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I have no water, and I must bathe...

Discussion in 'Vegas Trip Reports' started by Heresiarch, Feb 23, 2021.

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  1. Heresiarch

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    My Trip Report

    I live in Austin, Texas, and starting on Wednesday Feb 17th, I haven't had water. My heater runs off of water, so I haven't had heat, either. I kinda like the cold so I wasn't super-miserable, but without heat my place got down to 52. The blanket fort I built to keep myself warm at night was fun to build :) but working during the day while bundled up in blankets got old. Plus, no water. No showers, cooking was difficult, I couldn't do laundry, and I was melting a bunch of snow to keep the toilets flushing.

    By Saturday, I was sick of it, and decided to come out to Vegas. I made the decision around 2pm on Saturday. If I wanted I could have packed up and left that day, but I decided to stick around one more day and come out on Sunday, and stay the week. At heart I'm very much a "sleep on big decisions" kinda guy.

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    So, first thing: are rooms affordable? Yes, even last-minute room bookings can be had. Second: how bad are last-minute flights? Meh, about $200 more than I would like to spend, but maybe only $100 more than my normal max. Booked. So back to choice one: where to stay?

    The last time I came out (https://www.vegasmessageboard.com/forums/index.php?posts/2141143/) was around Thanksgiving; on that trip I stayed at the Venetian for a couple days before the holiday, when I was expected to be working. As it was my plan this week to work each day, I figured I'd give the Venetian a try. I've never tried to get noticed by Venetian marketers, so I'm not expecting great deals or comps.

    Third task: dinner reservations. I always make dinner reservations. This time I'm hitting up Mateo's, Delmonico, and Giada's. I used to also see a show each trip, but by this point I've seen most of the shows that I want to see; what's remaining are things I'd rather see with a friend during one of the few trips I take that aren't solo.

    Fourth task: making sure my Kindle was charged and had a new book downloaded. :) I'm currently alternating between Jack Reacher books and reading Alistair Reynold's sci-fi, so I picked up one of each so I'd have a choice during the trip.

    Sunday morning I brought McBreakfast over to a friend as a bribe for using his shower, and got changed into fresh, clean clothes. We chatted for a few hours, then I headed home, stopping at a restaurant to grab food and use their restrooms. I packed, and still had a couple hours to kill, so I played some vidya games.

    I could probably have played another hour of games. The airport was empty. The city of Austin is still on a boil-water notice, which is why I think the restaurants were all closed up. I got a north-looking window seat (out of the sun) and settled into my book. The direct, non-stop flight was just under three hours. I'm a geography nerd, so I thought it was neat to see some of the oil fields out in West Texas; and in the dusk hours the occasional flare was easy to spot.

    I tried to give Lyft a chance again. I waited at the airport for 8 minutes while it tried to find a car for me; and then I gave up and took a taxi. The fixed-price fare to the Venetian was $27, and the tip options in the UI were 20%, 30%, and 40%, so ... ugh. Fuck that. I think I got to the strip last time for a price in the teens; $27 is too much to spend for driving three or four miles on a slow Sunday evening. In my last post I cogitated a bit about taking a Lyft vs taxis and I think I generally decided to take Lyfts while on the strip. It seems that Lyft from the airport is still a no-go. Last time, I think I tried Uber to no avail. This time I didn't try Uber. Next time, I'll give Uber a go, and if that doesn't work, I'll try Lyft Lux.

    Check-in: I normally take what they give me. I'm ok with my room. I think spending $150 just so the view out the window is nicer is excessive. I wouldn't spend $150 to ride up the Eiffel Tower elevator to see a good view; why would I pay that much to see the city out my window? I'm spending ~40 hours in the room this trip, but I'm gonna be spending that staring at a computer screen, not out the window. That said, I coulda said "high floor" or "close to the elevator." I got, instead, 6th floor north-facing near the end of the hallway. After a handful of trips to WDW and staying at Disney resorts where the walk from the lobby to the room can be a mile, these corridors at the Venetian really aren't that bad. A free, higher room would prolly have been nice, anyway. Meh. Next time. I was agitated at having a "safer for all of us" plexiglass screen between me and the check-in clerk... which we both spoke around. WTF. Masks muffle speech, barriers make it worse, and to half of his questions I just said "sure" unless he started gesticulating for a different sort of response.

