I figured while I had some time I would type up my adventures of the last few days. I know once I get back to Massachusetts I won't find the time to update since we're moving in two weeks.

Anyway! I will start with last Saturday. We had a pretty stressful day. Justin was trying to find out when his flight back from San Diego would be so he could figure out what to do about transportation. We also didn't know who was taking us to the airport. Corey had friends coming over and wasn't sure what time they would be gone and Joanna had plans and Justin's mom didn't like the idea of taking us to Boston. Well with about three hours to go we got Corey to agree to drive us. We spent most of the morning playing Rock Band, touring with our band “Sons of Krypton”. Loads of fun. Finally it was time to leave and we got to Logan in decent time. It's amazing how close Boston seems when it isn't 7 a.m.

We got checked in pretty quickly and headed to our gate where we sat for a while. Nothing much to report. Boarded and took off. I didn't realize how long the flight would really be until Saturday. We were expecting six hours but we got to Las Vegas around 10:30 PST. I fell asleep for a little bit on the plane and woke up as we went over the Rocky Mountains. That was SO cool. I've never flown that far west before so it was an adventure. We munched on snacks the entire flight, as JetBlue has a “take as many as you would like” mentality. Anyway, luggage in hand we got a cab and headed towards Justin's dad's house.

Michael was awake when we arrived to the house so I got to meet him a little earlier than expected. We sat up and talked to him for a while before turning in for the night. Michael has an English accent which is so cool. They really have a nice house. Very desert and southwest.

Sunday morning we got up fairly early, still being on Eastern time. Kim, Justin's step mom was in the kitchen preparing some things for our cookout later in the afternoon so I got to meet her. We pretty much just relaxed and stood around most of the morning. I think we went in the hot tub and then took showers as well. We had some food out under the tiki huts in the back by the pool for lunch. It was a nice opportunity to talk to Kim and Michael and eventually the conversation turned to what Justin and I had planned for the future. All of the questions came from Kim and Michael told me I could run the other way if I wished haha. She ended up cornering Justin and asked him some awkward questions about us. But she made him pinky swear he would be faithful to me haha. After he was released we decided to take a walk to downtown and see the shops. We weren't gone long really. I think when we got back we went back to the hot tub, as our legs were burning from the walk. Kim had been upstairs having a nap so we didn't see much of her for the rest of the night. After the hot tub Justin and I decided to watch The Da Vinci Code. It was really good!!! Michael watched a bit of it with us and then we watched some of the Fox cartoons before going up to bed. I fell asleep before Family Guy was even over! I have been so so tired lately.

Monday was Michael's birthday. Kim had to work but Michael took the day off so we hung out with him. We hot tubbed and got ready and headed into town with him to do his errands. Michael had a sweet BMW from his dealership. I'm talkin a $90,000 car here. It was a SWEET ride. We had some breakfast at Einstein bagels in the middle of errand running. We sat out in the sun and that has really been the only time I felt warm outside at all this week lol. It's been super cold. After errands we came back to the house and I don't know why I went upstairs and got under the covers but I did. And I fell asleep lol. Justin and I had a nice long nap until just before three. Then it was time to go see American Gangster with Michael. Justin treated us. The movie was really good but REALLY long. We were starving when we got out of the movie. We met up with Kim at a restaurant in the same building that the movie was in and had a really nice dinner. I had chicken parmigiana. It was sooooo tasty. It was Michael's birthday dinner and according to Justin it turned out really expensive lol. I didn't see the bill but Justin says it was a lot.

After dinner we wandered the casino looking for a five dollar black jack table for Justin to gamble. It was his first time in Vegas since turning 21. He turned 40 into 50 so thats cool. After we got back home ...I don't remember what we did.

Tuesday morning we got up early, got ready and Kim took us to the bus terminal so we could catch The Deuce to the Strip. So exciting!!! We rode the Deuce down to the Wynn hotel and got off there to start our tour. We saw a LOT the first day. At the Venetian we went to the wax museum which was loads of fun. We took a ton of pictures. Justin forgot his memory card in his computer so he felt bad about that but I took plenty of pictures. We got a lot of good ones. After the wax museum we continued the tour. I can't remember the exact order of things but we saw everything on the north end. We went down to Caesar's Palace which is HUGE! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOGE. Holy crap that hotel is ginormous. We got hungry while we were there but everything in the Forum shops at Caesar's is so expensive so we made our way over to the PH which used to be the Aladdin and we found ourselves a sandwich shop that was fairly inexpensive. Then we hopped back onto the Deuce and headed to the Stratosphere. We wanted to be up there went the sun went down but unfortunately it was taking too long so we just left. Then we headed north to downtown Las Vegas. We went to the Fremont Street Experience which wasn't much of an experience lol. That's where the famous cowboy is but he wasn't lit up yet so we didn't get to see much down there. Not much of an experience until the sun goes down.

