Romero News: June 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

More from the Romero Vacation

Las Vegas was fun with the Romero's. To see more look at my previous post when I tell about the AWESOME show-Mystere. The strip is not the greatest place in the world with all the porn and weirdos but we did have fun at the M&M factory and MGM where they had live lions and we saw them eating and playing with toys .

On Sunday after going to sacrament meeting we went and saw the Hoover Dam. It is cool! It is by Lake Mead. We saw a video about it, went on a tour, went on the top at the look out and took lots of pictures. It is cool that Pres. Hoover thought to use that water for energy and to channel and build that dam. Good thinking!

That night we just played games and hung out as a family. Monday we went shopping and to a cool pawn shop. I got like 10 DVD's for $1.50 each. It was awesome and entertained us for the car ride home. I also got some new clothes. On the way home we stopped in Cedar City and went to the Garden House with Kady. It was so fun to see her and eat where she works- delicious! It was a great weekend!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

HoNeYmOoN

Married life is the BEST!! We are just getting settled in and being used to each other still being there in the morning, after work, for dinner, that night, etc. ya know. I love Matt and we learn so much each day. I'm finally getting around to posting our pictures from our honeymoon. Which was amazing!!!

Anniversary Inn was our first stop after leaving the reception. For those of you who have not yet had a chance to stay there the rooms all have themes and are decorated accordingly. We stayed in the Rio Grande room.

It was decorated like a train. The bed was so comfortable, we got free cheesecake and sparkling cider.

The bath tub was enormous and instead of a showerhead there was a slit in the ceiling where a waterfall came out. It was awesome! And so much fun!

The next day's adventure was a plane ride to Seattle! It was only my third time on a plane and I still get so exctied like a little kid at take off and landing. Matt was amused by my excitement.

When we got to the Quality Inn downtown Seattle our room was AMAZING!! Matt had called ahead and there were rose pedals on the bed, a giant bathtub in our honeymmoon suite room and candles all along the tub with a single rose and chocolate covered strawberries. We decided to stay in the room that night and order delivery hamburgers.

Monday we slept in til noon and it felt soo nice to relax after all the planning and everything that goes into a wedding. After getting ready for the day we went to Pike's Place Market. There are TONS of fish, lobster, oysters, clams, and lots of tourists.

There was this fish (the dangling one in pic below) that had a sign by it saying "tickle my tonsils." I said Matt can I really pet it? Will I stink like fish? and he said I dont know, try it!

And when I did- it jumped up and scared me!! Was it dead or alive?

It was a joke and the guy behind the counter made the fish jump when i came to touch it, which made me jump and scream in front of a ton of people. It was hilarious!! And scary.

My favorite part was probably when we walked around to tons of really cool shops- funny books and lots of good laughs. We went to a magic shop and curiosity shop- I totally felt like we were in Harry Potter!

Or Twilight... With Edward and Jacob...

Matt liked this book- And he bought a book How to Survive Zombie Attacks. I bought a book called What is your Poo telling you? Hahaha it is Hilarious! and a good read while on the pot. (sorry for those reading this that dont like to talk about #2)

I love the Ocean!

We had the most delicious fresh mini donuts-

We had lunch at Ivan's- this really yummy fish and fries place and fed the sea gulls!! They swooped down and ate the fries right out of your hand. (look at the great pic- Matt is the best photographer ever)

It was kinda scary but really cool. The view was great too!

The weather was great (fresh air, very green but no rain!) We walked around and went to the aquarium and there was a mini zoo part with sea animals too!

We got a ride on the back of peddle pusher bike along waterfront.

Tuesday woke up early enough for continental breakfast then we went up over 600 feet in the air to the top of the Space Needle to see a great view of Seattle

We ate Gyros for lunch at a little Greek restaurant. We rode the metro and went to the mall. my favorite store is Lush. We said goodbye to Seattle and flew home to sleep in our new apartment. What a GREAT weekend! Everything was perfect!!

The next day Matt started his new job at Oakland Construction wahoo (advice from Sharlene: dont go back to work the day you get home from the honeymoon) and at night we opened all our gifts. THANKS. We will also be sending out our thank you cards soon (hopefully...) We love our families. We love each other and had a BLAST.

Friday, June 18, 2010

MYSTERE

For the Romero family vacation this summer we went to Las Vegas! It was so nice and warm. They have a time share and we stayed at the Wyndham Resort. It was SO nice. Matt and I got our own room with a king size bed, huge jetted tub and cozy front room and kitchen. Saturday we hung out and went swimming. That night after a delicious buffet dinner we went to Mystere the Cirque du Soleil show at Tresure Island. It was amazing!!

The stage moves up and down, the lighting adds to the effect, people lower from the ceiling, climb up walls, flip through the air grabbing an acrobatic bar, costumes are unbelievable, all the acts are fun to watch and the whole thing is just awesome!

The acts include:

The first guy had an Aerial Cube that he spun and maneuvered in and out of. With the floresent lights it was just fascinating.

On of my favorites was probably the Chinese Poles. The amazing acrobats would climb up, down, flip off and on, around the poles. They had masks on the backs of their heads and the costumes were really cool. It was like an optical illusion with people flying everywhere and amazingly climbing up these tall poles.

There were these two REALLY strong guys, two brothers, that did an act called Hand-to-hand. One of the guys laid on his back why the other guy did a hand stand balancing on his legs. They did all these crazy maneuvers that were just captivating.

The Bungee Jumping was really cool! These 6 people dressed like bird creatures did tricks and stunts on trapeze bars. It was almost inspiring. I want to do gymnastics after watching this fun, amazing act.

Matt's favorite was the Trampoline, Fast Track and Koream Plank. The performers would bounce each other on this teeter-tottor type thing and one of them would bounce the other high into the air, after flipping amazingly through the air they land on the sholders of another performer. They had to be so exact and precise in thier jumping and landing. It was great!

This act was cool but kind of left you hanging. Like I thought the Aerial High Bar performers were practicing to build up to some cool move But that was the performance. The act consisted of 14 gymnasts doing a high-bar routine 40 feet above stage.

The whole show was really cool becuase the music was live and the drummers and everyone were amazing. The whole experience was thrilling, the hour and half flew by. It was pure entertainment! I would love to see more Cirque du Soleil shows like Ka and O. Thank you Greg and Karine! We loved every minute of our vacation!