Daddyday - Oct. 26

Yesterday was another daddyday. We woke up early and decided we would take the kids to the conservatory at the Bellagio. However, before we made it downtown we made a detour to IHOP to sample the Pumpkin Pancakes. Sorry, I didn't get a picture of the pancakes because what kind of weirdo brings a SLR into IHOP?

We had a great time (both at IHOP and the garden). I highly recommend the display to anyone living here and if your looking for cheap food that is kid friendly, I recommend IHOP (not really).

There are a couple things I like about this picture. 1. The kids' faces. They were in complete amazement. 2. Do you see how Steve is holding my purse in the background. He's such a swell guy. He carried my bright-red, heavy purse around all morning so I could play with my camera.

I am sure my face looked like theirs when I saw the tree below.
This tree /fountain was amazing. They had 3 of them. They were made out of copper or bronze (I'm guessing) and had thousands of holes for the water to drip out. I have never heard ANYTHING replicate the sound of rain like these did. If I had money to spare I would buy one of these and place it in my living room.

Nothing like a nice, wet kiss from a 4-year-old!

Finally, there was this terrifying, horrific talking monster tree. I was so excited to show it to the kids and BOTH of them started crying when they saw it - before it even started talking! They definitely have the scardy cat genes that have been passed down from me! It was kind of cool, but now that I think about it kind of freaked me out, too.