Our Vegas trip turned out to be a lot of fun! Nick's mom was kind enough to watch Harvey for us last Monday and Tuesday. Monday we drove down to Vegas. First, we went to the Atomic Testing Museum, which was really cool. The Area 51 exhibit had some cool stuff. There were a few "what if" sections that had testimonials from people who used to work in certain sections and swore they were working on an alien craft, but the rest of the other people said it is basically a military weapons/aircraft test facility. It started up during the cold war when the U.S. was trying to keep up with Russia. They thought Russia had all this technology so they were trying to build it. Then they'd steal Russia's more advanced technology and reverse engineer it. There were a few cool things we read about and saw in that. One was a plane that basically has this camouflage exterior that changes to it's surroundings and scatters radio waves to go undetected on radars. Kind of neat! The other thing we watched a video of was this plane that went so fast you could SEE it breaking the sound barrier. That was pretty cool. It looked like a ripple effect, only in the sky!
After the museum we checked in at our hotel, the Stratosphere. Neither of us had ever been to Vegas before so the Casino atmosphere was pretty funny to us with all the lights flashing, videos playing, card games going, SO much going on in all different directions on the main floor. And how many different kinds of slot machine themes do people need?? Seriously! Wheel of Fortune 1, 2 AND 3, Bay Watch, Beach Boys, Michael Jackson, etc etc etc. JUST in slot machines!? We were there on a Monday and Tuesday and it was still pretty packed. Aside from that, we had a few things we wanted to do but nothing else set in stone. We ended up eating at the buffet, walking towards Fremont street, giving up 3/4 of the way there and stopping in the pawn shop from the show Pawn Stars instead, and riding the "Big Shot" ride at the top of the Stratosphere. It was a lot of fun even though we didn't have time to do everything that we thought would be fun. Maybe we'll go back again some day and we'll have some more stuff to do on our list already.
Meanwhile, Harvey did pretty good for his first night away from us. Grammy Potts took great care of him even though the second day he was being a little stink and decided he had had enough of taking milk from a bottle so she had to squeeze the bottle into his mouth to get him to eat the milk. He was fussy for a day or two after that but now he's back to his happy, bubbly self. Goofing around, trying to crawl, stand, sit up and grab everything in sight. I can't believe he had his half birthday already too! His first birthday seems like it's just going to sneak up so quickly since the past 6 months went by so fast!
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