Saturday, May 26, 2001

I enjoyed the flight. There was an empty row in the back of the plane so I asked the male flight attendant if I could hook it up. From there I got some rest on, and watched the cities below us pass by. At 35,000 feet everything looks beautiful. Since we were arriving pretty early I figured we would get to see the sun rise. And we did. It was a pretty sweet view. Up above all the clouds, which are amazing to see from above, you could see the sun rise over all the land. It was probably as close as I will ever get to being in space, but you could definetly see the difference between twilight and darkness as you were flying through it. The plane kinda banked nicely which allowed full pictures of the sunrise, hope the turn out nicely.

As I type this we are back on the road. After landing I talked to some guy at the America West desk and he suggested we take a shuttle to Milwaukee. So here we are on the United Limo bus hoping to be in Milwaukee by 9:00. I plan on good food, music, and sleep as soon as I walk in the door.

BTW, the inflight movie was "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Crazy kung-fu shit. And the driver of this bus looks whacked. Looks all mad and pissed like he had a bad night. I am afraid he might go postal. Hopefully after our stop. He looked pretty pissed that we had to buy tickets from him too!

We didn't plan on this being another road trip but it is. A small 90 mile journey back home. It feels good to be back on the ground. In somewhat familiar surroundings. I love Las Vegas, but I still love home. The End. At least for this trip!

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Friday, May 25, 2001

Ok, I seen this crazy black chick a few times now down here. She be laughing to herself and talking shit. Today she was up by "Nickel Town", nickel slots over at The Riviera. There is a little fountain in front and she was sitting on the side of it pulling water from it and making herself and her clothes wet. For no reason. And of course she was laughing it up and shit. Everytime I see her she has a yellow police "do not cross line" tape around her. Crazy.

Can you believe Tech Love is being represented out in Vegas baby. We saw an old friend, Cory Catterall up at our hotel. What a small world. Biggest gambler putting some cash on the cubbies. I quote Bill Graf as I say, "The Cubs are piss".

We slept a good deal of the day away before getting some grub and watching the Spurs/Lakers game. Somewhere in the 3rd quarter I decided to go take a walk. I wanted some pictures of the city before we left. I walked a good 6 miles total up and down the strip getting some photos of the hotels and such.

After I got back to the hotel we went to get some more eats and finished packing. It was a pretty long wait until we checked out. We left around 11:00 for the airport via a taxi. After getting there we found out that our flight was canceled. Aw bitch! After some sweet talking we got on a plane to Chicago (O'Hare Airport). Apparently the weather was to bad in Milwaukee. Fog and rain. Anyways, we just barely made the flight, thank god we were early, and we got some decent aisle seats. We plan on landing in Chicago around 5:30 AM.

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Thursday, May 24, 2001

Wow, Thursday already. Slept late again and enjoyed the fact that I am on vacation. No work, no nothing. Just vacation. After checking some email and chilling for awhile we went to go get our eat on. Some Philly Cheese Steaks from the food court. Not exactly some Ziggy Cheese Steaks, but better then the norm. Not bad at all. Instead of trying to find some place to watch the game we decided just to watch it in our room. Better sound, closer to the TV, and we can actually catch what is going on. Of course we thought about betting on the game, but we didn't. But we had faith in the Bucks. You know they were gonna win.

After the game we thought we would try our luck down at the Sahara again. Of course I am never smart enough to quit when I am ahead. I was up a good $130 and thought I could take that to $150. But instead I started losing and ended up down again! OUCH! But at least it was fun. Got some free Bud's and enjoyed watching the Texan next to me win about $3,000 and then loose it all with me. Good times indeed. Plus we got some Tech Love black jack going on. At least for one hand.

We walked back to the Riviera and were juiced up. Had some fun talking shit. Some guy at the bus stop was all like, "hey, did you see that? he popped a wheelie". And immediately following my comment he asked for some change. I was like WTF? I just lost money fool. Can you spare me a dollar? Shit!

We made it back to the hotel. And upon entering I was all loud and was like "Whhhaaazzzzup". Screw it, might as well enjoy my time here. We got into the elevator with the Asian invasion. And for some reason we were talking bout some "bling-bling". And of course they were about to get off and I was all loud and up in their face with some "bling-bling". Ok, so it's not funny to you, but it would have been if you were drunk, down some money, and with us in that elevator.

I pretty much hit the sheets once we got to the room. I dreamed of Buffy, baseball, and Vegas. Some crazy stuff. But it's all good. One more day baby.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2001

14 hours of sleep. Nuff said?

