This past weekend Doran and I went down to Vegas to visit some of my friends and to get away from the rainy weather Provo had been experiencing. Doran had never been to Vegas so I made sure he got the full tourist experience. We hung out in Henderson, my home town, on Friday and I showed him around there. On Saturday we went to a buffet, went to the strip for some shopping, rode the New York, New York rollercoaster, watched the Bellagio fountains, went to the Bellagio gardens, and visited M&M World and the Coke Factory. We were pretty exhausted by the end of the day, so we went back to my friend Natalie's house where we were staying. Doran enjoyed playing video games with Natalie's husband Austin, while Nat and I caught up on girl talk. Sunday we went to my old ward to see some old friends, took a quick nap, and drove back to Provo just in time for me to go to work at midnight! It was a busy weekend, but so much fun!
In the pictures you will notice that my hair is a little darker than usual. I got it done this past week by a friend. I told her to dye it a little ligher then my natural color, however it turned out nearly black. It has faded a little and i'm starting to get use it being dark. I hope it looks ok for our engagement pictures this Saturday! :)
We continue to count down the days to our wedding. We still have lots of plans to go, but we are enjoying every minute of it. Doran started a new, 2nd job at the Cinemark Theaters today so we are going to have to get use to not seeing each other as much as we have before. It will be good for me to start school next Monday so I am busy while he is working close to 70-80 hours a week. It really makes me cherish the times that we do get together and makes me so excited to be able to live with him so I am always there when he gets home! We love being engaged, however I feel we will love life a lot more once we are married! 82 days until the best day of our lives!
Us at Caesar's Palace. Doran loved the Roman statues and loved telling me all that he knew about the ancient Roman Gods.
A good picture of my dark hair! It's fun! I'm definitely getting use to it.
The Strip from one of the walkways. It was such a beautiful day!
At the Townsquare Shops!
The adorable strawberries Doran bought for me. I just love him.
So we went to the Bean Museum here at BYU and no, its not about beans, but its a natural history museum. We started off just having fun with the stuffed dead animals, taking funny pictures with them involved. We then moved on to the bugs.... and if you didn't know Doran is afraid of spiders. Well conveniently there was a video on about spiders so we sat down to watch it. During the movie he put his arm around me and while he did that I softly rubbed my fingernail on his hand making him think it was a spider. I thought it would make him just jump a little bit...nope!!! He almost broke the glass display behind us with his elbow!!! It was really funny to me, but he didn't find the humor in it. But the coolest thing happened we sat down and watched a live display about invertebrates. The guy doing the show had a tarantula and the worlds biggest species of cockroach; aka the Madagascar hissing cockroach! He asked if we wanted to hold them, and after some coaxing and motivating we were finally able to do it. It was pretty gross and scary, but at the same time it wasn't as bad as I thought. After the presentation we were talking about the other shows and he took us down to the basement and showed us all of the other cool animals. We were able to even hold a 6'6" boa constricter snake!! That's 2 inches taller than Doran!! It was a great night and intellectually satisfying as well!! What a great date! And it was free! :)
