With all that life brings, in the ten years of married life we had never been on a family vacation, that was not to see family. This year we changed that. With a tight budget (less than 2k) we decided that we were going to spend a week as a family on a "Family Vacation"
After spending 6 weeks in February pricing Disneyland and Disney World (they were way out of our budget) we settled in on Las Vegas Nevada.
Hunted the best deal and planned, planned and planned some more for this trip. Jim thinks I over planned.
We departed Green River Wyoming on June 28th at 6:30 am. 30 minutes behind schedule. Arriving in Las Vegas at 4pm. After a stressful check-in (taking over 2 hours) We were ready for our first stop. As it was Sunday we really did not want to spend money so we went to Fremont Street as it was totally free.
Fremont Street is a street in Old Las Vegas that they have put large screens over 3 blocks and do a show every 30 minutes. Jim said he loved the rocket on the show. Fun evening. Best of all it was free.
This is a statue of Cesar and he moves and talke on the hour. Planet Hollywood the resturant was not far from this. With luck we saw the show. The kids loved it.
*Then off to the Adventure dome at Circus Circus
By 11 pm all were bathed and sleeping sound. What a hot fun filled day.
This is the new bridge they are building. Due to Sept. 11 they do not allow semi's over Hoover's Dam. This bridge will replace the traffic over the Dam. On this day we boarded a bus from our hotel and took the tour of the dam. WOW it was so hot. But at least when you were in the Dam it was much cooler.
Due to some problems with our Vegas Power Pass cards we had to make a detour to Cesar's Palace to get some new cards. Because of the error they offered us a Meal card so it saved us a little over a 100 dollars (chuching)

What else would you do with the love of your life under the Vegas sign.
10 Things I learned on this trip
- You can over plan your trip. I had google mapped every step of each day. Each day had it's own folder and items for the day in it.
- Don't go to Vegas in the summer when you are used to temps of 75 and it was 110 every day there
- Some times you can't do all you planned in one day. It's ok
- Vegas was founded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Now look at it.
- You can never have too much water when it is 110 out side
- You can go to Las Vegas have a blast and not put a single penny, nickle, dime or quarter in a slot machine.
- It is a great place to go to see how your kids do with crowds.
- Plastic elastics melt in your daughters hair when it is this hot. Not fun to try to get out.
- Call the day you plan to check in to your hotel as you never know if your reservation will be cancelled by an unknowing receptionest
- All ways come to Vegas with the Power Pass
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Looks like a fun trip! I'm glad it went well for you guys!
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