    I decided to stop in at the food court (on the canal level) for dinner. Like it was back in November, the food court was slow. There was a max of 30 people in the area, so it was busier than previously, but still not that busy. Half the joints were closed. I was contemplating walking down to Bally's to get shwarma from that place out front, but decided instead that I should find some good, quick food up here. Build an inventory of places I liked to go that were close. I hit up the indian joint in the food court, which gave me this:

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    which is a microwaved TV dinner, found in your freezer aisle for $4 or whatever. You can see the characteristic bubbling of the tomato sauce just below the fork. It was very tasty, though, so ... no complaints? Does it count as a complaint that I'm sitting here whining about getting a TV dinner from a counter-service desk at the Venetian? "Greetings, sir, welcome to the Venetian, for your dinner tonight we have frozen pizza, salisbury steak, hot pockets, or butter chicken." So yes it counts. But it was tasty! I'd buy this frozen dish from my grocery store, if I knew the brand!

    I'm not here to gamble (!) ... wow. Really? Yeah, guess so. Due to the timing, I've got $480 or so on me, much less than my normal gambling budget. My bank was open for about 1.5 hours on Saturday and I had missed it by the time I decided to fly; normally I stop in and get a withdrawal for my gambling budget. Of course no banks open on Sunday. And I think it'd cost me $50 or so to travel to a branch of my bank here in town, so despite egregious fees, if I'm getting any more cash, it'll come from an ATM.

    So I'm not here to gamble. I went back up to the room and read about this Reacher guy punching bad people left and right, then picking up his toothbrush and moving on.

    I'll be posting live-ish, so more tomorrow.
     
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    Good for you! Glad you went somewhere. And I love Reacher.

    Anyway, we have been without power and all the crap that comes with it since the 12th. My insurance guy said save any hotel and food receipts and they would reimburse me. Problem is I have too large of an entourage to travel so here I sit. So maybe you should try submitting your receipts.

    If they give you a hard time about Vegas, just tell them you HAD to shower.;)

    Good luck and have fun.
     
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    I hope your power is restored soon :(
     
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    If its not much more $, try ordering a lyft xl. I've been able to get those faster in vegas than the standard lyft if I'm in a hurry.
     
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    Good luck!
     
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    I think hauling yourself to Vegas is great. Lots of hot water for showers and places to eat. Hope you enjoyed the reading and whatever you get to during this trip.
     
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  8. Heresiarch

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    Monday, Monday, Monday!

    well before we get to Monday, I should mention that last night I also ran down to the Walgreens on the corner and got myself a six-pack of pepsi, a gallon of Arizona iced tea, and some chips. No need to spend hotel prices for that stuff. A six-pack of soda from the hotel would be like $25 or something. I'm glad to see the various convenience stores pop up on the strip; from ABC to CVS to Walgreens.

    My first order of business on Monday was... sitting through a meeting. So up just before 7, prep, then the meeting. Working from home (and/or Vegas) is nice, because I don't have to do all the hullabaloo I normally do in the morning. Get dressed? Are you serious?

    I saved that for after the meeting. Shower, shave, brushy brushy, clean clothes. Oh, right, clean clothes. One of the reasons I came to Vegas is laundry. At first, ie on Valentine's day when word of power outages was just coming out, I didn't run laundry to save power. Then I didn't run laundry because I had no water. So now I've got a 5-night, 6-day stay in vegas with like three days of clothes. This will need some resolution. I did, however, bring a handful of button-downs, cuz those get dry-cleaned and wind up on a different cycle than the rest of my clothes.

    The "food court" on the Venetian casino level kinda bothers me. They all look like the same restaurant, and that's mostly cuz they have the same, boring screens listing the menu. Have you been to a fast-food restaurant in the last ... oh, ten years? They've got LED-monitor menus, filled with appetizing photos of their food with price lists in attractive fonts. The content here looks like it was scraped together by a high-school student using the simplest tool they could find. Sure, there's some animation, but that's the end of it. No full-screen close-ups of sundaes, or video of sizzling bacon; just a mindless list of too many combinations of stuff; long lists of items and prices. Which is a lot like the list of stuff at the two restaurants right next door.

