Wednesday at home relaxin

On Wednesday of Spring Break week, we stayed in our jammies and waited for the pool to heat up. The Allreds joined us for the swim! Let me rephrase that the Daddy's and kids swam and the mommy's visited and took pictures with our feet in the hot tub! It was another windy Las Vegas day unfortunately, but everyone had fun. We had to drag Aspen and Hanna out at the end. The rest of us were inside trying to keep warm--those two can play nonstop for hours!

Jared got the snorkel gear out for fun. Carter and jake loved it and are ready to try it out in Hawaii this summer! Joshy liked trying the fins on but his tiny feet couldn't keep them on.

That night we all wanted to go to the Tournament of Kings, but the tickets were sold out for that night:[. So we called around to other shows to see if anything was cheap. We lucked into Blue Man Group tickets on the second row for more than half off! Carter and Hanna were soooo excited. Their music teacher at school totally loves Blue Man Group and has showed them a lot of clips in class. In fact the Spring Show case at their school was all about living in Vegas and had a Blue Man Group segment where three boys were completely dressed like Blue Man Group. We had to go to the 10 pm show was the only draw back. Jared stayed with the younger boys and took them to Chuck E Cheeses while the big kids and I headed downtown to the Venetian.
We started out by eating at the Grand Lux Cafe. Hanna had her favorite: Alfredo and pasta, Carter a hamburger, and I had sundried tomato and chicken pasta. Yum!
We had some time to kill before the show so we found some fun things to do: like pick some noses and visit the gift shop


Here we are already for the show. Yep we got to wear ponchos the whole time because we were in the crazy poncho section where you can get hit by neon paint and other interesting substances like Twinkie goo which is what Carter ended up getting hit with. Hanna and I came out unscathed!

At the end of the show there is a huge amount of toilet like paper that gets wasted (but recycled they tell us!) so Carter did his part to make sure some of it was put to good use. Is that the Karate kid? I was glad we stayed to get a picture with one of the guys. It was a fun show and so fun to experience with them for their first time. I liked it way better this time around. When Jared and I saw it we were not sure we loved it. Carter couldn't pick a favorite part, but like any 10 year old boy he loved all the messes they made and splattering the food and paint around. Hanna liked when they made the canvas art using paint balls and their teeth. What a fun night with my big kids! (if you see Hanna around ask her about the Phantom of the Parking Garage!)