Lake Las Vegas

We LOVE going to Lake Las Vegas because it is a nice place without any casinos, smoke, or bad places.  It is just a resort like you would find at Lake Tahoe and it is so far out of town in Henderson, that you don't see the Strip or the bright lights.  It is so fun to go to and you can usually find a good deal.

We have been there a few times and decided to go for our anniversary trip.  The kids were fine being on their own and Ethan did a great job shuttling Courtney all over for her activities.  We left them money and they got pizza, Jimmy Johns, Swigs, and who knows what else. ;)

We left our house in the afternoon and made it to the Las Vegas Temple for a session.  I had forgotten how dark it gets so early in Vegas, and it was cold and windy.  The session was really small.  But the celestial room in the Las Vegas Temple is the most beautiful room I have ever seen.

After the session, we drove around to look at our old neighborhood and house.  It looked really sad.  The house wasn't the same and the grass had all been pulled up or died.  There were cars parked on the lawn area.  It was just sad.  It always makes me feel bad for the house.  I really liked that house and wouldn't have moved it to St. George if it were possible.  Oh well, we gave it a couple good years.

Then we went to the Westin at Lake Las Vegas to check in.  They had made some changes but it was still the same nice place.  Our room was on the 8th floor facing the lake.  Beautiful!

We were hungry so we drove to the Mall on Sunset for dinner then back to our room.  We were going to go to the hot tub but it was windy and cold.

Saturday morning was beautiful.  We went to breakfast at the hotel then went on a walk around.

This is the pool Courtney spent all her time at when we were here the previous 2 times.

As part of our resort fee, we had a free bike rental.  But it was only 1 bike per room. ;)  So we rented the other for $10.  It was cold but we warmed up once we started riding. 

We rode around a residential area and then turned around and went the other way.  We went around part of the Lake and ended up near the other hotel/resort area.  It was beautiful and so fun because there weren't a lot of people around.  The weather was gorgeous.

We went back to the room, got ready, and went shopping.  We both Christmas gifts and just looked around.  Then we went to the movie "First Man" which was really good.  I hated that all the mall stores were playing Christmas music because it isn't even Thanksgiving yet!

Because we had so much for breakfast, we decided to go to a late dinner.  We ended up at Cheesecake Factory.  The wait wasn't too bad for a Saturday night and we sat on the patio under the heat lamps.  It was good food and we had a good time.

We slept in Sunday, got ready, ate our leftovers, and then went home.  We got home right before the kids got home from Church.  It was a great little vacation to celebrate our anniversary.