We got back on the bus and headed back south in hopes of catching the volcano eruption in front of the Mirage. The bus ride back was so long and stuuuuuuuuuuupid. But we got to the Mirage to find out eventually that we still had quite a long time until the eruption would happen anyway. At 5:30 we tried to make it down to the Bellagio for the fountain thing but we weren't going to get there in time so we turned around and stood at the Mirage and waited. THEN we walked down to the Bellagio to see the dancing fountains. We wandered through that hotel before stopping to see the show. It was so cool!!! And the music was Luck be a Lady from Frank himself!!! I loved it. We decided to call it at night after the dancing fountains so we wandered around to find a bus stop. It was cold out so my jeans were chaffing my thighs and it hurt really bad. :(

There was a cluster with the bus once we got to ours. Unfortunately about a month ago they changed the route and we missed the stop we wanted to take. We were on the bus a REALLY long time and we were all over the place. I felt so bad for Justin. He really beat himself up over it :( But we finally got home just before ten. Michael was just about to call and see where we were in our travels. Having not had anything to eat since our sammiches we ate our left-overs from Monday night and then went up to bed. Completely exhausted we slept in on Wednesday and took our time getting ready. We hot tubbed and eventually headed toward the bus stop around 12:30. Got to the strip with no problems and stopped at the famous “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign to take pictures. Then we walked up to Mandalay Bay and over to the Luxor. That is a COOL hotel!!! From there we went to Excalibur and out across to New York New York. We just took pictures for a while since we were going into NY NY for a show that night. We went over to MGM and saw the lions the went to the M&M store, the Coke store and Gameworks where we decided to have lunch. It was pretty much the same price as an Applebee's meal so it was really great. We were so tired but still had a lot to do. We did a lot of wandering around before heading to the NYNY. My legs hurt so badly because of the chaffing. It was hard to walk around.

Did a little bit of gambling at the roulette tables! I wasn't ballsy enough to continue gambling after I won five bucks so I decided to just be happy with doubling my money. Next time I go to Vegas I will be sure to save up. This trip was more for meeting Justin's family..not spending tons of money. We had so much time before seeing Zumanity so we basically just wandered around for a while before the doors opened.

Michael and Kim got us tickets to the show as a Christmas present and it turned out to be really fun!! Its Cirque De Solei.It was so cool though. Its really amazing what people can do with their bodies. We had to catch a bus straight away because we didn't want to miss the last one home. We thought we got lucky when we saw our second bus pulling up as soon as we got to the station but they did a little short tour around THEN went back to the station. So it was nearly 11 when we actually got back to the house.

This morning (Thursday) Justin had to get up and get ready quickly because Kim was taking him to the airport for his flight to Mexico.

Michael and Kim had to work today so I was just alone in the house with the animals. I read for a while and napped and since then I've been watching television. I took a shower, did some laundry and Kim just got home from work so I am going to go!! I should be able to post this tomorrow since there is free wireless at the airport. Tomorrow morning I go to Santa Ana to meet up with Wanda (Justin's grandmother) to start my weekend in California!!!

And here I am, in the airport. I have tons of time before my boarding so I will try to upload some pictures. I dislike that I have to resize them on flickr bc it takes away from the quality!!!!! But you guys can see them in person at some pt. So there it is! Sometime I will update about California.

I just wanted to update and say that things are going well in Las Vegas. Justins dad and step mom are very nice. Today we are going to the strip for the first time. No wireless here so I don't have a whole lot of time..

I did get an email from the job in Newport and they aren't going to fill it right now....so I guess my search continues. I need to find something really quick though..especially now that we're moving to Rhode Island. Sigh

Feliz................Thanksgiving

Hi guys. I just spoke to some of you on the phone. All of you are over at Vic n Tina's and it sounds loud and busy so I am sure you're having fun!! I had requests to give some details about life lately so here I am. I know this is less personal than a direct email but this eliminates me having to type and retype the details to everyone. I hope you don't mind.

So, as some of you may know, Justin and I have been looking into moving from our Fall River apartment into something spacier. We finally found a place last night. It's in Portsmouth, RI. The house is about two blocks from the beach and in an area of Portsmouth called Island Park. The house is small (in fact I am having doubts about how we'll fit everything into the house...mostly because the place is a mess right now). One bedroom..your standard kitchen, bathroom and living room.

It has a small fenced in yard with a white picket fence and a trellis. There is a small deck built off to the side in the yard, enough for a couple chairs. The front door leads into the kitchen which is considerably larger than the one we have now. More counter space and cabinet space as well. There is room for a small dining room table as well. The house is recently remodeled so it has new carpet and he painted recently. It needs a scrubbing though. I saw three spiders in the bathroom :( :( :( The bedroom is directly off the kitchen. It has wood paneling..which reminds me of Grandpa's haha. SMALL SMALL closet so I will have to experiment with some under the bed storage for my clothing that doesn't REALLY need to be hung up. The weird part...there is a "window" in the bedroom that looks into the living room. With shelves...it's odd. We'll be putting up a curtain on it for sure. The living room is long...I THINK all of our living room furniture will fit into it...I hope.....at least the essentials will fit, I know that. The bathroom is not a bad size either.

