Vegas Part 2

Apparently when I did the post for part 1 of our trip I didn't include pictures of Tuesday afternoon. We went back to the strip after rest time to see the flamingos at the Flamingo.

Madie wasn't too interested in them. Instead she spent her time there chasing ducks.

This picture is especially for Zach's brother, Adam. Yep, we're sinners! (we actually didn't do any gambling, but since he called us sinners for going to Vegas we had to at least take a picture and pretend).

Then we walked around a bit and saw the lion outside the MGM.

The Statue of Liberty outside NYNY (which we looked up later and found that it is about half the size of the real one in New York).

Inside NYNY, a statue made out of jelly bellies. You could smell it as you walked by.

Now on to Wednesday!

We did a lot of walking on Wednesday. There are bridges at several of the intersections on the strip so that you don't have to cross the street. Well Madie thought they were great and wanted to stop and look at the cars and buses go by.

She also decided that she didn't need my help to do the escalators that take you from the bridge to the street and vice versa. This made me quite nervous, but she did really well.

We went to M&M world...kind of a bummer. Lori & Justin went there and said there is a little video you can watch about the making of M&Ms but it was closed for renovation while we were there. Oh, well.

Outside of M&M world, were two people dressed up as Woody & Buzz. It was random, but Madie likes Toy Story, so we got a picture.

Then we went to the MGM. Did you know they have a lion exhibit inside? There was a male and a female lion and we got there right as they were having there lunch. Madie thought it was great that the lions were eating out of the trainers hands.

And they have a glass cave type area where you can actually walk under the lions.

She was entranced the whole time we were there and kept asking to see the lions again.

Later we went to the Bellagio to see the garden they have there. It was really neat and Madie enjoyed it WAY more than I thought she would. They had all these giant bugs and some really neat flowers and some water features, one of which sprayed the water out of the ground up into the air.

This chocolate fountain is in the Guinness Book of World Records for how tall it is. 

We also got to see the fountains outside the Bellagio. They do a little show  to music and Madie loved that the water went "up high". She still talks about it!

And one of my favorite pictures from the whole trip!

We had a blast! I would love to go back with just Zach. Maybe someday.