G-Lexington
Lex. Icon. Devil.
We sojourned to Las Vegas for three days this past weekend, mainly to scope out a location for a party before the end of the year. Nothing majorly important happened, but thought you might want to hear about the trip anyway.
We stayed at the Sahara. Not a bad place at all, but certainly one whose glory days are in the past. We had some modest issues with the place. The beds were either slightly uncomfortable (to me) or WAY uncomfortable (to Pubert). The pillows weren't big enough for my liking. The hot water occasionally got the shower head to vibrating loudly. The "TV Internet" service froze up on the very first website I visited (no, not this one). And the alarm clock was busted - it only displayed the "alarm time", not the actual time. Housekeeping eventually sent up another one...which didn't work either. (Roughly half of the LED "bars" were burned out.) We never did have a functioning clock in our room the entire trip. The elevators had some "issues" Sunday morning as we went to check out - they refused to stop on our floor. Finally, a security guy let us sneak a ride down in the service elevator.
All in all, enh. Should be easy to find a place better at roughly the same price.
On a positive note, the monorail stops right behind the hotel. So we mainly used that as our mode of transport. The drawback on THAT, though, was the weather. When we landed in Vegas, it was 102...and the sun had been down for over an hour. This was pretty much the way things were the entire time. Highs around 110, lows around 90. I even bought a pair of shorts...which if you know me is somewhat of a rarity.
But it wasn't as horrid as I thought it'd be. I guess I actually DO like the warm weather. Plus, we were an air-conditioned places most of the time.
As usual, I didn't gamble. At all. Not my thing. Pubert did, and for the first time ever, he ended up down for a trip to Vegas. Not a lot - $150 or so, of the $300 he allocated himself to gamble with. So he came out OK. The craps tables just weren't falling like they normally did. Oh well.
We did go out to see some shows. I finally got to see the Excalibur show, with the jousting and the horses and the chicken dinner you eat with your hands. The food was precisely as mediocre as I expected, but the horse and pony show was fun. (For those who've seen it, we were in the Hungary rooting section.) One of those things where you surrender yourself to the cheesiness of it all, and have a good time. From there, we ventured upstairs to see the Thunder from Down Under. Basically just guys taking off their clothes. We were two of the three guys in there, and now I know what it's like when a woman goes to a gay bar. Pretty good eye candy. The next night, we saw Zumanity, the "sexy" Cirque du Soleil show. Very erotic and sensual, and I had a good time, but still, it was a bit odd. Some parts just didn't fit in well with the others. ("Now two people doing acrobatics from silks...because it's Cirque and that's what we do, right?")
Glad to be back, and ready to get back in the swing of things. Oh. and as for the original purpose of the trip...did we find a spot? Oh yes. Yes we did.
Lex
We stayed at the Sahara. Not a bad place at all, but certainly one whose glory days are in the past. We had some modest issues with the place. The beds were either slightly uncomfortable (to me) or WAY uncomfortable (to Pubert). The pillows weren't big enough for my liking. The hot water occasionally got the shower head to vibrating loudly. The "TV Internet" service froze up on the very first website I visited (no, not this one). And the alarm clock was busted - it only displayed the "alarm time", not the actual time. Housekeeping eventually sent up another one...which didn't work either. (Roughly half of the LED "bars" were burned out.) We never did have a functioning clock in our room the entire trip. The elevators had some "issues" Sunday morning as we went to check out - they refused to stop on our floor. Finally, a security guy let us sneak a ride down in the service elevator.
All in all, enh. Should be easy to find a place better at roughly the same price.
On a positive note, the monorail stops right behind the hotel. So we mainly used that as our mode of transport. The drawback on THAT, though, was the weather. When we landed in Vegas, it was 102...and the sun had been down for over an hour. This was pretty much the way things were the entire time. Highs around 110, lows around 90. I even bought a pair of shorts...which if you know me is somewhat of a rarity.
But it wasn't as horrid as I thought it'd be. I guess I actually DO like the warm weather. Plus, we were an air-conditioned places most of the time.As usual, I didn't gamble. At all. Not my thing. Pubert did, and for the first time ever, he ended up down for a trip to Vegas. Not a lot - $150 or so, of the $300 he allocated himself to gamble with. So he came out OK. The craps tables just weren't falling like they normally did. Oh well.
We did go out to see some shows. I finally got to see the Excalibur show, with the jousting and the horses and the chicken dinner you eat with your hands. The food was precisely as mediocre as I expected, but the horse and pony show was fun. (For those who've seen it, we were in the Hungary rooting section.) One of those things where you surrender yourself to the cheesiness of it all, and have a good time. From there, we ventured upstairs to see the Thunder from Down Under. Basically just guys taking off their clothes. We were two of the three guys in there, and now I know what it's like when a woman goes to a gay bar.
Pretty good eye candy. The next night, we saw Zumanity, the "sexy" Cirque du Soleil show. Very erotic and sensual, and I had a good time, but still, it was a bit odd. Some parts just didn't fit in well with the others. ("Now two people doing acrobatics from silks...because it's Cirque and that's what we do, right?")Glad to be back, and ready to get back in the swing of things. Oh. and as for the original purpose of the trip...did we find a spot? Oh yes. Yes we did.
Lex