Las Vegas

Last weekend we met Mom and Dad in Las Vegas for the night. We stayed at the new Palazzo hotel.

The lobby:

Our fabulous room:

We had an entire sitting area in our hotel room.

Brack and Jenn outside of the Wynn hotel:

In front of Tao restaurant:

Inside the restaurant:

USC v. Ohio State

On Saturday, USC had its first home game against Ohio State. Here we are outside of the bookstore:

We tried out Dad's new grill at our tailgate (John, Angie, Jim, Dad, Mom, and Julie).

The band before the game:

USC's first touchdown of the game:

Wintergreen Resort

We stayed at the Wintergreen Resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains.





The scenery in the mornings was simply beautiful.

Here we are before dinner at one of the resort's restaurants:

The resort also had lots of activities, like mini golf...

canoeing...

...and fishing!

Golfing in Virginia

Brack and Bill played golf two mornings at the Wintergreen Resort. The courses were Devil's Knob and Stoney Creek. Here are some highlights:

USC v. Virginia

For the first USC football game of the season, we played the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Although it was about 90 degrees in the shade, we walked around the campus before the game. Here we are in front of the Rotunda.

A cool picture of the stadium before the game started as the teams were warming up:

Washington DC

We headed east for the USC/Virginia football game last weekend, and we were able to see some of our friends in D.C. on Thursday night. Here we are with Beau, Chris, and Michelle.



On Friday morning, we braved the rain and toured the International Spy Museum.



At the Natural History Museum, Mom and I went through a live butterfly exhibit.



Apparently I was popular with the butterflies:



Some awesome pictures from the National Gallery:

Luckily the rain stopped just long enough to get a couple of pictures on the Mall.

We also toured the Holocaust Museum, which was amazing.

The Castle at the Smithsonian:

On Friday night, we went to The Capital Grille for our last night in D.C.