Agel World 2010

Agel celebrated it's 5th year in business by holding it's annual convention in Las Vegas. People from 60 different countries attended the event. It was so exciting for so many people because they have only see Vegas in movies.

Jeff's speech was about having a winning heart. When he spoke he used an example about our son Jens. He told the story about when we were in Cooperstown and how Jens wanted a shirt that said "I hit a Homerun in Cooperstown!" so bad. He made a decision in his heart and mind that he was going to get that shirt no matter what it took. For those of you who don't know, Jens has LeggCalvesPerthes disease in his hip. It is a disease that has deteriorated his hip socket away, thus making it difficult to run quickly or bend his leg in certain ways. So he really is a slow runner. He will hit a ball REALLY far out there and just make it to 1st base when any other kid would have made it to 2nd or 3rd. Anyway, Jens wanted that shirt so he hit the ball clear over the 8 foot fence and got a homerun.

Jeff called Jens up on stage when he was finishing his story.

We stayed at the Paris Hotel. It was fun to be back in Vegas. The weather was hot. 100+ degrees. This is the view from my room window.

And looking down out my window to the pool.

My kids favorite part of the trip was going to M&M World!

We watched the 3D M&M movie, toured the 4 story building, bought a bag full of M&M's in a rainbow of colors.

Then we went into the Coke Factory.

We bought the "Tastes of the World" which is 16 different drinks from around the world. We taste tested all of them. Some were better than others but by far the WORST one was a drink from Italy called Beverly. Eewwe! It was nasty!

Here is Jens trying Beverly! Too funny!

New York, New York

Cesar's Palace

And the Paris.

My view outside my room at night!

We ended up driving to out home down south and we were just planning on staying one night. After our 5 nights in Vegas and our one night "down south", we still weren't ready to go home. So we ended up staying a full week there! It was great! The weather was H O T there too. Average was 103 degrees. The kids swam everyday, we went to the movies, out to dinner, golfing and shopping. It was great! We had a blast. I loved it because my kids had no one to play with but each other. On our way home, it finally cooled down and rained. Then we saw this beautiful double rainbow! It was so pretty and vibrant!

Down side about the ride home..........Molly got car sick (she tends to do that) and vomited several times. We pulled over to a Burger King and washed her up. We also washed up the carseat as best we could but it didn't really clean up well. So we had a lovely aroma to smell on our way home for several hours!