Wutzke Wanderings: October 2013

It's the much anticipated (by me) conclusion to the summer.

We had ad such a great summer, after all the hard work with the flood clean up.

We headed to the good 'ole Magrath Days celebrations. Naomi had such a fun time sleepoing the tent in Nana and Papa's backyard. i think she felt special that we were the only ones who got to sleep out there.

We all enjoyed the parade. the parade route was changed this year and we found ourselves at the beginning for the parade. What a difference in the candy haul! Nana and Papa don't need to buy Halloween candy to hand out this year.

I can't believe that everyone in this photo is looking at the camera... but of course someone had to have their eyes closed... thanks Daniel.

Sylas enjoying the fun.

He really got into the candy part. At one point as were busy watching the parade, we realized that he had wandered a little bit down the road in pursuit of candy. We kept a better eye on him after that.

Kimber helping out Sylas

Auntie Chelsea celebrated 10 years of being out of High School. So she got to be in the parade and she threw lots of candy our way!

After the parade, we headed back to Nana and Papa's house for some yummy food and fun.

We set up a big slip-n-slide for the kids. I got to be the photographer and got some great photos of the kids. If anyone is wanting all the photos from it, just email me and I will email them to you. I had to be a little choosy with the ones that I posted as someone had a hole in their "bathing suit" and i couldn't post those. So Graham and Jacqui, if you want those one's just let me know.

Uncle Graham was a good sport and got into his suit and helped the kids utilized the slip-n-slide. I pushed and pulled and shot those kids all the way down. There was a lot of laughter. Uncle Don was good sport and provided the much need water. I enjoyed spraying the kids too. Here are few action shots.

Later were the fireworks. We had put our kids to bed at normal time, and woke them up for the fireworks. It seems to work well for our kids. We handed out glow sticks to everyone, and watched a great show. Magrath really does put a pretty good show for such a small town. Oh Naomi and Sylas just layed there and watch so closely.

I think everyone had a good time.

After Magrath Days, Aric and I headed out on a much needed, child free, couples vacation. We headed south of the border to Vegas. Oh my goodness we had some fun. We got a super deal for the Luxor Hotel, the Sphinx one. What an interesting hotel! All the rooms are on the outside of the hotel, and then all the shops and theatres are on the inside of the hotel.

The view down from our room into the rest of the hotel. We were on the 16th floor. I don't think I could have handled any higher.

The first night we got the half price tickets to see Cirque Du Soleil Zarkana show. It was amazing! I couldn't really tell you what it was about, my guess... the side show of a Circus. But the stunts and acrobatics were amazing.

Before the show there were these weird clowny things interacting with the audience.

Hands down, my favorite show that we saw was The Blue Man Group . I would see them again in a heart beat!!! Absolutely amazing show for three guys who don't say a word.

Before their show that this robot woman walking around interacting with us.

She came and cleaned my camera lens for me as I took a photo of her

Then out of nowhere a giant helium eye ball propelled my a motor came and investigated the crowd. It was interesting to watch. We sure felt "watched".

Then out of nowhere a mother eye came looking for her child. It was really weird... but really cool at the same time.

The Blue Men came sooooo close to asking Aric to come up on stage. The Blue Man studied him quite a while then chose the man down the row. We believe that is was due to his shoes. He was wearing sandels, and man they chose was wearing black shoes. That way they could switch out the guy back stage for a pre-recorded video of someone else.

What a fantastic show. If they come to Calgary again. We are so going to the show.

I don't think I have jad as much excercise as I did walking up and down the strip. I had some very comfy shoes... but man the feet still hurt so bad.

The water show at the Belagio

Volcano show at the Mirage

Caesars Palace I believe

The paint job on the ceiling in the Venetian was amazing. I really almost felt like we were outside.

Nope... still inside

And of course we had to take a picture of the Chapel in our hotel.

Oh my goodness, we had so much fun. That is a trip we would like to do again in a few years. What a blast. IT was really nice to be able to pretend for a few days that we didn't have kids. It was nice not to have to worry about a babysitter. We could stay out as long as we wanted.

We sure missed the kids though. They gave us really big hugs when we arrived back at Nana and Papa's house. For days after Naomi kept telling us that she missed us and how she loved us.

The next big event of our summer was a camping trip with my side of the family. We all packed up our cars and drove to Kamloops B.C.. We camped at Paul Lake Provincial Park. The kids enjoyed playing at the lake on Saturday afternoon. Naomi loves digging the sand and making sand castles