i brake for summer

Spring semester is over and done with. I did better than expected in almost all of my classes. hurray.

So what does one do when he's done with school and has 7 weeks before it begins again? Catch up on sleep? Get a job? Play disc golf for endless hours a day? I say unto you nay! If you remember my last break from school resulted in a trip to Orlando to drive monorail for the Mouse. Staying in Idaho for the break just wouldn't do, I have to much to love for. So I've packed up again and headed off to another "exotic" location, sunny Las Vegas, NV.

I guess you all want to know why Vegas and how I'm liking it so far.
Why Vegas: 2 words... Megan Barker. I wasn't about to let her get away and the only way to make sure of that was to follow her home to Las Vegas. Now I'm staying with her family and having a blast. Also Megan, through a friend of hers, was able to find me a job valet parking (but that falls more under the realm of how I'm liking Vegas).

How I like it/what I've been doing: IT'S HOT!!! I have a job valet parking. Sounds great right? (rhetorical) It's not quite what you think. It would be a great job if I worked better hours. Right now I'm working 12 a.m. to 8 a.m. some would call that graveyards. Gross. 90% of the work I do is during the first and last hours of my shift. The rest of the time I sit on a bench and wait and read and try not to fall asleep (sometimes). But at least I have a job and it's not super physically demanding, just boring. I do however find great pleasure in flirting with old women as I hold open doors for them. All the time people will ask me questions about the area. Where's the closest place to eat? Where's the best place to gamble? Where are the best bars and clubs? How do you get here or there? And honestly I don't have a clue. I don't know anything about Vegas or where things are. So I've gotten pretty good and giving people really vague directions and such. Sometimes it is really fun and I laugh to myself about it a lot.

Fortunately work is not the only thing here.IT'S HOT. We went to the "Pinball Hall if Fame" it's pretty much just a pinball arcade with a ton of machine and some way cool old school pinball machine (rhyme unintended).

Megan and I were walking thru some of the casinos just looking around and stuff and we saw the best thing ever. We saw an Orthodox Jew playing black jack. Pfft. My mind exploded. I had no idea a Jew could be so loose with his money.

Megan's littlest sister, Hannah (palindrome), who is 5 loves me. When I first got here she was mega shy and probably scared of me. That lasted about a day. Now we like best friend. Everyday she asks me to play games with her or read books with her or look at her coloring/sticker books with her. We're pals. Megan's brother, Riley 10, likes me a lot too. Probably because I give him attention and I'm not a jerk to him when he's acting like a 10 year old. Between Hannah and Riley I pretty much always have an extra shadow. No biggie.

The Wedding: I just arrived back in Vegas after going to Daniel Jensen's wedding to Ashley Hoffman. So cute. Daniel is my best friend since the womb, so obviously I had to be there. Who else could be the best man. Our friend Andrew Wood was the other groomsman. Pretty much all we did was sit around and wait to take a few pictures and wear some nice black suits with really ugly vest/tie combos. My vest was orange and Andy's was pink. We're not talking pastel or other nice shades. You could land a plane or safely hunt large game with the vest's we were wearing. But what do you do right, your best friends bride tells you to wear an ugly vest then you wear an ugly vest. (Ashley if you're reading this Andrew and I both loved the vests and wished we could have bought them instead of just rent) Overall the wedding was great and they're both way happy and I got free food. Good Day.

But now I'm back in Vegas and I'm sick. My head hurts, my ears are plugged up, sometimes I have a fever, my tonsils are swollen and my throat is full of mucus. But I'm not mad. I haven't been sick for a while I guess it's my turn. If anybody asks I'm sick because I don't sleep well working graveyards.

That's about all I have to say about my recent activities and journeys in the land of Vegas. Oh ya and Megan and I are engaged...to each other.