Vegas Pictures

Here's a link to some Vegas pictures:

http://3koehnkids.shutterfly.com?a=1

I've also included a few of my favorites below:





I've also added some videos at the bottom of the page...Enjoy!

Back from Vegas!

I'm back from Vegas, baby!

It was so great - the Bellagio was beautiful and there was tons to do. The first night, we (my friends Steve and Andrea and I) went to a restaurant called Sensi in the Bellagio. It was so good! I had crispy shrimp to start and then Korobuta (sp?) pork for dinner. It was really tender and yummy. For dessert, there was an option to get a sampler of all the different desserts, so we did that. They brought it out in a tower - I took a picture and will upload it later. Then we went to the Fontana bar - it's right in front of the fountains, so we saw them going off all the time. There was a live band doing cover songs and there were a few couples dancing who obviously had some formal training. It was fun to watch. There was also a wedding party with one guy who kept getting up and dancing...well, dancing isn't quite the right word. More like having small seizures kinda in time with the music. We nicknamed him Corky - I took several videos of him that I'll upload. So much fun!

On the second day, we met for the Bellagio Champagne Buffet. I think we all did a good job of not over-stuffing ourselves so we couldn't even move - it was tempting though. The food was good and there were so many options - I had shrimp, turkey, oatmeal, mashed potatoes and fruit all on one plate!

We made a plan to meet for dinner at The Venetian and then went our separate ways to nap, after Andrea and I did some looking around at the Bellagio shops. It's a good thing that I'm not a millionaire because I would have come home with LOTS of that stuff - they had Hermes, Prada, Fendi, Dior, etc. All those purses!!!!

I decided to head over to the Venetian early to check out the shops there - when I texted A & S I found out they had done the same! When we met up they had already had some adult beverages (okay, one monster adult beverage) and were feeling good. They are so funny! We were all being pretty silly. The restaurant we were going to was really new, so it wasn't on any of the maps. We stopped to ask one of the security guys and he clearly had no idea where it was, but he gave us some directions consisting of 'stay to the right' and we, foolishly, followed them. We ended up in the convention section of the hotel (after a lot of walking) but eventually found where we were going - turned out to be on a completely different floor than what the guard had said. The food was okay - I had deep-fried smoked mozarella, which was amazing, and then gnocci in meat sauce. Then we went to get gellato - yum, yum, yum! I had to head back to the Bellagio at that point because I was going to see O (they had seen a show earlier in the week and O was sold out - I almost didn't get a ticket).

O is a show set in water - there's a big pool and people diving around, doing their Cirque Du Soleil thing. It's really amazing - you should definitely see it if you're in Vegas. However, it was the 10:30pm show and I was tired so towards the end I was just hoping for it to FINISH ALREADY! Finally, it was done and I booked up to my room to go to sleep.

Monday was travel day, so I got my stuff packed, did some last minute shopping, finally faced my hotel bill (eek!) and headed off to the airport. I managed to win back most of what I had lost playing slots at the hotel in a Wheel of Fortune nickel slot machine, so I promptly stopped gambling and sat down to read my book. The flight home was uneventful and when I got home I was greeted with purring and cat fur, so it's possible that the kids actually missed me. The cat sitter left a little note saying that they behaved well, so I guess that's good.

I'm off for the rest of the week and am not looking forward to going back to work. I'll upload pictures and stuff when I have a chance. Viva Las Vegas!

Remember the Alamo!

This email from the folks came in:

We'll we will remember the Alamo!! a pic of Roger at the Alamo and one of him crossing a 'bridge' on the San Antonio river. He saw the cars go across and couldn't resist trying it himself!

We really like what we have seen of San Antonio and bike ride along the bike path was really nice, quiet, lots of turtles and different birds. Living the dream!

Off to Louisiana and another dream of driving the Natchez Trail.

More pictures here.

1st Blog entry

So, if you can't figure out which Koehn family is posting this, you are retarded! 

We have managed to, once again, get the 3 big kid's on the soccer teams they wanted to be on. And they finished try-outs the week before Disney, so our trip was stress free. ( you believe that don't you? )We had a lot of fun at Disneyland, but were glad to come home. 

My blog sounds like a robot wrote it. oh, well. I will add more when I'm not so tired.

May the force be with you.....

Here we are in San Antonio!!

Thanks Becky for setting this up... I am not sure I will figure out how to use it, but am giving it a try! We are in San Antonio TX and taking a tour of city tomorrow, from the Alama to the River Walk and several missions. Then we can go back on our own the next day to see whatever we want. Warm and muggy here! Oh, we have also done some 'dry camping' Walmart style last two nights... and we had lots of company too. One store actually has a security guy show you where to park...
btw, Blue Bear is our mascot from our Alaska cruise, and he sits right in the middle of the dash of rig.....
here's to our blog! ma