I'm BAAAACKKKK!!!

Hi everyone!!! We made it home late last night, safe and sound, with all 4 bags in tact!! Wheeee!!!! We had a great time, lots of fun and things to see - 4 days is NOT enough!!! Here are a few pics for your viewing enjoyment!!! OH HEY - I bought a Xyron machine...not sure how I lived without it!!! WAYYY cheaper in the USA!!! That was all the crafty shopping I did - we spent more time looking for shoes for Tim (he bought 4 pairs; I bought 5!!) LOLHere is me at the airport waiting for our ride!!

This is Tim & I at his sister's wedding - the reason we went to VEGAS!!!

The waterslide that goes THROUGH the shark tank at The Golden Nugget. It was sooo cool!!!

Me losing all my money - damn blinky lights and bleeping - soooo addicting!!! Actually, we didn't spend too much time or money gambling - too much to see, too much shopping to be done!!!

The HUGE light show on Fremont Ave. This one was about the alien arrival - it was SOOOO freakin' cool!!!! This screen was above the street - probably about 6 or 7 blocks long. SO neat!!

Here we are on Fremont Ave. hanging out with all the kooky people down there!! I guess that's what you get when you can legally drink on the streets 24-7!!!

The desert - this was on our way out to Primm to hit the outlet mall! Such cool landscape, sooo different from Canada. It was barren desert, then these "hills" the locals call mountains - I had to laugh! FAR cry from the Rocky Mountains!! BUT it was sooo gorgeous!!

Tim in HEAVEN!!!! This store was HUGE!!!! Tim is a BIG fisherman, so needless to say, when he saw this store, we HAD to stop! It was really neat inside - fish tanks, duck pond, waterfalls, shooting range, and TONS of stuff to buy!

This is me in front of the OCC (Orange County Choppers) bike that they made for The Bass Pro Shop. It's hard to see all the details but this bike was amazing. If anyone has ever watched the show you will know what I mean! AMAZING craftsmanship!!!

Here I am in front of MESA GRILL - one of Bobby Flay's restaurants in Vegas! We went for Brunch on Sunday - it was SO good!!!!

Here is the whole fam at Mesa Grill! (minus the bride and groom of course!)

Me and David "hangin out" at Caesar's Palace! (pun intended!)

Guess who was playing at the Flamingo????

Paris at night!

FAO Schwartz toy store...OMG!!! That is all I can say!!! OMG!!!!

No "one-legged" men!





Tim and I at Hoover Dam.



Hoover Dam again!

FUN weekend!!!

Tim and I went camping this weekend & had a blast! We left Thurs. after he was done work, and came home yesterday afternoon. He came back into Calgary to work on Friday, so I hung out at the campground with Brick, went to the river and worked on my scrapbook! It was so nice!!! We went to a place along the Elbow River called Paddy's Flat. Apparently there was a small black bear hanging around the area, but we didn't see him at all. It was a little freaky sitting there alone for awhile, hearing sticks crack in the bush behind me! I made Brick wear his Bear Bell so that probably helped!!! (at least I like to think it helped!!) The Conservation officers were ticketing campers for leaving their coolers out when they weren't around...the fine was $172...what a strange number eh?? I laughed when I heard that! I made VERY sure we left nothing around for the bear, not even the dog food!!! Here are a few pics for your viewing enjoyment:
This is me enjoying my birthday cake. Tim bought me the silver earrings and gave me some American cash for our trip to Vegas in Oct.
Can you find the dog??
The "ritual" shot - Brick in his lawn chair. He was SOME pooped! He swam in a pond for quite awhile in the morning, then later in the afternoon, some kids were throwing the stick for him in the river - his 3 favourite things: kids, sticks, and water!
Brick in the river. The canyon was gorgeous!



This picture is of Elbow Falls. It was a beautiful walk to it. It is a pretty popular site for picnickers but we were there early enough & were the only ones there!
Here he is swimming in the pond. And the last one.....us standing in front of Elbow Falls.

Have a great day everyone!!!

A few pics from my trip!

Here are a few pics of my trip to BC. We were on Shuswap Lake. So much fun!! My sister and her husband have built a "cottage" out there, and spend most of their summer on the lake! Here is their cottage - not a bad little shack eh? They are so lucky!!!
This was our first "pit" stop in Golden, BC. This is me, my nephew, my sister Cary and their dog Sunny.
Here's me in the boat!
This is Margaret Falls, it was a little hike to it, but it was so gorgeous!!!
This is my sister Cindy and her son, trying to get to the cave in the middle of Margaret Falls....crazy! That was as far as they made it!! LOL This is my niece feeding a llama at a farm. They had little bags of feed for the animals.
Bear cub paw print on their garbage bin. We never saw a bear but apparently there were 2 Moms and they each had 3 cubs...glad we never ran into them!!!
This is me swimming from the boat to this really cool waterfall. We walked around it for a bit, exploring, but the water was COLD!!!! Brrrrrr Here is the waterfall we swam to. Neat eh? There were so many cool places to explore along the lakes - it was fun!!! We went to a Corn Maze in Salmon Arm, BC. It was incredible - 10 acres of corn, with a maze cut through it. It was pretty neat but the mosquitoes were terrible!!!

Hope you enjoyed the photos!!! :) Thanks for visiting!!!