Vegas Trip

Ok, I know I am late with this, but I am late with everything lately so I am trying to catch up on a few things that need to be posted. The post is about our Vegas trip. We were a little worried if we were going to make it down there or not, Mike was on the tail end of Strep but she was feeling well enough to go so we kept our reservations. We had plans to leave on Thursday morning around 5 0r 6 am to get down there in time to have some fun, but....things changed. Sam ended up with food poising around 12:00 midnight, and was throwing up all through the night. By about 5 or 6 in the morn, she finally stopped throwing up we debated rather to go or not. At 10:00 in the morn, we decided to put her in the back of the van and just let her sleep all the way down. I think all the sleep did her well. She still wasn't feeling back to normal, but she was being a trooper. I on the other hand was having some issues with my reflux issues and my throat lining was very irritated which was causing me to do some serious aspirating. But we got there and our first stop was finding the PAWN STAR pawn shop. Yay...I was so excited to see it. We have been watching that show on the History Channel lately. It's quite an interesting show. Sam stayed in the van because she was still in her pj's and still not feeling quite right, so we hurried in to check it all, saw all the stars of the show, then left cuz Sam was getting nervous. We decided we would stop back on our way home from Vegas. So we got settled into our Hotel room at Circus Circus. We went to a couple of Circus acts that night. They had a lot of good acts this year. They added a few new ones.
So...Here we are hanging around our Hotel room

Then the next day we spent the day at the Adventure Dome in Circus Circus. It's is one of the largest indoor amusement parks. Our first ride was the hot air balloon to see if Sam could handle the rides ok. That one worked.

Then we tried the Merry go round. Sam said no! No round and round for her!

Then we hit our favorite ride...The bumper cars. We had a blast on these and probably spent the majority of our day here.

We also rode there 3d movie rides. The movie this year was a weird one. Cork neck hill. I like it when the do the haunted castle ride. We also rode the Pirate Ship, but after so many times on this, I started feeling woozy..that's not normal for me. (I must be getting old) I love these rides! So we took a break from that.

Then of course we have to ride over and over the ride that gives you a major headache...The canyon blaster. This is an awesome roller coaster ride, but also beats your head to death with all the jerkiness. But hey we endured it, and by the end of the day, Sam even rode it a few times. Sam's coming back to normal. Other than now I was really starting into some coughing that was really messing with my lungs. I was struggling, but we were having a great time.


That night we hit some more circus acts and this one below was awesome. They were from Nigeria and boy could they put any cheerleaders to shame! (No offence anyone!) But they were amazing. These pics don't even do them justice!
The last day of our trip after we checked out we ran up to MGM and checked out Some of our favorite things there. They have the new CSI Experience now at the MGM. We were really considering going to it which opened up that weekend, but we didn't get to leave a day early to do it because Mike had drill. So we decided we would catch it next trip.
This is one of our favorite souvenir shops in MGM. We spend a lot of time here! Of course Mike is loving all of the Elvis Magnets. She wishes she could buy them all.

Sam had a great time checking out the sunglasses.

We then took a stop at the Lions, but as always it was to crowded to see anything. This was the best pic Mike could get.
We then headed over to New York New York. Kurtis finally bought him a souvenir from there. A New York Fire Department shirt. Surprise surprise.


Me and Sam found us a new friend.

Then we stopped at the pawn shop again. Yay all of us got to go in. We even got a singed picture.


But instead of heading on home, we stopped in St. George and stayed at Moms. I had a great trip, but it is always nice to get out of Vegas and back to reality. I was thankful to stop at Moms, because by then I was not feeling well at all. I think I was on the starting point of Pneumonia. Luckily the doctor had given us some antibiotics in case in of us started feeling like we were getting strep so I had been taking those. So we stayed the night at moms, then the next day we headed home with me in the back seat this time sleeping all the way home. But even with all the sickness, we had a fun time.