Wednesday, January 21, 2009

An Afternoon at the Bellagio....

Mom's sisters, Fern and Norma, have been here visiting....they are escaping from the extreme Canadian cold and catching up on bonding time with Grannybird.  It is exciting to have them here.  We have always thought our Canadian relatives have something extra special about them...they are just "good stock".  Anyway it is so fun to have them here and it was extra special for me to be able to spend an afternoon with them.
We went to the Bellagio to see the garden display.  They have it decorated for the Chinese New Year. 

This is a replica of a statue that many Chinese have in there homes, it helps bring them prosperity.  If you throw a penny and in lands in the center of one of the gold dings them you will have prosperity for the coming year.  If you throw it higher and it lands in the cup then you will be set for life....Grannybird landed her penny in the ding on her first try!!!
We had lunch in the cafe and since we had all gotten our pennies in the dings we thought we would try our luck at Keno....we only marked the cards for fun, which was a good thing because no one would have won anything!
The Bellagio has the largest chocolate fountain in the world.  It is worth going to see and while you are there you can check out all the scrumptious desserts they make....to die for!!!
In the interest of calories we all shared a Gelato....

1 comment:

Daniel & Valerie said...

You guys are so cute!! Looks like you had tons of fun on a girls day out!!