Thanksgiving Vegas Style

A little over 3 months ago, my parents came to stay with us for 6 months. It's been a huge blessing to have them with us. They've been helping us with the girls and basically everything else. Busy as we are (Len is finishing one of his schools and is in the middle of another one, plus works full time, and I am teaching 4 classes this semester), we got to go on a few dates and do things that without help we wouldn't even try to do. This past Thanksgiving weekend, we took the girls and my parents to Las Vegas. Here are a few snapshots of what we did.

Waiting at the restaurant to be seated:



Our sleepy beauties:

At the new City Center:


K making friends with a monkey:




At the Wynn hotel:


At the Venitian Hotel:

And here the story goes like this: Len and I knew that my parents would enjoy a gondola ride at the hotel. My mom, however, gets very anxious about things, so we decided not to tell them about it until the last minute. Sure enough mom started paniking and wanted either Len or me to come with them. (My mom's problem is that she doesn't speak English and gets extremely nervous when anyone tries to talk to her.) We informed the guide not to say anything to my parents, but as luck wanted my parents got paired up with another older couple. We saw the panic in my mom's eyes, so Len and I rushed to tell the other couple that mom and dad speak no English. It turned out, they were from Romania and couldn't even understand us. Somehow that made my mom feel much better.
... to be continued.