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Monday, June 26, 2006   Vegas Baby Yes, Ian and I are back from Vegas. We got back last weekend, and it was a blast. We flew out Tuesday evening, stayed at the Monte Carlo, and arrived back too freakin' early Saturday morning. Yes, it was a whirlwind trip, but Vegas is not a town you meander through. It's a place to go when you want to go on the whirlwind trip. We had such a great time. We wandered through most of the casinos and hotels--saw the fountains at the Bellagio, wandered through the shops at Caesars Palace, saw the canals of the Venitian, walked from Mandalay Bay to the Tropicana to the Luxor to Excalibur to MGM Grand to the New York New York, mostly without seeing daylight, as most of the hotels and casinos are connected. Ian met up with one of his friends who lives in Vegas, and he took us to the Freemont Experience--aka Old Sleazy Vegas. We wandered, got lots of Mardi Gras beads, got pictures with mermaids, ate dinner at the place least likely to result in food poisoning (the places advertising $.50 beer, $1 hot dogs, and $10 prime rib dinners are at the top of the "likely to end in food poisoning" list). His friend brought us back via the Strip; we got a great view of the Strip from the back of his friend's pick up truck. Yes, it's legal to ride in the back of pick up trucks. It's also legal to not wear a seatbelt, carry an open container, bet on any and all sports, and pretty much do anything else you want to do short of hurting someone. I saw the Ansel Adams exihibit at the Bellagio, met one Elvis, couldn't get any of the sleazy Latinos handing out porn cards to give me one, lost $30 playing blackjack and penny slots, walked so much I got blisters on my feet, was never happier to see the Gap (only so I could get a new pair of shoes), had a lovely lunch at the Top of the World with the most wonderful guy in the world, and had a super time with Ian. It was an awesome time in a wacky city where no one sleeps, nothing is illegial, and there's always something shiny and sparkly to distract you. Most importantly, there's a big giant wall of M&Ms in all sorts of neat colors--like purple and lilac and silver and cream and teal and maroon. And that's really why it's meant for whirlwind trips; if I stayed any longer, there would be no more wall of M&Ms. posted by jaime | 9:38 PM 0 comments

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