Dad and Tan's Road Trip To Vegas

My brother, Tyler, and I try to do a boys' road trip to a BYU game every year. We were going to try to make it down to San Diego, but decided to go to Las Vegas instead for the BYU-UNLV game. I brought Tanner and Tyler brought his two boys Noah and Xander. I'm hoping that Zach will be ready to go next year.

We went down early Friday morning and arrived at about 1 pm local time and made a visit to In and Out burger. I guess I don't understand the obsession. There are lots of places with better tasting burgers. Must be a taste you have to grow up with.

Next, we went to the Shark Reef aquarium at Mandalay Bay. It's a great collection of different kinds of sea and water life including a golden crocodile from Thailand, some piranhas from the Amazon and, of course, lots and lots of sharks. The really neat thing is that you can view the sharks from below in a simulated sunken ship. Tanner really enjoyed it and we spent 2 hours there.

After, we journeyed to the Texas Station hotel in North LV. We chose it because of the various kids activities there: arcade, bowling and a theater. Of course, there was a swimming pool which the kids hit on Friday and Saturday.

Tanner got a little sick on Saturday morning so we spent most of the day at the hotel bowling and swimming. He wouldn't let a little sickness keep him out of the action.

Finally, we went to the game. We met up with my sister Heidi and her husband Tyson and my brother-in-law Ryan (at the game with his Dad and Brother.) (Check out the pic.) We ended up being in the nose-bleed section 313. I wouldn't choose those seats again, but the kids had a decent time. The Cougs won, so all was good. It would be really nice if they could avoid having so many turnovers. Drives me crazy! I guess that's what you get with a sophomore QB.

After the game, Tanner and his two cousins got to slap hands with the players as they came off the field. We then jumped down onto the field and Tanner took off like a shot towards Cosmo. You can see the picture we snapped with him here.Anyway, Tanner cried when he got home because he wanted to go back to Vegas, so I guess he enjoyed the trip. He really cherishes those trips with the boys. They really build some great memories.