So back in VT and back in the work flow and not too worse the wear. Vegas is an exhausting place, especially 4 days there! We flew out early Tues. on United and it was pretty easy. We mostly got stuck in middle seats which sucks but overall it went pretty fast. A lot went on and it is not all exciting so I will hit a few of the high/lowlights. We stayed at Planet Hollywood and it was ok. The room was decent size, 2 queen beds, pretty clean, cheap, and very centrally located on the Strip. The casino was nice and mid level for not so high rollers such as ourselves. The food was mostly greasy pub style that was only ok and overpriced. Planet Dailies was the sight of our first and last meals in Vegas and it was fitting. Greasy burgers, crappy service from hung over stoners, and kind of high prices. Put it this way, I barfed after eating there the last day. Another food lowlight was the Earl of Sandwich. It was fast, pretty cheap, and hot but as my pal T-InPain pointed out... the "egg" in a breakfast sandwich started as a brown fruit juice looking substance? Gross. We ate at 2 Mexican places, Cabo Wabo and basically Cabo Wabo light. Both were fine if not exactly memorable. One "highlight" was dinner at Smith and Wollensky's. It is not as good as NY steak houses but the bartender was a character, the service was pretty solid and the food was good. I had a pretty solid prime rib and we had a bunch of apps that were all pretty good. Crabmeat and baby lobster cocktail were big hits. It was expensive but really pretty good. There are essentially 2 types of dining choices in Vegas... Really expensive high end knock offs that are not as good as their NYC (or Miami or LA) originals or there are burger joints/Tex Mex joints that are also overpriced and really only good for trashy and drunk gamblers (like ourselves). Another crappy burger joint we ate at was Blondies. somewhere in the bowels of Planet H. On the first day of NCAA playoff basketball they charged a $25/per person 2 hour minimum and then $25 per hour after that. That is a ton of wood to chop in the late morning on a Thursday! Service was so bad we were not sure we would get dollar 1 spent! Fortunately a cool bartender rolled by and hooked us up w/ a bucket of beers and we were on our way. I had some gross fried raviolis and a so so chicken club. The upside was that the place had 2million TVs and every game playing. Other than the steep price for bad service cheap beer it was a great place to watch basketball.
Quick aside, on St. Patty's Day 1/2 the town dressed up in green w/ goofy T-shirts that said "Fuck me I'm Irish" stupid hats and other shlocky shit. The first 2 days or March Madness the place filled up w/ 8 million dudes. Do you know what happens to a place w/ that kind of concentration of drunk guys? Imagine the gas odor, the shit talking, and the general wobbly intensity? Yeah, good to see once, but I never need to experience it again. $20 buckets of Coors Light (or Bud Light) were the special everywhere. I drank do much light beer I think I now urinate a hoppy blend of cool crisp Colorado stream water and fresh malty goodness! We also noticed way too many tank tops and lots of people rolling around town w/ gigantic yards of colored sugar water/margaritas. Some were so gig (about 3 feet) they required a strap. Seriously. A container of booze so big you need to tie it to your body to support it!
We also played a couple rounds of golf. The Las Vegas Golf Club was dry and not great (like my play), but it was close and casual and cheap. It was fun to get into the season. We also played the Angel Park mountain course. It was also reasonably priced but much nicer and very lush for the desert. We had a lot of fun (and light beer) at that course. By the way, the cab drivers in Vegas are the most interesting characters ever. They are all super chatty, friendly, and just plain weird! We thoroughly enjoyed each one w/ their singing, jokes, stories, and advice. Best cabbies anywhere. Period. One guy we had compared his man parts to O'Hare airport, not the biggest but the busiest! Why? Damned if I know! Another guy looked like Frak Delanor Romanowski from Seinfeld and had a million canned jokes and stories but they were all very well timed and very funny.
Finally our bodies had had enough and it was time to go. I have left out a bunch but it would take a couple hours to but in all the good stuff; like the flight home, the 4am blacked out guy w/ the hooker, TH handing our cards on the Strip, the great deals all over Vegas such as the Prive nightclub, the crazy Wed. night cab ride, my black jack mastery... I guess those are stories to be told over a bucket of beer sometime!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjFwrmWae6E
Quick aside, on St. Patty's Day 1/2 the town dressed up in green w/ goofy T-shirts that said "Fuck me I'm Irish" stupid hats and other shlocky shit. The first 2 days or March Madness the place filled up w/ 8 million dudes. Do you know what happens to a place w/ that kind of concentration of drunk guys? Imagine the gas odor, the shit talking, and the general wobbly intensity? Yeah, good to see once, but I never need to experience it again. $20 buckets of Coors Light (or Bud Light) were the special everywhere. I drank do much light beer I think I now urinate a hoppy blend of cool crisp Colorado stream water and fresh malty goodness! We also noticed way too many tank tops and lots of people rolling around town w/ gigantic yards of colored sugar water/margaritas. Some were so gig (about 3 feet) they required a strap. Seriously. A container of booze so big you need to tie it to your body to support it!
We also played a couple rounds of golf. The Las Vegas Golf Club was dry and not great (like my play), but it was close and casual and cheap. It was fun to get into the season. We also played the Angel Park mountain course. It was also reasonably priced but much nicer and very lush for the desert. We had a lot of fun (and light beer) at that course. By the way, the cab drivers in Vegas are the most interesting characters ever. They are all super chatty, friendly, and just plain weird! We thoroughly enjoyed each one w/ their singing, jokes, stories, and advice. Best cabbies anywhere. Period. One guy we had compared his man parts to O'Hare airport, not the biggest but the busiest! Why? Damned if I know! Another guy looked like Frak Delanor Romanowski from Seinfeld and had a million canned jokes and stories but they were all very well timed and very funny.
Finally our bodies had had enough and it was time to go. I have left out a bunch but it would take a couple hours to but in all the good stuff; like the flight home, the 4am blacked out guy w/ the hooker, TH handing our cards on the Strip, the great deals all over Vegas such as the Prive nightclub, the crazy Wed. night cab ride, my black jack mastery... I guess those are stories to be told over a bucket of beer sometime!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjFwrmWae6E
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