FYI: "DH" = "Dear Husband"
This was our 4th trip to Vegas. We were scheduled to fly out of St. Louis at 8 a.m. on July 3 (Tuesday). Got to the airport early to get through security. This went fairly smoothly until I realized I had forgotten to take my carefully packed quart-sized Ziploc bag with all the liquids in it out of my luggage. So that stopped us for a few minutes, but we still got through with lots of time to spare. We stopped at a bar and I had two double bloody marys while DH had 2 double coffees with Bailey's. Plane took off on time. Most relaxed flight I've ever had. I passed most of the 3 hours watching Ocean's 11 (the more recent one) on my Creative player.
Landed in Vegas at 9:30 a.m. local time. We had only taken carry-ons, so didn't need to stop at the luggage carousel. We took a cab to Bally's and checked in with no problems. We upgraded to a large room in the south tower with a sunken bathtub and an absolutely spectacular view. Of course, the room wasn't ready yet, so we decided to head to Hash House a Go Go to use one of our restaurant.com certificates. If only it had been that easy…
We gave our bags to the bell captain and took off for the monorail station. We got the $8 24-hour pass and headed up to Sahara to catch a cab to Hash House, which is a straight shot down Sahara. We were going to take the cab from there to save a little money since we had planned on getting the monorail pass anyway. Cheap, I know. Anyway…..
We get off at Sahara, and DH realizes our certificate is still in one of the bags we'd left at the bell desk. Sigh. At least we hadn't gotten all the way to the restaurant yet. Okay. Back on the monorail!
By this time it's closer to lunch than breakfast, so we decided just to walk on over to Spice Market and go to Hash House tomorrow. The buffet was good, but not as good as it is at dinner. Not quite as big a selection and not quite as fresh. Still pretty good, though.
While we were at Planet Hollywood, I decided to sign up for their player's card. I did a lot of that this trip. Anyway, they had a promotion going where they scanned your card and you got a free slot pull for a prize, and you also got free entry into a daily slot tournament. I did pretty well in the tournament. No cash prize, but I did win two free tickets to Stomp Out Loud. DH won a keychain. We got the tickets for that night and headed out again.
At this point we went to see if the room was ready, which it was not. They told us to come back in 30 minutes. So we went and played some video poker and got a drink for a while. Checked back, and the room was ready. Unpacked some and then went to the pool for an hour or so.
After the pool, we took the monorail to Quark's at the Hilton. Having heard that restaurant.com certificates were not good on alcohol regardless of what the restrictions said, we called ahead and were told that if we wanted, we could use it on nothing BUT alcohol. This was good news. But we did decide to have a little dinner with our drinks. Pretty good food, but my drink (the Death Ray) was not mixed as well as last trip when I had three. I believe it was at this time that DH won about $40 on a Star Wars video poker machine. After taking the monorail back to Bally's, we realize we only have about 20 minutes to get to Stomp. We practically ran and got there just in time.
The show was good, but they must still be working out some bugs in the theater… It was stifling. There was NO circulation and the place was packed, and between that and the rhythms from the show and being up since 5 a.m. St. Louis time and not sleeping well the night before…. Well, it wasn't pretty. We were both starting to nod. I think if there was better air circulation, it wouldn't have been so bad. But the performance itself was excellent. After the show, we went back to the casino at Bally's, where I won about $60 on a penny slot machine. Go me!
Ended the evening by soaking in our nice big sunken bathtub. Slept better that night than I had in a long time!
Coming tomorrow: July 4th -- anniversary day! Rio, Palms, Little Buddha, and fireworks!
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