Viva Las Vegas!

This weekend we drove to Las Vegas for Ryan's hockey tournament. The drive usually takes about 4 hours but by the time we left on Friday, we hit traffic and ended up taking about 6 hours. My car was packed to the max with hockey equipment, luggage, snacks, xbox, playstation, etc....oh and 5 kids! 4 of them were our's and then we took a teamate of Ryan's. The drive was not bad except for the fact that my kids wouldn't stop argueing about who was going to play Guitar Hero next and how long and so forth....that got old REALLY fast! I have only been to Vegas once. About 4 years ago Doug took me there for my bday. This time we were staying at a hotel off the strip called the Red Rock. I was a little apprehensive at first because I had never heard of it before and everyone that I asked had never heard of it as well but Doug insisted we would like it since he had stayed there with AJ's team back in November. So my husband was right. (don't tell him) This hotel was amazing! It has a bowling alley, movie theatre, shops, casino(of course), full spa, I think like 4 swimming pools, and a kids area you can drop them off in! The rooms were amazing as well. We had a suite with an adjoining room for the kids which was prefect! Anyhoo, Ryan's team did great! They lost their first 2 games but won the last two and Ryan's scored a goal in the last game. All the boys played so great which made it so fun to watch....even when they lost.

AJ and Ali's bday was on Sunday so we celebrated by going to a hockey game in the morning, then we treated them to the spa where they got mani/pedi's, and then that night we took them down on the strip to see all the great sites...from our car. The place was packed and with Jack....it just didn't make sense. We DID get out of the car at the Venetian to do some shopping and go to dinner but that was about it. Today we headed back after Ryan's last game and got home around 8:30pm. It was a great weekend but so good to be home! Side note: I kicked butt at the slots!

Jack update: Still changing the dressing on his foot 3 times a day and his doctor started him on an oral antibiotic on Friday. My concern NOW is that his foot is oozing a little and he seems a little yellow in his coloring all over. We've got another doctor's appt. tomorrow morning so I'll update then.