Sunday morning I made a quick trip to the Suncoast to check out the basketball point spreads and play a little blackjack. The BJ started off pretty well and I was up $30-$40 when I ran into one of the worst stretches of cards I've ever experienced.
For background, it was a $5 minimum bet game of two-deck pitch where the dealer tosses the cards to the player who holds them in one hand only. If you want another card, you scrape the table with your two cards. If you stay, you slide your cards under your bet.
With only two decks, it doesn't take too many hands before the dealer has to shuffle. At this time, I was alone at the table. During one two-deck session, the dealer had FIVE blackjacks!! Consider that there are only 8 aces in the two decks - possibly even fewer since there is a cut card that eliminates about 1/4 of the decks. So the dealer got 5 aces and paired EACH of them with a face card! Naturally, I got no blackjacks during this terrible run. And my profit disappeared... I ended up losing $27 for the trip.
I headed home about noon and after a bit, Helen and I drove down to the Strip where we met my brother Bruce and his wife Sandi, who are on a long motor-home tour of the Southwest. They drove up from Phoenix on Friday and are staying in LV until Wednesday. We met them at Planet Hollywood and had lunch at the Cheeseburger restaurant in the PH Miracle Mile shopping mall. Helen and I had chicken Caesar wraps, Sandi had a cheeseburger wrap and Bruce had an order of three fish tacos. It was great to catch up with them. After they leave LV they're driving to the Grand Canyon, then heading back toward Michigan. They need to be back there by March 5, according to Bruce, because they have plans.
Already this morning, I have made a tasty quinoa salad from a recipe given to me by Lois Edson. It's packed with protein and a nice light meal in itself or as a side dish. Helen is doing a load of laundry. It's not easy with her healing ankle, but she refuses to just sit around. I have a few errands to take care of this morning - trip to the bank, stop by the apartment office, etc. But may have time to visit the Suncoast later.
Tomorrow we're supposed to have lunch with Bruce and Sandi. We're thinking of taking them to the Red Rock Nature Area for a nice trip, then having lunch at the nearby Red Rock Casino. I don't think they've been to either of those spots, so it would give them a break from The Strip. And so, our LV adventure continues...
Monday, February 16, 2015
Monday, February 9, 2015
Blackjack, Dinner out and a Concert
Sunday was a busy day for Helen and me.
I started the day with a trip to the nearby Suncoast where I made a basketball moneyline parlay bet. Indiana, U of D and Ohio State. It went down when U-D lost. I also played some 2-4 LIMIT poker with a table full of Geezers. I usually don't play limit, but thought I'd give it a try. And I was reminded why I don't like the game. After about an hour of playing, I lost $24 and here's an example.
I hold 3-6 of clubs and decide to see the flop for $2. Flop comes 3-3-6. Flopped a full house. But because of the game, I could only bet $2 and four players call. Turn is a 10 and I bet $4, again the maximum bet. Three guys fold, but an elderly woman calls. River is another 10 and I bet $4, she raised to $8 and I call. She shows a K-10, a bigger full house!
In a NO LIMIT game, I would have bet $20 or 25 when I got the full house and either took down the pot or driven her out of it. Frustrating to lose like that...
So between losing the $30 hoops bet and the $24 at poker, I was down 54 when I headed home about 1 pm to make lunch. After a turkey sandwich for Helen and some bean soup for me, we relaxed a bit before heading down to the Strip. We parked at MGM and walked over to New York, New York. It's not one of my favorite casinos, but I wanted to show Helen the Hershey store where they have literally TONS of candy! She likes Jolly Ranchers and they a wall of dispensers that allow you to pick out your favorite flavors. She chose grape and cherry, so we bought 1.3 pounds of them, plus some Hershey's chocolates.
Then we drove north on the Strip, letting her enjoy the sights. When we got north of Wynn, we headed back south, then turned west on Tropicana to get to The Orleans where we had tickets to see Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a blues guitarist from Louisiana. Before the show I played some BJ, winning $30, some video BJ winning $22 and we had dinner, spaghetti & metballs special for me ($6.99) and a chicken quesadilla for Helen. Bill came to $15, but I had enough comps on my players card to get it FREE!
The concert began at 8 p.m. and it was great! Two solid hours of blues classics and some new tunes. Man, that boy can play the guitar!! It's our third time to see him at The Orleans and I hope we'll do it again next winter. Tickets were only $30, a real bargain for a Vegas concert.
Today, I'm heading down to Bally's to play poker and log some time toward their Thursday freeroll tourney that I scored $300 in last week. Hopefully I can cash again this Thursday. And so, our LV adventure continues...
I started the day with a trip to the nearby Suncoast where I made a basketball moneyline parlay bet. Indiana, U of D and Ohio State. It went down when U-D lost. I also played some 2-4 LIMIT poker with a table full of Geezers. I usually don't play limit, but thought I'd give it a try. And I was reminded why I don't like the game. After about an hour of playing, I lost $24 and here's an example.