We planned on making a night out at Ra, the best club in Vegas. So being on vacation we figured we needed the sleep. After wasting some time we caught the bus to head down the strip. From there we went to the Monte Carlo where we had dinner at the Pub & Brewery. They have their own microbrewery with some excellent beers. Dinner was pretty good too.

Afterwards we headed to the tables and slots for a little money making. Nothing like black jack to make the heart pound. Once again I got carded at the tables. What the hell? I been carded at almost every table, carded for ordering water (yes H2O), and carded for cashing my chips in. Unbelievable. I ended up laying $200 on the table. I was down to $25 of that before I started making my cash back. By the time Todd joined me at the tabe I was still down $50. That is when I made my move and bet $50, and lost. And then I bet the rest of my stack. In a blaze of glory I won after the dealer busted on 6 cards and I was standing with only a shitty hand. Sweet, I made $13 bucks. I walked and let that pay for dinner.

We wasted some time in New York, New York and the Luxor before hitting Ra. We thought it opened at 10:00 when in fact it was 10:30. So we wasted some time on the tables there. Once again I was down to almost nothing. I bet it all in two hands to gain back my money. Even. WHEW! I didn't win much today but it was fun fighting to get your money back.

$20 cover charge for guys at Ra. WTF? And like $4 for a Budweiser. The club is awesome. It is located in the Luxor and plays on all the Egyptian themes. With huge statues of the once great Ra, and candles lit everywhere. Awesome. They had some house music going on and the place was packed. There could have been more women, and the music was way to loud. But I enjoyed it. Got my dance on, and drink on, and talked to some people there. They had women in cages, and women dancing with poles above the dance floor. They also had acrobat-type dancers. They were hanging from the ceiling doing their thing. It was pretty cool. The waitresses were dressed in egyptian flair. And the dancers were hot. We bugged out after 3 hours or so, but it was way to packed. But an awesome experience. I'd say it is a must see here in Vegas.

We hitched a ride home on the bus and hit the sheets. Big day tomorrow. The Bucks game and only 2 days left to be up $500 :)

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Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Ok, I just got to say if you are laying on a bus bench with your fat belly hanging out, only one shoe and sock on, and are in Las Vegas you are either a) fat, sloppy and drunk, or b) fat, sloppy, drunk and BROKE!

We got up early today (10:30) to get some breakfeast buffet on. It wasn't to bad. Yummy omlets, hash browns, bacon, french toast, fruit, and orange sherbet. Mmm Mmm Good. After that we took our lazy asses down to the pool for some real sun. It is nice outside. Hotter then a witches titty, but still nice. After soaking up some rays and lingering in the pool for awhile we went back to the room to get all cleaned up.

Go Bucks Go! We wanted to lay down some bets Vegas style before the game, which we did. A quarter on the Bucks over (192 points) and Todd took the Bucks and the 4 point spread. After that we went to redeem our free show tickets. Oh yes. Crazy Girls. The number one rated topless revue in Las Vegas. Should be pretty sweet. From there we planned on taking the trolley to the other end of the strip to Mandalay Bay. We were going to meet up with the crew to watch the Bucks game. Since we didn't know for sure where the trolley was at our hotel we headed down to the Sahara. Being early we went back to the tables to lay down some bets.

We found an awesome new game of blackjack. On each deal you can place a dollar in this circle. If you do that and get 21 you win a chance at $1000 dollars. Well I should say $5 to $1000 dollars. I won that 2 times and made an extra $30 bucks at the table. So my winning streak has started again. It was fun, and a lot more exciting.

We caught the trolley after that and watched as it took almost an hour to go down the strip. ARGH! We missed part of the 1st quarter, and went on to watch the Bucks loose. When are we going to get some good calls? The waitress in the bar area was slower then molasses. It took her almost 15 minutes to get us a beer after we ordered it. NO TIP FOR YOU.

After the game we figured we would walk back down to our hotel and check out ESPNzone on the way. Unfortunately it was closed. But god, I swear we are now in Hong Kong. You couldn't even walk down the street because they were crowded with little people that must have just flown in. Argh. Nothing against some slanty eye people, but damn. Were did they all come from? An asian explosion happened or something. Along the way you see these fools trying to hand out free sex crap. Stripper info, etc. They always try and push it into your face, and they are always DP's. So being me, I would act like I wanted the pamphlet and then go "psyche". None of them chased after me all mean like tho. After walking all the way back to our Hotel (in less time then the fucking trolley took) we were beat. We got some eats and waited for our show at 10:30.

