viva doc vegas!

we just got back from the city of sin, the city of 24-hour slots, 24-hour sluts, 24-hour cigarette smoke clouds, the city that never sleeps except that everything but the casinos shut down around 10 p.m.

i took doc to las vegas as a surprise for his birthday. and surprisingly enough, it remained a complete surprise! he was totally shocked; he had absolutely no idea i was planning this. brittney, bob, joel, and valerie came with us (although he didn’t know it until gradually they kept showing up at the airport, in the hotel lobby, knocking on our hotel room door). a few other people knew about it ahead of time, although i tried to limit the number of people i told to decrease the chances that doc would find out about it.

i’d been planning this trip since january. his boss was in on it too — i had to tell him some little fibs in order to get him to take yesterday and today off of work, but she was totally OK with it and helped in my sneaky scheme.

the absolute best part about it, for me (besides the fact that i actually pulled it off and surprised him), was seeing the look on his face when i told him that we were NOT, in fact, going to pick up joel and valerie from the airport and then doing mundane stuff for the rest of the weekend, but instead were going to las vegas for a birthday vacation. and having our friends come with us — that was just the best. we had a complete blast.

i’ll post some pictures and tell some more tales later.