Here’s a list of some things I learned last week about Vegas and traveling while 30 weeks pregnant…

1. Everything in Vegas costs twice as much as it does here. At least it does if you’re anywhere near a hotel/casino, and if you’re a visitor, you’re near a hotel/casino!

2. I never knew I would be so disappointed that an outdoor pool was closed in January. But it was heated, for crying out loud! And nothing’s better than swimming when you’re as big as I am!

3. I also didn’t know how much I would miss a coffee maker in our hotel room. I only drink one cup a day, in the morning, but it’s a VERY important cup! And what hotel doesn’t have coffee makers in the rooms??

4. It is also VERY important to check in for your flight AS SOON AS POSSIBLE the day before, if you don’t want to sit in the middle seat on every flight. Because when you’re as big as I am, or have to pee as much as I do, you DON’T want the middle seat.

5. I, apparently, not only get car sick these days, but I also get very sick when the plane is landing. I’m pretty sure the lady next to me on our last leg to Vegas was scared out of her mind at the thought of getting puked on by the pregnant woman with the barf bag.

6. I didn’t ever actually puke. But it was a close one (or two or three).

7. Sometimes the hotel buffet disappoints during lunch and dinner, but breakfast? Yum-o. I finished it up with a bowl of huge, delicious strawberries three days in a row. And croissants. And donuts. And sausage and eggs. And that oh so important cup of coffee.

8. I pretty much knew it the first time we went, but the live shows (like, productions, not all the burlesque/topless/whatever shows) are SPECTACULAR. Again, they are expensive, but so worth it once during a vacation.

9. I am not a fan of the fact that people can just walk through the hotel/casino smoking. I mean, I understand that they’re drinking and giving the hotel tons of money and all that, but it stinks. Literally. Especially when you’re pregnant. And what about the people who take their babies in a stroller and hang out in the casino at 10:30? I just don’t understand it. Who wants to wash their baby’s blanket because it reeks of smoke after it was covering up your baby?

10. Vegas is a fun vacation spot once in a while, but I am SO GLAD I don’t live there.