dusty winds and living large in the GHETTO

alright so let's get real.... after a disastrous honeymoon... we HAD to take up the opportunity to do it again.

HONEYMOON TAKE 2

and so this is how it began

a friend of ours Mark (from Maryland) who was staying at our place with his brother for a couple of weeks was heading down to Vegas to visit his pops who was there on business.

 Mark kindly asked if we would like to come! i hadn't technically talked to Long quite yet about the plans i committed to, so i KNEW i had to bring up a darn good excuse to talk Long into coming.

THE BRIBE:
Lilz:"hey longiiiieeeeeeeeee! :):):) so.... welll..... ummmmmmmmmm.... CAN WE PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY PLLLLLLLLLLLLLEASSSSSSSEEE go to VEGAS??!??!?! you knooowwww!!! since in Moab i was pretty sickly? i meannnnnn COME ON!!! we will be sharing GAS! and i found a $29 HOTEL!!!

 

ooooo!! AND DID I FORGET TO MENTION WE CAN BRING A WHOLE COOLER OF FOOD FOR THE WEEKEND!?!?! so TOPS we will be spending is about $100?!?!?  PPPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLLEASSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEE????"

come on... who can say NO to this cute lil face?!?

Longzz: silence [his math brain was soaking it alll innn]  hmm.... ok!

(i knew i got him as soon as i said we would pack all of our own food)

we got out the handy dandy cooler and started making food. from spring rolls to enchiladas to cereal to crackers to fruit snacks we were more than ready

we left on a sunday so before we left we went to our new ward to meet the bishop and transfer our records. unfortunately he asked if we could stay after church. "oh sorry bish. we're going to vegggass!" soon after receiving a perplexed and disappointed look.

probably shouldn't have stuck to the truth. whooopppss!


then we were off!
after driving 6 hours we were FINALLY in sin city.

being the BALLERS that we are... we bounced into Terrible's Hotel and Casino walking like a G with a blue cooler rolling behind us. [peeps around probs thought we were smuggling in a LOT of boozeeeeee]

there was a look in the hotel managers eye that KNEW i was mormon, why?
because i'm married AND i'm under 21.
         dangit!
luckily she didn't charge us double since she probs knew we weren't BIG SPENDERS and instead we were just using them for their cheap hotel. whatevsss.

i guess picking vegas wasn't the best idea since
A) I am UNDER 21
B) we don't drink
C) we don't gamble
D) we're poor

buuuuuttttt it gave us an excuse to pack the cooler once again! (and luckily we brought ice since nooo hotel in vegas has a mini fridge)

so being the predictable mormons that we areeeee we visited the LAS VEGAS TEMPLE!
and it was fun.

next afternoon we went swimming/tanning.

long swam because he had swimming trunks.
I tanned because the Cali girl that i am forgot my swim wear. EMBARRASSING.
Longie didn't really understand what tanning was but after laying in the sun for no more than 10 mins he was complaining that he was sweating and put his clothing right back on. however.. he didn't realize that an arm and leg was still exposed to the sun. talk about sexxyyyy  tan lines.

then we excitedly rannnnn into our hotel and opened our cooler to make our first meal SPRING ROLLS. cheap easy light and delish.

being married to an Asian i eat more lettuce and noodles than i eat ice cream now... which is a big deal. so lets get real.. spring rolls were NOT going to keep my stomach full for more than 2 hours. knowing that this is ALWAYS the case i made my mommas famous green enchiladas. since we were in vegas of COURSE they would not have a microwave.

what to do... what to do...


7-11 duhhhh!


yup you got that right! we brought in our huge tuber ware FULL of enchiladas and SHOVED that thing into their microwave. i felt a lil guilty we were just using their services for free so i bought a doughnut & a slurpeee.

well.. in vegas i SWEAR hot dusty winds were always swirling around my head so we sat in the car in the shade horizontally taking three parking spots. 

within SECONDS of parking a coppy cop spotted us, drove up, and asked "is that how people in Maryland park?"
Mark: Hahaha! 
Cop: staring with no emotion
Mark: oh... sorry.

[for a moment there i thought the 7-11 employee was upset i didn't buy more than just a doughnut]

after eating and throwing our trash

we drove down the strip

that night Mark's pops invited us to eat dinner for FREE at a mexican/asian restaurant (how appropriate) and BOYYY was that the most expensive meal i have ever eaten and will ever eat in my whole entire life. i must say, every bite was def a taste bud explosion.

a delish 13 course meal. oh myyyy.

that evening we wanted to stay within our budget of $0. so we walked around Cosmopolitan,

Bellagio,

 and Caesar's Palace.

we had read up on the internet that Caesar's Palace had a BANGIN FREE show starting every 1/2 hour with the last show at 10pm. so def we were there.

it was intense.


next morning before we rolled out we visited the pool one last time
me in the sun laying out. Long COMPLETELY COVERED  under the trees still not understanding why i am doing what i am doing.

in all, we spent no more than $100 for two love birds traveling with our friend Mark on our honeymoon part 2.

you can call us lillie, long, Mr. Mrs.

but i'd perfer
BIG SPENDERRRRR