Josh's boy scout troop retired American Flags today. We emailed friends, asked if anyone had flags that were torn or tattered, then drove around and collected them to be retired. Did you know that only two organizations are permitted by the United States Congress to retire an American flag? The Boy Scouts of America and the United States Military! Click here to see his troop performing the United States Flag Retirement Ceremony.
We got the chance to go to Vegas this year, what an awesome time we had! Let's see if I can make a long story short! We stayed at our time share, The Grand View, the room was so nice that we did lots of cooking in. We did lots out too. We started out seeing the Shark Reef at the Mandalay Bay, went to the Titanic Exhibit in the Luxor, walked the strip of course, went to Italy to ride the romantic Gondolas, ate in Paris at the Eiffel Tower, went to New York New York and rode the roller coaster that wraps around the city, so cool!!! The water show at Bellagio was so beautiful!! We took the kids to Circus Circus and they had a great time riding all of the rides and playing games trying to win things, that was as close as they got to gambling!! We had dinner at the Tournament of the Kings, I've always wanted to do that, where the kings ride on horses, sword fighting in the ring right in front of you, there was a cool story line, Josh loved it and I rather enjoyed the handsome riders. Then we drove to see the Hoover Dam, did the "dam" tour, bought "dam" souvenirs, and saw the "dam" water :) ...very awesome learning the history. We continued on to the Grand Canyon, we chose to go to the western rim rather than the Southern rim, which is owned by the Hualapia Nation Native Americans. The southern rim is owned by the US government. Let's just say this, the western rim did not have one rail between us and the 6,000 foot drop off! Naji, Josh, and Anni sat on the very edge dangling their feet, as I stood back and cried, so scary! Even Naji said he was dizzy and scared! Our grand finale was going to a Cirque Du Soleil, we watched Chris Angel, he was phenomenal! Click here to see our video and here to see pictures!
Josh is having a blast at Camp Comer. His favorite part is shooting this rifle, click here to see him shooting. He's enjoying hanging out with all of his buddies, click here to see him and his friends telling about camp.
Naji, Josh and I went on Josh's first campout as a boyscout. We went to Dismals Canyon in North Alabama. Lots of fun if you like camping. We got to see glow worms in the cave at night. If you want to learn more about glow worms, click here: http://www.dismalscanyon.com/dismalites/index.html
I am so proud of Josh, he is turning out to be such a loving, kind hearted boy! I hope life gives him all that I know he deserves!Josh playing, Rockets, Sea Divers, Ode to Joy and Theme from Pink Panther for his first piano recital.
We lost all 3 games but boy did we have fun, it was a great Mother's Day weekend~
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