cuban77
Tourist
It has been a month since my last trip to Vegas. I needed the time to wade through all the "fuzzy" memories and actually put a sensible trip report together. I hope I was able to pull it off, let's see. So much good stuff, I won't bore you with the normal stuff.
7/18 - Sunday
Flew from Austin to Vegas on American, connecting in Dallas. Took a taxi from the airport to Treasure Island. Tried the $20 trick but they were all sold out. Went up to my room and relaxed for a little bit. Headed over to Caesars to say hello to a friend of mine who is a dealer there and to try out the new food court. Saw my friend on her way to her first table of the night. She told me she was working the $25 3-card Poker table. Too rich for my blood, would have to hang out with her another time. Checked out the food court, so many choices, decided on getting some BBQ. Cruised around some more, put $100 in $1 DDB VP and went through it rather quickly. Around 11 went back to the room and went to sleep. There was a nagging feeling I should be out doing more, but since I was alone, and my friends would be arriving tomorrow I knew there would be time to get into trouble.
Said it before and I'll say it again, I can't do Vegas by myself, I have been to other places by myself, but I can't do Vegas.
7/19 - Monday
Got up around 8am, headed down to Star Bucks to get a Cafe Latte and a Muffin. Saw the pool was open so went back up to my room to change. Got to the pool at 9. I didn't know what time my friends would be getting in so I figured I would wait by the pool until they called. Around 1 they called and told me they wouldn't be getting in until around 4. Decided 4 hours was enough, so went back upstairs and showered. Next I went over to the Fashion Square Mall to check out the "Cloud" and grab a bite in the food court. Don't know how all these stores make money when each casino has its own mall. Anyways cruised some more of the strip waiting for my friends to show up. At 4 I got the call and headed to the Venetian where my friends were staying. When my friend Jimmy saw $5 Craps at the Venetian he almost passed out. He stepped right up and cashed in, and since you can't let your friend play craps alone, I stepped right up next to him. As soon as we got there, Dawn the cocktail waitress came by. You know you have a drinking problem when you remember their name. We started with Rum and Cokes, after the first round Jimmy decided we should switch to doubles. I don't know how many we had but it was enough to put me in a great mood
. I even had a Grey Goose and tonic, the waitress gave it to me b/c the guy who ordered it had left. The table was sooooo cold we had to keep ourselves entertained. So we kept cracking jokes, and quoting movies, especially Vegas Vacation. The dealers were loving it. We tried to take care of them several times but every time the shooter would 7 out. It was bad, I quickly dropped my $200 allotted for the day of gambling, but wanted to ride the Rum train a little longer, went to the ATM to reload. I made my return with a quote from Scarface, "It's OK I reloaded!!!!". Played for a little bit longer and ended up losing another $100. The table got soo cold and we were feeling so good, we decided staying there would have just brought us down. I think that night we ended up eating dinner at Outback, above Casino Royale. Again went to bed around midnight, was tired from the days activities and extremely full.
[ August 25, 2004, 01:50 PM: Message edited by: cuban77 ]
7/18 - Sunday
Flew from Austin to Vegas on American, connecting in Dallas. Took a taxi from the airport to Treasure Island. Tried the $20 trick but they were all sold out. Went up to my room and relaxed for a little bit. Headed over to Caesars to say hello to a friend of mine who is a dealer there and to try out the new food court. Saw my friend on her way to her first table of the night. She told me she was working the $25 3-card Poker table. Too rich for my blood, would have to hang out with her another time. Checked out the food court, so many choices, decided on getting some BBQ. Cruised around some more, put $100 in $1 DDB VP and went through it rather quickly. Around 11 went back to the room and went to sleep. There was a nagging feeling I should be out doing more, but since I was alone, and my friends would be arriving tomorrow I knew there would be time to get into trouble.
Said it before and I'll say it again, I can't do Vegas by myself, I have been to other places by myself, but I can't do Vegas.
7/19 - Monday
Got up around 8am, headed down to Star Bucks to get a Cafe Latte and a Muffin. Saw the pool was open so went back up to my room to change. Got to the pool at 9. I didn't know what time my friends would be getting in so I figured I would wait by the pool until they called. Around 1 they called and told me they wouldn't be getting in until around 4. Decided 4 hours was enough, so went back upstairs and showered. Next I went over to the Fashion Square Mall to check out the "Cloud" and grab a bite in the food court. Don't know how all these stores make money when each casino has its own mall. Anyways cruised some more of the strip waiting for my friends to show up. At 4 I got the call and headed to the Venetian where my friends were staying. When my friend Jimmy saw $5 Craps at the Venetian he almost passed out. He stepped right up and cashed in, and since you can't let your friend play craps alone, I stepped right up next to him. As soon as we got there, Dawn the cocktail waitress came by. You know you have a drinking problem when you remember their name. We started with Rum and Cokes, after the first round Jimmy decided we should switch to doubles. I don't know how many we had but it was enough to put me in a great mood
. I even had a Grey Goose and tonic, the waitress gave it to me b/c the guy who ordered it had left. The table was sooooo cold we had to keep ourselves entertained. So we kept cracking jokes, and quoting movies, especially Vegas Vacation. The dealers were loving it. We tried to take care of them several times but every time the shooter would 7 out. It was bad, I quickly dropped my $200 allotted for the day of gambling, but wanted to ride the Rum train a little longer, went to the ATM to reload. I made my return with a quote from Scarface, "It's OK I reloaded!!!!". Played for a little bit longer and ended up losing another $100. The table got soo cold and we were feeling so good, we decided staying there would have just brought us down. I think that night we ended up eating dinner at Outback, above Casino Royale. Again went to bed around midnight, was tired from the days activities and extremely full.[ August 25, 2004, 01:50 PM: Message edited by: cuban77 ]
. Of course when we walked up to the station there were 5 empty kiosks to buy tickets. 
