A very full Las Vegas day.

 

We started our day at Shark Reef. Mandalay Bay.

It was great.  Warm.  Relaxing.  Facinating.  Could have settled in for the day if there were comfy spots and snacks.  

We covered a lot of the strip. Walked for hours.  

We had some fun in the Lunar New Year display at the Bellagio.

Lunch out at Giordanos.  On the must eat list for Las Vegas.  It was really good.  Leisurely.  We had time to kill before the water show at 3 in front of the Bellagio.

The stables are our view from our room.  So that's fun.

Shots on the strip.

The Birthday girl.  It's Shannon's 50th.  We've had a great day celebrating in style.

Staying at Excaliber.  So fun.

The water show was so pretty with the sun shining through the water drops.

Yes.  This actually happened.

It doesn't hurt.

I love it.

Eric got the same.  When we hold hands they touch.  So sappy.  

I've always wanted a tattoo.

No regrets ;)

Jose is a Jeeper!  So that was fun.  We showed each other our Jeep pics and he loved the snow shots.

Shannon and Ken also did matching infinity tattoos.

1st tattoo for 3 of us!

Starlight Tattoo at Mandalay Bay.

The shop has an impressive list of awards and celebrities that have been there.

We ended the day with the Tournament of Kings.

So fun.

Dragon Knight.  Our bad guy.

Loud and totally silly but so fun rooting for the bad guy.

Haazaa!!

Tucked in early.

I'm chilled. Arg.

Grand Canyon tomorrow.

Las Vegas!

 

The photos loaded out of order.

We're headed to bed.

The Luxor is next door and attached with an upper walkway.

Dinner at Dick's, where the staff are rude, it's an interactive dinner show.  Literally the most unCanadian thing ever!  Good for some laughs.

Look at the peeps behind us in the hats.  

We're at Excaliber.  I love the castle theme.  Our room is nice but not much theme in them anymore.

We rented a car and stopped at Walmart on route.  Snacks for me and drinks for these guys.  They had fun looking at the HUGE variety.

I napped on the plane, Shannon made a duck.  Eric looked out the window a lot and kept his eye on all the doings. For someone who hates flying he did pretty good.  One comment about how horrible our seat was, over the engine, more dangerous apparently.  I shushed him.

Eric and I took a selfie, then he ran to Ken to pretend they were taking one together.  I do wish he had taken one for real though.

At the Victoria airport.

The day has been easy and totally smooth.  We did notice enhanced security.  All good.  

Exhausted.

Night.

Today's Adventure

 

Today's lunch spot.

It is not lost on us how incredibly lucky we are to be having this experience.

Hand warmers in my chest pockets.  Life changing.  

The snow was a bit deeper up there.

Main fsr road Hill 60.

The fire was my idea but he packed it and brought it and set it up and cooled it down and repacked it.  Time well spent.  It was so nice and honestly shocking how much heat it throws out.

Pure luxory.

The main road was plowed.  

In the happy seat.

He actually thanked Oscar at one point.  He also apologized to him after a hard hit in a creek.  It's hard to see obstacles and dips when everything is covered in snow.

I think I prefer safety in numbers.  There was lots of gasping and clutching of grab bars today ;)  

Eric and I are packed.  Our Donny tickets were released last night and downloaded to my phone wallet.  Today we checked into our hotel, took the room upgrade offered and booked parking.  Shannon and Ken also checked in and booked the car.  We all checked into our flight and I didn't choose seats but Eric and I are together anyways and two rows away from S & K.  So that all worked out beautifully.

We came home today and had a hot tub soak.  Now I'm on the couch with the babies.  I miss them already.

Lili got proof of which a-hole is pestering my wee Jerry.  

Kai showing off his latest school project.

In other news, Lili has found a place in Nanaimo, she is moving out on the 15th and  today Jia was promoted to crew trainer at work.  Big things.  Life continues to change and challenge.  

59

 

Snow day.

Which put a huge damper on the bday plans.  I hoped to salvage the day by getting to take Onyx out to play in her first snow.

Eric dug her out.

We were sneaking out for lunch and a drive when Fei and friend came home so they joined us.

We went to A & W so I could have a rootbeer milkshake and mozza burger. Their machine was down. The guy working suggested rootbeer mixed with chocolate milk.  Literally my two fave beverages but it sounds absolutely disgusting together.  It was on the house so I tried it.  It was quite nice.  It tastes like butterbeer.  

We picked up a couple ingredients for dinner.  Eric made me stuffed manicotti and peanut butter/jam chocolate cake.  Not the diet version.  I'm super full today ;) and grateful for his hours in the kitchen to feed us.

We didn't find enough snow to challenge Onyx.  Zero sliding and she walked over the snow we did find easily.  So she did great but I didn't get a feel for what she can actually handle.

She sure was pretty though.

Full disclosure.  I picked out my own gifts.  A laminator.  No projects in mind, just have always wanted one.  Jeep parts for Onyx.  Replacing netting on the doors with metal.  A 4 racket pickleball set.  Just for fun.  And Lili got me a dvd of The Wild Robot.  Family movie night coming up.  

How the heck am I 59?  I'm way too immature to be 59.  That sounds so old.

Oh Walter

 

This was posted on a neighborhood Facebook group.  Someone wondering if this cat belongs to anyone.  Apparently he has found another house to get attention at.  Looks like Walter to me.  Lili and Eric says no.  Thoughts?

I let the people know if it's him he was just groomed and has a shaved belly.  I told them he's 9, much loved and definitely fed ;)  They really like him.

Snow days.

Schools weren't closed this morning but then they called around noon for us to go get the boys.  That's never happened before.

Looking like another snow day tomorrow.  No alarm waking us up on my Birthday.

LNY Event

 

It was an outing.

The weather cooperated.

We all went in Cherry.

Lili and I were the only two interested in the show.  Our table wasn't where it was shown on the map when I purchased tickets so we were awkwardly in the middle.  Snacks weren't delivered to our table but every table around us got snacks.  Complaining and asking didn't get us snacks.  A neighboring table got extra so shared.  Dinner was an hour late and we were the last table called.  It felt personal.  Haha.  The food was awful.  None of us are too interested in going next year.  Except for the lions, which were so fun.  They kissed.  First time I've seen that.  

The shirts got tons of compliments ;)