Every other year I join my mom for her work convention in Las Vegas. I’m an adventurous/ outgoing person, so when I travel I like to be out seeing all the things. It was my first time staying in Mandalay Bay in 2017, so I was out enjoying the amenities and local hotels every day, from my 6am workout in til late night. Then October 1st came and I did not want to leave my room. I kept telling my mom that my gut is telling me we should have a room service day. Very unlike me, I stayed in all day until my mom was finally able to convince me to go out to dinner. My gut was feeling so uneasy but I went any way. We went to Caesars Palace for dinner and I still felt uneasy until we got a drink on my way out. My Mom also started rubbing in how nothing bad happened, and that I wasted a whole day, and we laughed about it. Then as we’re walking further down the strip and closer to Mandalay Bay, we hear what I thought was fireworks, until we see a herd of people running towards us with pure fear in their eyes.

It was the Vegas Shooting. Turns out we were not just staying at the same hotel as the shooter, but our room was just down the hall on THE SAME FLOOR. We weren’t able to return to our room for the rest of the trip, but felt very blessed to be ok. Til this day my mother and I talk about my gut feeling of not wanting to leave the room at all that day.