Las Vegas, is the city that never sleeps, Sin City, and whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. However there are some really strange things happening in Las Vegas.
If you're looking for family fun look to the smaller towns around you and their festivals. Mangum, OK hosts a Rattlesnake Derby each year and it's a fun event to visit.
I feel like I was lied to a lot as a child. I may have continued some of those lies when I became a parent. It wasn't that I was trying to intentionally lie to my child. It was just stuff I was told when I was a kid. Yes, I believed my parents.