Las Vegas & Seattle
Well I figure I'd better post something about Vegas up on here...
So I left for Vegas on Saturday the 22nd September without any accommodation for the Saturday night - I figured that I'd probably be up all night anyway so why bother with it and the expense. The flight to Vegas was eventful as while we were waiting to board the plane I was listen to someone else telling someone what to do, go see etc. There was a mum and daughter pair that we going down for the first time from Wales (in the UK for those who don't know where it is) - the daughter lives in Vancouver now...also the guy telling us what to do had a Betta Electrical (for the Aussies) T-shirt on which he'd got when he was down in Australia once.
So on the flight to Vegas when we were about 1hr out from our destination we hit some pretty bad turbulence which flung the plane from side to side - once really badly that my head actually hit the window...but it also dropped down aswell - although I have to say it is the first time on a flight that has hit turbulence that bad and the majority of people on the flight were laughing.
Once in Vegas I checked my bags at the Sahara hotel (where I was staying at) and made my way along the famous Las Vegas Strip...it was a sight to see and once I got to the main section where most of the casinos are located it was pretty busy and hectic - that is until about 3-4am when it really started to die off. I kept walking and visited most of the casino's along the Strip on the Saturday night...I was dead tired the next day and while waiting to check in sat at a slot machine and while playing slowly was falling asleep and was grateful once I had checked-in to finally get some sleep after beening up for about 27hrs straight.
Monday was pretty boring with not much to do - and is when I lost most of my money because of it - but in the evening I went to see a comedy show called the Second City Theatre in the Flamingo casino - it was pretty damn funny - I got a great laugh out of it.
On the Tuesday I took a tour to the Grand Canyon and it was certainly Grand - we went to the South Rim which is the widest section of the Canyon and it was we worth the trip - even with a bus that was on the verge of completely breaking down...but as a result of that I got to go on the famous Route 66 and stop in the town where the person who partitioned the US Government to recommission the road lives (and is now know at the home of the start of the historic Route 66) - it was definitely a place worth seeing and well worth the inconvenience of the bus basically breaking down and putting us about 1-1.5hr's behind schedule - which was fine as we rocked up to most of the stops just as the last lot of tour buses were leaving.
Wednesday was pretty quite as well though - I played in a poker tournament then went and played at a poker table after that to kill time before I had to catch to plane back home (I did ok at poker, not the greatest but decent enough to hold my own with some half decent players - no one famous thought).
Now onto today... I went with my friend James down to Seattle to post some of my stuff back to Australia (as I didn''t want to carry it through Europe - and it was cheaper to post it out of the US rather than Canada)...it was kinda eventful especially at the border crossing as they wanted to have a look inside the boxes but we got through ok in the end and made our way down to Seattle to post the boxes - it was fun and I got a couple of laughs and gave a couple of stories to the boarder crossing customs guys and the postal workers aswell.
We also went and visited a couple of bookstores down there that were suppost to have Jame's books in stock - the first place didn't even know who James was ... which in itself was quite funny, that and they were mixing him up with Jesse McCann who has written graphic novels (like the Dragon Ball Z books). The second place we went to were interested in James when he introduced himself and actually had one of his books in stock - so I took a photo for him with two of the ladies who worked there...he way even get some events down there which would be great for him. On the way back through the Border Customs they customs official could believe it when we said that we had just gone down to Seattle for a day visit and all we had bought was one measly Western Europe phasebook worth $11 and asked me a second time if I had bought anything else other than the book which I was holding in my hand...which I politely replied that it was all I had bought and that was it. Well we got through and had a good laugh out of it, and so ended a successful day of posting and touring some of Seattle - BTW while I have been to Seattle before James hadn't so in effect I was showing him around Seattle rather than the other way around.
So I left for Vegas on Saturday the 22nd September without any accommodation for the Saturday night - I figured that I'd probably be up all night anyway so why bother with it and the expense. The flight to Vegas was eventful as while we were waiting to board the plane I was listen to someone else telling someone what to do, go see etc. There was a mum and daughter pair that we going down for the first time from Wales (in the UK for those who don't know where it is) - the daughter lives in Vancouver now...also the guy telling us what to do had a Betta Electrical (for the Aussies) T-shirt on which he'd got when he was down in Australia once.
So on the flight to Vegas when we were about 1hr out from our destination we hit some pretty bad turbulence which flung the plane from side to side - once really badly that my head actually hit the window...but it also dropped down aswell - although I have to say it is the first time on a flight that has hit turbulence that bad and the majority of people on the flight were laughing.
Once in Vegas I checked my bags at the Sahara hotel (where I was staying at) and made my way along the famous Las Vegas Strip...it was a sight to see and once I got to the main section where most of the casinos are located it was pretty busy and hectic - that is until about 3-4am when it really started to die off. I kept walking and visited most of the casino's along the Strip on the Saturday night...I was dead tired the next day and while waiting to check in sat at a slot machine and while playing slowly was falling asleep and was grateful once I had checked-in to finally get some sleep after beening up for about 27hrs straight.
Monday was pretty boring with not much to do - and is when I lost most of my money because of it - but in the evening I went to see a comedy show called the Second City Theatre in the Flamingo casino - it was pretty damn funny - I got a great laugh out of it.
On the Tuesday I took a tour to the Grand Canyon and it was certainly Grand - we went to the South Rim which is the widest section of the Canyon and it was we worth the trip - even with a bus that was on the verge of completely breaking down...but as a result of that I got to go on the famous Route 66 and stop in the town where the person who partitioned the US Government to recommission the road lives (and is now know at the home of the start of the historic Route 66) - it was definitely a place worth seeing and well worth the inconvenience of the bus basically breaking down and putting us about 1-1.5hr's behind schedule - which was fine as we rocked up to most of the stops just as the last lot of tour buses were leaving.
Wednesday was pretty quite as well though - I played in a poker tournament then went and played at a poker table after that to kill time before I had to catch to plane back home (I did ok at poker, not the greatest but decent enough to hold my own with some half decent players - no one famous thought).
Now onto today... I went with my friend James down to Seattle to post some of my stuff back to Australia (as I didn''t want to carry it through Europe - and it was cheaper to post it out of the US rather than Canada)...it was kinda eventful especially at the border crossing as they wanted to have a look inside the boxes but we got through ok in the end and made our way down to Seattle to post the boxes - it was fun and I got a couple of laughs and gave a couple of stories to the boarder crossing customs guys and the postal workers aswell.
We also went and visited a couple of bookstores down there that were suppost to have Jame's books in stock - the first place didn't even know who James was ... which in itself was quite funny, that and they were mixing him up with Jesse McCann who has written graphic novels (like the Dragon Ball Z books). The second place we went to were interested in James when he introduced himself and actually had one of his books in stock - so I took a photo for him with two of the ladies who worked there...he way even get some events down there which would be great for him. On the way back through the Border Customs they customs official could believe it when we said that we had just gone down to Seattle for a day visit and all we had bought was one measly Western Europe phasebook worth $11 and asked me a second time if I had bought anything else other than the book which I was holding in my hand...which I politely replied that it was all I had bought and that was it. Well we got through and had a good laugh out of it, and so ended a successful day of posting and touring some of Seattle - BTW while I have been to Seattle before James hadn't so in effect I was showing him around Seattle rather than the other way around.
posted by Matt at Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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