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Family Vacation Day Two–Vegas

Due to the fact I have a hard time traveling while I am pregnant, we decided to stop in Vegas for a day, to divide up the time we spent in the car driving to Cali. There were a few things we thought the boys would really enjoy there, and plus Toph loves how there are so many things happening in Vegas (the lights, the people, the buffets, etc.).
We all slept in, then started off at the Vegas Children’s Museum. The boys had fun there, the exhibits did a good job of keeping the children active (which they needed after an afternoon in the car the day before), Here are a few of the highlights of the museum:
Tucker thoroughly enjoyed being the banker, and handing out money:

Giant Bubbles are always fun:

They also had an exhibit about children who had nothing, and made their toys out of clay, and had nothing else. Here are the boys making toys out of clay:


The boys also loved this machiney thing, lift your own weight/self:

They also had quite a few exhibits where team work was required. I love to see them working together:

Truman enjoyed doing everything, but upstairs in the science area, he wasn’t quite big enough to do anything by himself. Here is Toph helping him do one:

Of course Truman found the basketball one, he loves sports:

But one of his favorite places by far was the water table. I think he could have stayed there all day long!

Ever wonder what your kid would look like in a tornado? Apparently they have wind machines that blow like super fast, (I want to say like over 100 miles an hour fast), Tucker apparently thought it was fun-

So after a great morning, we were excited to head back to our hotel, eat, and enjoy downtown.
I had to include this picture, Toph’s pumped for the ‘Main Street Station Hotel’ Buffet, a horrible picture, but he was like a little kid in a candy store. seriously.:

After that we jumped in our car, drove downtown, and found a place to park, then began to see what they had to offer. We started at the MGM Grand, saw the lioness’ on display there, (after we walked through the smelly, smokey, dirty casino) then out walking we went. We didn’t get to far in the 107 degree weather, we were so thirsty. We stopped for a ICEE and some water.

Then off to M and M World, and the 3-D Movie:


More Walking:

Then a stop at the Bellagio for the fountain show:

And their gardens:

Then through the casinos to Ceasars Palace to walk around look at the stores, including FAO Schwartz. Such a fun place to be when you’re a kid!

The boys were starting to get hungry and tired at this point. Our car was parked forever away, so Toph decided to go get it while I took the boys across the street to the Flamingo hotel, to see their flamingos they had on display. We’d meet up later.
It was only about 7:30ish, but the sun had set and Vegas went from being okay, to being raunchy at this point. I didn’t know this…wish I did, because I would have stayed in the innocent toy store a little bit longer, and not tried to see the flamingos, with my sweet children~
People who’d had to much to drink began surfacing on the streets, and let’s just say, the women in the flamingo ‘dancing’ on top of the stages, with minimal clothing, and losing the slight clothes they had on, made me sick. Not just because I was pregnant, and try to screen my children from viewing it, but also because I felt bad they didn’t know their real worth as women, as Children of God…what a blessing this knowledge is to me as a woman…
Anyways, we did find the flamingos, the boys liked them, but then when we were trying to leave the hotel, we got lost. (those places are like mazes I tell you), Tucker got nervous, and asked if we could say a prayer. We found a secluded spot, he prayed simply to be able to find his daddy. Being lost turned out to be a blessing, as we didn’t have to pass too many of the before mentioned stages. Toph picked us up shortly there after, and after that experience, I think I’ve had my fill of Vegas for the next 10 years. 🙂
We got back to the hotel, and I bathed the kids, while Toph ran for some food. The kids fell asleep before I could even get their jammies on, and didn’t wake up till morning.
So us adults, enjoyed a dinner together from the hotel restaurant, then crashed. We too were tired!

2 replies on “Family Vacation Day Two–Vegas”

I too have had enough of Vegas to last me a lifetime from my weekend there. Let’s never go again. EVER.

What a fun little sidetrip! We’ll totally have to stop in Vegas next time we take a roadtrip to CA with 2 kids. Which will be never…or shortly thereafter.

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