Romantic Weekend in Las Vegas

                                                                   Our hotel!
                 Early morning walk at 7am (due to the three hour time change!)
                     View outside our hotel window.......loved seeing the mountains!
Floor to ceiling windows in the family room and bedroom.....Craig was pretending he was King of the World :)
Our last night we got 1/2 priced tickets on the strip and went to a Cirque D'Sole....it was their martial arts one called KA!  It's incredible what people can do with their bodies!!
         We were spoiled with a big-screen TV in our living room
Beautiful bedroom (we had to settle for two  queens since we purchased on Price line and they were short on King rooms)

       The bathroom was nearly the size of our bedroom at home!
I (Jeanne) enjoyed a bath daily.....reading, relaxing, and watching our small flat-screen TV in the bathroom

Shark Reef:  Everyone carried a talking wand that explained all the exhibits....very handy!
                            The sharks were amazing to watch
We walked through a glass tunnel with the sharks swimming above us---yikes!

The had a petting tank with small sharks, crabs, and stingray....we both we brave enough to greet the stingray face-to-face
            One of the 7 pools...this is the wave pool (which we really enjoyed!)

                    The Lazy River was a definite highlight!  
              Exquisite Fall Sights inside the Bellagio (we enjoyed our first breakfast buffet here!)
            It even had moving trees like in the Wizard of Oz!
               The ceiling in the lobby of the Bellagio
        Ceasar's Palace was a world of its own!  Out of nowhere this thrilling show popped up....Fire and Ice fighting over their father's throne (Greek god).
           Paris Hotel.......the Eiffel Tower (as close as we've ever seen it!)
         Bellagio with the musical fountain show (spectacular....every hour!)
            Luxor Hotel (next to ours) Egyptian theme
           New York, New York just over the bridge (city and the statue are approx. 1/5 the size of the original)
                             Replica of Lady Liberty.....amazing!
              The Brooklyn Bridge just outside New York, New York

Craig and I went away alone for the first time since Katelyn was born!!  We had free airline tickets and hit the jackpot with Price line (TOTALLY AMAZING 5-star hotel).  It was an enjoyable long weekend.....warm enough to enjoy the 7-pool resort on Friday with temps in the high 70's.  Although there was tons to do our theme was RELAX, RELAX, RELAX.  

Pumpkin Patch Fun!!

Smith-family photo op at the Pumpkin Patch (thanks to Brenda and Melissa we have any pics from this day....our batteries died on arrival!!!!)
Katelyn just LOVED meeting the animals face-to-face (instead of just reading about them in her books!)
               Mommy kissed the horse on a dare :)
            Hay-ride out past the maize and into the pumpkin patch.
      Raegan, Emma, Sydney and Katelyn.....Say "Cheese!"
Katelyn on her very first ride....mommy chased them all around afraid for her life! :)
         Sydney's being a friend checking on little KJ 
Toward the end, it got a little too bumpy.  Mommy and Mrs. Brenda has to wave the driver down so Mommy could save Katelyn....it was a little traumatic at the end!

A couple weeks ago Katelyn enjoyed her first Pumpkin Patch experience.  We had a wonderful time with some of our "small group friends" :).