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Thanksgiving in Las Vegas

This year David and I traveled to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving, which is something that we haven't done for three years. Some thing that we did that was fun was recreating a photo that was taken in David's grandparent's backyard by David's dad our first Thanksgiving three years ago when we were still dating:


One of my favorite memories from that trip three years ago was when we were driving over to visit his grandparents. David received a text message from his sister-in-law while he was driving and to be safe, I took his phone to read it for him. The text read, "I like this girl, you should marry her." I felt flustered and when David asked me what the text said I responded as nonchalantly as I could. "It's your sister, she says she likes me." When David got his phone back after we arrived at our destination, he gave me a look and said, "Hey! That's not what the text said!"

For Thanksgiving this year we ate at David's grandparent's place. They cooked the turkey in a dutch oven, which was a first for me! One of our jobs was to help set up the tables and chairs so that we could fit all 28 people in the same room.


We spent time with David's cousins that evening. We played our second-ever game of cliche movie Bingo where you pick a film of any genre (in our case it was end-of-the-world-disaster movies) and then brainstorm cliche events you think will happen in the movie. You input the events in an online bingo scorecard maker, print out the cards, and call out the cliches as they happen in the movie. Here was the scorecard for San Andreas:


The following morning we, along with some of David's cousins, went hiking at Red Rock. All of the guys managed to injure themselves in some way (Mr. D got a nice mark on his arm), but they sure appeared to be having a fun time. (More pictures from our hiking adventure at the bottom)



We spent time with each of David's siblings and also drove up to St. George to visit with more friends.


One of our favorite things to do is go to The Strip and visit the Bellagio to see the fountains and the garden conservatory. We were disappointed to find out that we missed the Thanksgiving decorations at the conservatory,but we still got to see the fountain.




We made sure to visit our favorite Las Vegas food places as well as ones that have been recently recommended to us including Cafe Rio, KoMex, and ShakeShack.





On our last day we visited Mount Charleston. It is still crazy to me that you can get snow and pine trees 30 minutes from Las Vegas.



-Mr. D and Mrs. M


  






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