StickyFingers007
Namer of T2V Gatherings
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- Trips to Las Vegas
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Here is my trip report. This trip was unexpected. Hubby (aka sir edmond hilary.. see later) was asked to go to a Trimble confrence so I said yes, he'd go.. Before he even finished telling me about it, I was online booking our trip.
We flew America west out of Edmonton Sat Oct 22 leaving 8:30am. Got to vegas 1/2 hour early arriving at 10:00am. The flight was hell. never again will I book america west. The crew were on drugs or something had no idea about anything, the seats were so erect we were almost leaning forward as though we were about to make a lunar landing. No windows.. They were placed exactly beside all the seatbacks. I was mad.. anywho. Get to vegas and the heat is on. I'm bouncing around the airport and hubby is just trying to keep up with me with that sort of stunned look every vegas virgin has.. that
look. We hop in a shuttle and head to Mirage via Rio. Check in was a breeze. Had the deluxe room over looking the volcano and strip although you don't get a very panaramic view now do you.. Room 20048. Nice..As we wait for our bags, we do a quick wardrobe change and we head down to get our players cards and do the first spin. We see the luxurious BMW roadster pearched atop a bank of penny money storms. We sit down, each place 20 bucks in and promplty order some rye and cokes. We managed to each cash out around 70 bucks. The trip is officially off to a good start. I'm now a bit hungry and we decide to head over the Ceasars to check out the food choices. We end up in that food court were you order what you want, and pay when you leave. Not sure I like that as the line up to get out was long. We got some wraps and chips and salsa at the one stand. Total bill came to 32.00 
They were good though, I'll admit that.After that we cruise through the casino and head over the treasure Island. Hubby instantly likes the feel of the joint. We meander about being the nicerly dressed white trash we were portraying that particular day, we find a bank of 2cent slots. Hubby sits down at the one and only Wild for Dolphins in TI. ( I paced 100 times looking for another on in TI. it's the only machine there) quickly proceeds to turn 100 dollars into about 220. Amazed at his quick progression to the high roller/white trash conversion line, he says " I'm making camp"..I sit and watch for a while, sometimes take a wander and throw 20 in some other machines but nothing really hits me. I come back and he's still up. half cut and has a big grin on his face. This machine has a sweet bonus round where you pick a dolphin for the talent show. He has picked Magical Marty each time and done well. Marty is definately earning his tuna..
11:00am quickly turns into 3:30pm and hubby is still rolling with Marty. I mention we should rest up for the meet that night at CC. We cash out and go back to Mirage to rest and chill for a bit.
6:00pm hits and i text Kikky about the plans. We get back that its CC at 6:30 so we wander over there. walk around and then I see Jer and Kikky sitting waiting for the BJ tables to open up, I run up ( I'm sure they thought I was with the short bus tour ) and go Kikky, Jer Its me Sticky and they had already figured it out. We introduce ourselves and sit down and get some drinks. MN vegas gal and her husband show up soon after and then the hilight of the evening.. A highly intoxicated, barefoot blonde staggers around the bend. With one eye pointing north, the other eye pointing east it was obvious what was about to happen. She takes about 50 steps to cover the 10 foot distance to the poorly designed garbage can and sticks her head under and in. A very awkward position and heaves... heaves some more, gurgles, comes up for air and heaves again. The guards quickly come over to help the poor thing out of CC.. I'm sure she left her shoes there..
We chat a bit, dance some Disco and chat some more. I'm not a Bj player and hubby and I decide to head in for some slots. we mention to jer that if they leave, find us or text us and we'll tag along for the " surprise ".. Well, after more toxic lemonades that never really fell threw..
I'm sitting at the 1 dollar roulette and hubby is at a slot and we quickly sink into a drunken state. I don't know what I did at the table but I left empty handed and hubby just sort of slid out of the slot chair and we staggered back to our room. End of day 1.. Up probably a couple hundred bucks, food decent, drinks yummy!.. sleep much needed..
Day to to come shortly.. check back soon
Carmen
crap.. this is why i wait until the vegas haze wears off, I forgot to mention that Marty and tonya showed up. we said hi quick but that was really all before the blackjack and disco intervened.. It was great meeting everyone!..
okay.. more TR to follow tonight.
