Las Vegas

[Drunk Monk]

After Area 51, we hopped a cab back to Paris to meet up with Dina, Leigh, Raz & Syl. They had a limo ready for the nights adventure…

[Drunk Monk]

The limo took us to this crazy Golden Tiki bar, decorated with all manner of tiki kitsch, shrunken heads, pirate skeletons, brass dildos in the ladies room, swords, complete with a Dean Martin impersonator. It was outrageous fun. We all got stupid drinks. I got a flaming one. Syl got a flight. Super fun as we all got soused.

Then it was over to the containment area near old town, which I knew well from LiB. There’s a whiskey bar there. We got more soused. An espresso whiskey drink was the fav, but I sampled Heaven’s Door, Bob Dylan’s brand, which is roughly complex and enjoyable but I doubt I’d invest. 

From there we went to a burnt out seemingly abandoned strip mall that concealed a surprising Asian fusion restaurant with over the top elegant decor called Saffron. It was delightful and delicious.

Then it was back to the casino. Dina continued her winning streak on a wild penny video poker machine at the bar on some crazy Egyptian slot game that none of us understood but she won $1K overall on it. Raz, a stalwart video poker player, asked for my ‘lucky finger’ to draw 4 aces, a $400 payout. He gave me $50 for the luck and I played with that for an hour or so, whittling it down to $20. I got a huge shot of Jack that I couldn’t even finish. I left that and some Gatorade lite behind.

Monday morning we got breakfast again at the Bellagio, but this time with Raz & Leigh. I had a $20+ bagel with lox. It was arguably one of the best bagels I’ve ever had but at that price, it’d better be so. We split a cab with Syl to the airport and were home by the afternoon, thoroughly spun by the Sphere.

What a great hella expensive weekend! Viva la sphere!

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Excellent!

[Greg]

If I was going to blow a wad of cash at the Sphere, it would have been for U2.

[thatguy]

Too darn hot

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/v...ecord-heat

--tg

[King Bob]

But when the thermometer goes way up
And the weather is sizzling hot
Mister Adam for his madam is not
‘Cause it’s too too too too darn hot

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Friends who live there posted that their pool is 104 degrees.