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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 THE RULES OF LAS VEGAS  I know! I’ve been back for 5 days and haven’t posted about Vegas. I’ve been having a hard time with it. See, once you land in Vegas and they have the money vacuums securely attached to your pockets, there are all these unspoken rules that you need to know. Actually you need to break the rules in order to know they’re rules, because nobody is going to tell you the rules. It takes the fun out of yelling at you. For example: Don’t lean against the glass surrounding the roulette table, don’t answer your cell phone or touch the cards at the black jack table, don’t set your water/beer on the edge of any table, and do not under any circumstances use both hands to do anything, especially reach into the craps table to pick up the dice. Do not shake the dice just throw them. They must hit the end of the table and not the people working the table. You can hit the other players at the table. That’s o.k. AND THE MOTHER OF ALL RULES You are not allowed to take pictures of the interior or exterior of any building while on the building premises, nor can you take pictures of the entertainment. Which is really sad because we saw some really neat things. And I guess I can’t give my rave review of one of our more favorite restaurants. Which is also too bad because they had some of the best spinach and artichoke soup ever, and the presentation of the dishes were superb. The wait staff was so cute and did such a great job I think we gave them like a 35% tip. Apparently “NO PICTURES OF ANYTHING” rule only applies to me. As I was the only person singled out of a vat of 70 people taking pictures, who was told so, threatened confiscation, and escorted back to my room. So I guess you’ll just have to be satisfied with my pics of our outing to Hoover Dam.   I found this statue particularly creepy. His eyes followed you {{{shiver}}}.  We also hiked Red Rock Canyon. Very pretty.   Oh and this is a pic of our house from the airplane!  We did meet some really nice people. Mostly residence of Vegas, which I cannot understand how they can be so nice when so many of them just get crapped on by tourists. Oh and Bob and Laura, which I really wish we would have had more time to hang out with because they were really neat people, I wish I would have given them our email or something. And we did catch a couple shows. Unfortunately I found that a majority of our time was spent around tourists who were very rude. I walked away from Vegas with more bruises from people slamming into me than I can count. And it was really hard to watch how the people in the service industry were treated. I’ve gotta hand it to them, to be able to sit there at 4 am (or any time for that matter) and get berated by tourists the way they were. In summary, the city of Vegas itself just ain’t my kinda town. posted by me | 11:19 AM | 6 comments Comments: Post a Comment Your back! How was the concrete thingy. Any concrete counter stuff. That was what I wanted to put in the kitchen. Until I saw the price. Then it was straight to "grammy's formica" Actually the concrete thingy was fun. Lots of creative things. As for concrete counters you don't want them (had em in 2 homes, suck, we're tearing out what we have now). If you want to put money into nice counters choose Cambria quartz. Spendy but worth it. Oh I really hate it when they don't tell you the rules you are going to get yelled at for breaking. They seriously escorted you back to your room? I just had to bring the camera back to the room. The security guy was a youngster trying to flex I'm thinking. I love vegas. But I'm jealous I've never been to Red Rock Canyon. Thank thing looks awesome. Where are the rest of the pics? # posted by dan : 1/29/2006 5:14 PMBack to Blog |
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