Vegas was great. It usually is, but I had a particularly good time this past weekend. And now you will hear about it:
Our flight on Friday morning required us to get up around 3:15 AM. We went to sleep around 2:00 AM. This was not my intent, but it just kind of happened that way. I'm not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but Boyfriend is REALLY not a morning person. He continued to sleep while I was in the shower and the following conversation occured when I got out:
GW: Wake up, it's time to go to Vegas.
BF: Am I going?
GW: Um, yeah.
BF: Did you take a shower?
GW: Yeah.
BF: Did I?
But we managed to get out the door (not without me having to change since we almost left in the exact same outift) on time and settled in for our flight. The movie situation is detailed in my prior post.
And by 11:00 we were in Las Vegas. Yay!
As I mentioned, we were staying at the Star Trek Hilton, but it's really just kind of weird unless you're into the Borg, so we left as soon as we dropped our bags.
One of my favorite parts of Vegas are all the huge signs offering weird food and drink specials. You know, like:
Because of my love of the weird specials and Boyfriend's love of frozen fruit drinks, our first stop had to be the Westward Ho for 99 cent jumbo margaritas. After this fabulous investment, we sat down at the poker room in Circus Circus. And both lost. For you poker players, let me point out that I lost even though I was dealt pocket pairs 10 times in a row. That hurt. Neither of us liked Circus Circus before this, but now we hated it with the fire of 1,000 suns.
After a little walking around and a quick dinner at the hotel, we decided to just play a couple table games at the Hilton to get back in the zone. Tug and I have an obsession with playing 33 on the roulette wheel, so I decided to throw a few dollars on that. And it came up. And came up again. I was now ready to gamble.
I changed into proper poker clothes (all black, all tight- I am a poker ninja) and we headed to The Mirage. I will spare you the poker details, but I had a great game. The dealer accused me of being a pro- taking all the tourist money. That felt good. We continued to gamble for several hours before stopping at the Venetian for dinner- at that point we realized that we had been up for 30 hours after one hour of sleep.
And we needed sleep, because Saturday we were headed to:
Boyfriend was playing in Binion's Saturday tournament, while my plan was to sit around at a 1-3 hold 'em table and a 50 cent roulette table raking in small pots. And I did! I loved playing hold 'em at Binion's- definitely the highlight of the trip for me. Waiting for my name to be called while standing under pictures of all the World Series champions.... With Boyfriend playing in a huge tourney 25 feet away.... just a great way to spend Saturday afternoon.
We took a quick shopping break so I could spend my winnings at Las Vegas Premium Outlets. Then it was some quick sushi and Kirin and off to the Excalibur. Nemo recommended this as a good place to play poker against people who don't know how to play poker. He was right- the people at my table were much more interested in eating nachos than paying attention to their cards. So I managed to make more money playing poker, which is not something I would have been able to do a year ago. So I guess I have to thank Nemo for all the poker teachings over the last year, despite the fact that I hate it when anyone tells me what to do.
In summary: Excellent trip- money was made, free drinks were consumed, new clothes were purchased.
Ok, I could have told you more, but I'm tired of typing. I hope you all have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend. If you have any interesting plans, you should tell us about them because we all need to be entertained.
Oh! And the first person to tell me the origin of the book quote in the picture caption of Circus Circus gets 24 Ghost Points. The origin of the song quote on the picture caption of the outside of Binion's is worth 12.
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