Why Vegas?  Well, it’s a long story but it involves some craziness with Kim’s job.  But due to some unforeseen circumstances, we now find ourselves in Vegas for 4 days instead of 2, and some free time to go elsewhere as well.  On the short list is a trip to Bryce and Zion canyons in nearby Utah, which is only 3-4 hours away.  Other than that, we’ll probably just tool around the casinos, taking in a few shows, and trying to pad our 529 account for baby’s Harvard tuition. Or possibly Yale.  I suppose if times are tough we might even consider Dartmouth, but I don’t really want to think about it.

We’re certainly looking forward to some time away in what will probably be our last chance to take a vacation “alone” (ignoring for a moment the quickly growing amorphous blob festering inside my wife).  It should be a good time, and while we’ll miss our families we will certainly be thinking about them while we are taking out a second mortgage to cover “the hole” that I’ll get into while Kim is off in the ladies room…