That was 4 miles to long of a walk. And damnit I am not doing that again. And my sunburn hurts and so do my legs. But we went to see the show. It couldn't be that bad right? Free, full of titties, and legs! WRONG. Once again we sat in the asian section. They love some american women. And the show was horrible. God awful. The best in Las Vegas? How? They lip synced. They were not in time with each other. Bad bad bad. And the MC was worse. She wasn't funny at all. The crowd was more funny than she was. She tried hard to prompt the crowd to complete her joke, but it didn't work. Half of them couldn't speak any english and the rest were like "you suck"! On one joke she was like, "have any of you used food during sex", obviously hoping for the whip cream answer. Instead the crowd piped up with such answers as "steak", "mashed potatoes", and my favorite "warm apple pie"! You suck bitch, get off the stage!

What can you say after that? We went to bed planning on some good sleep. It's a big day tomorrow!

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Monday, May 21, 2001

We left Milwaukee at 10:15 PM in route for Las Vegas. Never being on a plane before I didn't quite know what to expect. It wasn't bad at all. We traded our seats in for "Exit Seats". In trade for the leg room we had to agree to help people off the plane and make sure we could read English and basic hand signals, etc. Why I don't know...like it is that hard to open the hatch, and wave good bye as we are the first people jumping off the plane.

Flying is a pretty weird feeling, but overall it was an o.k. experience. It was sweet flying into Vegas at midnight and seeing the lights from far out. After we landed we made our way to the hotel. Took an airport taxi and arrived at the Riviera. We got into our room to find some crazy moth and bugs up on curtains. We called for room service and some crazy dude came in armed with only a rag. He started slapping at the bugs all crazy like. I guess he got them all but still....that is just ghetto. But the Riviera is still pretty sweet. Nice pool, pretty nice rooms, and for a cheap price. I can't complain. We hit McDonalds for some quick grub and then headed down the strip to the casinos to make some money. Everything is more expensive but what really got me was the service. They had all DP's behind the counter and they were slow as hell. Speaking 14 different languages and walking around all confused like they finally got my order. The one guy behind the counter was so gay. OH GOD! I don't know why they took everyones order, and then did the hit half backwards.

After a few hours, and a good 4 casinos later I was up $250. We hit places like the Monte Carlo, The Bellagio, and our very own Riviera. By the time we got back which was around 5 AM I was up pretty much. I should have went to bed. Instead I went to the $5 table and ended up losing money.

After sleeping a good 8 hours I got up around 1 PM and went back down to the casino for awhile after eatin at Burger King and showering up. Todd hit the pool and I went back to the table to lose again. Never ever play at the Riviera. I had 2 aces. I split and ended up with 19 and 20. With $50 riding on this I watched the dealer proceed to get 21 with like 6 cards. AWWW BITCH! Todd came a looking for me and we got up. Came back and played this Mechanical Horse game and watched the Lakers beat the Spurs. Bucks are catchin 4.5. I might put a quarter on them tomorrow.

After awhile we met up with James and Theresa. From there we went to the Sahara for some $2 dollar table action. I was up $50 for awhile. And then I lost. I tried to make it back by betting $50 on one hand. After 3 Budwiesers I decided to let $100 ride on one hand. Awww Bitch!!!! Lost both. That o.k. because that is what vacation is about. We were all laughing and having fun. Thats the good times you will remember.

We later made our way to the Stratosphere. We ended up spending $9 to go up to the top and checking out the city from 1,149 feet. It i pretty weird seeing all the city lighted up and looking at all the casinos on the strip. It was weirder yet being on the outside observation deck. We did the roller coaster. Sitting in the back seat were awesome. Going around the outside of the tower and being that high up is a rush. It was worth it. I should have taken some pictures. While we were waiting in line we were watching a mechanical bull ride. Funny as hell. Some dude was on it and the bull was going nuts. Next up was some chick and the guy controlling the bull was having it go all slow. Kinda brings back thoughts of Jennifer Connelly in that great movie Career Opportunities. Then he let lose and we watched her fly off and bust her shit on the bulls horns. Funny as hell.

We only been here about 24 hours. But I am beat. It finally caught up to me. It's 1:13AM and time to sleep. Updates coming tomorrow. I plan to make some money back at the Sahara and gonna try and hit the pool for some sun. Just gotta say it's beautiful out. 80s and 90s outside with a gentle breeze. But after walking a good 8 miles during the past day, (which is more then I walked all of this year) my feet are just killing me and I need the rest.

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