We arrived to our final destination in the evening to Las Vegas. The lights were really neat to see at night as we were pulling into the city. We stayed at the New York New York Hotel. The Hotel was a cluster of buildings that looked like downtown New York with a Statue of Liberty and a roller coaster. The kids were bummed that they were not tall enough to ride the coaster, but we had a great view from our room to watch others ride the coaster.
The kids and I have never been to Vegas so we wandered the strip and saw lots of neat things. I was fine only spending a night and half a day here because it isn't the most friendly place in world. There are people everywhere trying to sell or hand out things to you. I just felt rude telling everybody '"No Thanks" and then they would still try to talk to you as you were walking away from them. It was hard for me to just ignore these people. So, we were all ready to leave the place and probably won't return anytime soon.
We did enjoy our visit to the M & M World factory! It was located across the street of our hotel and it is a 4 story M & M store with everything you can imagine that has a M&M logo on it. Ashlynn had a awesome moment when she got to have a brief one on one moment with the green M&M. We saw the M&M girl walk by in a back hallway and Ashlynn got so excited that she saw her that we followed the M&M around the corner to see if she was still there... and she was waiting in the stairwell to see if we were coming. The M&M girl and her bodyguard waved for Ashlynn to come over and Ashlynn got a hug from her favorite M&M. Ashlynn was so excited and blushing when it was over, she couldn't contain herself. (On a side note: this is huge for Ashlynn to go up to a costumed character because she is so scared of all costumed characters except princesses). We left M&M World happy and with a green stuffed M&M girl doll and a few M&M's for road trip home.
We ate a early dinner in Vegas at the Rainforest Cafe and headed on the road for our last and final leg back to Utah. Our drive home was about 5 hours and we were all glad to be home and sleep in our own beds. I always feel such a big relief when we get home from being away (although, I do like getting away for a few days) There is just something to be said about "There is no place like home".
Above is our Map that we attached to the backseat of our car and kept track by placing stars on all the license plates we saw from the different states. We didn't have Canada on our map so that is why there is a star at the top off the Map. We found all the Western states and did not find very many from the East Coast area, but the kids had fun finding all the states on the Map.
What a fun week we spent while being off track from school. The kids are now back to school and we are starting to get back into a school routine again.
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