Viva Las Vegas, Dirty 30 style

 I told Kyle last year that I didn't want a party for my birthday. I told him since my 30th birthday and our ten year Anniversary fall in the same year that I wanted two trips. (Sorry I sound kind of greedy) I wanted a trip for just the two of us and I wanted a family trip somewhere. We are heading to Disneyland at the end of the year for our family trip. We also probably will be heading to Mexico in August for our Anniversary. But Kyle said we needed a getaway before that. So he planned a trip away to Las Vegas for us! I know a lot of people don't love Vegas but we think it is a blast. There is a lot to see and do, and of course eat there! We stayed at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and it was super nice and swanky. Our room was beautiful. We had a balcony with a view of the Bellagio fountains. Beautiful! The first night we got there we just got checked in and then headed over to Cesar's Palace for the buffet. We had heard they had the best one and they did not disappoint. I have never seen such a huge buffet, they literally had everything! I enjoyed the food, but saved the most room for dessert. It was an amazing dessert buffet! Yum! They even had a crepe station at the dessert buffet, I had two crepes. I sent the kids a pic of the crepe as well, we LOVE crepe's in our house. 

 I was so incredibly excited to sleep in, I of course couldn't sleep in for a long time because my internal alarm clock wouldn't let me. But it was still nice to just lay there and be with Kyle. We ordered breakfast in bed from the hotel, and were super lazy and watched a movie in the room. We didn't even leave the hotel until about noon. My kind of Birthday morning. After we left the hotel we headed over to the outlet mall and spent the afternoon shopping. I am one lucky girl that my husband loves to shop, sometimes I think he loves to shop even more than me.

 For dinner we headed back to Cesar's palace to go to Gordon Ramsey's Pub and grill. We love watching cooking shows so we really wanted to go to a restaurant that was out of the ordinary for us, and a chef we had seen on some of the shows we watch. We had a hard time deciding where to go for dinner but I was so glad we went here. Kyle had fish 'm chips and I had steak and the yummiest potatoes I have ever eaten in my life. I mean literally I could have eaten those potatoes for hours.
After dinner we stopped at Serendipity to get some dessert. Kyle got a frozen hot chocolate and I got a cookies sundae. (Note to self, get the frozen hot chocolate. I drank over half of Kyle's) It was yummy dessert!

 The next morning we slept in and then got our stuffed packed and went down to the breakfast buffet at our hotel. After breakfast we decided to go drive down to the old part of Las Vegas. We were going to get out and look around but it looked a little sketchy. So we just drove around and looked at the old Casino's and everything on the strip. We also drove by the store on the TV show Pawn stars. We thought about stopping in but there literally was a line around the building and a lot of security. Below are a few random pics from the trip. It took us a little longer to get off of the strip and on our way because there was a huge protest going on at our hotel the Cosmopolitan, I guess the workers weren't to happy.

We had an amazing time! We didn't go out and do a lot, but that is just how I wanted it. I wanted low key, relaxing and kind of lazy. Oh and lots of yummy food. Kyle did such an amazing job planning the whole thing and always goes above and beyond to spoil me. It was a much need break from life, and a even more some much needed alone time with just Kyle. Thanks for the wonderful Dirty Thirty Birthday.
* A huge thanks to the Ford's for watching the kids for us. They even drove them down to St. George for a night so they could all get away! The kids loved going to St. George and the chance to play!