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Our Family Vacation to Las Vegas

We left home at 6am (SHARP), well ok, 6:02am, for our family vacation to Las Vegas. The kids were ubber excited, but did very well on the long road trip down there. We olny had to stop twice. We arrived in Las Vegas at 12 noon, their time, so we had to find a quick lunch for the kids. Frankly, I have never eaten in a more fancy McDonald's in my life (I just wish the food was a bit more fancy). After that we began our long trip down the strip to our hotel, The Excalibur. We dropped Millie and Olivia off at the front door to check in while Hannah, the boys and I drove down to the Mirage to pick up some show tickets. Hannah suprised Millie and I with a night out on the town. She bought us ticket to the amazaingly beautiful production of Love (it is the Beatles Circus...acrobate show). Before we saw the show, we took the kids over to see the lions at the MGM Grand, and then over to the M&M World store to see the 3-D movie.

The next morning the kids got up real early, so I snuck them out of the hotel room so Millie and Hannah could get some rest. We drove down to Treasure Island and parked there. We walked out in front of the Treasure Island to see the ships, then we crossed over to the Venitian to look into the wax museum there. The boys were very excited to see Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), in the museums front window (There was also Whoopie Goldburg and Poveroti). We then rode the moving sidewalks over to the Harrah's Casino. The boys loved the moving sidewalks. Once we got to Harrah's we crossed over to Ceasar's Palace, to go into the large mall there. The escilators were even cooler for the boys, because they curved as they went up. We were the only people in the building, besides the occational security guard. Harrison loved the fountains in the Ceasar's palace; "I am going to bring back my swimming suit and go swimming in there." I had to explain to him that those fountains were only for looking at not swimming. Eventually we made the painful treck back to our van.

Later that morning we rode the tram over to Mandalay Bay to visit the Shark Reef aquarium. The kids loved the aquarium, and all of the fish.

The boys and I then went swimming while Olivia took a nap.

That night we all enjoyed an evening at the Tournement of Kings show at the Excalibur. The kids were a little apprehensive in the beginning, but they warmed up quickly to it. We sat in the Dragon section so we got to cheer for the bad guy.

After the show we drove down to the Fremont Experience to see the show there. By the time we got bakc to the hotel, the kids gave us no arguement about going to sleep.

Before we left on Tuesday, the boys and I went to the Spounge Bob 4-D ride, which we gross. If there was a splash on the screen, then we in the audience got wet, or iff there were bubbles on the screen, there were bubbles in real life around us.

All-in-all it was a great trip.