This past weekend was the BIG UJC (Ultimate Jousting Championship) down in Vegas... We left and drove down on Tuesday for a fun filled week. It was nice to be able to stop down in St. George and see Ammon and Lacey before continuing on further south... I decided to make the drive down fun and made a list of all 50 states and Washington DC so that I could mark off all that I saw... This definitely kept me entertained!
So I will be the first to admit that I am a big nerd and LOVE watching the History Channel... ( I absolutely love that Eric actually likes watching historic documentaries as well!) Eric and I have seen almost every episode of Pawn Stars that is out. We just had to stop in and see the shop on our way in to Vegas...
After checking the shop out we headed to the South Point Casino, where we spent the rest of the week. It is one of the few places that actually has bingo, so we decided to play while waiting for everyone else to get down... It brought back all the fun memories of playing with my grandma every Saturday!
Wednesday morning we met down at breakfast and then went and had some fun at the arcade while waiting for everyone else to either get up or finish eating...
After playing for a little while it was time to get down to business and get things ready for the rest of the week...
After a while I ended up taking charge of Charlie's kids... I found out how much they are like their dad... If you don't know him, he is a handful! These kids are crazy! After a while I took them back up to my room so that they could calm down and watch some Disney Channel...
Thursday was the big school show, where a bunch of schools came to get a lesson on jousting and then see a joust. I love watching these and learning more and more about the subject...
So the jousting ended up not going so well during the school show so the boys were told that Friday would be practice/qualifying for the tournament all day... The wives and girlfriends were told to go do something else (which sucks because I feel out of place with the girlfriends)... I ended up going to the pool with a few of the girls. This made for a really awkward time. They were definitely dressed with very little on and spent the whole time smoking and drinking. It was not a fun time for me. I finally went back up to my room and just fell apart over it all (I had been having issues with asthma and it got worse after that)... Eric ended up pulling himself out of the tournament because his armor didn't fit him the way it should and he felt like it would be a bad idea to joust in it... I am glad that he ended up listening to this prompting! Later that night was the big Budweiser promo that the guys were required to go to... I refused to have anything to do with the situation and ended up going out with Kim and her friends(who drove down for the tournament), which was nice because I really needed to get away at this point from all the drama... We went and spent a night out on the town and had a blast!
Saturday finally came, and with it came the tournament. Since Eric decided not to joust he was asked to be one of the judges. It was nice not to have to worry about him getting injured. I was able to relax and enjoy the whole night...
Sunday we spent the day loading everything up and then we went out on the strip with Eric's friend Brian and his wife Kelly... After exploring for a bit we finally headed home... I am definitely glad to be back!
