Vegas Vacation

No.....not with Clark Griswold and his family, but with my OWN family!!

I made my first visit to Las Vegas when I was in college, a long time ago. My husband and I took our first vacation there together the year after we married, returning annually each summer. Our last trip was about ten years ago when we took the younger two kids with us.

Due to a variety of reasons I won't go into here, our entire family has never taken a vacation anywhere together. A few years ago my husband made the promise that once our youngest was 21, he would take everyone to Las Vegas. The plotting and planning began in earnest several months ago. Work schedules had to be situated, flights booked, hotel reservations made, show tickets purchased, and most important-- a 21st birthday celebrated in June.

The seven of us left hot, humid south Arkansas last Tuesday morning and arrived in even hotter, but not as humid, Las Vegas mid-afternoon. The temperature while we were there ranged from 104 to 113! Humidity, though, never got above 29%. I know hot is hot, but I still say dry heat is easier to bear. Our humidity here rarely gets below 50% and is quite often 80 or 90% . Stifling!

Amazing how much has changed on the strip in the past 10 years! Hotels have been torn down and rebuilt, others gone forever. We've stayed several places in the past, some more than once, but tried a new one this trip: the Monte Carlo. It was centrally located for the things we wanted to do and turned out to be a good choice.

Overall it was a great trip and everyone had fun. I'll share more in the next few days.