Lucky 7
Trip Start
Aug 18, 2009
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Trip End
Aug 23, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunday, August 23, 2009
1 - Tao: After three days in the desert without changing clothes, we were in Vegas. Within a few hours of arriving in Vegas, we had VIP table service overlooking the single greatest nightclub I have ever seen in my life, and I'm usually the dive-bar guy.
2 - Ditch Fridays: It was about a million degrees out. We had a cabana with a mist machine by the most popular pool scene in Vegas. We had a bar tab. Do I really need to say anything else?
3 - Spearmint Rhino: The opposite of reality. Countless hot women coming up to YOU, trying to get YOU to go dance with THEM (which comes with a price tag, of course). You know what? It doesn't cost anything if you don't go with them, and they still put in the time and effort. Plus, you don't leave with blue balls.
4 - The Sports Book: It would have been great. Around 20 guys contributing dough for a four game parlay, two of which had already come in. Halfway through the other two games, it's looking good. Real good. There was talk of taking the $2500 we were going to win and throwing it all on black to double up, to go out with a bang. But then it happens. The Broncos start sucking. Sucking bad. At least we got a few free beers out of the deal.
5 - Ghost Bar: Probably the coolest setting for a bar I have ever been.
6 - Blackjack Table: I really learned how to play this time, and left with the house's money.
7 - Flight Home: Tired. So tired. But the plane was so damn bumpy on take off, the guy next to me was yelling words of encouragement at the pilot. The pilot was behind a bulletproof door. We were sitting in seats 23 A and B. The guy's panic attack might have been justified, though. That was the first time in my life I thought there's a chance I could die on a plane. I got home safely, of course.