    On this day, stuff for me included ham, egg, & cheese on an english muffin, plus a plate of eggs, bacon, and home fries. Good enough to keep me happy through the day. I brought the food back up to the room and continued working. The company I work for tends to run during Central time zone hours, so that's what I'm sticking to out here. Being a fully remote job is what makes it easy to work from anywhere. Besides a couple meetings each day, the rest of my work is on the computer, so I gets done the needful and am free somewhere between 3 and 4pm, Vegas-time.

    Today my next plan is dinner at Matteo's, here at the Venetian. I think I just kinda randomly chose this place among the italian restaurants here because the menu had some items that looked good. The restaurant is down on the casino level between the Palazzo shops and the Venetian slots & tables. It's in the old B&B Ristorante space, which is no more now that one of the two got #metoo'd out of existence. The menu now is ... Vegas Italian? Giada's (used to) have a ton of apps, Martorano's had an east-coast, Jersey-ish Italian-American feel, Sinatra is a classic that edges into stuffy, Lupo has some very well-cooked classics like Osso Bucco, Olives was one of my favorites for fresh dishes, Wynn had an italian joint with stellar seafood, Carbone has unique twists on common items... and that's pretty much all I can remember at the moment. There's maybe 5 italian restaurants here at VenPal? I wasn't looking for cheap; I wanted a nice, sit-down meal. And I hadn't been to Matteos. And the menu had some interesting items. :)

    And it was very good. I "just" had three courses. I'm not as active as I used to be and find it harder to wolf down too much food; plus I had a "double" breakfast. So no salad, no pasta course; an app, an entree, and dessert. The appetizer was a soft, slightly doughy piece of bread topped with prosciutto, arugala, and the third type of stracciatella that I've had. The word means "little stretched thing" and refers to a soup somewhat like egg drop (where the egg is whirled or stretched through the soup), chocolate chip gelato (where hot chocolate is dribbled through cold gelato, forming shards), and a cheese somewhat like mozzarella. It's a fresh cheese with a characteristic stretching method occurring somewhere in its fabrication -- which is fairly short, because it's a fresh cheese, often made by local joints each day. You can make it yourself at home if you've got some milk & rennet.

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    Oh, right, the food. Yeah, the appetizer was pretty good. Prosciutto, cheese, dough, and some green stuff to cut the fattiness of the dish down a bit. Sorry about half-eaten; I don't do Instagram or whatnot so I often forget to take snaps til... well til it's half-eaten. You can see the bread course in the back, there: sourdough and whole wheat, plus thin crunchy things, served with oil & vinegar.

    Round 2: pork & veal ravioli, with bits of pancetta and wafer slices of parmigiano. Tasty. Earthy. Compared to the dairy & pork-fat nature of the appetizer, the ravioli had a sense of a forest meal. Sharper, more spice (in the sense of seed/bark/root vs leaf), and definitely meatier. I enjoyed it; a good contrast to the appetizer, and something different than a steak, or chicken parm, or yet another Italian dude's "grandmother's" recipe for lasagna. There were free-floating bits of pancetta in the dish, and I forgot that pancetta was mentioned on the menu, and I kept thinking "hmm this stuff is good, I should ask what this is." Ah, yeah. I blame the cocktails I was drinking. No pictures cuz... it's ravioli? Imagine, if you will: ravioli. Now, imagine it tastes different. Would an image help? I was thinking not. So here's the third course instead:

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    Final Round: chocolate and pistachio gelato, with a glass of port. I like pistachios, which is good, as for liking the gelato, but for some reason this stuff was scrumptious. Very tasty; highly recommended. And I think I've gotten used to Graham's and Taylor Fladgate 10yr tawny, so the Broadbent was a nice switch for me.

    Service was attentive and friendly; I didn't feel like anyone was working there against their will. (See my thanksgiving trip for notes on that.) Lighting was good, spacing sufficient for the covid-averse, etc. Overall a good experience. If there wasn't a couple other first-tier italian joints at the resort, I think I'd be back next time. "First-tier." Hmm. I don't have the list in front of me, but I do think there's at least two others that shoot for the same level as Matteo's. I'd been to a handful of other places here before the list was trimmed down but they're now history.

