Road Tripping

Santa Brought Greg and I a TomTom for Christmas. So we figured a road trip was in order. Since the winter and cold starts to mess with Greg's head about this time of year we decided to head to warmer weather. Miranda and Ian have been living in Arizona for awhile and we decided to take of advantage of their hospitality. So Friday we hopped in the car plugged our TomTom in and decided we would drive as far as we could. I wondered if this was a great idea when about 30 minutes into the drive Kaitlyn asked are we almost there? I calmly told her to ask me again tomorrow! The driving went well and we pulled into ????? Around dinner. We got a little dinner, traded seats, (Yes, this is the first time I have actually drove on a trip in 10 years) and kept on truckin! Soon the sun went down and we kept driving. Greg is not really a night person so I fully expected to stop for the night as soon as I was done driving. I pulled into Phoenix about 12:30, I had done my part and was ready to sleep so I left it up to Greg what we would do from there. He decided we were only about 3 1/2 hours away and he could make it. The next thing I knew we were pulling into Miranda's driveway, about 3:30 in the morning, but hey we made it. We crashed in our beds and woke up to the Arizona sun.
Matayia was convinced that she was going to swim in Mirandas unheated pool and that she did.



Though all her attempts were followed by a little screaming and running to the warm blowup pool. She was brave.

Thought the town of Sierra Vista is not near as bad as Miranda claimed. There is not alot to do unless you are a diehard Tombstone fan. Ian provided us with a viewing of the movie so we could really appreciate the town. When we visited Tombstone Maytaia noticed that almost everyone smoked there and I think she was right. The town was more than I had expected and we had a fun time walking down a historic old western street.



We also enjoyed a quick visit to Bisbee...



Happily consumed some ice cream outside in January



And then we had to come back home.

Because we were worried about bad weather we left sunny Arizona Tuesday morning and headed to Las Vegas. The trip seemed a little longer on the way home and Greg didn't seem to love roadtripping as much. But after a long day we pulled in Vegas in a rainstorm. We had a small situation when we got to the hotel that only added to Greg's long day, starting with a stinky smoky room, and then us loosing our keys to our new clean smelling room, all in a rainstorm. When we finally got in our room and had some dinner the day seemed to not be so bad. And Matayia and i were ready to visit the Strip! Needless to say this was not on the top of greg's list but of coarse he tagged along. We made a quick stop at H&M (just couldn't go to Vegas without stopping)and then headed to M&M world on the strip.



After we partied at M&M world. We walked the girls through the MGM Grande Casino. (yes this was my idea) I remember the first time I went in a casino and was fascinated with all that was going on so i decided our girls would think it was cool. Kaitlyn just looked around with big eyes, not saying a word. While Matayia told me of a book she had read that said you could loose $100 dollars while gambling, and asked me is that was true.



When we were pulling into the driveway I asked Greg "was it worth it?" and he replied "lets go back again." I guess we have a few more road trips in our future.