The last time I had seen my sister Danielle was when she and her family joined us here in St Louis last summer. So the birth of my new niece, the sweet little Mackenzie Avalyn was the perfect reason to jump on a plane and head out to Las Vegas for a visit.
Life at my sister's house is busy to say the least. She has two other children, she works full time and her hubby is a police officer. Their first born, the adorable Donovan will be three in december, beautiful little Meagan followed shortly after and turned one a few short days before Mackenzie made her arrival. Yep, that's three kids under the age of three! In her household there is always a diaper that needs to be changed and a mouth that needs to be fed. There's also always a little person that wants to give you a hug, a cuddle or a gorgeous smile. I had a wonderful time visiting them - I miss them soo much already. I am sad that I can't see them whenever I want and that I have to miss the "inbetween stuff" between visits.
Most of my time was just spent visiting with them in their fabulous new home, but thanks to Beau's mom and dad (Thanks Rod and Lyn!) we were able to duck out a couple of nights and have some fun.
The first night we went out to Bingo. Many of my friends gave me a hard time about this, but I have lived in Vegas before - I've played the slots, played the tables, been there done that. Danielle and I grew up with a grandmother that loved bingo. Our father worked in a bingo hall for a while and when we were kids we got to be the bingo checkers. Bingo seemed like a good choice.
Now let me tell you, Bingo is not for the feint of heart. We bought a package deal that included 12 games . For each game we had to mark 12 cards each. They do have an electronic version that you can play where this machine does everything for you and you just sit there. This seemed boring to me, so we opted for the old fashioned paper version that you mark with a bingo dobber. (We even found "Luck of the Irish" dobbers and being part Irish, we thought this was perfect) They started calling the first game. They would call one number, make an annoucement, call another number................seemed fairly easy. But then they started calling the numbers at an alarming rate. We no longer could keep up. The games started getting more complicated. It wasn't just regular bingo anymore. Now we had to make an X, or get a row of six, or double bingo, or five in a row without using the free space. We were trying really hard to keep up with all the numbers called while trying to keep an eye on our cards to see if we had actually won. We didn't win a single game. So we left the bingo hall and met Danielle's husband and went to watch Transformers. Much more relaxing. We did go back to the Bingo hall after the movie and played the electronic version. Not really that much fun but way less stress.
The second night we went out, we went to see Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian Hotel. If you ever are in Las Vegas and have a chance to see this show, it is definitely worth it. The theatre, props and special effects were fantastic and we were lucky enough to have center seats about 8 rows from the stage. It was incredible - we both loved it. Next time we have to take our hubbies.
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