Day Sixteen: June 25 (Son's View)

We went to the Mandalay Bay today to see the shark reef aquarium.  It was cool.  My fave part was the piranhas (they can strip a cow of all their flesh in less than 30 seconds) boo ya little fishie.

        WE then went to the hour long pass at gameworks and heavenly fun scan the card scan the card.  Shoot drive Fish bowl it WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!

Day Sixteen: June 25 (Mom's View)

We began showing the kids various casinos.  We went to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay, which was nice but NOT WORTH the $60 for the family.  Seriously, how many people can they shove into the Shipwreck room (at the end), which was arguably the best part.  Sharks, Sea Turtles, and Sawfish swam below and above us.

We went to use our one-hour all-you-can-play GameWorks pass.  The kids each had an hour to play as many video games as they could.  Those of you who know Cameron know that he had “crack addict-like” behavior.  His beloved Jurassic Park videogame was there so he continuously swiped his card as soon as he died so it never really ended.  PATHETIC!

Day Fifteen: June 24 (Son's View)

VIVA LAS VEGAS.  SINCITY HERE WE COME BABY!!!!!!   We had to before hand get stuff from super walmart then we went to half price tix to get tickets for Ka  and two hour long passes for Game Works.

        We also brought the dogs to a luxury doggie day care which I have to say I want to be boarded there☺.   It had a huge play area and movies going on all day it was cool!!!

        WE then went to sushi at the MGM Grand and saw the lion Habitat.  We then went to Ka which was flippin awesome with the animals and the falling sand people were running up.  All of you people who know me I would watch Ka over and over again and never play another video game ever.

        BEST SHOW EVER!!!!!!!!

Day Fifteen: June 24 (Mom's View)

I LOVE VEGAS!!!  I never thought that I’d bring the kids to Vegas but I will have to work with all Vegas has to offer for the next few days.  We got a late start because Cord had to make ANOTHER trip to Super Walmart for some items.  We dropped the dogs off at a “luxury” dog hotel for the length of the Vegas stay.  It really isn’t a dog friendly area.  They stayed at American Dog and Cat, which had an open play area, dog suites, movies the whole day,….

Firstly we brought the kids to Toby Keith's I Love this Bar & Grill at Harrah's.  Since Cord is active duty, Toby Keith has offered soldiers a free American Burger and Beer (Coors Lite or Miller Lite...yuck).  The burgers were actually fantastic!  I even had a beer (yes living on the edge;))

We continued our Vegas adventure by going to Half Price Tix and buying tickets for Cirque De Soleil: KA.  Cord and I had seen it a few years ago with our BFs the Bauers and LOVED IT!  If we were going to spend money on a show, we wanted to see the best. 

We brought the kids to one of our fave “fast-food” Sushi restaurants in MGM Grand (totally our go-to)…  Grand Wok and Sushi Bar.  Unfortunately everyone had the same idea so it was packed and our sushi took forever.  We made it to KA in the knick of time (for the pre-show antics).

The show was amazing.  The kids were awed!

Day Fourteen: June 23 (Son's View)

“We are going to the museum where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound” Dad says.  “Who is Chuck Yeager?”  I whisper to Mom.  Dad is most definitely to excited about the flight museum at Edwards Air Force Base.  But don’t tell dad it was pretty cool all I am going to say………

        We traveled through the Mojave Desert and … Guess What?  We got a second flat in 113 degree weather we had to stop at a gas station so ya…  We arrived at Las Vegas around 5:30 p.m.  We got to see Uncle Tom and his dogs Frank the husky Chihuahua and Lucy full Chihuahua.

Day Fourteen: June 23 (Mom's View)

Seriously 14 days, I doubted that I would make it but so far still here. 

Heard Reveille played by Trumpet today at 9am (unfortunately I had already been up for hours).  Cord has loved staying at Edwards AFB for the night and is eager to get the day started by going for a haircut (he finally shaved this morning; he had gone an impressive beard the last 14 days) and then the Flight Testing Museum.  He is like a little boy enjoying all of its military and aviation history.  “Cameron did you know this is where Colonel Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier.”  Cameron replied with a whisper, “Mom, who was Chuck Yeager.”  So sad!  I am so glad that we are doing this trip though because our kids will have such good American historical and geographical information.  (Hmmm what will they learn in Vegas..Hehehehehe….) 

We traveled through the Mojave desert where the temperature gauge read 113 degrees, which is crazy after years of living in Seattle area.  As we drove along guess what happened….ANOTHER FLAT TIRE ON THE TRAILER! 
We finally arrived in Vegas around 5:30pm and we set up our site for a nice long stay.  As soon as we were set up, we went to visit Uncle Tom (Cord’s uncle—Dana’s (my mother-in-law’s) younger brother.   We enjoyed playing with his Chihuahua mix pooches, Frankie and Lucy.

Day Thirteen: June 22 (Son's View)

Nine hours of sitting in a RV is boring!!!  WE were headed to Las Vegas but we could not make it so we stayed at Edwards Air Force base where we ate at Burger King Exciting then came home to the Famcamp they have here.  Before that we went to a cheese factory called Bravo Farms which was delicious chees.  I also got Sweet and Sour Strawberry stripes.  MMMM good stuff.