I awoke today not to the sunny skies of the previous days. It was all gloom, and when you're gambling in Vegas, gloom leads to doom.
The gang all got together pretty early and walked to Fashion Show Mall which was around a 15 minute walk from our hotel. It was raining. It rains 10 out of the 12 months here in Vancouver, and rains 1 day in Vegas at best. Yesterday Lady Luck back hand slapped me, today Apollo spat in my face.
We didn't explore all of Fashion Show Mall, I was shopped out and I barely bought anything. I picked up some souvenirs, while Mui bought some clothing from Forever 21. Since Herb and Janger didn't get a chance go to the outlets yesterday, they decided to go today and would meet up with us later on.
The rest of us cabbed it to MGM Grand to check out the last remaining big hotels on the south end of the strip. The cab driver we had was from Chicago, complete with the accent. He started talking to us about insurance companies, the weather, what it was like to be a cabbie driving 10 hours a day, and hookers. The ride wasn't as weird as it seemed, I was laughing the whole time. The cabbie also explained to us the miscellaneous charge we had on the first day. Apparently in Vegas everytime a cab passes out of the airport they get charged $1.80, which they then pass on to the customer. He told us to becareful and that the $1.80 doesn't apply when you go to the airport, only when you leave, most informative.
At MGM grand they had the CBS studio where they invited people to sit in and watch pilots of possible upcoming shows. I wish I had more time, I would have loved to watch a few hours of crappy television. Honestly I really wanted to do this.
The MGM Grand arena wasn't open, I wanted to get a picture of it, so I was pretty disappointed.
When we went to look for tickets to Cirque Du Soleil's O, we found out that it was sold out. This was like a swift kick to the throat, I didn't know what to say. I really wanted to watch some shows at Vegas, but time constraints limited us to this show, and it was sold out. O was only on Sundays and Wednesdays. Sigh...
On our way to the M&M shop we saw the "Stone Man." A man painted in a ceramic white that just stood there until someone donated money to him. Ju went up to him to donate some money and he started to move while robotic sounds played. I don't get why this "Stone Man" sounded like a robot when he moved but you couldn't help but have a smile on your face when you see him.
The M&M store was huge, four floors of M&M merchandise. Everything from cups, cushions, guitars, posters, clothing, toys was all on display. I picked up some souvenirs while everyone else was busy making M&M penny imprints.
Next we walked next door to the Coke store, three whole floors of Beverages and merchandise. I succumbed and purchased a Coke mug. We also paid $7 to try out 16 different types of Coke products all around the world. Some of the stand out drinks were the Bibo drinks from South Africa, Smart Apple from China, and an Aquarius Citrus drink from Taiwan.
There was also this drink from Italy called Beverley, son of a butcher's whore this drink was horrible. The after taste that it leaves is so nasty that I tried to wash it out with the other drinks and couldn't. The nastiest drink I've ever tasted. We watched a little girl drink the same drink the table next to us (we're sadistic like that), and the face she made was hilarious. The only way to describe her reaction would be to say Goatse, yep that's the reaction you get when you drink Beverley, the Goatse reaction.
Herb and Janger met us at the Coke store, and we all walked to Paris again, Ju wanted to pick up another Ciroc. The walk to Paris was wet, Vancouver wet. I was soaked bad with puddles everywhere and no umbrellas in sight.
After we changed we cabbed to Red Lobster's for dinner. I'd see their commercial all the time, but there are no Red Lobsters in Vancouver. The dinner at Red Lobster was really good, they didn't serve any alcohol worth noting, but when there's no alcohol butter will do. Most of us either ordered the lobster tail, scallops, prawn dish or the rock lobster tail steak dish. Both were mouth watery entrees worthy of a repeat.
The cabbie on the ride back to the hotel was the nicest cabbie we've had all trip. He gave us a list of bang for buck restaurants, then told us he could hook us up with cheap tickets to clubs. We told him we were Canadian and he started naming all the provinces and territories, kind of weird since he wasn't Canadian but impressive.
Once back at the hotel we gambled again. Mui was with me this time at the roulette tables. Some good calls, some bad calls. I played inside today and didn't do as bad as I thought I would've (I was putting down 10 chips or so all to win back 17).
Ju doubled up, I ended up down $5, Mui was down $5 from slots, and ya, nothing else to add to that. This covers everyone, pretty much.
We chilled at the hotel for a little while drinking a case of Miller Lite, then Ju had the brilliant idea of chugging beer outside the Bellagio. So we went outside to where the Bellagio fountains were took turns taking off our shirts and then chugged beer a la Stone Cold style.
We returned to the hotel with our beer soaked pants, and tried to pull an all nighter as Ju and B were leaving at 5am. After going through 18 beers with just the three of us, we tried to battle the sleepy state produced from alcohol. Trying to reflect on the past four days I eventually dozed off...
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