Our trip to Vegas was so much fun!! I hadn't really ever been there before so we tried to see everything. Well...not everything - just the good stuff!

This sign was really cool. It is by the Vegas airport and has been their icon for like 60 years. While we were there was a line of wedding guests with the brides and grooms that had been married that day. I think we saw two or three new couples while we were there. By the way - we checked every where we went. That is not real grass. Most of the hotels don't have real grass either.

We left super early on Firday morning. Around 4 a.m. and drove through a snow storm and ended up in 75 degree weather! We left early hoping that the kids would fall right back to sleep and sleep most of the way. Hmmm...sounds like a good plan right?!?! Ethan refused to fall asleep. He took maybe a 15 minute nap but then we had to stop for gas. Once we got to the hotel he was just a little lump on the bed. Poor kid was tuckered out.

Ethan had this great desire to wear Grandma's sunglasses. Normally he doesn't look so goofy but he had just taken his hat off. I love the hat hair, glasses, and cheeser smile.

Ellie spent alot of time in the stroller.
Usually she was fine with it and just enjoyed watching all the other poeple and flashing lights.


Other times she did not enjoy it at all.


There were so many stinking people there it was ridiculous. It is possible (and by possible I mean it for sure happened) that me and my mom got totally lost trying to figure out where to park. There are no parking lots! Oh, and then we realized that you can park in any hotel parking lot for free! Eh, we only realized that after an hour of driving around, cutting poeple off, close calls, and a few swear words later. Because there was so much traffic they had built these walk ways over every intersection. Which was kind of nice. But they were so crowded. And then you added the poeple sitting on the sides with their cups for change or selling water or something. There was one guy who I thought was really funny. Most people's sings said something like, "Homeless and Hungry", "Hungry Veteran", or something like that. But this one guys just said, "Why lie? I need a beer." I thought it was pretty funny!!

The kids enjoyed looking over the ledge at all the cars that were going by underneath them. It was cooler at night when their lights were on.

This was Friday night on the strip. Ellie was wearing her squeky shoes and loved walking around in them. To say the least, we got a few looks and laughs. There was an outdoor mall with a hurge screen playing an IPhone commercial over and over again. It was to a song by Franz Ferdinand, No You Girls. She loved and wanted to do nothing but dance. It was hilarious to watch her bob her little butt up and down for atleast 10-15 minutes.

She's a good dancer you know.

This was Ethan's favorite hotel. He thought it was a real castle

and wanted to know where the dragon was.

We were there in time to see a show outside Treasure Island Hotel. The pirates were cool and it was fun to see all the effects they had. Funny though - there were barely any poeple watching the pirates boat with fully clothed men. but over at the Siren's boat with scantily scad women you could barely get through the walkway. Hmmmm....


Another favorite store. What little kid wouldn't love this place?



The MGM Grand had this aquarium, like four or five of them but Ethan really liked this one. It had a Dori fish. Like Dori from Finding Nemo. He thought that was awesome.


This was just outside the M&M Store. He was a little worried about these guys but they were really nice talking to him and asking him old he was and his name and everything. Yoda was on the corner too.

This was Ethan's favorite part of the MGM. He thought these lions were amazing. He couldn't get enough of them. As a matter of fact - we couldn't pull him away fast enough to find a bathroom. Here I am running with my three year old boy all around the dang hotel trying to find a bathroom. I couldn't see a single employee to ask and no signs anywhere! By this time he is definitely doing "the dance".

I finally find a ladies room and rush in - all stalls are full - there is a line.

Are you kidding me!!!

Who puts only three stalls in a ladies room?!?!?!?!

One stall empties and the lady who was in the front of line let us go in front her. She must have been a mom. She was very nice.

I really enjoyed the Bellagio. We were just walking by when the show started to a Frank Sanatra song. They were really loud but holy cow - really cool too.

This alligator is at the MGM. It was in water with smoke around it and such and then every now and then it would growl and snap. Ethan didn't think it was too cool untill I told him that if he feed him a penny he would eat him. There were other coins in there too. he pitched it in and made it right in his mouth. He wasn't too worried after that. Ellie on the other hand. My mom is laughing because Ellie is just a little concerned about the alligator.

We had a ton of fun and will probably go back next year when Jacob goes mountain biking again.