day one... fresno to vegas
It’s after midnight and I should really be in bed...yeah yeah... not exactly what a person in Vegas should be saying...I should be screaming about more partaying. But I’m tired. 5 and a half/ six hours in a car... makes me sleepy. Should’ve been about 5 hours, since James and I drove it, but we hit rain, thunder, lightning, and hail. Sucks to be us. LOL. But we made it! Our hotel does not believe we should spend more then the absolutely necessary time of cleaning ourselves and maybe sleeping, so it has NO data ports in the room and NO wireless carrier. So, I asked the lovely and talented dee25x5 to announce that I could not be reached via computer this weekend. (Its like 10$ for an hour! Though there is an internet café across the street... I could go there and upload... *ponders*). Sadly, only a few of you will have seen that post...
So, because I can’t post as I go, I’m doing this the old fashioned way... in a document. Hehehe! To be uploaded upon return to sanity. :P
like I said earlier, we made good time considering the weather. I crashed in the backseat for part of the drive... before Bakersfield to almost boron. Not a particularly looong nap, but it was better then being awake. ;) I drove the second part, after the mad dashes in and out of a circle K in Barstow for munchies during the hail...
We didn’t have directions to the hotel, we figured we’d be able to see it from the road and just drive towards it. The plan worked and we arrived safely at the stratosphere. Yay! Checked in, found our rooms (me & James in one, mom in another [right down the hall]), and relaxed for a bit. Round 6:30 we went down to get mom and heading out... played a few slots downstairs cuz mom had questions.
We wandered over to the monorail and took it all the way down to the MGM Grand. We passed through the Sahara on our way to the station... we were looking for food as well as checking things out. Things were a little pricey at the MGM Grand, I shrieked a little at the price of one steak (110$)!!!! and got a giggle from another man who was looking at the menu. We found the lion habitat and took a moment to look at the pretty kitties that were sleeping atop the tunnel. Won’t make it back there to see them up and about till Sunday at the earliest as there’s a fight tomorrow night. And then I won the food hunt by wanting to go eat at the Rainforest Café. Prices were good and with the fake thunder/lightning we got a show too! Hehehe. James had a steak and mom had some crab dip and shrimp. I had salad and bowl of clam chowder. This was hours ago and I’m starting to get a little hungry... wandered through the attached store, mom contemplated buying us sweatshirts (I think she decided we were cold) but since we weren’t happy with what they called a XX we said no. I like a lot of room in my sweat shirts, I got cleavage, and a want to be able to veg/lounge and be super comfy soooo their XX did not fit the bill... I think they may have been child sized... hmmm... anyways, I found some of the Audubon wildlife stuffed animals on major clearance and picked up a couple of the birds for my stuffed animal collection. YAY!
Headed across the way to New York New York and then across the way to Excalibur. Mom and I got our tickets to Thunder From Down Under for Sunday night at 8 and we wandered around the floor there. They had those yard long drinks there but the glasses had dragons on them. Yeah, I bought one. Strawberry daiquiri. But it got majorly sweet towards the ed of its life... yecch! After Excalibur we headed across to Luxor. Wandered a bit there cuz mom wanted to see the inside. Couldn’t go up one of the inclinators because they seem to have security... and decided we were a little tired. Took a cab back to the stratosphere (I have officially decided that all cabbies are nuts... plus it was still raining out there and he didn’t seem to notice that that made a difference in the road... but he did know his streets!) And now mom is back in her room, James is downstairs gambling, and I’ve just finished my shower and am heading to bed. We’re doing the breakfast buffet tomorrow. 9ish.
So, because I can’t post as I go, I’m doing this the old fashioned way... in a document. Hehehe! To be uploaded upon return to sanity. :P
like I said earlier, we made good time considering the weather. I crashed in the backseat for part of the drive... before Bakersfield to almost boron. Not a particularly looong nap, but it was better then being awake. ;) I drove the second part, after the mad dashes in and out of a circle K in Barstow for munchies during the hail...
We didn’t have directions to the hotel, we figured we’d be able to see it from the road and just drive towards it. The plan worked and we arrived safely at the stratosphere. Yay! Checked in, found our rooms (me & James in one, mom in another [right down the hall]), and relaxed for a bit. Round 6:30 we went down to get mom and heading out... played a few slots downstairs cuz mom had questions.
We wandered over to the monorail and took it all the way down to the MGM Grand. We passed through the Sahara on our way to the station... we were looking for food as well as checking things out. Things were a little pricey at the MGM Grand, I shrieked a little at the price of one steak (110$)!!!! and got a giggle from another man who was looking at the menu. We found the lion habitat and took a moment to look at the pretty kitties that were sleeping atop the tunnel. Won’t make it back there to see them up and about till Sunday at the earliest as there’s a fight tomorrow night. And then I won the food hunt by wanting to go eat at the Rainforest Café. Prices were good and with the fake thunder/lightning we got a show too! Hehehe. James had a steak and mom had some crab dip and shrimp. I had salad and bowl of clam chowder. This was hours ago and I’m starting to get a little hungry... wandered through the attached store, mom contemplated buying us sweatshirts (I think she decided we were cold) but since we weren’t happy with what they called a XX we said no. I like a lot of room in my sweat shirts, I got cleavage, and a want to be able to veg/lounge and be super comfy soooo their XX did not fit the bill... I think they may have been child sized... hmmm... anyways, I found some of the Audubon wildlife stuffed animals on major clearance and picked up a couple of the birds for my stuffed animal collection. YAY!
Headed across the way to New York New York and then across the way to Excalibur. Mom and I got our tickets to Thunder From Down Under for Sunday night at 8 and we wandered around the floor there. They had those yard long drinks there but the glasses had dragons on them. Yeah, I bought one. Strawberry daiquiri. But it got majorly sweet towards the ed of its life... yecch! After Excalibur we headed across to Luxor. Wandered a bit there cuz mom wanted to see the inside. Couldn’t go up one of the inclinators because they seem to have security... and decided we were a little tired. Took a cab back to the stratosphere (I have officially decided that all cabbies are nuts... plus it was still raining out there and he didn’t seem to notice that that made a difference in the road... but he did know his streets!) And now mom is back in her room, James is downstairs gambling, and I’ve just finished my shower and am heading to bed. We’re doing the breakfast buffet tomorrow. 9ish.