From Las Vegas to Logan and Everywhere in Between

One Thursday afternoon, Devin and I GOT ON THE ROAD and left our little town of Cedar City, to hit up the big city full of lights-Las Vegas. Why?

Well let me explain. 

Devin's sister Micah had an 18th birthday. 

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She had never been to the Cheesecake Factory 

(and her favorite dessert is cheesecake)

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We went to the Cheesecake Factory in Caesar's Palace to celebrate such an exciting day.

It just happened to work out well, because Micah lives in Arizona, so she could take a quicky flight and zip over to Las Vegas, and we could take a quicky car ride and zip over there from Cedar City. So we met up, and spent Micah's 18th birthday in Las Vegas. (all very well-behaved of course :) Haha.

It took forever to park...but I won't even get into that.

After we finally found where to park, we went right in to the Cheesecake Factory. We had a little bit of a wait time, so we entertained ourselves with shops in the Forum, as well as this pretty neat aquarium right outside of the restaurant. If you like cool looking fishies, watch this video. 

The aquarium was also equipped with this rather cool looking sting ray. 

Meanwhile we were also able to check out a gallery from a world-known photographer. Peter Lik. We were all blown away by his photographs. Check out his website here. Also, some of his pictures right below:

We finally got our food and cheesecake!

We did a little walking along the strip after our dinner/dessert- Watched the Belagio fountain show twice, and then were intending to go to the M&M store, but didn't make it before it closed. So, then we turned around and headed back to Cedar City. 

We were ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

-(on the way home, Micah opened presents!)

(Headbands from Rhea)

(Miss Piggy from Lane)

(Micah's cute!!! purse from her mom-homemade)

Although we got back to Cedar City fairly late, we still gave Micah a tour of our house, and the next morning took her to school with us.We actually only went to one class, but Micah just hung out until Devin and I got done. Also, before school we were able to meet up with Katherine Burr (friend from Alaska, who is also going to SUU).

Following our campus visit, we hit up the Pizza Cart.

I'm not even joking when I say that this is the BEST pizza I have ever had. Right on Cedar City's Main Street, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, this pizza cart is set up outside of Ace Hardware. It's cooked in a brick oven, and comes out with this smoky/grilled taste. It's extremely appetizing. 

We enjoyed: Pepperoni

and 

Three cheese Pesto (not pictured)

After our delightful lunch, we played a few games back at our place, and then were 

ON THE ROAD AGAIN to Provo. 

We ran several errands, one of which included hitting up Krispy Kreme doughnuts with Haylee. We got them Hot 'n' Ready, which means two things:

A. For going into the store, we got a free one

B. They melt in your mouth because they are hot off the press- or the conveyor belt I guess I should say.

The next day we got up and were on our way to several new adventures. The first of which included bowling. 

Here is Zach getting ready to knock down the pins. 

Some more pics in the alley...

After two games of bowling, our next stop was Boondocks. Here we enjoyed some bumper boats, and Go-Karts. We weren't expecting to get so wet, but it's hard when you are getting sprayed constantly by water guns attached to the other boats. 

You can probably tell from this picture that we got a little wet...

Now onto the Go-Karts, which Zach won, just because his kart was faster than the rest of ours.

After Boondocks, we were ON THE ROAD AGAIN to LOGAN! On the way, we were entertained with a large book of Mad Libs. I would post them on here, but when you get boys picking your nouns, adjectives, and verbs, you can imagine the kind of results that come about.

We arrived in Logan and then went right to Aggie country to watch Travis in his second college football game! We were all pretty excited. Here are a few pictures to describe the evening.

(passed the temple along the way)

(Miss Piggy came too)

(There's Trav!)

(I love this one of Micah and Timm-below)

That was the football game. Don't worry, the night didn't end there. We went back to the hotel, and had a swim party-which mainly included the game of Categories as well as the game of, "Brooke just got out and dried off and has her towel wrapped around her, so lets push her back in the pool so she gets soaking wet again." (The three participants in this game were: Me (of course), Timm, and Devin). You can guess the roles that Timm and Devin played in this game. After our pool party, we got some late night Subway (open 24 hrs. in Logan) and then headed back to the hotel to play games, but instead we all ended up falling asleep. We had a long, busy day. 

The next morning we woke up and WERE ON THE ROAD AGAIN to Provo. This road trip also included Mad Libs, as well as a long game of "Would You Rather..." (generated from the iphone). You probably would rather not know the kinds of questions we got asked... 

We arrived back in Provo, went to church, came home and had dinner, and then WERE ON THE ROAD AGAIN to the SLC airport. 

Sadly Micah had to leave, and we had to head back to Cedar for school the next day. But oh was all that driving and traveling worth it :) Can't wait till the next time we are 

ON THE ROAD AGAIN.