Summer Travels: Vegas

 Our next stop was Vegas. For most of our visit, it was just Cheryl-Lynn, Ben and Liz as Kiley and the older two boys were at Young Men's camp. We enjoyed playing games, swimming at a friend's pool, going on walks and a trip to the temple for the adults. We did initiatory and both of us did some of the people that Megan was baptized for last week! We also went to the Children's Museum, visited the Bellagio and celebrated Bastille Day.

Playing Clue.

Matthew and Ben liked collecting money and putting it in the Wells Fargo Bank. I remember Sarah and Luke doing that!

Matthew and Ben's total amount.

Megan enjoyed grocery shopping for meals for us.

Matthew's preferred way of going down the slide.

The downside to sliding backwards.

Megan really enjoyed shocking us. Especially Me. Some of the shocks were quite large. 

Megan: I'm going to shock you!

3D printed Groot

Cashier Matthew

Cleaning the instruments at the eye doctor.

Happy Bastille Day! (See the Eiffel Tower?) It's always neat to see the fountains at the Bellagio.

Megan, Me and Matthew with the flowers. I think the hummingbird is really pretty.

Megan, Ben, Matthew and Liz

She looks like Te Fiti from Moana.

Megan wants a tree like the purple one in our yard.

Cute guy!

Celebrating Bastille Day with yummy crepes. We shared a ham and cheese one. Matthew had one with strawberries, Oreos and chocolate syrup, Megan had one with caramel and bananas and Me had one with blueberries, blueberry sauce, whipped cream and lemon juice. The Adams also got 4 crepes.

Kiley, Cheryl-Lynn and Me went out to dinner after Kiley, Luke and Andrew arrived home. This is my part of a spring roll.

Ramen

Megan, Matthew, Ben and Liz

The next day, after going on a walk with my sister and packing up, we drove home to the HEAT of Phoenix (with no stops!). It was a long day but it was good to be home.

Las Vegas

 After leaving Mesquite, we went to Vegas.

Matthew on our drive into Vegas: I notice that a lot of the billboards in Vegas are about law and lawyers. Do they really like the law in Vegas?

We stopped by Madame Tussauds.

Sarah with Leonardo DiCaprio

Johnny Depp and Sarah

Matthew liked these guys.

Tim McGraw and Me

Louis Armstrong and U. Matthew was concerned that they ruined the trumpet valves.

Donny and Marie Osmond

The Incredible Hulk got Sarah!

U and Captain America

We then went to the Adams.

Ben and Matthew playing pool.

Cheryl-Lynn and U took the youngest four kids to the Children's Museum.

Matthew in the stocks.

Megan and Liz doing some art.

Pilots Matthew and Ben.

Liz, Matthew, Ben and Megan explore the huge mouth.

Trying to catch the flying scarves.

Matthew, Megan, Liz and Ben coming down the slide.

Matthew, Ben, Cheryl-Lynn, Liz and Megan at the spinning wheel table

Matthew and Ben doing an archeological investigation.

Megan and Liz painting.

Cheryl-Lynn, Ben and Matthew in the craft room.

Ben and Matthew check out their flying creations.

Matthew's flying creation

Matthew playing in the water area.

Megan playing with water.

We were a lively bunch right before midnight on New Year's Eve. Matthew, Kiley, Liz, Ben and Me were all sleeping.
(Megan, Cheryl-Lynn and U were up playing games. Andrew, Luke and Sarah were at a dance.)

On Saturday, we went to Defy Las Vegas.

Liz and Megan enjoyed the obstacle course.

Matthew, Luke, Ben and Andrew spent a lot of time playing dodgeball.

They had some really steep slides. Here are a few photos of U going down one.

Cheryl-Lynn coming down the slide.

Matthew on the obstacle course.

Me on the obstacle course.

U, Me and Kiley bouncing on the trampolines.

Matthew swinging around

Matthew jumping during dodgeball.

Sarah hanging out.

Liz and Megan walking across the pit.

Megan and Liz on the big balls.

Ben and Matthew taking a break during dodgeball.

Liz being a butterfly.

U, Me, Sarah, Kiley, Luke and Cheryl-Lynn
Andrew, Matthew, Megan, Liz and Ben

Megan sprained her ankle at the very end of our jumping time. It swelled up a lot and bruising got much worse as the week went on. She was a trooper about it.

In the evening, the adults went out for dinner and stopped by the Bellagio.

The fountains

Cheryl-Lynn, Me, U

U and Me at the flower exhibit

Huge Christmas tree

More of the flowers

We enjoyed spending time with the Adams!