Spring Break Family Road Trip
April 11th-15th 2011

 Spring Break has finally rolled around.

This week has been much anticipated by us all!

Mostly for Matt.

Who has absolutely no life, except for work.

We left Sunday morning, April 11th.

Matt rented us a most awesome MINI VAN!

Or Swaggin' Wagin' 

{as I like to call it}

After my last post, I am sure this comes as a shock

but for these kind of circumstances it is allowed.

We have never used a mini van and 

I will grudgingly admit it was rather nice! :)

To clarify...

it was great for vacation however,

we in no time soon plan to purchase one.

Back to the trip...

So as I was saying, we left Sunday morning

and drove strait to Vegas.

The drive went relatively swell.

The boys watched movies,

ate tons of food.

Good thing I prepared as much food as I did

cause, man those boys can eat!

I think Cody is a bottomless pit right now.

What will it be like when I have 3 teen boys

eating like this?!?!

Yikes!

 On our way! Can you tell who is not having fun? :)

Now for the part of the drive that did not go so well...

Crew, 

the poor little guy, 

had had enough of his restricting car seat.

 The last 45 min. or so of our drive into Vegas

was spent listening to this little boy scream!

The minute the car stopped and I unbuckled him

he was all kinds of smiles & giggles.

No sign of the trauma he,

and we, had just endured for the past hour.

We happily checked into our Hotel.

 The Holiday Inn Express

just off the Vegas strip.

Very nice. 

Dropped off our bags, 

took a quick tour of the place,

then forced our children back into the van.

So horrible, I know.

What our Hotel looks like at night. :)

See, I just felt we did not have time to chill.

I was so excited to go and show them VeGAs!!!!

Plus we needed to feed them some dinner.

We made it about half-way down the strip

and then.....

Crew decided enough was enough!

So much for a fun evening exploring.

We did not want to eat at a resturant

on the strip with Crew acting like this.

So we kept driving a few blocks over, 

Everyone wanting something different and 

Crew still screaming in our ears,

The next place we saw was Wendys.

And that was it. 

Nothing awesome or fancy 

like I had envisioned 

but by this point........

who really cares!

After our anything but relaxing dinner,

we took one more cruise down the strip.

By now it is dark and 

all the Vegas lights are glittering!

Crew thought every taxi cab he saw

was a police man. He would point this out

very loudly. Then say, "So Cool!!!".

Our wild night ended by 9pm.

The kids all happy & tucked in their beds.

 

Matt and I lying there, 

wide awake!!

We had one room

and it's really 10pm Utah time. :)

This completes day one of our trip.

And what a day it was. :)

Matt & I are pondering if this was really the best idea?!?!

LoL!!!