I know I was short last week, well we went to Vegas! so I wasn't around to be doin no bloggin'
Thursday
Let's see M,K,E,C,J,A,M,L and Angie and Me went to Vegas this weekend! To cool! Had a blast! It started in hail of thunderstorms and the plane was delayed by weather, of course the plane was clearly there and the delay seemed to be for nothing but there you go, this was only the start of the trouble! With that many people we decided to split a couple of cars, we reserved a minivan and a neon at THRIFTY. Remember that name as I will never go there again! When we pulled up in the lot I knew there was a problem as the lot looked pretty empty and there was no minivan in sight! Sure enough they didn't have a minivan and want to give us a behemouth 12 passenger schoolbus! We didn't want the beast since we were going to be in parking garages and stuff and parking that thing was going to be trouble. So we told them that was not an option. Next they tried to give us 2 mid sized cars, our luggage would not even fit in them. We had agreed to this though because we had no other option, there was not a full sized car on the lot and they said they would knock off a days worth of charge. Well this was fine and dandy except how does the excat same car come out with a $15 total price difference... round and round, every person in our group took a turn screaming down the clerk and the manager. Finally after 2 and half hours all the paperwork is right, when a minivan pulls in. Scrap all of this we'll take the van, we got a free day on the mid sized still though so it all worked out except for the time and turmoil part.
So we get to the Nugget and check in, it's now 9pm-ish and everyone is flat out starving, so we decide to go for the Nugget buffet, it's right here, we have this 2 for 1 deal, get it. I did, only I think I ate to much shrimp, because later that night I broke out in red splotches all over my freaking body... I mean everywhere! I was an itch machine! Luckily, sort of, I was still recovering from my poison ivy so I had an arsenal of pills and cremes to combat this crap. For the rest of the trip I was popping Benadryl like M&Ms. It kept it at bay for the most part, the last break out occured on the way home, so it was enought to stay with me for the whole trip. We did manage to gamble and see the light show. I learned alot about craps and had a pretty good time watch M and E get smashed on football beer.
Friday
I woke up very early and could not sleep due to the itchys, so I went down and played some Let it Ride. On my 5th hand I got a pair of Queens so naturally I let all three of my $5 bets ride. First card Queen, cool 3 of a kind... it would be so cool if that other card was a Queen... BAM! 4 of a kind, it paid 50 to 1 plus a bonus! Alright this trip is starting out kick ass! Little did I know there would not be another time on the whole trip where I would win anything bigger than $40 or so.
So on to the strip...right off the bat everyone was complaining that their stomach kinda hurt... damn that buffet! Despite that we ended up at the Strat... it was time to conquer The Big Shot it's the little part at the top... I pussed out last time I was there and it has bothered me since. The Big Shot is on top of the Stratosphere Casino so before you even get on the ride you're almost 1000 feet up! It's completely un-nerving to even walk around this thing with the floor to ceiling glass that angles out at a 45 degree angle much less board a ride that is going to fire you straight up into the air 145 more feet pulling 4 Gs, then turn around and fire you down then up then down etc. Insane! Look how high you are! ugghhh well 7 of us did it and I then damn near all 7 of us passed out! I was scared shitless before it started but once it took off I was cool... not some of the others there is a picture of some of us floating around that is to funny, what looks of terror. Anyway after taht was done it was on to eat lunch... ESPNzone at New York New York. Cool! After that some of us went back to the Nugget to chill, gamble, take another pill and clean up. That night we went back to the strip, saw half of the Pirate Show at Treasure Island, saw the Volcano at The Mirage and went to the new Aladdin. After that a loooooong drive down the strip back to the downtown area for gaming! Lost, lost, lost. damnit! 2:30, bed, sleep, itch.
Saturday
Slept kinda late, but after the forces gathered, we went to the Nascar Cafe at the Sahara for lunch, once the bellies were full we decided to ride Speed the ride... Played at the Sahara for abit but I was losing so I quit, the rest took over a table and played Blackjack for an hour or so. Next it was on to the Venetian, but it was a short stop as we need to get back to get ready for the big night, M and L were getting married!!!!
At 8 a strech Ford Excursion picked us all up at the hotel and by the time we were half way down the strip, they were hitched! Mom listened in on the cell phone. The wedding was great, afterwards we went up and down the strip for a couple of hours and had a few beverages... fun fun fun. Then it was back to the casino for the last night of gambling! We hooked up went to the Four Queens, now when you are at a craps table it's supposed to be loud, we were, and they ran us off. I don't think they realized we were the whole table, but screw them... I'm sure no one has ever cussed in Vegas before, or been loud at a craps table. Please! Over to the Freemont where we proceeded to take over another table and get it on. For about 2 hours we had people standing 3 deep trying to see what they hell was going on while we played... I won for a change! The night finally wraped about 3am for me, we were getting up at 6am to head for the airport!
Sunday
6 am came waaaay to early. We all managed to be in the hallway when it was time to go, we dropped the cars caught the shuttle and and walked in to the airport over an hour before the flight... to see a line the snaked through half the damn airport! Holy crap we ended up in line at the baggage pickup! Anyway right when we get to the front of the line they tell us our plane is leaving and to hurry to the gate WTF? It's still a half hour to go? So we hurry hurry hurry and get on the plane. Angie and I were on row one and we could see there was trouble. Within a few minutes the captain came on and told us about a part problem and we were going to be delayed by a 30 minutes to sit tight and they would get the part from another plane... 45 minutes later they told us it would be at least four hours for the part to come from California! We deplaned and while everyone else on the plane decide to grab some airport chairs, we headed for the Bellagio... we ate dinner in the sports book while watching the Nascar race... and later played some games(lost) and finally found our way back to the airport just in time to wait some more... Finally they roll up the plane and we get on. We back out, and head for the runway where proceeded to wait for another freakin hour! before finally taking off... damn it! We did get a meal voucher for our trouble and they stole a movie from another plane for us to watch. We ended up getting back 6 hours late... at least all of our luggage was there.