I'll squeeze day 2 in here if it lets me
DAY 2
wake up around 7:00am.. B has to register for the confrence, thats overwith at 8:00 and it's a free day!
guess where we go... DING DING Treasure island.. After stepping off the escalator, Marty is open for business.. B sets up camp again and i grab some donuts at KK.. Marty is on FIRE! B plays for hours while I hop around the casino lookin for my own piece of the pie.. We stayed there pretty much all day up, down up, up down.. who knows but we were having fun. We decide to go see some other casino's and press our luck there. We head over to IP.. B almost pukes where we walk in there. I mention this was were i stayed with the girls and he was in shock that we didn't opt for sleeping on the street instead of that place. We played a few slots, had a couple drinks and work our way up to flamingo. I've never really been in there other than passing through so we find some Marty machines and play a while. Getting hungry we head over the to the tropical breeze cafe and eat. Chicken ceasar salads and a phily steak sandwich. food was very good and cheap! we are tired and stuffed and b had to get up early for his seminar crap so we packed it in.. Walking back on the other side checking out the bellagio fountains. B see's the silver strike machine and wants to get a coin for our son so he puts in about 4 bucks and luckily he hits the silver strike and gets the coin in only 4 spins.. he's happy I'm drunk and it's off to bed.
Day 3, 4, 5 and 6 to come later tonight..
DAY 3
Get woken up by B because HE has to be down in the lobby by 8:00am grrrr.. So, we have a coffee and I walk him over to the confrence. Then I head off to Fashion show mall. The new bridge from TI makes it an effortless jont. I check off all my friends items on their wish lists and wander back to meet B for lunch. I'm just about to pass Marty and I realize I have about an hour to kill still so I see Marty open and sit down. I put 20 bucks in and start 'er up.. I order a baileys and coffee and CHA CHING! 2400 points! yeeeeeeeehaa.. spin again.. BONUS ROUND! another 1200 points.. a few more spins and my 20 bucks is now 70 something so i promptly leave while the gettin is good. I cruise back to Mirage to meet B at our meeting spot which is the BMW bank of Money storm. I tell him my take from Marty and before you could blink, he's running over to TI. We set up camp again and he puts in 100 bucks.. Marty doesn't like that you see, and B's 100 bucks was down to 10 in less than an hour.. We decide maybe Marty needs lunch so we leave him alone for a while and go to a Money storm machine. We catch a good machine and B is happy to play it for a while.. I decide to wander around a bit.. I come across Marty and figure maybe lunch is over. I put 20 bucks in again and WHAMO I've doubled my money again.. I find B wandering around and offer him a free slot lesson.. I tell him to put a 20 in this time and see what happens... he does and Marty is grateful. He's going up and up and up.. I then tell B, now cash out, put MY players card in ( they are linked ) and put a 20 in again... IT WORKS! I SWEAR!... he goes up again.. We are now doing good. He does this repeatedly and we are up almost 200 bucks ( which is lots to us considereing neither one of us thought we'd really gamble this trip ).. This is the pattern for the rest of the day..
We decide to leave while we're happy and go back to the tropical breeze at Flamingo for dinner. The food was awesome but the service was horendous!.. Our waiter seriously didn't even come to the table. He took our order while standing at another table, didn't order what we ordered luckily as B thought he could eat more and the steak he was to have after never showed up and we were ready to have to pay for it and give it to the busboy.. Then, I ask for the rest to go and he litereally threw over 2 plastic containers. left us to put the food in and then our 5 plates of food sat on our table for almost half an hour. We left and put a quarter on the table for him and gave the busboy 5 bucks.. he just grinned and nodded as he knew the prick he had to serve for..
We decide to sit down at some slots and play for a bit at flamingo before heading to bed. Nothing spectacular happend and we cashed out with some tickets for about 70 bucks. Not sure what was put in.. Head back to Mirage and we are asleep early.
DAY 4.. Marty gets a beating..