    So now it's like 6pm on a Monday. What next? Why, laundry, of course. I hoofed over to Fashion Show mall to pick up soxers, boxers, and a couple t-shirts. Plus a run into the ABC store to get some chocolate-covered macadamias. :) because one dessert is no guarantee of finality. The walk from the Venetian was quick; and coming back via the bridge to the Wynn was convenient. The sidewalks were dead, though, and it felt more "back streets" than it should have. There were enough people in the mall, however; it was just the getting-there that felt lonely.

    I'm pretty sure I got back to the room before 8, so I again spent a couple hours (on the provided sofa) reading a few chapters. Minus the dead food court (I'm really looking for some different cheap good eats), the Venetian is turning out to be a great non-home place from which to work.
     
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    This was a great update! Hope you're enjoying your work from Vegas vacation!
     
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    Tuesday

    I don't think of this as a working vacation... in part because I've travelled a lot in the last year, and worked from a lot of hotel rooms. But mostly because it's not so much a "vacation" if I'm actually working every day. What's different is that I don't have a bunch of crap to distract me, I have more restaurant choices, and no kitchen. So it's like being at home, but I eat out for every meal.

    And I normally eat one or two meals a day, which I try to keep to a 6-hour window. Yeah, that's not happening out here. I like breakfast foods, and I've got lots of opportunity for that out here. Today's breakfast was a bagel sandwich, with egg, ham, cheese, and bacon. Eh, they didn't screw it up. That's one of the good things about breakfast; it's hard to screw up.

    And then another day of work.

    The suites here at the Venetian are spacious, although I find the decor gaudy. I guess it works down in the public areas; the giant statues, murals, and architecture is neat. But the amount of brass and mirrors in the bathrooom feels... excessive.

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    But! There's a legit bathmat in the bathroom. Not just a special towel, but a real live bathmat. This is stellar! A big win! Why is it the little things that add so much? I'm sure I read a bunch on this subject a decade ago and have forgotten all about it.

    After work, I decided to hoof it to the bank. Why? Well... uh... I decided to extend my stay by a couple days :) I'll be in town until Sunday, and am planning on doing more typical Vegas-y stuff on Friday and Saturday. Which requires a gambling budget. Plus I don't mind the walk. So I head out of the north end of Palazzo and down the street, past the MSG Sphere that's currently under construction behind the Venetian. Construction is active, so good for them, but the Venetian currently feels really dead. No conventions, no shows. I presume there'll be demand for more entertainment when (if?) life gets back to normal, and I have no idea how progress was on this venue at the start of lockdown, but it feels strange to see construction of a new entertainment venue right now.

    So I grab my cash and come back to the property, get cleaned up, and head down for dinner.

    My reservation tonight was at Delmonico, Emeril's steakhouse here at VenPal. The venue feels like a traditional steakhouse; large leather chairs, oversized scaling, muted decor. And the menu felt... steakhouse modern, I guess. It's billed as a "creole steakhouse," which interprets into a few dishes with "creole" or "cajun" in the title. The standard steaks are here: ribeye, wagyu, pork chop, ~~patagonian toothfish~~ sea bass, chicken, lamb. Standouts on the meat side were a Chateaubriand, a bone-in ribeye, and the pork was a double-cut Kurobuta chop. Addons included chimichurri and au poivre, and there were a handful of potato sides plus a few greens, mushrooms, and uniquely a pasta.

    But: I had the salad and steak from the specials menu. The steak was a bone-in filet, and the salad included proscuitto, parmagiano, and olives -- all of which are items I just love.

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    I had the potato croquettes along with the steak and managed to eat my way through just over half of them. Tasty little bites. Kinda like "potato skins" with bacon, cheese, and sour cream. The steak came with a red wine reduction and some carrots, so I decided to count those carrots as my vegetable for the meal. I can do that, right?

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    You can see I've gone through at least two vodka tonics here. That's all I'll say. For dessert I ordered the banana creme pie; very tasty but sizeable. And the port was a 2011 vintage, I believe, tho I don't recall who from.

