Category Archives: Birthdays

Las Vegas for Shando’s Birthday

From our hotel room and walking along the strip…

We stopped by the Venetian, so Shando got to see the FAKE Rialto bridge in Vegas a few months before seeing the real one in Venice!

We also went to Fremont Street (found a terrific vegetarian restaurant nearby called Vegnation).

Pink Panther Theme at the Bellagio

We got to see Christina Aguilera in concert, although ironically it was Celine Dion’s last weekend during her residency there.

Aquarium at Mandalay Bay

Monte Rio Cabin

Cabin in Monte Rio, California where we stayed for almost two weeks to visit Joe’s 50th birthday.  The dogs loved venturing around the property with the banana slugs, but we also took a lot of side trips with and without the dogs to nearby Guerneville, Jenner, Bodega Bay, etc.  Strangely there was even a live bomb found on the main bridge on one of the last days we were in town, but I don’t think they ever found the person who left it.