Viva Las Vegas!
We killed it - as my brothers and I used to say when we would finally complete a video game (which was only Super Mario Bros for me during one Christmas break). Spring break in Vegas was awesome! We did everything we set out to do. We saw shows, ate great food, went swimming in fabulous pools every day, hiked on red rock and played with cousins. Of course, we trekked through lots of casinos, but our kids are troopers when it comes to walking around. I will admit we exceeded our yearly dose of cigarette smoke (the older casinos like Circus Circus are the worst) but there were definitely less people smoking this time and ventilation technology in the newer casinos is vastly improved. We couldn't have survived without our humidifier that we run at night but my feet still dried out and my heels got cracks so I was grateful for the hot tip I got about using superglue to glue my heels together (no, not to each other, silly). It worked great! (If you do this, just remember to get some fingernail polish remover to take the superglue off in a few weeks.) Anyway, this first picture is what I love about Vegas - it's posh and overdone on such a grand scale that you have to see it to believe it. And some of the best parts of Vegas are free! The Bellagio fountains are my favorite feature, so we caught several shows. These photos were taken outside Paris, and as Jordan put it, "Lael, everything in this town is fake!" But Vegas does it even better than Disney. We went to see Monty Python's Spamalot and it was hilarious. Even Joni was only slightly offended. John O'Hurley's comedic timing can't be beat. We also took the kiddies to the Mac King Comedy Show and saw Terry Fator (the America's Got Talent winner). We did the Shark Reef experience at Mandalay Bay and had breakfast at Le Village buffet in Paris and we even had enough time to drag the kids out to Red Rock Canyon to hike around. We went to the Fremont Street experience and even made it to see the Las Vegas Temple on Sunday. But my favorite part (besides Spamalot) was swimming in the lazy river at our timeshare with my family. I didn't have a camera handy to capture two priceless moments - one with Henry and Oliver playing in the zero entry pool at dusk (a beautiful time of day in the desert when the lights are coming on) and Erik and Lael waltzing in the lazy river. I guess I just have to keep those memories as photos in my mind. But those are the moments that make all the planning and packing and stress and traveling and unpacking worth it. We are probably going to take a break and come back to do Las Vegas for spring break in 2010, so let us know if you want to join us. They are building like crazy so there are always new fabulous casinos and places to see, and we still haven't been to a Cirque du Soliel show and Erik wants to see Penn and Teller. So if you don't think Las Vegas is family friendly, come do it with us!
We killed it - as my brothers and I used to say when we would finally complete a video game (which was only Super Mario Bros for me during one Christmas break). Spring break in Vegas was awesome! We did everything we set out to do. We saw shows, ate great food, went swimming in fabulous pools every day, hiked on red rock and played with cousins. Of course, we trekked through lots of casinos, but our kids are troopers when it comes to walking around. I will admit we exceeded our yearly dose of cigarette smoke (the older casinos like Circus Circus are the worst) but there were definitely less people smoking this time and ventilation technology in the newer casinos is vastly improved. We couldn't have survived without our humidifier that we run at night but my feet still dried out and my heels got cracks so I was grateful for the hot tip I got about using superglue to glue my heels together (no, not to each other, silly). It worked great! (If you do this, just remember to get some fingernail polish remover to take the superglue off in a few weeks.) Anyway, this first picture is what I love about Vegas - it's posh and overdone on such a grand scale that you have to see it to believe it. And some of the best parts of Vegas are free! The Bellagio fountains are my favorite feature, so we caught several shows. These photos were taken outside Paris, and as Jordan put it, "Lael, everything in this town is fake!" But Vegas does it even better than Disney. We went to see Monty Python's Spamalot and it was hilarious. Even Joni was only slightly offended. John O'Hurley's comedic timing can't be beat. We also took the kiddies to the Mac King Comedy Show and saw Terry Fator (the America's Got Talent winner). We did the Shark Reef experience at Mandalay Bay and had breakfast at Le Village buffet in Paris and we even had enough time to drag the kids out to Red Rock Canyon to hike around. We went to the Fremont Street experience and even made it to see the Las Vegas Temple on Sunday. But my favorite part (besides Spamalot) was swimming in the lazy river at our timeshare with my family. I didn't have a camera handy to capture two priceless moments - one with Henry and Oliver playing in the zero entry pool at dusk (a beautiful time of day in the desert when the lights are coming on) and Erik and Lael waltzing in the lazy river. I guess I just have to keep those memories as photos in my mind. But those are the moments that make all the planning and packing and stress and traveling and unpacking worth it. We are probably going to take a break and come back to do Las Vegas for spring break in 2010, so let us know if you want to join us. They are building like crazy so there are always new fabulous casinos and places to see, and we still haven't been to a Cirque du Soliel show and Erik wants to see Penn and Teller. So if you don't think Las Vegas is family friendly, come do it with us!
3 comments:
Oh you make Vegas sound so fun. The people I know who go to Vegas get dressed up in cheap hooker clothes and go to drink and gamble. Maybe we will have to think about it for 2010 (that sounds so futuristic 2010, yet only 2 years away). I love your pictures. And you are even in a lot of them, wow!
Humm let me clarify that wow, I have a hard time getting picture with me in them because I am always behind the camera, so that is the wow, just in case you were reading into it. Bye
It did turn out really good I thought, but getting stuck in St. George when I could have been out gallivanting with the fam does dampen my perspective though.
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