It's really not too bad. I will feel better when I get in there and see how everything fits though. I can't picture it in my head and it is overwhelming me. We're meeting with the landlord tomorrow night to give him a deposit. We move in on the 15th.

I am glad that I can finally get my car registered here..and officially become a resident of the East Coast. But its also overwhelming to me because I still work in Boston. HOPEFULLY that will change when I get back from vacation and talk to the lady from Newport. Newport would be a fabulously close job. Living in Psmith and traveling to Boston will tack on an extra 20 minutes to my commute every morning so I don't really want to do that for long.

As far as my upcoming vacation, Justin and I are flying to Las Vegas Saturday night. I will be in Vegas until next Friday when I fly to California to hang out with his grandmother and then on Saturday Justin will fly back to San Diego from Mexico and we'll spend the next couple days in San Diego together before flying home on Monday. Then its back to the real world.

As far as Christmas....I have no idea how I am going to get home for Christmas. Plane tickets are extremely expensive. And now that I have to come up with the money for our new place PLUS pay my bills for December its becoming more of a possibility that I cannot afford it. It sucks because coming home for Christmas would be perfect. I could fly out on a Saturday morning or late Friday night and come back the 26th and only have to miss a day of work since I get Christmas Eve off. I really am not sure what to do. It's stressing me out to think about it though so I am going to just go on vacation and figure out life afterwards.

And no, I am NOT getting married in Las Vegas. When I get married you guys will know!

Hm what else?? Oh, my phone is broken. I will have a new one by the time I get back from vacation. We bought one on ebay and it will probably get here while Im gone. So that should get me through until my contract is up and I can switch to a number out here!

Alrighty..I am going to go now. Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving. Check out my flickr site(link posted in the last entry) for pictures from my day.

I don't think I've shared this link with you all...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25177514@N00/

Thats where I am uploading my photos now. Plus, all the ones from my old yahoo account are there now that yahoo merged with flickr.

Btw...my diploma finally came. Only a year and three months from the day I officially received all my credits.

Okay so I finally have my holiday plans figured out. Thanksgiving will be spent with Justin at his mom's in Bristol. Saturday, the 24th Justin and I are flying to Las Vegas to stay with his dad and step-mom. As of right now,(My plans stay the same..its unsure whats going on with J) Justin will be there with me until the 29th when he flies to Monterray Mexico for a gig. I will spend one more night in Vegas and on the 30th I will fly to Santa Ana, CA where Justin's grandmother will pick me up. She says we're going shopping. I will spend Friday (30th) in Huntington Beach, CA and on Saturday(If Justin ends up having this gig in Mexico) Wanda and I will pick Justin up from the airport and drive to the Pala Casino in Pala California where Draw the Line has another gig. We will stay in California Saturday night and roam San Diego Sunday. Then Monday morning I am flying out of San Diego to Detroit...changing planes and flying into Providence. It will be a LONG LONG day of travel for me.

I have no idea when I am going to come home for Christmas..especially bc now I have no extra $$ for an airplane ticket. But it will get figured out..

Also when I get back from vacay I will talk to the lady I had the interview with. Fingers crossed. I am so so tired of working in Boston!

So the good news is that sometime next week I am meeting with a lady from a law office in Newport to discuss me working there. Keep fingers crossed.

The other news is that I am sick. Well not really sick so much as I am physically exhausted and my muscles are killing me. So I didn't go to work today. It's money lost but I really needed a day. Plus Justin is leaving today until Sunday so I really am glad I am getting to spend the afternoon with him..even if I'm not doing much.


My last post was about this: Justin is in Mexico for Thanksgiving. Well, he's flying out on Thanksgiving and is HOPING that from there he will get a flight to Las Vegas. If he doesn't..wherever Tricia sends him he will change his flight and spend the week with his dad/stepmom before the Draw the Line gig at the Pala in California on December 1st. Well we were talking about me going. I would fly out to Las Vegas on my own, get to meet Justin's west coast family and then fly home from California. So I started looking at flights and they were so expensive. Like 344 for a one way. Unbelievable. But I think I maybe found a way. I can get a one way ticket out of Boston to Las Vegas for about 139 and then a one way from Cali to Boston for 159...which is cheaper than doing one flight for 344. So yeah..I am trying to budget and figure out how Ill be able to pay for it. I already don't get to see you guys until Christmas..I want to go SOMEWHERE. And I really want to meet Justin's family out there.

So thats that. Im gonna nap