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Christmas in Vegas 2011

By jason, January 2, 2012 on 1:52 am | In family, travel | No Comments

Back from another Christmas in Vegas. The last time we made this drive, the kids were two years younger with the twins still breast feeding and Alissa barely potty trained. As such, the drive to and fro were both monumental efforts testing our patience as well as our Honda’s payload capacity. This time, we were able to shave a couple hours off the drive both ways and managed to only lose a few months of life as a result vs. the years we surely said bye-bye to last time.

Once again, we treated this as a family reunion of sorts and were happy that The Paches made the trip (capitalized since Christian is so tall) as well as the Nas. Grandma was there as well as Uncle Chung who has since actually moved to a house just around the corner from my parents. As always, the other Wangs (my parents and Mike and Jen) were there to serve as our local guides.)

Anyway, without further ado, here’s the photo log of our trip:

Over the course of the week, we spent a fair amount of time at a couple parks close to my parents’ house:
Amanda looking up after a successful slide:

Chloe looking ever more the teenager:

Aidan seeing the sights:

Alissa and Chloe through the looking rock:

Ashley and Amanda flying a plane:

Car models:

Fearless Amanda:

Despite this whoopsie:

Alissa’s first time doing monkey bars:

We also went to the strip…

…to visit the holiday display at the Bellagio…

…as well as visit the M&M store.

The one grown-up night out we did was with Christian, Anna, and Jen to dinner at Nobu. Here are a few of the dishes we had:

It was very yummy but perhaps not blow your mind yummy. Especially considering the price.

Otherwise, we spent a lot of time hanging out at home and enjoying the great chilly but sunny weather:
A little tennis video I made just for fun:

Some Wii games:

Amanda getting her finger prints all over my iPad:

Ashley enjoying a seaweed snack:

Jelly faces:

Of course, we also exchanged some gifts, mostly for the kids. However, Leslie also had the great idea to have a photo quilt made for our grandma who has been dealing with Alzheimer’s. The quilt allowed for 60 images and turned out great. Here she is opening the quilt:

All in all, a great trip. Here’s to 2013?!