed for home. We were about 15 miles South of Mesquite Nevada when the temperature dipped to 46 degrees from 99 degrees in just seconds. Then all hail broke loos (pun intended). Seriously, we wee caught in the middle of the worst haul storm I have ever seen. 10 minutes of pure hell and nowhere to hide. My new car is now the recipient of a hundred dents and dings thanks to this storm. Nobody was hurt but we actually had to yell at the top of our voices to be hear each other inside the car.

After all this we still had a wonderful time together because we were with each other.

August 8th brings many different meanings and emotions to our family. There have been so many  things happen on this date. I remember when Sue told me that she wanted to get married on 8-8-2008, that she wanted the date to be remembered for something good.  Not that the other things should be forgotten, they shouldn't be, and cannot be forgotten. But, it's great to see my beautiful wife happy. She is such an energetic little lady with so much life in her. I love her and love being with her and around her.

We both have been blessed with children that love us. We are fortunate to have the family that we do have. We love being around them too, even if it's not as often as we would like. Life is very busy for us but we try to spend the quality time together as often as we can.

We look forward to many more happy years together. All the best!