Tuesday we were on our own all day because Jason was busy with his conference all day and then had a dinner in the evening from some company that was trying to schmooze them to buy their stuff.
I was really lazy on Tuesday and we (meaning me) weren’t ready for the day until nearly 11:30. We were just heading out when I talked to a friend of mine and she offered to have us come swim at the cool pool at her timeshare that they were at for a few days. The kids were stoked about that so we changed into swim gear and headed out. Too bad for my kids I have such a horrible sense of direction because we ended up driving 15 mins in the wrong direction before I realized I was going the wrong way and turned around. We did finally get there and the kids had a BLAST. (Thanks Felicia) We were there for a couple hours before the kids had had sun and we decided to go get ready for the rest of our adventures for the day, but first we waited for Jason to get back for what was supposed to be a 2 hr break before his dinner, but ended up being more like 45 mins.
Our adventures for the evening included a picture at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign. (when we drove by it earlier in the day I noticed lots of people taking wedding pictures there—I’m sure that’s totally normal, but seemed funny to me somehow)
I was hoping to get there when there was more light, but again miscalculated the time it takes to do things in Vegas…I swear there’s some kind of time warp there that makes everything take much longer than you think it will. Things like eating dinner and going to the famous Trader Joes grocery store (yes, I made my kids go to a grocery store on vacation—I’m officially a geek if you didn’t already know it, now you know for sure)
After this we headed to Circus Circus to check out the free circus acts they have there, but before we made it to the circus acts we got side tracked by the cheap souvenir stores that were in there. Em had tried and failed to find something at the M&M store that she wanted that was in our budget for souvenirs, but she found a cute necklace at one of the stores in Circus circus. Plus, I found a shirt for Liam and one for Jason too so it worked out really well. The trapeze artists that performed were pretty cool.
This was taken from below before they came and kicked us out of the lower (casino) floor because minors weren’t allowed there—we had to walk up the stairs to watch.
After the short show was over the kids wanted to play a game so I let them have a few quarters. Jason tried a few games, but didn’t win anything. Em gave her quarters to Jason and Liam used his to ride on a
truck and
a rocket ship. Despite his glower in the picture he loved them—just didn’t want me taking pictures of him anymore.
This was a late night for the kids and Liam was asleep before we made it out of the parking lot.
Wednesday we slept as late as we could with Daddy up and rearing to get home. We made him go to the Ethel M chocolate factory and it took us longer to drive there than it took for the “tour”. It was ok, but there wasn’t a whole lot actually being produced while we were there so I think that made it not as good because there wasn’t a lot to see. I’m glad we went anyway, but Jason was in a hurry so I have no pictures.
We did get a picture at the Beaver rocking chair on the way home though.
Liam wouldn’t look at me and this is Jason’s way of solving the problem for me. I told Jason that this reminded me of a giant shopping cart that used to be in the parking lot of a store in Kennewick…can’t remember which one though.
So, there you have it. We had fun in Vegas.
Post edit: I forgot one of the cutest things from when we were gone and it's something I want to remember so I'm writing it down. Liam asked constantly when we were going to begas or if we were at begas yet and once we got there he thought our hotel was Vegas so whenever we left it he would ask when we were going back to begas (I just love the way little kids say things!)
What did you do for Spring Break?
Jason getting the plastic eggs cleaned and ready so we can use them as molds. 
I only like them if they are soft and chewy, not hard and crunchy—I think that may have been part of the problem when we were trying to shape them. 
Nice close up of my behind—apparently Jason felt this was important to record for posterity—I told you he took some interesting pics-including one of my feet??? 
the spoils—Liam was very particular about which eggs he would pick up for some reason. 
Then we distributed them more equally afterwards. 
Some of the handywork
And a cute one of the finished product—we actually dyed enough to fill both cartons, but some had already been eaten by this time and others broke and weren’t deemed picture worthy. 
The first jet of Water was kind of loud and startled Liam. 
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