Flat Stanley

Bracken is DONE with Law School!  Graduation is next week so there will be more on that later.

When Bracken got home from his test we headed to Fremont Street. Hayes's friend, Mason, from northern Utah mailed him a Flat Stanley character for a school assignment so Flat Stanley could get pictures of  Las Vegas.  We had never gone down to Fremont Street so I decided this would be a good reason to get down there and see the light show above the street..  I wanted to avoid the strip since most of it isn't appropriate for a 1 grade classroom.  Turns out Fremont street is the same. We didn't get many pictures, just a bunch of telling the kids to look at the lights on the left in order to avoid them seeing what was to the right of them and going the long way around to avoid the women that were dressed up like showgirls with less clothing if that's possible. I know we can't shield them from things forever but....

We did get a picture in a Limo though.  Hayes was in awe and Kamri was eating it up.

 and a quick picture in front of the lights of a casino front on Fremont Street.

Didn't even stay for the light show.  Visiting Las Vegas when I was younger I was disgusted with the billboards, fliers and all the blatant objectifying of women that plays on men's lust and women's vanity.  I was naive to the fact that many of the people visiting were consumers of those products/services.  People come here to be surrounded by that, people live that everyday.  Not sure if it is living in Las Vegas and having to intentionally avoid those messages or the fact that I'm older and less naive but being in that kind of atmosphere the strip provides has no appeal to me. Some of my friends will read this and think I'm such a prude but they probably already knew that about me.

I think I'll take the kids to get a few more Flat Stanley pictures at other places, places that we love in Las Vegas, maybe we'll visit Fremont street on a weekday night when it'll probably be a little tamer.