My concert week is over...

Wednesday night J and I went to see Kelly Clarkson in D.C. What a great show, she amazes me with her live performances. I was interested to see how this tour would be different from the last one I went to because this time around she's playing much smaller venues. I thought her voice had sounded strained during some of the televised performances I caught around the time her new album came out but her voice was perfect at the concert. She played a great mix as always of new and older stuff and she had a lot of energy and talked to the crowd after every song. Some of my favorites that she played were How I Feel, Addicted, Hole and Chivas.

And Friday, my best friend, a co-worker and I also saw Tori Amos. Now, Tori has been my favorite since I was about 14 so I have a lot of years put in to her. This concert was a completely different vibe. Isabel, one of the "dolls", made an appearance which was fitting for D.C. She played over 20 songs. My favorites were Hey Jupiter and Code Red. I had really wanted to hear Siren, but didn't. My friend from work wanted to hear both 1000 Oceans and Concertina and he got them back to back.

My weekend was pretty low key. I've been watching season 3 of Veronica Mars, playing Guitar Hero and today J and I went out to lunch with my sister and her boyfriend. I am so not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow though. :)

I despise weekends that feel too short.

Maybe it's just because I had a really long, drawn out and annoying week, but I feel like this weekend flew by. I didn't do too much either. I went to a birthday party for my cousin's baby, went to visit my Dad and then cleaned up the house and did all the other domestic things I hate doing.

I have nothing interesting to report so I'm done now.

I love going to the zoo

J and I were going to go hiking again this weekend but ended up stopping by a local zoo instead. I took some pictures. See below....

I love Vegas

So, the girls and I went out to Las Vegas in honor of our 30th birthdays. Three out of four of us have hit or will hit (me) the big 3-0 this year. We had a good time.

We did the Titanic artifact exhibit which was really neat. I was most fascinated by the difference in the social classes and the amenities they were offered. It was very interesting to see items like dishes, sink handles and luggage tags and how well they were preserved.

We also saw Cirque Du Soleil - Mystere. This was my first Cirque experience and it was pretty amazing. I swear, I want to join one of these shows so bad.

We had dinner at Emeril's N.O. Fish House which was excellent. We also ate at Trevi and a really good Thai restaurant but I can't remember the name. I saw fresh Krispy Kreme's being made but didn't get one. I stopped at Starbucks quite a bit because they were absolutely everywhere (not that I minded).

We also went to the Comedy Stop and saw three different comedians. This was a good time. All three of the comedians were funny.

We also did all the normal stuff like ride the roller coaster on top of the hotel, M&Ms world, the fountains, the volcano, the mall with the gondola rides, the Shark Reef, the Lion Habitat, watched the Sirens of TI, ventured through most of the hotels and walked about 500 miles the whole time we were there.

I really like Las Vegas. There seems to be so much to do there within one 4 mile stretch of road which is amazing to me. There are still a lot of things that I want to see and do so maybe next time I go, I can scratch a few things off my list. I still want to see Mamma Mia!, a few more Cirque shows, Bette Midler, Celine, Carrot Top and the Hoover Dam and other stuff like that.

I am still tired from my trip though. It seems like however long you stay out there, you need that many days plus maybe more in order to recover.