APAT - Vegas Vengeance: Thursday, 24th November 2011
Well, it finally arrived...the main strength of the APAT contingent was heading home today. Not me of course, I have another couple of days...of which more later. Thanks to Dawn’s negotiating skills I wasn’t rushed about moving out of my hotel room until I was good and ready but by 2pm I was packed up and checked out and sitting in the Starbucks near to the lobby waiting for my brother.
A parade of happy, but very tired APAT faces paraded past to do the check-out thing and wait for various taxis and limos. Yes, Vegas can be a tiring place to visit..even for the young. Because there is so much to see, do and experience, especially for the Vegas Virgins, they try to cram it all in into the quite short amount of time.
Sleep comes far down on the list and that catches up with you eventually. For many it will be when they get home...some may be unconscious on take-off from McCarran.
Anyway, back to me.
Pete eventually out in an appearance about 2.45pm and did his check-out thing. No surprisingly, in additional to getting 5 days for free, they comped the other two nights based on his play over the past few days.
Me... I earned a grand total of $6...whoop-de-doo.
So, with the admin done, we cabbed it over to the Mirage...no way I was lugging 20kg of luggage across Harrah's casino floor, across LV Blvd and then across the Mirage.
Check-in was easy and we made our way up to our room for the next two nights.
Very nice rooms even if I say it myself
By the time we gotten unpacked and sorted it was time to eat. The line at the buffet was too long so I directed Pete to BLT Burger.
Mmmmmm.....gorgeous with a couple of draft Bud Lites. Pete thought it was the bees patellae.
With the body sated Pete went off to do his thing and I headed to the Mirage Poker Room. They don’t get anything other than Hold’em going on here very often so I just decided to sit in on a 3/6 Limit game.
Unfortunately, the game was shorthanded for quite a while and I didn’t fare very well. In the end I just go blinded away and ended up down about $100.
I got bored with it and decided to rest up for a while before thinking of what to do next. On my way out of the poker room I met a local friend who deals at both the Mirage and Bills and we caught up in a very quick fashion as she was just coming on shift.
On getting back to the room, I find Pete already collapsed on his bed pretty much spark out. I found this idea quite attractive and got my head down.
Of course, this was fatal and I woke up around 11.30pm and that was that, I read for a while but couldn’t get back to sleep and the next thing I know it’s well past 3am and Pete and I are watching re-runs of Friends...all the Thanksgiving episodes.
[sorry]Hangs head in shame[/sorry]
So...nothing much to report of the Thursday night...another rest day overall.
