Utah Trip

We had a great Spring break up in Utah. The weather was perfect and the company was a blast. Gavin was able to drive up with us and spend a couple days before he headed back down to Arizona to hit the books and study family free for a week.

We had a ton of fun with my family as everybody came together for dinner Sunday before Gavin flew home. It was great to put three of the four babies born this year together and compare. All of the grandkids born this year have been two months apart.

I was able to visit with friends and even managed to sneak away with a girlfriend of mine to see a movie, child free. Thanks for the great time. But the highlight of the trip for my little Austee Stewmontee, was being able to go on the Sponge Bob ride in Vegas. We actually took our time going up and coming home. We stayed at Excalibur on the way up. What a steal...it cost us $41, and we got a $25 food credit. So we did their breakfast buffet the next morning. That had to be the biggest breakfast spread I have ever seen. Gavin was in breakfast Heaven....Every type of egg imaginable. And of course, everyone that saw our babies had to come up and comment on how adorable and well behaved they were.

On the way home we weren't as fortunate to get that deal so we settled for Circus Circus, thinking it would be fun for the kids....were we WRONG! That had to be the ARM PIT of the strip. They didn't have our reservation. They said that because of the economy, they have cut back on their staff and the people in the reservation department weren't there to input our reservation. Common sense people....cut back in other places, not reservations when your a hotel....Duh! And then when they finally found it, an hour later, we went up to our room to find that it hadn't been cleaned from the people who were there before us. We go back down to the front desk, and at this point there are fumes coming out of my eyeballs. We go back to the "supervisor" and she apologizes saying that only clean rooms are reported and she didn't understand how that happened. She gives us the room next door. We go back up to our new room and not to our surprise, there were no comforters on our bed. It is now almost 10 o'clock and we are exhausted. We call house keeping and they tell us that they don't have bed spreads but to call back in the morning and they will have some then. Hello...I wouldn't be calling if it wasn't for that night. They tell us they will bring us blankets. I walk out and there is the cleaning lady, cleaning the room that we originally started with, and in plastic bags, brand new comforters. 2 hours later, no blankets so my sister calls house keeping again and they say they will bring blankets right away. They did, but when we opened the blanket it stunk of cigarette smoke. Like I am going to wrap my kids in something that smells like an ashtray.

Needless to say the supervisor the next morning got an earful from me and I swore I would tell everyone I knew how horrible it was and that I would never stay there again.

Other then that fun experience.... we had an awesome time and can't wait to head back up this summer where we will have more time to play! Thank you to my amazing parents for hosting an awesome trip! We love y'all and can't wait to see you again in a couple months!