Tuesday, August 4, 2009

mini family vacay

...was spent in las vegas!
(i'm missing pics...but i'll add them later so check back)

FRIDAY
headed out friday morning with lolo and lola following behind..the siblings were coming waaaaaay later...
taylor was sooo excited about our trip to vegas. she was sooo excited to be going on vacation!!! she actually had her bags packed weeks in advanced that she packed herself-of course i made a few changes-hehe.
almost there
must stop at stateline...
to shop of course
and to ride the silly kid rides
getting closer
The Orleans!
we stay here cause they have a movie theater and bowling alley (which we didn't even bowl this time) and cause it's not too far or too close from the strip and cause it's cheap-hah!
dinner at Koji
peyton was happy...
taylor wasn't. haha!and later that night jino and i went off to have a drink and watched some cheesy performers in one of the lounges-cause that's how old people party-haha

SATURDAY

kris, jp and joe made it safely and super late. jino and i thought we were gonna run on the threadmill at the fitness center-but too many ladies were hogging them so we ended up doing a morning run-outside and it was HOT!!! then we decided to head to the strip to take taylor to visit the m&m store and have lunch and check out mgm
M&M's
we got a pic with the red m&m!!!she got to pick her own colors
her $4+ bag
lions at the MGM
poolside
tay LOVED the pool
so did peyton!
or maybe she liked sunbathing more...
drinks anyone?! later that even all the siblings went out to the strip for a few drinks and a bit of betting on some roulette tables.


SUNDAY

dad was invited to preach at Damayan Christian Fellowship, so off to church we went-yup, church even in vegas! =)

then after that we headed back to the hotel then changed and headed to Circus Circus
man, this place had changed! this was the first time we went to adventure dome. it was like a carnival squished into one spot and it was super crowded! taylor had fun. she rode the carousel and played games. she even got to see a 1 act show at the circus part
a picture in the picture booth
a ride on the carousel that jino and taylor snuck onto. he didn't know u had to have on a wristband...haha! and look at taylor's face-she's such a fraidy cat!
great pic papa!
taylor thinks she won this game but auntie krissa really did
then after we headed back to the hotel to rest up a bit and tay and papa even went to the pool...and we headed out again. we drove out to the strip and decided to do some site seeing. we stopped at Palazzo and the Venetian-where we ate at the yummy Grand Lux Cafe
pretty umbrellas at the palazzoour dinner venue celebrating joe (and jino's) birthdays!then we headed toward Caesar's Palace to have something sweet at Serendipity
(they had these misty thing's outside and so that's why my picture is all fuzzy...misty)

MONDAY

...we all kinda did our own thing for most of the day. jino and joe headed out to play golf at Cloud Nine. then after jino, myself and the girls headed to the outlets and had lunch back at the hotel. then we headed to the pool for a bit and rested. we were all pretty much pooped from all our weekend ventures. the whole fam met up for our last dinner together at The Prime Rib Loft then called it a night.

TUESDAY

up early. got everything packed. had one last breakfast with the fam at the hotel the jino and i and the girls headed home while mom, dad, kris, joe and jp stopped at all the outlets. we were home by 130 p.m. and it was great to be home!!! and what did i do? nope...didn't rest, i took joy in cleaning and doing laundry. haha!

2 comments:

Anne said...

Despite the fact that you and Jino were crazy enough to run in that heat, looks like you guys had lots of fun!

The Hows said...

how fun! vacays are lots of fun. your girls are so cute. i miss outlet shopping. i told matt that we needed to go shopping at the nearest outlet and that's also where the nearest casino is, which is about 2 hours away. what's up with casinos and outlet shopping?