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I should reconsider our relationship, right?*
BF's birthday is in November, and I want to start planning in advance (I did this last year too, LOL). I've been inspired by his birthday gift to me, which is a 4 day trip to Disney. We will be going to Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Islands of Adventure, and Harry Potter world. Plus we will be seeing a Cirque de Soleil show at Downtown Disney, and on my actual birthday, I will be having a birthday dinner with my best girlfriends at a great Japanese restaurant. Sounds awesome, right? I was fully planning on sitting at home and feeling sorry for myself, thinking about how my eggs are dying and I have Lupus, and just generally having a pity party for myself, LOL. BF said he was not going to allow that, he was going to make sure I was happy on my birthday. 
This is so much better than sitting at home feeling sorry for myself.
Anyhoo, I started brainstorming, and remembered that BF said he's always wanted to see the Eagles in concert. Turns out they are playing a show in Las Vegas on Nov 5th. So after finding an awesome deal on Bookit.com, my plan was this: Fly out of town Friday night, arriving in Vegas around 11pm. Saturday we spend the whole day touring the strip, gambling, laying out by the pool, etc. In the evening we see the Eagles in concert. Sunday we get up at the crack of dawn, rent a car, and drive out to the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam, and spend the whole day there. Monday we finish up with touring the strip, and fly out of town in the evening, arriving back home around 10pm.
Sounds awesome, right? The kicker is that BF DOESN'T WANT TO GO. Seriously. As I was looking up the travel, I thought I remembered him saying something about Vegas, but I couldn't remember if it was positive or negative, so I just flat out asked him if he ever wanted to go, and he said no. He thinks that if you're not a big gambler, and you don't have any interest in prositutes (I'm not making that up, he really thinks that) then there isn't much to do. He said he's heard that straight from people who've been there. I explained that the billion visitors a year that go to Vegas are not strictly looking for prostitutes, but he wasn't swayed. So I broke down and told him my plan, and he still didn't want to go.
We will have just come back in October from spending 8 days and 7 nights on vacation in the Dominican Republic, and he thinks we'll be "traveled out" and won't want to go, I told him to speak for himself, LOL. He loves the idea of seeing the Eagles, and would be all for it if they were in town, but otherwise he doesn't want to travel to see them.
I should totes break up with him, right?
*disclaimer - I am obviously joking about breaking up with him.
Re: I should reconsider our relationship, right?*
Yes. You should totally cut ties NOW while you still can.
siiiiiiiiiiiigh. Your BF is just like my DH. I loooooooooove Vegas. I've been 1x and I cannot wait to go back. Why have I not been? Ol' Stick-in-the-Mud DH!
He cannot fathom why people enjoy Sin City. He doesn't gamble, really rarely drinks and is not impressed with the idea of Vegas.
Does. Not. Compute. I had a blast when I went and I didn't even go to any of the shows! The shopping! Oh the shopping!
Your boyfriend is crayyyyyzyyyyy.
Call me Kat =^..^=
This is my BF to an absolute tee. We should leave them at home and go together!
YES! It's over now, but the deal I found was roundtrip airfare from Atlanta, 3 nights at the MGM Grand in a King suite in the West Tower (swanky rooms!) for $350/pp. We should keep an eye out for the future.
lol--that reminds me of when dh (then fi) told me he didn't want to start TTC until we were actually married and every month I'd say "another egg down the drain!" You have plenty of good eggs left, I'm sure.
Seriously, I think dh would have no desire to go to Vegas for the same reasons!
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Funnily enough, BF wants to TTC right before our wedding. He doesn't mind if I'm 1-2 months pregnant at the time of our wedding. I was like, um, no. First of all, really bad morning sickness runs in my family, and with my luck I'll throw up on the priest's shoes, and two, I want to be able to have a drink at my reception. Also, with my luck I would have bloating really bad and wouldn't be able to fit into my dress. Plus I want to be able to enjoy our honeymoon without being sick the whole time.
In retrospect, I'm so glad we waited because I would have been so sick/bloated and I wouldn't have enjoyed the honeymoon nearly as much based on how I felt the first 12 weeks. I just didnt know at the time it would only take 2 months to get pregnant--if I'd known that I never would have suggested TTC before the wedding--I was just so worried about wasting more eggs.
Yeah, I understand. I don't think I would get pregnant that fast, considering my female problems, but I don't want to take the chance that I would be one of the lucky ones and wind up miserable on the day of and the HM.
lol, he certainly didn't hear that from us! I don't drink and hardly gamble, but I love Vegas.
I do understand not really wanting to travel after just getting back from a trip the previous month though. DH & I are like that and prefer to space out our trips.
I found out I was pregnant on my honeymoon... it wasn't ideal. I felt fine, but was super puffy. I was also freaked out about the drinking I did on my wedding day
I loved Vegas! Does that make me a prostitute loving gambler? I think you should book the trip and go without him!
Wow! You had an awesome birthday idea and he ruined it!
I can soooo relate to this. My DH has been to Vegas twice for work and hates it. He says he will never go back again. I have only been once but I had a good time and plan to definitely go back again - without him.
~~~MARRIED BIO~~~
I'll talk to him! Vegas is so fun and I don't really gamble much nor do I buy prostitutes...well there was that one time.
But really, there is so much more to do. But it is one of those places that you probably wouldn't want to visit often (which it sounds like he hasn't)
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You missed the Eagles here by a year. They played at Piedmont park last year.
Boo for him not wanting to go. It sounds like a great trip.