We flew America west out of Edmonton Sat Oct 22 leaving 8:30am. Got to vegas 1/2 hour early arriving at 10:00am. The flight was hell. never again will I book america west. The crew were on drugs or something had no idea about anything, the seats were so erect we were almost leaning forward as though we were about to make a lunar landing. No windows.. They were placed exactly beside all the seatbacks. I was mad.. anywho. Get to vegas and the heat is on. I'm bouncing around the airport and hubby is just trying to keep up with me with that sort of stunned look every vegas virgin has.. that
look. We hop in a shuttle and head to Mirage via Rio. Check in was a breeze. Had the deluxe room over looking the volcano and strip although you don't get a very panaramic view now do you.. Room 20048. Nice..As we wait for our bags, we do a quick wardrobe change and we head down to get our players cards and do the first spin. We see the luxurious BMW roadster pearched atop a bank of penny money storms. We sit down, each place 20 bucks in and promplty order some rye and cokes. We managed to each cash out around 70 bucks. The trip is officially off to a good start. I'm now a bit hungry and we decide to head over the Ceasars to check out the food choices. We end up in that food court were you order what you want, and pay when you leave. Not sure I like that as the line up to get out was long. We got some wraps and chips and salsa at the one stand. Total bill came to 32.00 They were good though, I'll admit that.After that we cruise through the casino and head over the treasure Island. Hubby instantly likes the feel of the joint. We meander about being the nicerly dressed white trash we were portraying that particular day, we find a bank of 2cent slots. Hubby sits down at the one and only Wild for Dolphins in TI. ( I paced 100 times looking for another on in TI. it's the only machine there) quickly proceeds to turn 100 dollars into about 220. Amazed at his quick progression to the high roller/white trash conversion line, he says " I'm making camp"..I sit and watch for a while, sometimes take a wander and throw 20 in some other machines but nothing really hits me. I come back and he's still up. half cut and has a big grin on his face. This machine has a sweet bonus round where you pick a dolphin for the talent show. He has picked Magical Marty each time and done well. Marty is definately earning his tuna.. 11:00am quickly turns into 3:30pm and hubby is still rolling with Marty. I mention we should rest up for the meet that night at CC. We cash out and go back to Mirage to rest and chill for a bit.
6:00pm hits and i text Kikky about the plans. We get back that its CC at 6:30 so we wander over there. walk around and then I see Jer and Kikky sitting waiting for the BJ tables to open up, I run up ( I'm sure they thought I was with the short bus tour ) and go Kikky, Jer Its me Sticky and they had already figured it out. We introduce ourselves and sit down and get some drinks. MN vegas gal and her husband show up soon after and then the hilight of the evening.. A highly intoxicated, barefoot blonde staggers around the bend. With one eye pointing north, the other eye pointing east it was obvious what was about to happen. She takes about 50 steps to cover the 10 foot distance to the poorly designed garbage can and sticks her head under and in. A very awkward position and heaves... heaves some more, gurgles, comes up for air and heaves again. The guards quickly come over to help the poor thing out of CC.. I'm sure she left her shoes there..
We chat a bit, dance some Disco and chat some more. I'm not a Bj player and hubby and I decide to head in for some slots. we mention to jer that if they leave, find us or text us and we'll tag along for the " surprise ".. Well, after more toxic lemonades that never really fell threw..
I'm sitting at the 1 dollar roulette and hubby is at a slot and we quickly sink into a drunken state. I don't know what I did at the table but I left empty handed and hubby just sort of slid out of the slot chair and we staggered back to our room. End of day 1.. Up probably a couple hundred bucks, food decent, drinks yummy!.. sleep much needed..
Day to to come shortly.. check back soon
Carmen
crap.. this is why i wait until the vegas haze wears off, I forgot to mention that Marty and tonya showed up. we said hi quick but that was really all before the blackjack and disco intervened.. It was great meeting everyone!..
okay.. more TR to follow tonight.
