Back from Vegas

After little sleep, too many adult beverages, it’s back to reality. No doubt things are quieter these days in Sin City. The economy has had an impact, even in Las Vegas. Many more food deals, tons more one and two-cent slot machines and happy hours in most places we ventured. Normally craps is very good to me, however, only found one really hot table and came up a little short overall. I’d never played Let it Ride before, but Sal convinced me to try it and generally thought it was a pretty solid game and won a little. One of the guys pounded a five-team baseball parlay and hit it, wagering on Washington, Cincy, Arizona, Cleveland and Angels on Monday. Thou not something I would do, props to him on fantastic 29-1 payout. This was legit, since I saw the ticket.

Speaking of legit went and saw Carrot Top. The guy was hilarious with all his props and kept the jokes coming rabid fire. Everyone agreed, best stand-up they had seen in sometime. Went to Hawaiian Tropic restaurant after seeing something on the Travel Channel (yes, other things in life besides just sports, just not many) about this place. Despite girls walking around in bikini-tops and short cover-ups, no way to hide bad food. Calamari was the worst I’ve had in years and everyone agreed this place was pretty bad. Girls – Yes, Food – NO!

Mandalay Bay put in new bar called Eye-Candy, you can figure out the rest. The Palazzo is newer joint, next to the Venetian and though nice, didn’t grab anybody. Took my car out to Red Rock Hotel since nobody had been their besides me, everyone very impressed and quite a bit of action, being 15-20 minutes from The Strip.

Looking forward to getting back into routine, at least for a few days, more on that later.