Family Fun

About a month ago, Brady read online that Who Wants to Be a Millionaire would be auditioning in Vegas on the 29th. Since he loves trivia and it's always been his dream to be on a game show, he switched his day off with a co-worker and yesterday morning we headed into Vegas for the auditions. Emerson and I had planned on just roaming around while we waited for him to take the test but all the workers there with the show kept giving me stuff to test with and told me to take it anyway. I tried to use Emerson as an excuse, but they wouldn't have it. They were all playing with him and having fun so we got ushered into the ballroom along with everyone else. The test itself was only 10 minutes long and you had to answer 30 Multiple Choice questions. It wouldn't have been so bad except this crazy old lady in front of us kept turning around and glaring at us and then during the test she'd whirl around yell at Emerson "SHHH!" "Go to the back of the room!" Which would have been understandable if he had been talking, or crying, or singing, or banging on the table, or making noise...but he wasn't!!! He was being amazingly quiet and well behaved. The test proctors were in the back of the room laughing and joking, half of the old farts taking the test were coughing and hacking like they were about to lose a lung, but my sweet baby boy hardly made a sound! At one point she turned around were her pencil held like she was going to stab us...I seriously thought she might so I asked a proctor if we should leave and she just laughed and said no, stay put. So I did...for about 2 more minutes but then the crazy lady started shaking and glaring again, so I marked random answers as fast as i could just to finish and headed to the back of the room. lol

After the test, I apologized profusely to the lady next to me and she said "Seriously? He's the best baby ever. My kids would never sit that still. That lady's crazy." Everyone else thought so too cus they were all talking about the crazy lady yelling at the cute baby. :)

Long story short, we didn't pass but it was definitely an unforgettable experience. I didn't get any pictures of this part of the day, but we both got free Millionaire t-shirts, pencils, and magnets.

Afterward, we grabbed some breakfast and decided to head over to the Bellagio to check out the botanical gardens since we were so close.

There were dozens of hand-blown glass hot air balloons floating above us

the Aviary House

He was fascinated by the birdies

walking under the water tunnel with daddy

They had this cute little carousel on display that Emerson really liked so we decided to take him to the Mall just down the rode to ride a real carousel!

He was kind of unsure at first, but once it got going he loved it.

After the carousel we headed over to the Lied Children's Discovery Museum.

There was so much to look at and do, Emerson didn't know where to start.

He really loves tents...it took forever to get him to leave this and look at something else.

growing so fast! 32" tall!

You can't see it real well but he's inside a giant bubble :)

planting trees with daddy

roasting marshmallows with mommy

every few hours they do special activities for the kids. This was a science show where they made ice cream :)

This may have been Emerson's favorite part of the day...little guy has such a sweet tooth.

making music

We got in the car to drive home...it was raining and 119 degrees outside. I'm starting to miss Idaho lol.

We had so much fun today. Best part was that our sweet little guy was so worn out he took a good long nap when we got home, which meant we got a good nap too :)