I'll squeeze day 2 in here if it lets me
DAY 2
wake up around 7:00am.. B has to register for the confrence, thats overwith at 8:00 and it's a free day!
guess where we go... DING DING Treasure island.. After stepping off the escalator, Marty is open for business.. B sets up camp again and i grab some donuts at KK.. Marty is on FIRE! B plays for hours while I hop around the casino lookin for my own piece of the pie.. We stayed there pretty much all day up, down up, up down.. who knows but we were having fun. We decide to go see some other casino's and press our luck there. We head over to IP.. B almost pukes where we walk in there. I mention this was were i stayed with the girls and he was in shock that we didn't opt for sleeping on the street instead of that place. We played a few slots, had a couple drinks and work our way up to flamingo. I've never really been in there other than passing through so we find some Marty machines and play a while. Getting hungry we head over the to the tropical breeze cafe and eat. Chicken ceasar salads and a phily steak sandwich. food was very good and cheap! we are tired and stuffed and b had to get up early for his seminar crap so we packed it in.. Walking back on the other side checking out the bellagio fountains. B see's the silver strike machine and wants to get a coin for our son so he puts in about 4 bucks and luckily he hits the silver strike and gets the coin in only 4 spins.. he's happy I'm drunk and it's off to bed.
Day 3, 4, 5 and 6 to come later tonight..
DAY 3
Get woken up by B because HE has to be down in the lobby by 8:00am grrrr.. So, we have a coffee and I walk him over to the confrence. Then I head off to Fashion show mall. The new bridge from TI makes it an effortless jont. I check off all my friends items on their wish lists and wander back to meet B for lunch. I'm just about to pass Marty and I realize I have about an hour to kill still so I see Marty open and sit down. I put 20 bucks in and start 'er up.. I order a baileys and coffee and CHA CHING! 2400 points! yeeeeeeeehaa.. spin again.. BONUS ROUND! another 1200 points.. a few more spins and my 20 bucks is now 70 something so i promptly leave while the gettin is good. I cruise back to Mirage to meet B at our meeting spot which is the BMW bank of Money storm. I tell him my take from Marty and before you could blink, he's running over to TI. We set up camp again and he puts in 100 bucks.. Marty doesn't like that you see, and B's 100 bucks was down to 10 in less than an hour.. We decide maybe Marty needs lunch so we leave him alone for a while and go to a Money storm machine. We catch a good machine and B is happy to play it for a while.. I decide to wander around a bit.. I come across Marty and figure maybe lunch is over. I put 20 bucks in again and WHAMO I've doubled my money again.. I find B wandering around and offer him a free slot lesson.. I tell him to put a 20 in this time and see what happens... he does and Marty is grateful. He's going up and up and up.. I then tell B, now cash out, put MY players card in ( they are linked ) and put a 20 in again... IT WORKS! I SWEAR!... he goes up again.. We are now doing good. He does this repeatedly and we are up almost 200 bucks ( which is lots to us considereing neither one of us thought we'd really gamble this trip ).. This is the pattern for the rest of the day..
We decide to leave while we're happy and go back to the tropical breeze at Flamingo for dinner. The food was awesome but the service was horendous!.. Our waiter seriously didn't even come to the table. He took our order while standing at another table, didn't order what we ordered luckily as B thought he could eat more and the steak he was to have after never showed up and we were ready to have to pay for it and give it to the busboy.. Then, I ask for the rest to go and he litereally threw over 2 plastic containers. left us to put the food in and then our 5 plates of food sat on our table for almost half an hour. We left and put a quarter on the table for him and gave the busboy 5 bucks.. he just grinned and nodded as he knew the prick he had to serve for..
We decide to sit down at some slots and play for a bit at flamingo before heading to bed. Nothing spectacular happend and we cashed out with some tickets for about 70 bucks. Not sure what was put in.. Head back to Mirage and we are asleep early.
DAY 4.. Marty gets a beating..
the bums and the bums who hadn't passed out are still 
inside soaking wet and smelling like wet dog.. ICK.. The shuttle finally shows up and I'm at the outlets in no time. The sun comes out just as I'm walking into the Nike store.. YAY! sunshine again.. I shop, get some crap and decide to cab it back to 
. Seriously Carmen, I hope you & hubby make it back for MM3. Beating the hell out of a slot machine named Marty - priceless. I'm not a slot player but you two sure do make it sound fun. Whenever I do get the urge, my money is usually gone before my first drink arrives. Hubby being a Vegas virgin & staying at Mirage has spoiled him. I had the same reaction the first time I walked into IP 
