K-1 Crew Takes Las Vegas - Round 2

6 Quality Women

3 States and 1 Province

Mothers of 27 kids

Roommates 23 years ago at Utah State University Old Farm Apartment K-1

We all flew to Las Vegas to hang out for the weekend.

Malinda and I were the first to arrive, so we picked up the rental mini van. Then we shopped for a couple hours before it was time to pick up Keri and Cyd. We went to a Cuban restaurant to eat dinner.  Then it was time to pick up Heather and Hilary.  Cyd sent them a picture of this van and told them this is what to look for when we came to pick them up.  Too funny. We did have a white minivan, but not quite like this one.

 We all showed up in purple - great minds think alike.

We explored the strip for a couple hours. It is a amazing, crazy and evil place. We did enjoy the sunshine and the people watching. We ate lunch at the Cheesecake Factory.

Austin's cousin, Julia Penate, has a son named Andres who has been on a reality tv show called World of Dance. He is an amazing dancer with his partner, Charity. They made it to the finals and ended up placing third in the competition. Then they went on a six-week world tour, and they happened to be in Las Vegas the night we were there. We went to see the show, and it was amazing. We took this picture with Andres even though he doesn't even know who I am. His family and two uncles had also come to see them in Las Vegas.

 On Saturday morning, we went on a hike to the Petroglyph Canyon. These rocks behind us have over 1,000 petroglyphs on them. They were cool. The weather was perfect and the hike was fantastic. I would definitely recommend it.

After lunch, we went to the swimming pool at our hotel. We mostly just enjoyed the sunshine and sat in the hot tub. Then we went shopping at the outlet malls. Half of our friends were done shopping in a few minutes. The other half of us don't live near outlet malls so we were trying to get some Christmas shopping done.

Hanna wanted me to find a headband for her to wear to the Sadie Hawkins dance for her and Taylor to dress up like they were from Greece. Cyd was the model.

Keri's twin sisters, Lisa and Tracey, came to Las Vegas to have a sisters getaway, so they came to say hi to us. They are funny.

I do realize how lucky we are to have had such fun roommates and to have kept in touch all of these years. I love that we can go for a year without really even talking to each other and we just pick up like we saw each other yesterday. We love and talk. We share our struggles and successes. Cyd sings.

Here are a few entries for the Las Vegas 2018 quote wall:
Heather - Maybe I'm intense. What do you guys think?
Cyd - Let's say Thunder Down Under as many times as possible. (and she did)
Cyd - Don't you mean The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? (instead of Mormon or LDS, etc)
Cyd -This slacker thing is mostly working out -mooching off you guys and stuff.
Malin - Oh I just got the text. (Malinda's phone was on a 2-4 minute delay compared to the rest of us. We would send a group text and she would get it a few minutes later.)

We went in a bathroom after our lunch one day and it smelled bad. Keri said to Cyd, "Don't inhale." Cyd thought she said, "Burn in hell."