Vegas Vacation.

Gary and I, on a whim decided to go down to Las Vegas for a weekend. Papa Reyza has been asking us to come down for a while now, so we finally decided to make the trip. The drive down went really well, with only 1 bout of crying from Jonah towards the end. When we got there we realized "oh yeah, Las Vegas isn't really the ideal place for kids" Ha ha! Ryker said " There's no games for kids mom." But between the smoke filled casinos and me shielding my children's eyes from the Thunder Down Under billboards there were some great moments shining through. These photos show those moments.

Finally arriving at the Hotel after the 7 hour drive

 Seeing the dolphins at The Mirage Hotel. It's a cheaper version of Seaworld. :)

 They had two new baby boy dolphins.

This is one of them giving my kids the eye. They were adorable, and so active!

 Jonah with a smiling dolphin.

 Violet LOVED the dolphins. She could have watched them all day.

 The Mirage's big cats exhibit was pretty neat.

All the cats were really active and alot of them would swim in the water.

It was fun watching them wrestle and play.

 Mandalay Bay's shark reef aquarium

 The kids loved looking at all of the different types of fish, sharks, and other sea critters.

 They have an awesome tunnel that is completely clear

so you can go underneath all of the fish and sharks swimming. Pretty neat.

 Vi and the stingray.

 Their jellyfish exhibit was awesome.

 The jellies

 The M&M factory. Ryker was the only one that would dare get near the M&M guy.

 The best part of the factory was that the kids got to choose whatever color M&M's they wanted.

 The coca-cola factory was right next to the M&M's factory,

so we headed over and got to see the coca-cola polar bear.

 There were so many funny people dressed up on the street working for tips. Violet and Jonah were too scared to get near these characters. Elmo must have been hard up for cash. He pretty much forced Ryker to get his picture taken with him. Ha ha!

 Ryker was pretty excited to get his pic taken with Captain Jack. This guy was actually a pretty good impersonator. He even had the Captain Jack accent.

 Superhero pic. This cracks me up!

 We got to do lots of swimming at the hotel and Papa Reyza's condo.

The kids love the water. Jonah was an animal, he was having so much fun swimming with his Dad.

 Sweet Vi

 Ryker is a fish. He could swim all day if we let him.

 Papa Rey and Jonah man.

We are glad that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

We were so glad to get back to our quiet little neighborhood in Utah! But it was good to see Papa Reyza's house and the family friendly stuff in Vegas.