Las Vegas…. FUCK WAS IT HOT!

Greetings all 2 of you who read this +/- 3, I have returned from our trip to Las Vegas for business and I am still recovering from the entire ordeal.

We had a perfect trip to the airport, left the house and were though security all in less than 55 minutes which I just loved. We flew into a area of the Las Vegas airport I didn’t know existed, it took over 20 mins to taxi to the terminal, the flight staff pooped off “we landed in Reno and now will be driving to Las Vegas” which got a large laugh. And they redid the entire terminal since the last time we was there that I couldn’t find the right baggage carousel and kept walking from 1-8 and back for about 5 minutes until I saw the tiny ass sign saying baggage claims 9-18 was on the other side…. Grrrr…..

Hard Rock gave us a double instead of a King, so that sorta irked me and the room wasn’t as nice as the Fort Lauderdale one, but it was ok. We hooked up with some friend’s right off the bat, so that was really cool catching up with people we haven’t seen in 2 years or longer. We headed over to the Pink Taco for lunch and I bought a round of Cabo Wabo which I wasn’t allowed to pay for since our pal had comps from the Hard Rock. Had I known that at the time I would have ordered a few more rounds.

We than went to the registration desk where I ran into even more old friends that have been 2-6 years since we have seen each other and in one case we have known each other for over 8 years and never met face to face until we ran into each other in a hallway and our first meeting lasted all of 1 minute and we never saw each other again.

Ya gotta love Vegas.

We didn’t do too much the first night, just did some talking to old and new friends around the circle bar and I think we was in bed around 11PM but I got no sleep thanks to the construction site next to us using a air horn to signal the cranes, why not use a walkie talkie I will never know, but the first night it lasted literally all night, I was awake until 530-6am and we got up at 7 since our sinus’s was killing us both, and the room was either too hot or way too cold, why they don’t put in a room temperature controlling device that turns off/on the cooling/heating unit but keeps the fans going and save a Billion $ ‘s a year in power bills, I will never know.

Day two was hot, Pauline and I had a few banking errands to do and grabbed some water for the room, $4 for a 24 pack is cheaper than $4 a ½ bottle at the bar. We walked around the cabana’s and pool which is where they decided to put the booths, which was “brilliant” considering it was only 114F outside.

Pauline  had work she had to do and I was getting on her nerves so I went downstairs where I ran into a friend playing slots, so I sat down in front of another slot machine and talked to him as he played his $200 or so of credits over and over. I opened my wallet and had $254 in cash in 7 bills… so I had only 4 $1 bills to play with since I wasn’t going to put a $50 in the machine, I have such terrible luck I’m not throwing away $50.

I hit spin the wheel two times and get nothing, all the while I am talking to my friend not really looking at my machine when he cuts me off and says “look what you did” and I look and see nothing until he tells me I just hit $1350.

So that was cool.

Later that night was a party we helped sponsor at a friend’s suite so we got to meet a lot of new people and catch up with old friends some more and even talk business which is always amazing to do at these things.

Day Three we basically just hung around the casino and talked all day. A group of us all went to Ago’s for dinner and we all collectively had 5-$50 coupons and we talked the waiter into letting us use all 5 since the hostess told us we could only use 4 of them, which is good since the bill was almost $500.

Our last day we had brunch with our main group of friends there and said our goodbyes and Pauline and I had a meeting we needed to have which lasted about 90 minutes and we got our stuff and got to the airport about 2 hours before our flight, we had a relatively easy time with security and grabbed some food at one of the restaurants and even went to a oxygen bar since there was no booze bars near us.

Flight home was good, got somewhat hot I just watched my IPod after I woke up “sleeping”. We got home around 8pm and just tried to unwind. The Hard Rock Vegas is so fucking loud and constant, we had fire alarms in the hotel so many time they canceled some seminars, the a/c went out in the casino, and we all lost our voices since we had to talk loud for over 3 days straight.

Over all a good time.

How Do I Feel?: tired