Holiday Fun Continues

We went to the Bass Pro Shop/Silverton Hotel twice. The first time the mermaid wasn't swimming in her big tank, so we had to go back to see her.

At the Bass Pro Shop we practiced our shooting skills.

The store was huge and had tons and tons of animals. It's quite entertaining walking through the store and looking here, there, and everywhere at all the displays.

I bought all the grandkids suckers as we were leaving the first time. They wanted to sit down on the fish bench outside and have a taste of their new treat.

The girls had a turn sitting in Santa's sleigh.

I think Thomas, Natalie, Cali, and Ashton need to RUN!!!!

On the second trip to the Silverton Hotel, the kids were finally able to see "the mermaid."

It appears the mermaid even likes to pose for a pic now and then.

Natalie told us about King Putt which was an indoor glow-in-the-dark miniature golfing facility. We had lots of fun even though I LOST!

All the walls and decorations were so cute. It was lots of fun just to look at the pictures while I waited my turn.

It looks like we picked a good indoor activity on a cool wintry day for Vegas.

The grandkids have had a lot fun playing together this past week including posing for all of my requests to stop their activity and "smile" at Grandma GG's camera.

After we got home from golfing, we had some "girl time" while Steve and Chad went to a movie called "True Grit." We painted, colored, applied tattoos, and made lollipops.

Our lollipop molds were Santa Claus, a bear, and an angel. The angel was the hardest to make. It kept breaking when we tried to get it out of the mold. Oh well, the other ones turned out.

While we were waiting for our dinner to finish cooking, we opened a box from Julie, Sheldon, and Jace. They are in Honolulu until mid February. They had a chance to go shopping at the same swap meet that Steve and I have been to many times. Julie mailed home a box with gifts for all of us from their shopping spree at the swap meet. It contained a bracelet for all the girls, earrings, hair clips, key chains, and chocolate macademia nuts. We were all happy to receive the gifts and everyone said more than once that we wished Julie and her family were with us celebrating the holidays. Even though we know they are having a fabulous time in Hawaii, we can't wait for their return.