The Andersons Against the World, Volume I: Sister Weekend

Brooke and I got a room at Mandalay Bay on Friday night. We took Rachel and Ashley to the Shark Reef before Mike picked them up leaving just Brooke and I.

I wasn't a mom or a wife for a whole 24 hours! It was a wonderfully needed break.

Rachel was so excited to be going to see sharks, but half way through she was done.

She actually told us, "no more sharks." The shark reef is pretty cool they have 2 tunnels you can walk through that have sharks swimming over top and all around you.

After Mike picked up the girls we headed up to our room and found it to our liking.

We had a strip view, a phone in the bathroom and a jacuzzi tub. It's a shame we were hardly in the room long enough to truly use any of it.

We got ready and made our way over to the Winn to see La Reve. It was really cool. It takes place mostly on a water stage that would vary in depth. One minute people would be running across it and then the next scene people were being dropped from the ceiling. People would appear from under the water out of nowhere and the synchronized swimmers wouldn't come up for air.

After our show we went looking for forward since it took us too long to get ready we didn't get anything before hand. But there's not much open after 11:30 even in a casino. So we walked and walked all around Mandalay and into the Luxor, which was attached and has a food court that was open. We really wanted an ice cream but thought we should go get real food, so even though we found an ice cream place open (and no room service didn't have ice cream) I thought I probably should eat real food first, so instead of eating something at the Luxor food court we decided to walk clear across the Mandalay to see what they had at their food court. It didn't matter because it was closed. So back we went to the Luxor and grabbed a slice of pizza. After we finished we then headed to go get our ice cream- They were closed! The closed up while we were sitting there! We laughed so hard and were just in disbelief that we headed back to the casino. Not thinking that there was a McDonalds that does McFlurries, Sundaes or cones until the next morning.

Brooke insisted that we play a buck in the slot machines. She couldn't believe that I had never played so she gave me a buck and I lost my first and only dollar to a slot machine. She played for a little while and "won" 35 cents, but then kept playing until it was gone. When I insisted that we go to bed being it was after 1:30am and I'm not usually up later than 10pm.