Turning 40!

May is a good month to turn 40. I have been planning my 40th birthday since I was 35. I saw a picture of Demi Moore and I said "I want to look like her when I am 40". (she was 42 when I was 35) So I think I did a pretty good job on that one..except the really long hair, millions of dollars and a really young husband...other than that, I nailed it!

So at 35 I told my husband that I wanted to take a girls vacation when I turned 40. The girls would be 6 and 9 by then, and easily manageable for him. I told my girlfriends at that time, no having babies, no breast feeding, you have to be free in 5 years time. Don't tell me I did not give you advance notice on this trip!

So when I turned 39 I was in CT, and I knew it was going to be a tough sell on getting my friends from CT, OH, CO, AZ all to fly to Germany to celebrate my birthday. But I gave them a year to figure out what they could do. So as it got closer to my big day I decided that I better go to the states to make it easier for them to come and party with me. What city would be a good meeting place? VEGAS BABY!!

So with frequent flyer miles I was able to get a business class ticket for 80 000 miles. Bargain! I told my friends I was going, who was coming?

My dear friend Gina said she was on board! That's all I needed, one good co pilot and she was the one.

My good friends here in Germany are going to take me to Paris at the end of the month, so that will be another blog. 40 is good people.

Day 1, 1st hour in Airport

I get to the airport 3 hours before my flight and go to the business lounge. After about an hour this loud Irish man is complaining that he has a 7 hour layover, that CNN is boring on the TV, and why can't he get a good beer! Someone from Delta comes over to talk to him, to try and get him to be a little more quiet. I keep saying to myself..."please, please do not be on my flight! I know he will get unruly on the plane and we will have to make an emergency landing, and he will be arrested. I just know it!"

He calms down but then gets a little loud again and starts to walk around. Two Delta guys come out to go handle him, but they cannot find him. They are walking around trying to find this man. This place is not that big, it is not like he turned into a Leprechaun and disappeared under a cushion! He has just left the building people.

Hour 2 in Airport

Getting bored and one too many diet cokes I check out the bathroom.

Check this toilet out! Have to love the Japanese. I am sure a woman created this toilet as you can see by the way the water can "massage" you with different pressures. ; )

Hours 3-11

Finally I am on the plane. Ready to relax for 8 hours and fly to NY with no kids, and no husband. Just me. No one else to worry about, I am giddy with excitement. When the flight attendant comes around with the ice cream and topping for dessert I tell her to put it all on top! Yum! All for me!

One of the ladies who kept handing out water finally gave me a 1.5 liter bottle since I was going through the little ones so fast. Of course with all that water drinking, you have to go to the bathroom a lot! So now the f.a. comes to me and says "we should have just giving you a seat in the toilet and knocked on it to see if you wanted anything", loved her! She was like, 70!

Flight to Vegas from NY Hours 14-18

Sat beside a guy named Chris who was 45, single and had is own law firm (he also was quite proud of his Rolex watch with diamonds and that he got the new iPad..that I showed him how to use). He was a character. Do not know why we got so chatty, maybe it was because he was drinking, and I will talk to anyone. He was going to Vegas for his 1/2 brothers bachelors party. I told him I was going to shop! He told me "your idea and my idea of Vegas are very different". Chris told me he rented a yellow Ferrari to take his brother golfing. I told him he will not be able to fit two sets of golf clubs in that car. He told me he never thought of it. Oh course not, you are a man. I told him he will have to hire a cab to take the clubs and follow him! He told me I could ride in the car if I went topless. I told him thanks for the offer, but I will pass. I did tell him that I would be at the topless pool Sunday at 10 AM. Do you think he showed up? So much more to say about this man, but that really could be a book!

Been up for 24 Hours Straight

Get off the plane and I can see Gina waiting by one of the luggage claim areas. We hug, we bond, we get our rental car and head off to In and Out for a hamburger. Nothing like french fries after being up now for 26 hours!

Vegas in a Nut Shell

I swear no one has told the youth of Vegas that they do not have to wear skin tight clothes that barley cover their bums. This is obviously geared toward the girls. There were prom parties going on and these 17, 18 year old girls had on 4 inch heals with a dress (and I use that turn loosely...dress) that leaves no imagination to the mind. Gina and I pass another couple our age and I look at them and say "my daughter would never be wearing that!", and he looks and us and says "I was just telling my wife we would never move here because of the way the kids dress" What are the parents teaching these young girls. This is what you have to wear to get a boy, and then once you get they boy give him what is left under the dress? Sad

Saw Carrot Top in Nordstroms. That man has had too much plastic surgery on his face, and steroids? Come on! His arms and shoulders are huge! He walked in like he was just gettitng up at 3 pm and totally stoned, hung over, or maybe his face just looks like that. Yuck!

Saw Cirque Du Soleil-LOVE (the Beatles songs) very good!

Saw Penn & Teller-Magicians that are a little crazy. Also very good (My sister came on the last day and I saw this with her)

So basically shopped 80% of the time, ate when we had time, and walked our feet off! Love Gina for coming and doing this trip with me. She is a trouper to watch me try on clothes and to shop through lunch so that I can buy everything I need. She did not buy one thing the whole trip! Unreal!!

Kara And Gina Vegas 2010!