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    I was very satisfied with the meal. I'd say "I'll be back again," but ... there's tons of steakhouses in Vegas. I mourn the loss of Carnevino here at Palazzo; and I think I prefer Delmonico over CUT. I haven't yet tried this Smith & Wollensky, but in general I avoid chains when I'm in Vegas, since (eg) there's a S&W in Austin, as well as a Ruth's Chris and a Perry's. Perhaps if I stay at the Venetian again and am out for steak I'll try Majordomo but who knows.

    On the way back to the room I stopped by the casino... since I was on the casino level anyway, and it was more of a "I walked through the casino on the way to the elevator to my room." The only craps table running was $15, so I bought in for a (low) $200 and blew through it in seven games -- of which only one was a winner. Yeah yeah craps is only a 1.4% house edge, but that's heavily weighted to 7s and 11s on the come-out. If you establish a point, you're more likely to seven out than to make the point. And generally everyone playing the game has more money on the table after a point is made than on the come-out. Maybe I should play dark? But, really, I think the problem here was not enough cash for a $15 table. My "budget" (ignoring the cash I picked up this afternoon) is still only $480, so I really shouldn't have been betting as much as I was (ie, the place bets I normally make). Ah well, it was my gambling budget because I could afford to lose it.

    I think I'm eating earlier? Cuz I got back to the room and wasn't dead tired. I read a bit more, chatted online, surfed the web for a bit, and went to bed. Yep, this is like home life.
     
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    Your meal from Delmonico looks really good, particularly that salad. Glad you're enjoying yourself despite the not so good brief foray into gambling for the trip. Hope the gambling improves and that you continue to have a good time while doing some work.
     
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    The picture of the steak itself isn't that great. I shoulda exposed a bit more of the interior. It seems to me that bone-in filets are pretty rare; much more common to see a bone-in ribeye, or (far more common) a porterhouse. The flavor is subtly different with the bone attached, but I really haven't explored it too much. It's a different effect than (say) dry-aging, which is what Carnevino did unlike no other. I know Bavette's has a fairly long-aged cut, but I haven't been back there in a couple years. I'll probably pay a bit more attention to bone-in cuts over the coming year. (I don't go out for steaks often.)

    As for gambling... at least $200 isn't rent money. I think I was definitely undercapitalized for the amount I was betting. Dunno whether I'll switch up my betting patterns or my bankroll; the former is obviously cheaper :)

    and now that I'm planning on actual gambling this weekend, I should probably make that decision. And plans. Meanwhile I'm not too worried about not giving Venetian some play. I think I'm ~60% through my book, so I'm still gonna read some more! Maybe. Well, at least on the plane. It's Thursday as I type this, and I think my plan is to play heavy tomorrow and Saturday ... so I guess I have tonight "off" and can read :booknerdsmiley:
     
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    Lmao @ the Patagonian toothfish. Hilarious and accurate.
     
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    We have a Smith and Wollensky in Austin??
     
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    Nice report...

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    Cheers!
     
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    I love a frigid home. But I'd do the same thing, no water, etc. In fact, I have.
     
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    Oops! No, you're right. I was thinking of McCormick & Schmick. It was the ampersand that threw me off.
     
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    Wednesday

    This is my "day off" during the trip; as in, I don't have a fancy dinner reservation in mind. Which means I'll be searching for random counter food, probably.

    I kinda gave up and had Subway for lunch. "Gave up" because, hey, it's Subway. But not really because I haven't had Subway in a while, and I like the sandwich that I normally get there. So screw you, gourmet hippies, I enjoyed my cheap fast food. Plus the counter is fairly close to the elevators, so it wasn't a big run out and back to get it.

    Kinda. I booked rooms at Flamingo "yesterday" (aka Tuesday), and before I hit up the Subway, I ran to the front desk to change my checkout date to Thursday and get checkout time pushed back to 1pm (PST), which'll be 3pm CST; I have an important meeting at 3:30 CST so we'll see what I arrange for that. Today, though, I'm heads down coding, so getting back to the room quickly was good for that.

    So... yeah. I worked again. I won't post details, to save you the boredom. Totes not cuz my boss would flay my ass if I posted details. Fast forward to 3 o'clock.

