Our Vegas Trip!

A few weeks ago we went to Vegas for Mana (my grandma) and Mark's wedding. What an adventure that was! We headed to the airport Thursday night with both kiddos and my parents. Luckily we bought a double stroller a week before we went. What a life saver that was!!!

 Mason was so excited to go on the plane, Our plane ride was pretty short-only about an hour and fifteen minutes. Next we had to go get our rental car and take a nice long journey to go pick it up. That involved taking the stroller down and putting it back together...getting it on and off the shuttle, carrying the carseats, our carry-ons, and all of our luggage. Finally we got to our rental car and I ended up having to sit on Koko's lap to the hotel due to lack of space.

When we got to the hotel we ended up being upgraded to better rooms. Mas was amazed that we were staying in a castle. The Excalibur Hotel was awesome. Koko and I went to the room and got the kids in pajamas and we got ready for our night out together!

 

We actually didnt end up doing much. We explored outside a bit-keep in mind it's January, it was cooold outside! We went over to New York, New York and a few other hotels to check them out. It was after midnight before we had gone out so most of the things we were interested in were closed already. It was fun having a little date night together though. We ended up picking up the kids from my mom and headed back to the room around 230.

in the hotel room about to get ready for bed

We had a busy day planned for Friday. We met outside the hotel around 10 and took some pictures while we waited for my dad to get the Tahoe.

We went to In n Out for breakfast/lunch and went down to the Mirage (i think) to see the dophins. They were so cute! Mia and Mas both seemed to enjoy them. We got so many pictures...

 We also got to see white lions and tigers. The lion hated Koko. I'm pretty sure it would have attacked him had the cage not been there. The staff ended up telling him "whatever you're doing, please stop"...all he was doing was making a kissing noise lol. That lion had a crazy deep roar. Of course...I got pictures of that too...including the lion wanting to attack Koko.

That's Koko's shirt to the left...and the lion growling at him! OMG

He does not look happy

Mia checking out the white tigers.



The days are kind of a blur now that I think about it, so they may not be in order lol. But I am pretty sure we went shopping after that.

 I'm pretty sure it was Saturday when we went to the Grand Prix something or other...I opted out...go karts really arent my thing.  So I sat out with the kids and big surprise...I took pictures of everyone. We all put in a dollar and the best time would win. Of course, I was going for Koko! Good thing-he ended up having the fastest time! :)

At that same place I took Mas to ride some rides, he was pretty bummed out that he couldnt ride the go karts. I'm pretty sure this made up for it.





We seriously did so many things that i cant even keep them straight. I know one night we went to the Stratosphere and my dad, uncle Bryan, and I did the thrill ride at the very top. That was amazing...then there was one night that seemed like it would never end! I cant even remember what night that was! All i know is that my feet were killing me! We also did the Fremont street experience and went zip lining. It was so fun! Like I said, we did so many things in such a short amount of time it seems that it all just blends together.

Sunday was the day of the wedding. The wedding and reception went really well! Mia and Mas were really well behaved! Mason had so much fun dancing at the reception! He was attached to Stephie pretty much the entire trip! He wouldnt even let Shawn dance with Steph. It was so cute!

So, that was our big trip!For our next trip we are hoping to go to Disneyland this December for Mason's 4th birthday!! Fingers Crossed!!!