Catching Up...Post 4: Las Vegas Trips

We have been to visit my sister and brother and their families in Las Vegas a couple of times so far this summer. My sister has a pool and the kids LOVE, and I think that is an understatement, to go swimming. I think they spent 6 hours everyday we were there in the pool. They swam so much they had rubbed themselves raw in several places from their life jackets. They also rubbed the skin off their fingers and feet. Allison's feet still aren't healed completely and it has been over a week. But they didn't care...they just wanted to be in the water.

They just jumped in all day. They taught themselves how to do front flips and back flips...well maybe more like back flops. At one point, Austin said to just call him 'Diving DeMille.' Then he dove down in the water and came back up a half second later, choking and coughing on water. It was kind of funny.

One of the cool things about metropolitan areas is the shopping. My sister took us to a HUGE out door mall called "Towne Square." They had a really neat park in the center. I didn't know it had water or we would have come a little more prepared but they had fun anyway and didn't mind getting their clothes a little wet.

Asher didn't really want to play in the water even thought it was 200 degrees outside. OK, more like 112, but still too hot to NOT want to get wet. His poor little face was turning so red (unfortunately one of the traits inherited from his mother). I finally just took him and ran him through the sprinklers to cool him off a little which he didn't like. But at least I knew he wouldn't have heat stroke anymore.

They had this cool maze for the kids to go through. It was a perfect height for kids (and OK maybe short people like me too). Parent could climb up on the outside play area and look right down into it so they wouldn't loose their kids in it.