...was spent in Fabulous LAS VEGAS!
Our Home away from home, for the week ~
The Hip HARD ROCK HOTEL
On our 1st night we had tickets for a dinner show at the EXCALIBUR...
(Jared, at age 17, reports that the show is as great as he remembers from when he was 5)
DAY 1 was the BODIES exhibit @ the Luxor,
followed by the SHARKS at Mandalay Bay~
DAY 2 began with breakfast at the local pancake house
with a little zip over to a scrap booking store
(my family tolerates me!)
Next we went to MGM for The CSI EXPERIENCE ~
& then, onto CAESAR'S PALACE
for a stroll through The Forum Shops ~
& last but not least,
we ate dinner @ Joe's Stone Crab...
YUM!
DAY 3 Started out with crepes @ PARIS...
Oh La La!
and a trip to the PINBALL HALL OF FAME,
which is a museum, of sorts, with great old vintage machines
(over 4oo in the collection)
having way more fun with a roll of quarters,
than you can have in a casino ~
Back to our hotel, for an afternoon of swim & sun by the pools ~
Yep...that's my kids
in the sky high pool that looks like a fish tank!
Louis & I slipped into THE PINK TACO
for happy hour margaritas,
while the kids got cleaned up for our night time plans...
Here they are @ the indescribably fun
BLUE MAN GROUP show in THE VENETIAN.
So, the next day it was time to load up the car
& head on home...
But wait...there's more!
We drove to HOOVER DAM to catch a tour!
What an amazing architectural feat this is to see.
and then, finally, one last stop...
All that, packed into 5 days!
And I only paused once to put a single $1 into a slot machine
Which it promptly swallowed
(but I think Louis managed a little gambling, while the kids & I were asleep)
