Yet another vacation!

What a weekend!  Last weekend Troy and I flew down to see Kelly and Ian in Las Vegas.  We flew in Friday and landed around 9am.  Since both of them had to work and we got there so early, we decided to rent a car and drive down to the Grand Canyon since it is about 4 hours away.  We stayed the night in a hotel just 2 miles out of the park and was able to see wonderful views of the canyon, including sunset at Hopi Point and sunrise at Mathers Point.

Sunset at Hopi Point

Sunrise at Mathers Point

Saturday we headed back to Vegas and spent a beautiful day (about 105 degrees) by the pool of Kelly and Ian's friends, who live in a high-rise condo on the strip downtown.  We spent hours by the pool hanging out and enjoying a few drinks....oh yeah, and a few rounds of chicken fighting!

 

On Sunday we completed our pre-wedding ritual...tattoos!  We were going to add to our current star tattoo on our foot from her wedding, but the tattoo artist said that since it was so close to our heal, it would be a bad idea to get something so close to the bottom of our foot.  So although we had already decided on getting a butterfly we both had a different idea of what types of butterflies to get, so we each got our own.  Troy even joined us (not with a butterfly tattoo though), and got a tattoo on his forearm.  

Kelly is on the left -- I am on the right

Troy's tattoo

Before we knew it, it was Monday.  We never thought we'd get home though with all the changes we had in flights.  I got a call at 1am Monday saying that our flight was delayed 4 hours (for plane maintenance) meaning that we would miss our connecting flight, so we had to get a new flight back home.  In the end, we ended up taking a flight from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, then to Phoenix, before getting home in Detroit.  Although we were sad to leave Vegas, it was nice to be home after 12 hours of flying.  We're also glad to know we'll see Kelly and Ian within 8 weeks in Mexico.  Thanks for a great weekend guys...see ya soon!