Girl's weekend Las Vegas TOFW ...Part 1

A little something to get you excited for the official Girl's weekend TOFW post!

September 19-21, 2008

Top 10ish list (ok 62! Thanks to LeAnn for putting this together)

( In no particular order)

1. Kim’s sweater hitting the baby in the carrier right behind her seat and the mother getting snippy and throwing her sleeve back at her. Kim didn’t know there was a baby right behind her.
2. The bathroom at the 7-Eleven saying “Out of Order, Not a public restroom.” And when Kim asked about it, the cashier replied, “There’s a reason it says that.” Then he let Kim and Angela use it.
3. Kim’s conversation with Laurel Christensen and trying to figure out how they knew each other. “She asked if I went to BYU, not if I lived in Provo!” They were in the same singles ward in Provo.
4. Running into MaryKay Orgill at the event and Angela asking her if she knew Traci Norris. She also asked Laurel Christensen if she knew Traci. She’s apparently the only common link if Angela knows them as well.
5. The Thunder From Down Under billboard of hot men in Vegas. Angela and LeAnn took pictures of it through the open sunroof.
6. Angela yelling at the man standing on a barricade “You’re hot!” out LeAnn’s side of the car.
7. Angela asking a man/worker in the Forum Shops “If I were a bathroom, where would I be?”
8. Playing in the FAO Schwartz store and trying to find gifts for Kim’s kids.
9. Kim’s fajitas not sitting well with her and eating 20 tums in an hour.
10. . Disgusting Nephi bathrooms – separate building from the gas station store – worse than the ghetto 7-Eleven in Las Vegas.
11. Hilary asking LeAnn if she says offensive things too after Kim said, “I can tell this is an old CD because your picture is old” after Hilary commented that she chose an interesting CD – it was her Christmas one.
12. Hilary telling Kim she looked like she was 10 minutes pregnant.
13. LeAnn talking with Amanda Dickson while she had Michael Wilcox sign her book.
14. Borrowing Shannon’s (a girl behind us) sharpie marker so Hilary could autograph Kim and LeAnn’s CD’s. Then the break was over and Shannon wasn’t able to get Hilary’s autograph.
15. Discovering we’re BFF’s (Best Friends Forever) with Hilary Weeks because of two degrees of separation through Angela.
16. The waiter burning his finger on Kim’s hot fajita plate at La Salsa and showing Kim how quickly it blistered.
17. Kim asking “Where are we going to eat?” at the beginning of each day and around meal times. 18. Angela trying to get LeAnn to jump up on the back of a statue in a fountain at the Forum Shops and pull its tail.
19. Walking up the stairs in the Forum Shops and getting winded. So we decided to take the curved escalators the rest of the way.
20. Getting a view room of the golf course at the Sun Coast Hotel and not being able to see it until morning.
21. Going to bed Friday night in Las Vegas around 10:30 p.m. – heading back to our hotel at 9:30 p.m. So much for staying up late on the strip!
22. Angela and Kim giving LeAnn dating advice.
23. Parking LeAnn’s car at Angela’s parents’ house. “Does your car leak?” – Angela. “I don’t think so. Oops it must, there’s a puddle there now that I’ve moved it!”
24. Driving down Las Vegas Boulevard and Kim trying to remember where her sister Heidi got married. It was the Little White Chapel of Flowers – same place that Dennis Rodman and Carmen Elektra got married.
25. Kim measuring the beds in the hotel room in St. George with her arms because she thought one was a queen and the other was a double. Nope, both are doubles.
26. Semi truck tire blowing out on the drive home from St. George. Kim telling Angela to hurry and get past him, “Go, go, go!”
27. Driving down to Las Vegas on one tank of gas. We stopped a couple of time for breaks but never thought to fill up on gas.
28. Eating brunch at Gandolfo’s in Mapleton. Tasty breakfast sandwiches.
29. Picking up our lunch boxes behind the stage and then eating outside on a shady hill and digging in our heels so we don’t roll down.
30. Trying Power protein bars. LeAnn picked a different type and Angela later told her she should always listen to her recommendations.
31. Kim saying “I hate to say this, but I feel better already” after Angela got her to drink some Bragg’s apple cider vinegar and water.
32. Kim asking frequently, “Will that detach my placenta?” or reassuring us that it wouldn’t.
33. Laughing hysterically at the “4 Christmases” preview in the movie theater when Vince Vaughn was struggling to keep vomit down after a baby threw up on Kate Hudson.
34. Kim throwing up in her mouth when she smelled LeAnn’s banana that she brought with her in the car.
35. Kim saying her baby was the length of a banana. LeAnn kept calling her baby a banana.
36. Three ladies completely zonked out during the TOFW afternoon break.
37. Crawling over a railing to get to our seats because we were sitting next to an older lady and a lady with a cane. Kim saying that a pregnant lady shouldn’t have to go over rail.
38. LeAnn asking Kim if she was concerned that she had 3 bottles of drinks with her when she came out of the gas station store. She had thought LeAnn went to the bathroom more than she did as a pregnant lady who goes 10 times a day.
39. Kim telling LeAnn that she needs to get her phone number unlisted.
40. Kim giving us a fashion show of her outfit choices and being worried about wearing red shoes with the brown pants with pink and white plaid print and having to readjust because her pants were too big.
41. Kim trying two times to push the door open to go into the bathroom while Angela was in it in the middle of the night in St. George. She had her ear plugs in and couldn’t hear Angela saying she was inside.
42. The really loud air conditioner and brown box filtration that drowned out the outside motel noise in St. George.
43. Mini teddy grahams – small portions of chocolaty goodness.
44. Angela almost not paying for her protein bar. She stuck it directly into her purse when she picked it up.
45. Buying treats the night before the TOFW and Kim getting a Savings Von’s card. We all used it and then left it in the hotel.
46. Leaving the melted yogurt covered pretzels in the St. George motel freezer. We forgot to take them in from the car during TOFW.
47. The ladies from Hurricane, UT getting teased throughout the TOFW. Hilary asked people to shout out the states where they were from if she didn’t already mention them. After hearing them she said, “I didn’t ask for cities. Let alone a town!”
48. Kim saying we should have a prayer for safety after the semi truck tire blowout “Ok LeAnn will you say it!” 49. Kim buying a couple of Halloween cups and saying that her kids will be scared of the skeleton head one but will later fight over it.
50. Walking through the casino lobby at 7:30 a.m. and seeing people who looked like they hadn’t gone to bed yet.
51. Walking out of the TOFW for lunch break and seeing a woman from the Home Show next door smoking a cigarette.
52. Angela telling us about Hilary Weeks on the drive down.
53. Using the men’s bathrooms converted to women’s during the TOFW event.
54. Wishing the Cold Stone Creamery was open at 9:30 a.m. We frequently talked about getting some ice cream but never did.
55. Our post event critique of what we think should be done differently or what we thought went well.
56. LeAnn calling it TOWF, TFOW and mixing up the sequence.
57. Pam Hansen saying that when the sound guy turned on her microphone she “would be hot!” Later she asked “Am I still hot?” when she forgot to release us for a break.
58. Telling Amanda Dickson that we would vote for her to continue on the TOFW events. This was her first one out of state. We made sure to let Laurel Christensen know.
59. The lady telling us we looked color coordinated before taking our picture at the TOFW.
60. LeAnn and Amanda Dickson calling themselves Amazons.
61. Kim asking if we thought Cesar would have a puppy for her when she got back.
62. Kim’s cashier at 7-Eleven giving her change in poker terms – full house and some change. He said that his job at 7-Eleven was just math practice.