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Vegas, baby!

I consider myself (and Shannen and I as a team) good at managing our money. The last few years, most excess money has been sunk into two things: houses (973 and 428, respectively), and travel. Spending money on your home is absolutely necessary at the beginning, but hopefully tapers off once you have things where you like them. We’re nowhere close to the tail of that spending on the new house, but I think I can almost see it. Waaay off in the distance.

Travel spending, on the other hand, does not tail off. It keeps going and going and going. Our families are scattered across the continent, so there are the periodic visits that we look forward to. But I (and Shannen and I together) also have a serious leisure travel bug. I value experiencing new places and cultures above a lot of other things.

So, even though we are mired in endless house expenses and have a little girl on the way, we’re going to Vegas, baby! November 3-6, which coincides nicely with Liz’s visit there for work. We’ll warm it up for the party crew (pictured below), which arrives the weekend after. We tried to make the dates coincide, but it wasn’t in the cards.

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We plan to hit a show (there are 4 different Cirque de Soleil shows – too many options!) , see some of the sights (don’t have enough time to make it out to the grand canyon this time, but I would like to some day), visit with family … and oh yeah, some gambling! I’ll be spending a bit of time at the roulette wheel – providing me with your lucky number between 0 and 36 in comments may garner you praise upon my return.

September 8, 2006 - 7:08 pm

Jen - Strange. I didn’t know I was going to Vegas with the Nichols’ + Jason! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!

September 8, 2006 - 7:10 pm

dan - Oops – I know, sorry 😉 I should have doctored the photo to put a black bar over your eyes.

Though there *is* still time to book your ticket!

September 10, 2006 - 2:19 pm

Dean - Dan, what are you supposed to be in the picture…isn’t that a little child’s costume?

September 11, 2006 - 8:39 am

LISA - That picture was exactly what I needed first thing Monday morning. I am hoping that was taken on Halloween……anyway, put some money down on Black 8 for me.

September 11, 2006 - 10:06 am

dan - Hey Dean,

Thankfully, I am not in that picture. That’s our friend Jason in the middle, in a Robin costume. And yes, I think it was meant for a little child 🙂

PS: Gary on the right is the Riddler, Michelle on the left is Wonder Woman, and Jen in the back is not dressed as a superhero.

September 17, 2006 - 5:33 am

jason - glad to see that photo hasn’t died yet. Anyone else wanna stick pictures of my ass on their websites go ahead, there’s plenty of my ass to go around.

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