Thanksgiving Trip 2010 Part 1 - Las Vegas
We haven't traveled for Thanksgiving in a really long time. Family is just too far away for the short weekend holiday so we have opted to stay home.
This year, we were invited by Greg and his family to join them up in Salt Lake for the festivities. We packed our bags and every bit of warm clothing that we own (which is not much since moving to AZ) and drove on up.
On our way we stopped in Las Vegas! We had found an AMAZING deal on hotel rooms. We got 2 rooms in the Stratosphere for only $50...that's $25 per room! We could not pass that up! We took the kids out of school early on Tuesday (missed school all together on Wednesday) and headed for VEGAS BABY!
One of our favorite shows on TV is called Pawn Stars. It's about a pawn shop in Vegas and how they either buy authentic things or tell the person selling they have worthless crap! Our favorite guy on the show is Chumlee...awesome. Since finding out we will be stopping in Vegas, we all were excited to visit the Pawn Stars. We had no delusions of grandeur thinking we would meet the guys from the show, we really just wanted to go there.
Mitchell, with his obsession for Dr Pepper, loved this old timey vending machine. Really wished he could afford it...settled for a t-shirt with Chumlee on it instead.
This year, we were invited by Greg and his family to join them up in Salt Lake for the festivities. We packed our bags and every bit of warm clothing that we own (which is not much since moving to AZ) and drove on up.
On our way we stopped in Las Vegas! We had found an AMAZING deal on hotel rooms. We got 2 rooms in the Stratosphere for only $50...that's $25 per room! We could not pass that up! We took the kids out of school early on Tuesday (missed school all together on Wednesday) and headed for VEGAS BABY!
One of our favorite shows on TV is called Pawn Stars. It's about a pawn shop in Vegas and how they either buy authentic things or tell the person selling they have worthless crap! Our favorite guy on the show is Chumlee...awesome. Since finding out we will be stopping in Vegas, we all were excited to visit the Pawn Stars. We had no delusions of grandeur thinking we would meet the guys from the show, we really just wanted to go there.
Mitchell, with his obsession for Dr Pepper, loved this old timey vending machine. Really wished he could afford it...settled for a t-shirt with Chumlee on it instead.
Chase with a Chumlee mug
All Rylee wanted to look at was the jewelry!
For some reason, Carson begged me to take his picture with this golf thing. I don't even know what it really is...but here you go Carson!
Approaching the Stratosphere!
We stopped for dinner at the IHOP which we could see from our room.
On the Observation Floor. 800 feet above the ground...with angled windows!
It was soooooo windy at the top! We could really lean into the wind and it would hold us up a bit.
It was really cold too!
Cool pic of the Stratosphere
We kept driving past this gift shop...Worlds Largest! Can you believe it?
This made me laugh
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