Well, I was wrong about the expected temperature in Vegas over this past weekend. It wasn't 108F afterall, but an engulfing and miserable 118F. One hundred and eighteen degrees farenheit?! I can hardly believe it myself. So, let me tell you about the fun trip we had...
Friday, I only worked a half day, got off at noon and headed home to meet Justin and grab my stuff. We picked up Adam, and started our road trip towards Vegas--luckily, traffic wasn't bad and we made pretty good time. Feeling the windows, and wondering how hot it was outside as we traveled deeper into the desert, the three of us took a guess at what the Big Thermometer in Baker would read--Adam 101, Me 113, Justin 114. I thought my guess was even stretching it a little, but to our amazement and Justin's delight, it was actually 118. Makes me sweat just thinking about it...So we got to the Monte Carlo Hotel & Casino, met up with Meghan & Liam, and waited for a couple of other early arrivers (everyone else was getting in midnight-ish). We then had some drinks and did a bit of gambling and dancing and hanging out that night, then stuffed about 15 people into two hotel rooms....
Saturday, we spent the first half of the day down at the pool area, working on tans and staying cool by jumping into the lazy river and wave pool. I was not very impressed by their lazy river, by the way, and I guess it's just because I expected much more than what was there, but it was fun nonetheless. After getting enough sun and heat for the day, I cleaned up, and went on a little adventure with Jake. We wanted to head towards Cesar's Forum Shops, to maybe do some shopping. The trip was further and took longer than we thought, and we idiotically trekked accross the front of Belaggio in the blazing heat, rather than walking through the hotel itself. The trip to Cesar's proved pointless, because neither of us were willing to spend the big bucks on shopping in the stores they had there. From there, we headed back towards the end of the Strip to meet up with Juan & Anitza for dinner at Mandalay Bay's buffett. (They were in Vegas for vacation/1 yr wedding anniversary/Juan's Birthday--congrats you two, and Happy Birthday Juan!) After dinner, the whole group was headed towards Studio 54, for a night of dancing to celebrate Meghan's birthday...
Sunday (Happy Birthday Meghan!), was time to pack up and head home. We hit more traffic this time, and it took about 6 hours to get back, but we got in before it got dark, which was nice. The first thing I did was shower, then went and bought the long awaited 6th Harry Potter book.
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