Vegas, Baby!

I am currently in Las Vegas (okay, this post was written in Vegas and posted in VA because I didn’t have Internet access in Vegas). This place is a trip. Just seeing the strip is worth the trip. It is quite a sight to behold…New York, New York, Paris, the giant lion in front of MGM…unbelievable. And my friends that I’m with tell me they can’t believe how dead it is here. We got cabs from the Bellegio without waiting in a line. We partied at Moon at The Palms and it was only mildly packed. Rum Jungle wasn’t even serving dinner last night.

Although I’m definitely glad to have made the trip and be catching up with some old friends, I don’t think I’m really a Vegas person. I lost $70 last night playing black jack and am really irritated about it. And it’s only $70. Some people come out here and throw down $100 (or $1,000) chips down next to my $5 chips. Where do these people get this kind of money and how can they stand losing a hand? It is just another world out here.

I will say the clubs are pretty cool. I’m not a particularly big clubbin’ kind of person, but Moon last night was really amazing. And they have these girls dancing in basically bikinis. I just wonder how their bodies look like that. I asked one of my friends last night and his response was, “A lot of coke.”

So all in all – I’ll post more on the inaugural Vegas trip later – very interesting but I don’t think I’ll be making a regular stop on the vacation circuit. Things are so bad out here and they’re so desperate to bring people to Vegas, you can get decent rooms on the Strip at $40 per night. And that’s on the weekend. Then you get out here and realize a decent dinner costs $80, a round of drinks costs $50 (for three drinks) and after twenty minutes on the blackjack table you’re down $70. If you’re good with numbers you realized all the money you saved on the hotel was gone about 15 minutes after you set foot outside your hotel room…