Week 2 of Spring Break ~ Laughlin

After an exciting birthday bash for Owen and an awesome day at Disneyland we decided to leave for Laughlin a day early and head out Tuesday after swim practice.  I HAD to get my spray tan on (*FYI Mystic Tan is DA BOMB DIGGITY!…I LOVE IT!!) I decided to go for a “medium” tan this time around, which looked fantastic…except for my feet! haha I used the protective booties since last time I didn’t use them and my toe cuticles were brownish/orangish for WEEKS after. SO I “protected” my toes and look what happened? haha Next time I need to use that barrier cream a tad bit better! lol  Actually the FUNNY part about this is that if I would have known about the weather in Laughlin I would have NEVER needed to use the darn mystic. Anyway, We arrived Tuesday evening…and just hung out w/ the Manley Family.  The weather seemed nice, but little did we know that Laughlin was in for a whole lotta fiery, weather-wise, in the next few days.

  We learned on this trip that Owen LOVES “bideo games” and “arcades”…so the Daddies took Owen and Caroline down to play on the games. They are such cheap dates too…all the games were free, they don’t even know the money! It was so cute to see them so excited running from one game to the next “playing”.

So on Wednesday we heard the weather wasn’t going to be great, but we headed to the boat anyway. Of course, we got on the boat and it wouldn’t start. Hmmm…so we just let the kids play while we sat and waited for the batteries to charge (at the time we thought that it was just the batteries…haha we figured out later that its probably the starter…so the Souza Boat is out of commission for some time )  Again the kids enjoyed the day just playing on the boat watching the ducks and just hanging out!  Poor little Wyatt was restless b/c he just wanted to crawl everywhere and it was too dangerous.

 

So after a few hours of hanging on the boat…I noticed the sky wasn’t looking very nice…and thought it was a good time to pack up head back to the hotel.  THANK goodness we left when we did…b/c it started pouring rain minutes after we got to our cars!

<-------   Look at those angry skies!!!

 

 

 

 

It seemed we did a lot of playing in the room and eating on this trip! haha  Of course the kids are totally easy and didn’t mind that a bit!

On Thursday the Gerke family had arrived, we knew the boat was broken, and a HIGH WiND WARNING was in effect. So we headed to the Harrah’s beach before the winds picked up.  Ended up being a WONDERFUL day in the sun. Kids played in the sand, the “big kids” jumped in the freezing water and the Mommies sun bathed…it was perfect!  And let me add that Harrah’s beach was actually really nice.

Give the little kids some sand toys and they are entertained for hours. And of course the big kids…Yosh, Kris & Joel

 

It was cute the silly “adults” had Owen as a cheering section with the water entries…he was all about it THEM going in and him just pretending like he was going in! No cold water for my smart little child!

 

And of course another night at the arcade! Whoohoo

Sorry I know this post is getting long, but I must continue.  On Friday the Manley’s headed home because it rained. We stayed in Laughlin with the Gerke’s to try and enjoy some time away from home!  So we decided to give Owen a try at a movie in the theater. For those of you that don’t know my little man…he is VERY scared of loud noises, dark areas, etc.  He is sensitive to loudness (just like his Mama!), so I totally thought the movies wouldn’t work, but why not try, we had NOTHING else to do in Laughlin. So the only kiddie movie playing was “Rango”..the one about the lizard, Johnny Depp is his voice?!?!? Yeah I didn’t know much about it either…and it wasn’t the best movie, but the only cartoony one playing.  I prepped Owen how it would be dark and loud, but everything was going to be ok. We’d have Popcorn and “candy” (fruit snacks).  Well I’m very happy to say he did GREAT!!!!! We stayed about an hour…I was actually bored at that point too. Addi also did great.  I’m now soooo excited to bring him to a good movie…like   Cars 2 or something. He’ll so love it!! So it was a cute “first” for Owen…actually TWO firsts…first movie and first DATE!

        

The rest of spring break is a blur to me…we headed home Saturday morning…at which time I caught some type of stomach bug….I was very very ill…and not a happy camper to try and make a 4 hour drive home. But I did it and was then in a coma in bed for the rest of the weekend. And of course…Sunday night before we’re back to work..poor Owen caught the same stomach bug and was up for 6 hours puking! Was horrible. So needless to say, I called in sick today from work…so I’m back to the grind in the morning.  Hoping  Yosh isn’t the next victim of this horrible stomach bug!!!

Thank you spring break for being another “memory” and great story about one of the worst Laughlin trips ever to tell about!!! haha

FLASHBACK…heehee….

    

My goodness…this little man is growing up so fast….:: sniff sniff::