Hmm, lots of time to blog when you're waiting for free shows to
start. This is the pirate show at our hotel. We get to watch it from
a primo spot because were hotel guests. The baccus show at CP was
decidedly lame. Turns out i was reminiscing about the Atlantis
animatronic show, so well have to catch that one tomorrow. Maybe
between buffet at Paris and before mystere.

We hightailed it from the bellagio fountains to CP to catch the
aniamatronic show that kind of freaked me out as a kid in the 90s.
Will love to get bens reaction to this.

Hahaha ahaa, jk! Dudes, water is $4/liter here, and we haven't found
a single drinking fountain. Crazy. Mac king show was hilarious, I
think I busted my gut laughing. Could be the aches from mirandas an
workout yesterday *shakes fist at Miranda*.

It's hot here!

We made it safely to the glittering city, albeit am hour delayed. But
the shuttle ride and checkin went smoothly. Our room is beautiful, I
promptly checked the bathroom and see it to be appropriately
sumptuous. I love nice hotel bathrooms. We have a view from the 24th
floor of the strip, including the pirate show below. Were just going
to stay in tonight, it's 2 am Colorado time. It looks luke were in
for a fabulous weekend!

Friday May 1 I had my pinning ceremony for nursing school graduation. I was thrilled that all my grandparents and most of my close family flew into Denver to visit, despite rain and plane breakdowns. These are photos from the the ceremony and party following, taken by my personal photographer, Ben Mason, who is quite excellent. You can see more of the photos on his photostream here. But these are some of my favorites. I’d love to see the photos that others took, Miranda and Mom and Dad! Send them my way when you get a chance.

We got rained out of the park so I moved the party to our community clubhouse. It was beautiful with fresh flowers, lovely cupcakes, and lots of friends stopping by with well wishes.

Driving back from the airport Saturday Amanda found out that the Alpaca Festival was going on Right Now! My humoring parents let us spend a couple hours admiring the fuzzy creatures and getting some fleece for spinning.

More pictures are on my flickr stream.