It was another day of waking up earlier despite a late night for the boys.  We hung out in the bedroom to read (me) and play on Tablet (Logan) until all of us were up.  Then we headed out to say bye to the Tsaos and the Kaos who were getting ready for another ski day.  Since our plan was to hang out in the village, we could take our time in the house until the shops were opened.  At 10am, we drove over to park at Harrah’s and walked around the town.  Then we arrived at the ice skating rink.  The boys were curious looking at the skaters, but they both declined to try it.  As we were walking away, I talked more with Connor and he changed his mind.  At the same time, Stuart motivated Logan with the promise of some tokens, and to our surprise, Logan accepted the offer.  Since we had lots of belonging, Stuart was the one chosen to go in with the boys.  We decided one kid at a time and Logan did not mind to be the first.  Logan looked tense initially and held on to the railing around the entire rink, but he remained with a smile on his face.  While Logan and Stuart were doing another loop, Connor asked repeatedly when he could go in, and so I got him ready.  By the time Stuart and Logan skated around, I wanted to switch kids and give Logan a break.  However he wanted to stay in and was ok staying by himself as Stuart would be with Connor.  Connor had fun despite his feet being slipping around.  All three of them stumbled around the rink few more times before they came out for a break.  Logan was finally tired and done then, but Connor wanted another round before we wrapped up ice skating.  They had fun.

     We walked over next door to a pizza joint for lunch.  We spent a lovely time there eating while listening to live music at the patio.  After being relaxed for awhile, Stuart realized he was tired from skating, so we slowly headed back.  When we arrived at the arcade at Harrah’s, we kept our promise to let the boys play in there.  Stuart got a bunch of tokens; we split up and the boys had fun playing at different machines.  Connor played a fishing game and caught the lobster in a treasure box which led to a big win of 500 tickets.  Connor and I were thrilled watching the tickets keep coming out from the machine.  At the end, the boys traded in all their tickets to select their prizes.

    We returned to the house and took a nap, then the second half of the fun day began.  The kids ran around the house playing tablets or foosball while Mckayla worked patiently on her art and craft project with a little bit of assistance from me.  We had another good homemade dinner prepared by Dave, Ted, Theresa and Martin.  This time we split up to have an adult table and kid table, and there were lots of giggling came out from both tables.  After dinner, the kids paired up and settled down to play Tablets nicely.  At some point, we got the kids down to beds.  The rest of kids were tired and down quietly, but ours were having a difficult time so Stuart stayed in the room with them for awhile.

    The adults played a couple rounds of pool then we decided to move on to poker.  Dave, Ted, Martin, Stuart and I played while Michelle, Theresa and Robyn were our audience.  Snacks and drinks were accompanying us again.  It was a great fun playing and chatting.  At the end it came down to Dave and I; we had a very close game and I was lucky enough to get a “Flush” eventually to take the win.  With that, we all returned to our rooms to end the night.  I was still quite hyper and so I read while Stuart watched a video; we both went down quite late.

   On Monday we all gathered in the morning and had our breakfast.  Then it was time to pack up to check out earlier.  While the adults were busy, the kids played with the remaining unpacked Tablets.  Some cute moments were captured with cameras.  By 9am, we all packed up and ready to go.  We said goodbye to everyone and ended this fun-filled weekend trip.  We caravanned back to the Bay Area with the Kaos, and grabbed a dim sum lunch before we finally parted with them.  As soon as we returned home, the boys were excited to play a Xbox game together while Stuart washed the car and I unpacked.  I was so exhausted the rest of the day as if the last three late nights finally caught up to me, but the trip was well worth it.