    I hit up "machine craps" for a bit. From what I can tell this is called "Bubble Craps". This is the 7- or 8-seat machine with the dice under a dome. I'm reminded of some toy from my childhood that had a couple dice in a bubble like this; you push down on the little bubble and when it pops up the dice bounce around.

    I'm generally unhappy with the machine because I like the "flex" of a live dealer. Live dealers are unlikely to let me bet $5 on a place bet for 8, or to put $5 down for hardways instead of $1, or other such simple wrong bets. Plus you only have 20 seconds to make all your bets, and if you screwed anything up cancelling it is time-consuming. I guess if you play simpler craps that I do :) then it's not really a problem, but it's obvious that this game goes faster that live dealers. Except that the 20 seconds to make bets is followed by 20 seconds of "roll the dice!" Plus the Field bet pays 2:1 on both 2 and 12. I didn't check commission rules (often you can lay a 4 or 10 and only pay a commish on win), or the payoff on some of the one-roll bets (which changes house edge on them from 5.5% up to 16.6%, depending).

    So it seems to me that the casino saves $9/hr for four dealers, a boxman, and whatever fraction of a boss' time that it consumes. It exchange you have to buy the machine, supposedly around $100k, instead of a standard craps table, which I'd guess is around $10-20k. Obviously it's far, far cheaper to run the machine. You'd pay more than the purchase price keeping your employees on payroll. So why are payouts shite? From what I can tell, these things are normally placed in the casinos with the manufacturer taking a cut of the take. I wonder why a billion-dollar casino won't make the capital investment in this kinda thing, but, ok, whatevs. I'm not a casino owner, i guess they have their reasons.

    ALL THAT SAID, the thing gave me money. I made back half of what I lost last night.

    Next up: dinner. I had Instanbul Mediterranean in my head all week, so that's where I went. This is the small shop in front of Bally's. It was a bit of a hike from the Venetian but not too bad; this is Vegas, I'm getting my 10k steps in every day. Sorry, no pictures. It's gyro meat over rice with lettuce, tomatoes, cabbage, onions, and feta. Plus tzaziki or another sauce of your choosing. Good stuff, simple meal, I was happy.

    Since I'm planning to stay an extra couple days, I also wanted a few more clothes, so I lyfted (from the North Paris pickup) back to the Fashion Show mall. Some of the stores closed at 7, some didn't. Eh, whatevs. There were some neat sets at the Lego store (that I'm not going to pack back to Austin), I need a new pair of shoes, etc etc, but mostly I just picked up a couple shirts. And shopped. I don't shop this much when I'm at home, so this is a good life.

    I walked back through the Wynn "gardens" or whatever; by which I mean the pathway that cuts a corner off of the Wynn property, and takes you up to a waterfall and fountain show that's at a door, right next to the elevator up to the bridge to the Palazzo. I leaned on the railing and just listened to the water for a while. Can I get one of these at home? Vegas life is best life.

    When I got back to the Venetian, feeling lucky due to robbing some money from the Bubble Craps machine, I went back to the craps tables. I didn't mention before, but on Monday the table had a $10 limit when I walked up that, within a roll, changed to $15 and they didn't grandfather anyone into the old limit. Since then I've only seen $15 limits. Some up, some down, and I basically walked away with I had gained at the Bubble earlier.

    Back to the room! Really, the view was nothing to write home about, but here I am writing about it anyway. Something was making a periodic horrid screeching noise; I played with the curtains a bit and eventually decided it had to be HVAC; I played with the settings a bit and the noise went away. I was afraid I was gonna hafta try to sleep through it. It wasn't a loud noise; just annoying.

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    This is the back of the pool area. Pool day club? Or just pool cabanas? Dunno. And like I said I spent most of my time in the room with my back to the window, so meh. What I like most about the Venetian (hmm, other than the spacious suites, the large & suitable desk, and A/C thank cranks down to 62 if you want) is the "architecture." The paintings and frescoes and sculptures that litter the joint.

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    And that was my wednesday. Next up: last day at the Venetian and the move to the Flamingo.
     
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  20. johnjagg

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    Curious what road that is and if your water is back on
     
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