First Family Vacation

This post is kind of long, sorry for the travel log.

We took our first family vacation. We decided not to make it too elaborate and just figure how and if we can travel with 2 little girls. Getting ready for the trip was exhausting. I started making a list of all the things we would need for 5 days…the list started with 70 diapers and went from there. I already felt tired after writing just that on my list. We needed 2 pack n plays, our stroller, formula, diapers, baby food, spoons, bowls, bibs, blankets, burp cloths, etc. that didn’t include the clothes we packed for them or our stuff. But we did it, we got it all packed and better yet we fit it all into my car.

So Saturday morning we got up, got ready, and just as they were ready for their first nap, we got in the car and left. We made it to Filmore where we stopped and fed them, let them stretch and play. We even let them have their first swing ride. You can’t tell by their faces in these pictures but they loved it. The girls were both such good travelers the entire trip and slept a lot or were happy to play with their links and firefly stuffed animals.

When we got to St George we were lucky they let us check in a little early because the girls were in need of another nap. After a short nap we decided to take them swimming. I was so excited to try out their new bathing suits that I had purchased for $.47 each…yep, you read that right, 2 bathing suits for under a dollar. I scored a deal that day! As you can see, the girls were pretty excited as well.  They liked the pool but it was kind of windy so unless they were mostly in the water they were cold and didn’t last a long time.

The 2 problems with St. George were that it was windy and cool both days we were there and that our hotel room had really thin walls. Even though Siena and Aria are pretty well behaved they do have their moments and in the early morning when either of them would cry out, I would fly out of bed to quiet them as to not wake our neighbors. We didn’t make any neighbors mad, but the girls were more than happy to have their binkies at their beckon call.

Monday morning we woke up and after their first nap we headed down to Las Vegas. We had gotten this groupon for a 2 story loft down there close but off the strip. It sounded pretty good. When we checked in the lady said they had 3 pools, our room was over looking pool #2 but that pool #3 was heated so we’ll want to go down there. I remember thinking the way she worded it was kind of strange and why couldn’t they heat all 3 of their pools. Either way, when we got to our room, this was our view…not only was it not heated…there was no water and there was a lovely jackhammer serenading us one afternoon. The good part about our room was it was big and 2 stories so it gave us a little more room to move around and wasn’t near anyone else for the girls to disturb.

We had a great time though, we walked through some hotels, saw the Bellagio water show (my fav.), went shopping at the outlets and met up with some family that was in town as well for dinner. The girls did so good being out and about and a little off their schedule. Never complaining once and would happily just sit in their stroller and take it all in.

I cannot even begin to tell you all the comments and people stopping us asking about the girls. We got it everywhere we went. It was pretty comical. Shane wanted to set up a video camera on the stroller so we could capture what everyone was saying, those smiling, whispering ‘look at the twins,’ etc. We do have cute girls but it got to be pretty funny how many people commented about it everywhere we went.

On the last night we were there we went to the Aria hotel and had to take some pictures of Aria there. I think they turned out so cute. Don’t worry, there is a Siena hotel in Reno, NV we’ll go to one day and do the same thing.

We had a really fun time although it wasn’t super relaxing. To sum it up, on the way home Shane said ‘Well that was…an experience.’ We learned a lot about travelling with little girls. I think they had a good time too but they were so happy to be back home. When we got home we put them in their jumper and exersaucer why we unpacked and as we would walk by, they would look up at us and then right back down to their toys. They stayed that way for almost 45 mins without a peep from them.

We can’t wait for our next trip in a couple weeks with my family. We’ll have more family to entertain them and hopefully we can relax a little as well. Or as Jennifer offered ‘Next time leave them with me and you and Shane go by yourself.’ We might just take you up on that sometime Jennifer.