collins family vegas style...

We spent a good part of last week in Las Vegas with John's family. They all flew in to celebrate Keith's graduation from his pharmacy program. We stayed 2 nights at the Castle (Excalibur). Most of the time we spent there, we spent at the pool. It was very nice and relaxing to hang out by the pool. Zane had such a great time playing with his cousins and they were all so nice to play with him and watch him. Lily enjoyed meeting some cousins for the first time, and everyone loved playing with her. One night John and I went to a show. We saw Cirque Du Soleil's KA. It was really amazing and well worth it. We only had one major problem the whole trip, which is quite good considering! We wanted to get pictures taken with the whole family (we haven't all been together for almost 2 years). We had some issues with the photographer and scheduling at first. It had been a long day of walking and heat, etc. - so a tantrum was only inevitable. Then when the time came for the pictures, Zane absolutely did NOT want his picture taken. Oh so frustrating! Noone could get him to do it for quite awhile, until all his cousins got together in a picture, and he decided it was ok. By this time I was quite frazzled, and totally bawling in all the pictures. Lovely, huh?! Oh well, I guess in awhile it will be a funny story - but right now it's still touchy. Other than leaving on that note, the trip was great fun! We were so glad we got to spend time with everyone, and hope we can all get together again soon. Love you all! (sorry, didn't get a whole lot of pictures - apparently they are mostly of Zane)