Well, I am back from a conference in Las Vegas. Everything in Vegas is so surreal, 200 people at a crosswalk waiting to get across the Strip, waiting 45 minutes in line for a buffet when there are buffets every 50 feet, walking until you can't walk anymore, watching the weirdos on the stip, paying $8 for a 6 inch at Subway when it is only $3.69 in Des Moines....
I did everything I wanted to do. Had a good conference, mingled, went to the top of the Eiffel Tower at Paris, learned to play keno, won on a slot machine, finally found a decent buffet (MGM), went to my favorite - Caesar's Palace, visited all the new casinos built since the last time I was there (Venetian, Paris, Bellagio), saw the pirate ship sink at TI, had a 99 cent shrimp cocktail, and watched the fountains at Bellagio. There was a 40 mph wind the night we went to see the fountains at Bellagio, so the fountain would go off and then you would see a big wall of water blowing toward you, everyone would run away but still get soaked, then go back to see it again, repeat....the only draw back besides the water being freezing was that the music they were using was that damn Celine Dion song from Titanic! And, I walked and walked until thought I would just lay down in the strip and die. This was before I figured out a 24 hr bus pass was only $5. I won $80 on the 40 for 20 machine at the Riveria, so between that and conference, the whole trip cost me nothing.
Todd and I had a big day of gardening and mowing planned, but since it is raining we are trying to figure out what to do. I don't have any cleaning to do because Todd did it all while I was gone. He even cleaned up the huge pile of clothes in our boudoir.
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