Labor Day Weekend '09

Long weekends = lots of time to do lots of fun things! We celebrated Nici's birthday on Saturday. Mote, Toa, and the kids came over and we grilled burgers and hot dogs.

Birthday Boy

Nic finally got to blow out his birthday candle

Samiu, Nic, Mote, Siope, and Toakesa

I wanted to go to Fremont Street that night, but we didn't get the chance. Sunday evening Mote called us and asked if we wanted to do something. We really weren't planning on doing anything at all, but since Mote and Toa wanted to get out we decided to head on up to Fremont Street. It was pretty busy because of the Holiday.

We got there right as the light show was ending, so we walked around and looked at a couple venues until the next show started.

The most obvious and largest part of the Fremont Street Experience is the Viva Vision canopy and light show. The canopy towers 90 feet above the ground and spans the length of five football fields. Featuring more than 12 million LED modules and 555,000-watt sound system. We caught the 9 p.m. show which featured "Don McLean's American Pie".



There was an AWESOME band playing while acrobats performed above the crowd.



And someone who had a little bit too much to drink decided he wanted to take off his sandals (and shirt) in exchange for his invisible dancing shoes.



We ended up taking all the kids to our house for a good ole Labor Day Weekend slumber party.

Monday we barbecued over at our place. After we ate me and Toa took the kids swimming while the guys stayed glued to the T.V. and watched football. We stayed in the pool forever- it was so much fun! We finally decided to make our way out since the kids had school the next day so we dried up, changed, and came home and ate again :)

The new water guns Nici got for his birthday

I wish every weekend was this long and fun.