World Travelers…

The last two weeks, Wes got to do some traveling for work and I was lucky enough to tag along. First up, Tooele, UT, a suburb of Salt Lake City and quite possibly the smallest town I’ve ever been to. The town’s one movie theater has 2 screens and closes about 9pm. There was a Wal-Mart and an Applebees and that was about it. Wes and I went out looking for dinner after 8pm one night and all that was open was a McDonald’s.

But out there in the middle of nowhere is an elite race track, Miller Motorsports Park.  There Wes attended a 3 day driving schools. Best part about Miller, it’s completely Ford. The race cars are Mustangs, the staff and utility vehicles, even the fire truck is a Ford. The car museum, which is Larry Miller’s personal car collection is all Mustangs, Shelby Cobras and Ford GT’s. Definitely a wonderland for me.

While Wes was doing all this driving, I had to find ways to entertain myself. Luckily Salt Lake City was only about 30 minutes away. One day we drove up to Park City, which is about 7,000 ft above sea level. Yeah, that’s like more than a mile closer to the sun, so you have to wear sunscreen.

So after a week in freezing, dry Utah, it was off to warm, dry Las Vegas. I have always wanted to go to Vegas, so I couldn’t wait to get there. Wes was at a nerd convention so I go to go out and explore the city all by myself. Later I found out, that it wasn’t actually a city, just my hotel, haha. We stayed at the beautiful Venetian Hotel & Casino, where there was a river and gondola rides on the 2nd floor.

While we were there, we got to see a couple shows. First we saw The Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Season. It was incredible, my favorite, I’d go see it again. We also went to see The Beatles, LOVE by Cirque Du Soleil.  It was a great show too, my first time to see a Cirque Du Soleil show live. It was a bit overwhelming at first, so much going on all at once, I didn’t know where to look. But the choreography, costumes, acrobatics, lighting and of course the music,  it was all incredible.

There was so much to do and see, I didn’t even see a quarter of all that Vegas had to offer. One thing that I got to go do was go to an indoor gun range, that rents machine guns. Yes, I shot some machine guns. I shot an MP5 and an M16.  Scary, huh?

Other than that we visited Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch. It was a very cool club type track.  As for the  casino, Wes said to say we ended up 42% ahead because it sounded better than we won $3.  It was fun, I never gambled before and could’t go to Vegas and not play a slot machine. But there are so many other things to do and spend your money on other than sitting in a windowless smoke filled basement, sinking quarters into a machine. I’d rather spend my money on food or shoes.  Vegas was everything I thought it would be and I can’t wait to go back.

Be sure to check out all the pics from our trip on Flickr.