VEGAS, baby
Oct. 4th, 2006 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmk418In 24 hours I will be heading east on an airplane to Las Vegas. (I could pause now to report that Dallas has just tied the hockey game by scoring 2 in the 3rd as fast as the Avs did in the first but I won't) I'm getting quite excited. Yes, I have to get through a full day of work tomorrow, but it won't be so bad. I have a great love of Las Vegas and I only made my first visit there about 4 years ago. It has to do with my love of cash flow (and not minding too much when it doesn't flow back). Oh, yeah, the casino ladies (somehow that comment seems worse if I call them "girls"). I went with my best friend on my first trip out there and we stayed at the Hard Rock. It was nice. Lots of eye candy. I went up again about 8 months later - in July. At 1AM, it was over 100 degrees. I don't think I'll be doing that again. The last time I went up, I met up with my sister. We stayed one night at Bellagio (heaven! I recommend it to anyone) and the rest of the time at CircusCircus (which would have been ok, if it hadn't followed Bellagio). It was fun, but the timing was really sucky considering I was getting over a breakup that had happened the week before. Lucky for me I don't have to worry about that happening this time.
I am a little paranoid that my family is going to be very tired and not want to do much when we're there. It's weird, but that's the feeling I've been getting - one of these - "oh, we want to sleep when we get to the hotel" - type of things. If you want to sleep, don't go to Vegas. And we only have 2 days really since we're spending a good part of Friday at the Grand Canyon. So there's a lot of ground to cover. And I just like spending a few minutes of my first night in Vegas at the Bellagio. It's also a very Soderbergh-ian thing (my great love for "Oceans 11") and being there just means "Vegas" to me. When my best friend & I walked in there 4 years ago, it was like entering Wrigley Field or the Montreal Forum (back in the day, before they tore it down) with this wonderful awestruck feeling. I felt like I was on a movie set. A Soderbergh movie set. And that was so nice. So that's my thing.
Since I haven't mentioned "Oz" yet, here's my opportunity. I nearly posted earlier at work today b/c my boss' wife was walking around talking about accounting and I thought of those scenes in season six when Omar White was explaining the theories of the universe to Idzik. It was really funny actually. Ok, maybe it was just funny to me.
Gotta go pack.
Side note - why does my "excited" kitty look so doggone tranquil?
I am a little paranoid that my family is going to be very tired and not want to do much when we're there. It's weird, but that's the feeling I've been getting - one of these - "oh, we want to sleep when we get to the hotel" - type of things. If you want to sleep, don't go to Vegas. And we only have 2 days really since we're spending a good part of Friday at the Grand Canyon. So there's a lot of ground to cover. And I just like spending a few minutes of my first night in Vegas at the Bellagio. It's also a very Soderbergh-ian thing (my great love for "Oceans 11") and being there just means "Vegas" to me. When my best friend & I walked in there 4 years ago, it was like entering Wrigley Field or the Montreal Forum (back in the day, before they tore it down) with this wonderful awestruck feeling. I felt like I was on a movie set. A Soderbergh movie set. And that was so nice. So that's my thing.
Since I haven't mentioned "Oz" yet, here's my opportunity. I nearly posted earlier at work today b/c my boss' wife was walking around talking about accounting and I thought of those scenes in season six when Omar White was explaining the theories of the universe to Idzik. It was really funny actually. Ok, maybe it was just funny to me.
Gotta go pack.
Side note - why does my "excited" kitty look so doggone tranquil?
