Kitchen Klan: Viva Las Vegas

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Viva Las Vegas

Posted by dkitchen

We decided to take a quick family vacation to Las Vegas over Presidents' Day weekend. We spent a night at Brad & Kelli's house, a night at Grandpa & Grandma Peterson's house and the last three nights in Vegas. I wish the weather had been a little warmer, but it was still nice to get away from the daily grind. Here are some of the fun things we did.

SWIMMING AT G & G Peterson's in AZ - we were only there for the night, the kids managed to go swimming twice, as usual, they had the entire pool all to theirselves.

LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY - we visited for a few minutes, you could tell they are gearing up for the race.

NASCAR CAFE - well sort of, it was closed so the kids just had fun looking at all the cars.

NEW YORK-NEW YORK -the hotel that we wanted to stay at, but it was too expensive.

THE TITANIC EXHIBIT - This was really cool for Brandon and I, the kids didn't have as much fun looking at all the neat stuff that was retrieved from the bottom of the ocean as we hoped. Maybe someday they will think it was cool.

HOOVER DAM - again, something that we thought was neat - but it was lost on the kids. I don't think they quite understood what we were looking at and how far down in the dam we were. However, they were quite impressed with the Hoover Dam bridge and so were we. It is amazing what people can do.

SWIMMING AT THE LAS VEGAS HILTON - the only thing the kids begged us to do was go swimming (we could have stayed home and done that for a lot less money!) It was chilly, but they still wanted to go - we were the only people (idiots) in the pool. Needless to say, Brynnli ansdWyatt only lasted in the pool for a few mintues then they wanted to go in the hot tub. Since they were the only people in the hot tub, they just "swam" in there.

LANCE BURTON MAGIC SHOW - the last thing we did in Vegas (and the most expensive) was go to a magic show. We all had so much fun - over and over we said "how did he do that" - Brynnli and Wyatt bought their own magic tricks from the store, they need alot of practice.