Back to Vegas...then home sweet home...

We left Utah after breakfast on Monday morning and started to trek down the interstate to Vegas...we hit a bunch of summer thunderstorms and saw QUITE the display of lightning. It was very cool...I did take a few pictures from the car on the way down...

Look at the clouds on the right side...I thought it looked like an eagle's eye or the "eye of God."
Just outside of St. George, Utah...


Coming into Vegas at sunset....


The first time in Vegas, we attempted to go to the Pirates show at Treasure Island. Dad dropped Emilie, Cole and me off right in front of the show, however there were definitely about 5,000 people already there to watch it. We stayed for about 5 minutes of the show and took off...Cole was pretty bummed, so I promised that we would come back and see it. Well, this time we went about 45 minutes early and got right in front of the main Sirens ship. We waited and waited and really enjoyed the show. Here are a couple of pics...



After the pirate show, we headed over to Fremont Street to see the overhead light show...here's a peek off the strip off of the parking structure at T.I...Cole and G-Pop checking out the light show overhead...
The theme of the show was Queen music and it was AWESOME...WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!!!


After an evening of dinner at 1:00 a.m. with my dad and gambling on penny slots until about 5 a.m. (I did win $$$) I finally headed off to our hotel room, but was up for basically the entire rest of the "night" with some major stomach issues. And I was able to get an hour's rest while Grandma and G-Pop took Cole down to the cafe for breakfast...however, when Cole came back in with them, he wasn't really feeling good. Well, I needed to finish getting ready, so I set him on the counter in the bathroom so I was right there...which wasn't such a hot idea. He ended up puking a WHOLE bunch on himself and the bathroom floor and into the trash can. Poor boy. Once that was over, he was a new kid. Totally fine, no issues at all! :) I had issues the rest of the day, however my pops thought it would be a good idea to hit up the historic...
We had a great time exploring the mines and checking out all the cool gift shops...


This is the railroad that is still in working order and we were able to take a ride around the mining area of Calico...pretty cool. Although it was 118 degrees outside...
Inside one of the museums where you can enter into the mine...all original mining equipment and office equipment...
Most of the quaint mining town burnt down...twice. These are mostly replica buildings, however there were a few originals from the 1800's.

We headed home in the nice air conditioned car and finally made it to our sweet house at about 7:30 p.m. My bed never felt so good!! We all had an AWESOME vacation and are so glad we were able to go together! Lots of fun memories and lots of cool pictures! :)

Phew...that's all folks!!!