Vegas trip

I think I left off going into Friday.......Friday morning, I woke up at 8:30 but let Bobber sleep until 10:30. Our plan for today was to purchase tickets for Second City at the Flamingo. Denise and Scott were planning to go to the Price is Right at Bally's. We met up at 1 at Caesar's buffet. If you ever have the opportunity to eat there..... Don't. Avoid it at all costs!!! Overpriced and lacking edible entrees. Anyway, after lunch, we walked through the forum shops towards the strip. We happened to catch Pete Rose signing autographs in one of the stores for the low low price of $70-$4000. Needless to say, we are not the proud owners of a Pete Rose autographed anything. We played for a short time at the Mirage and Treasure Island before I needed a nap. Bob and I wandered through the Venetian before heading back to Bally's. Denise and Scott made their way down to the Strat via the Wynn. They were able to win two buffets at the Wynn. About a $100 deal for dinner. I slept for about 40 minutes and then got ready to go to Second City. Second City is skit comedy similar to SNL. The show was hilarious. The drinks were overpriced. We had a beer and a Mai Tai and it came to $22. Coming out of the show we were a bit disoriented. Fortunatly we were able to see Donnie Osmand while looking for where to go. Next we had planned to walk a block behind Bally's to Ellis Island for dinner. We enjoyed the sirloin steak special with choice of potatoe and veggie for $6.99. I had a 2 for 1 coupon and payed for the rest with some of my 11,000 points. Apparently, I'm a high roller at Ellis Island. LOL. So, free dinner! Not quite the deal Denise and Scott had but a much shorter walk. We played the slots and video poker for a time until a spot opened at the craps table. Had a little luck there and then walked back to Bally's. We had done a small amount of packing already so there wouldn't be too much to do in the morning.Saturday we woke up still needed to buy some things for Alex. I was able to find her a NYNY light up cup to replace her Luxor one. Whew.... I also bought a sparkly blue Bally's cup for me. It's so pretty. Bob and I headed to the airport at about 9:15. Our flight was scheduled for 11:25. By time we got there, we were starving. We went through security in no time at all and ventured to our gate. We were in a different section than we usually were and there were not as many options as we are accustomed to. We settled on Burger King and gasped at the prices. I had a double cheese burger meal and Bob had a whopper meal all for the low, low price of $16.90. Ouch. Oh well. The flight was ok. A lot of tourbulance close the MSP and a rough landing but, it was good to be on the ground. Next, we picked up Denise's van and made our way back to Deana's house. We picked up our car and drove the van to the Mall of America. It was an uneventful drive home and we picked up Alex shortly after 8:30.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Vegas 2008 part 1
Tuesday evening we drove to Denise and Scott's house. We arrived around 9. Our flight left at 7 am Wednesday morning and our plan was to leave for Deana's house at 4:40. Denise's sister Deana was driving us to the airport and we were parking our car there.Wednesday, our flight left on time and we arrived in Vegas at 8:10am. Grabbed our luggage and a taxi and went to check in at Bally's. Our rooms were not ready yet so, we walked to O'Sheas to play while we waited for Bob's bar to open. At 9 we grabbed yards of 190 Octane and Pina Colada. Denise and Scott had a margarita and daquiri. Bob and Denise drank about a quarter and were loopy. We ventured to the buffet at the Flamingo. Good news, it was better than last time and the real flamingos are still there. After lunch we played and walked until 1pm and we could see if our rooms were available. Ours was so we took all the luggage to our room. Bob and I rested for awhile while Denise and Scott went to the pool. Bob then went down to play and I went to see Big Elvis at Bill's Gambling Hall. Guess What!?!?!? Big Elvis was on vacation. Oh well, maybe another time. I still had my free drink, caffine included, and it took care of the headache I couldn't get rid of. So, since we weren't meeting up until 5, I went to the Bellagio conservatory and caught a few fountain shows. Two were instrumentals and the middle was "All That Jazz". The conservatory was beautiful as always. At 5 we decided to go to Mandalay Bay's House of Blues for dinner. Very good dinner. Bob, Denise and I had hamburgers and Scott had I don't remember what but it came with a habenero pepper. Next we planned to meet at MGM's monorail station at 10. Bob and I wandered through Mandalay Bay, Luxor, NYNY, and Tropicana. We had heard Luxor was starting their dethemeing process and wanted to check it out. Mainly the casino area had changed. New bars, carpet, and chairs. The main entrance was the same. At 10 we ventured via monorail to the Hilton. I couldn't find the Top Gun game anywhere but, did play for quite a while on Deal or No Deal. We turned in for the night at 11:30.Thursday we rented a car and drove to Primm, NV. Primm is one mile from the California border and has only three casinos and a huge outlet mall. Bob and I toured the three casinos and played for a short time at each. Denise went shopping and Scott played at Bufffalo Bill's until they went on the roller coaster. From Primm we drove to the Green Valley Ranch in Henderson. GVR was the casino featured in the reality show "American Casino". Since we had just missed the lunch buffet, we wandered around until 3:30 when the buffet opened for dinner. Bob and I signed up for the players club and had a very nice talk with Marsha at the players club booth. She gave us shirts, cards and pens after we asked if any of the staff still worked there from the show. She said they didn't. Sad. After lunch/dinner (our first meal of the day expect for the hot dog at Buffalo Bill's) we went to the Palms. Denise and I bought some soveniers there and also won free key chains. Ohh Ahh. I know all my friends will be jealous of my new green key chain. Before we returned the rental car to the Strat, we dropped off our bags of treasures. I accidentally dropped off my money also but wouldn't find that out until I went to buy a drink. I watched Bobber play for a long time at the Strat. He had his first good luck there. We also went up the tower at night. Very, very cool. Lights for miles and miles. It was also very windy so my hair was wild in some of the pictures. Coming down the tower we decided to go look at the pictures they had taken. It has been a long time since I laughed that hard. They failed to mention the green shirt I was wearing would blend in to the green screen. Hilarious! My shirt became part of the strip. Needless to say, we didn't purchase the picture although we should have because you couldn't tell where my waist was. :) Bobber bought me a BIG drink at Fat Tuesday's. He also bought me an extra shot with it. So, here's a good combination. Drunk, sad and bored with no money. When I finally convinced everyone to leave, we opted to take the Duece. The Duece is the double-decker city bus. I made the mistake of not going to the bathroom before we got on but Denise assured me it would only take a few minutes to get down to Bellagio. Unless of course, they are working on the road and it goes from 3 lanes to 1. Ugh. We made it to Slots-a-fun before I had to leave the bus to pee. The relief was great. We also picked up 2 free decks of cards before getting back on the bus. We then stopped at Bobber's bar to get him another 190 Octane yard. Before turning in for the night Bob and I played for awhile in Paris and Planet Hollywood. We have not had the chance to go to PH since it's remodel from Aladdin. Very different, very modern. I had a bit of good luck to end the night. As we walked back to Bally's we decided to get some food at the Sidewalk Cafe and then turn in. It was 3am Vegas time.To Be Continued........