Happy Anniversary!!

On July 22nd, Dan and I celebrated our 4th anniversary! This past year has been pretty eventful, so to celebrate, we took a quick trip to Las Vegas for the weekend. Kendall stayed with Gram and Dude, and we stayed at the new Aria resort in City Center. The place was amazing, and I highly recommend it! We found a great deal online and were able to upgrade to a 1 bedroom suite. We weren't up very high, but the suite was awesome!

View towards the Monte Carlo and New York New York

Dan also decided to take the opportunity to try out the new Skyjump attraction at the Stratosphere. If you haven't heard of it, they take you to the top of the hotel, hook you up to some harnesses and you jump for about a 20 second free fall. I guess it's not really a free fall since there are harnesses controlling your speed, but you get the idea.

All strapped in and ready to go!

A look up towards the top

Dan has jumped. Can you see him? If you can open this picture as full size, you'll see a little tiny figure just off the platform, between the two ropes. That's him!!

Still falling. Look for him about 1/3 of the way down. The glass tower is behind him.

Almost all the way down

The eagle has landed

Dan said it was a lot of fun. He said that the weighted ropes don't allow you the sensation of falling, but that it's more of a fun ride. He did say that it was pretty scary when he got up to the top and looked out. One guy did chicken out while we were there and tried to give the crowd a bunch of excuses about being too heavy. They don't weigh you again at the top, so that was obviously not why he came back down via the elevator.

Happy anniversary, Dan! Here's to another great year!