What's On My Happy List?

Oh Gosh! Our Vegas trip did not disappoint! What a hoot!

The night before we left we decorated our cars....They sorta became famous as people were taking pictures of them as we drove on the highway...

 

Some of my pics are posting sideways and I'm not sure why....sorry!

While decorating the cars Kyleigh got a call from grandma who was in a layover in San Fran on her way home from a two week trip in Europe. She was checking to make sure we hadn't left on our trip to Vegas yet. While she was in Liverpool, England she picked up gobs of One Direction t-shirts for us. freak out

  There were 13 of us on the trip! 3 adults and 10 tween/teenagers. One car headed out a day early so they missed the caravan down...One of Kyleigh's guy friends, who has lived in Vegas, kept saying we were going to get our cars broken into with making them stand out like we did. Actually it was my friend who headed down a day early and didn't decorate her car was the one that got   broken into our first night there...shattered window, portable DVD player stolen. It was such a mess for her to have to deal with on vacation. darn it.

 Emma remedying a little poster malfunction......

A stop for frozen custard in St. George...

We stayed in the Tahiti All-Suite Resort. We were so lucky to even find a descent place to stay down there that not only would accommodate our numbers but was off the strip and non casino. Many places we looked into were booked as there was some major happenings going on in Vegas that weekend.  Some to sleazy to mention.

Out for Metro Pizza!

 Driving home from dinner that night...one of the highlights of the trip for sure.... Chasing down the car flying the British flags and the encounter with the guy in the intersection made it to the top of the trip Happy List for Emma. HILARIOUS!

The second night after the concert we went to In n Out.  We were all exhausted!! It was past midnight at that point and we were finally getting around to having dinner. While eating, these two below, Morgan and my Hannah, start telling me this story from the concert about this dude named Jeffrey Clark. I was in complete stitches. 
I was laughing so dang hard AND loud! 
{could. not. help. it.}
 I swear people must have thought I was drunk. 
One of Hannah's {and mine} favorite moments from the trip.
Poolside!

Part of the pools had beach sand at the bottom. We pretended we had gone to the San Diego concert instead. ;)

Wish I could have had a few more moments of this! 

 On concert day, Kyleigh got a text from one of her girlfriends who happened to be driving home from California with her family. She saw the One Direction Tour Bus on the road heading to Vegas. Girls were in a complete frenzy! Up to this point there was a lot of speculation as to where the band may be, not here yet? already in the city? in their hotel? out sightseeing??? etc. Now we knew they hadn't even arrived yet....Thus, it became our mission for the rest of the afternoon to track down the tour bus and heaven forbid land a band sighting! We went to Planet Hollywood where the concert was being held that night. Out front we met a girl from Seattle who had flown in for the concert and had an extra ticket to sell to us. We needed that ticket as Heather didn't have one. Talk about being in the right spot at the right time. I'm telling you....Tender Mercy....we were being looked after! Even in sin city where people party half naked. The church is true, ya'll! 

 We were on a goose chase dragging 10 kids through the casino, searching doors and exits we shouldn't have been..

and after winding our way through a mall we found ourselves in this parking garage were four big semi trucks were blocking our view...it did not deter us...



The band had not arrived at this point but their drummer Josh had, who from the reception he received seems to be as popular as One Direction... The drummer took a pic of our crowd crouched down trying to sneak a peek...

We waited and waited and waited and tried to weasel information out of the security guards..Leslie was so good at that! As time went on quite a crowd had gathered. {Can I just mention it was so blasting hot outside.}


And we waited all that time for this...

Noth'in! so disappointing...other than we did eventually see the tour bus. So a shout out for that! Not quite as exciting when the people we want to see aren't actually inside of it. We were maybe 20 yards {are you kidding me?} from seeing the band enter the building that was to our right but blocked from our view...the people to the left of us...screaming...they were the lucky ones!

This was the extent of our sight seeing...from our car, but we actually didn't mind. One daughter of mine had no interest whatsoever in walking the strip. So it was all good!

We rushed back and got ready for the concert!  Kyleigh in her Lou-ie pants!

 These girls were stoked! {All of us were to be completely honest!}

Hannah was decked out in her One Direction stuff that Grandma brought her back from England and the British bracelet her best friend gave her for her birthday....

I couldn't wear pink underwear {haha} so I wore my pink shoes in honor of Harry. 

Daddy sent this text to us of Brie, back at home, who found some duct tape at the bottom of this surprise bucket I left for her and Kate. She made some duct tape 1D shoes! 
Gosh, it was hard leaving those two little ones behind. I am so not good at that. I fretted about leaving Kate for the longest time prior to leaving. She's in that 'really attached to mom phase' and I just didn't want her struggling all weekend and me worrying, but she did awesome. Another tender mercy!

Me and Emmsie up in the rafters with the terrible lighting. 

I wish I could explain to you the look on her face the several times I looked over at her during the concert. It was priceless! 

They had two openers before 1D came out. Boy were we ready! The place exploded once it finally started. I caught it on video but brace yourself, you may need earplugs...

When we purchased the tickets, we were only able to get 4 really good ones. To be fair we had to give one out to each family. The rest of us were up in the rafters. These girls plus another neighbor girl had the best seats. Quite close to the stage actually! Kyleigh said it was the best night of her entire existence. Cracks me up!
They were able to retrieve one of the fluffy snowballs that one of the band members threw out. And Hannah B kifed a water bottle from the stage. We think it was Harry's! We jumped and squealed at the news, who knew a water bottle and a fluff ball could make one loose all sense. 

All of us touching the snowball. YES we are cRaZy! But gosh we had such a fun time and made some awesome memories....

 We are SO ready to do it again....Vegas August 2013?