I hold 3-6 of clubs and decide to see the flop for $2. Flop comes 3-3-6. Flopped a full house. But because of the game, I could only bet $2 and four players call. Turn is a 10 and I bet $4, again the maximum bet. Three guys fold, but an elderly woman calls. River is another 10 and I bet $4, she raised to $8 and I call. She shows a K-10, a bigger full house!
In a NO LIMIT game, I would have bet $20 or 25 when I got the full house and either took down the pot or driven her out of it. Frustrating to lose like that...
So between losing the $30 hoops bet and the $24 at poker, I was down 54 when I headed home about 1 pm to make lunch. After a turkey sandwich for Helen and some bean soup for me, we relaxed a bit before heading down to the Strip. We parked at MGM and walked over to New York, New York. It's not one of my favorite casinos, but I wanted to show Helen the Hershey store where they have literally TONS of candy! She likes Jolly Ranchers and they a wall of dispensers that allow you to pick out your favorite flavors. She chose grape and cherry, so we bought 1.3 pounds of them, plus some Hershey's chocolates.
Then we drove north on the Strip, letting her enjoy the sights. When we got north of Wynn, we headed back south, then turned west on Tropicana to get to The Orleans where we had tickets to see Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a blues guitarist from Louisiana. Before the show I played some BJ, winning $30, some video BJ winning $22 and we had dinner, spaghetti & metballs special for me ($6.99) and a chicken quesadilla for Helen. Bill came to $15, but I had enough comps on my players card to get it FREE!
The concert began at 8 p.m. and it was great! Two solid hours of blues classics and some new tunes. Man, that boy can play the guitar!! It's our third time to see him at The Orleans and I hope we'll do it again next winter. Tickets were only $30, a real bargain for a Vegas concert.
Today, I'm heading down to Bally's to play poker and log some time toward their Thursday freeroll tourney that I scored $300 in last week. Hopefully I can cash again this Thursday. And so, our LV adventure continues...
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Hey, We're Still Here!
After three weeks of blog silence, folks might wonder if Al and Helen vanished into the Nevada air. Well, no. I just got super-lazy and distracted from posting our adventure updates.
The last three weeks have been filled with gaming adventures, the Super Bowl and some dining out highlights. Helen's been healing her broken ankle and is looking forward to visiting the orthopedic doctor on Tuesday morning. We're hoping that she's declared officially healed and can resume walking with her walker. She's been restricted to a wheelchair for the past two months.
Super Bowl was super fun for me. I had two winning bets on the Pats -1 and over 49 points. What we typically do is that I find someplace to watch the game for the first half, then at halftime I drive home and watch the 2nd half with Helen. So I headed over to the nearby Suncoast where they were having a FREE SB party. Down on the Strip they were charging from $40 to $200 for parties. The game started here at 3:30 and the Suncoast opened the doors to their showroom, where the party was held, at 2:30.
I got there a few minutes before 3 and took a seat at the rear of the room in a nice padded booth that seated 3 comfortably. While the party entrance was free, they charged for food and drinks. A bucket of 5 Miller,Miller lite, Coors or Coors lite was $12. I couldn't drink 5, but ordered two Coor lite at $3 each to wash down my order of Wings ($4.50) and popcorn ($1). As I sat there sipping my beer and munching popcorn, the room started to fill up as game time approached.
A 30-ish couple came in looking for a place to sit, but wasn't having any luck. They asked if they could join me and I was glad for the company. Turns out Jack and Claudine both work for The Venetian and are not a couple, but just co-workers who ran a 10 mile race, then played 9 holes of golf before coming over to watch the game. Jack is in the Venetian's accounting department, while Claudine is the hotel's public relations manager. Both are from Canada, Jack from Mississauga near Toronto and Claudine from Vancouver. Jack's a BIG hockey fan and former player. We talked about the Wings and he gave me some tips on who will win the Cup. Claudine and I talked about PR issues and her former life as a TV reporter.
After a couple of hours of talking, drinking and rooting for the Pats (they both liked NE to win), I left at halftime, promising to keep in touch with them. So on Monday, I emailed them and told how much I enjoyed talking with them. In return, Claudine offered to hook us up with some show tickets. So on Wednesday night, Feb. 11, Helen and I are going to see Human Nature, an Australian act that does classic Motown sounds. I remember this group when they were at the Imperial Palace for $30 a ticket. Now at the Venetian the tickets are $100 and up. So I thanked Claudine profusely in a follow-up email and promised to give her my opinion of the show later.
Over the past week I've been played poker at Bally's and posted enough hours to play in their weekly free roll tourney on Thursday. If you log 12 hours of play from Thursday thru Thursday, you get to play in the free event. Bally's pays $300 to the final 20 players. Everyone who finishes in the top 20 wins the cash and the tourney end there. So on Thursday there were 58 players who qualified to play.
They seat 10 players at each table, so there were 6 tables in action.
My plan was to win a few hands early, build a stack, then sit back and let the other stacks be melted down by the rising blinds. We started with 5,000 in chips with blinds of 50 and 100. Every 15 minutes the blinds increased to 100 and 200, then 200 and 400, 400 and 800, 500 and 1000, 1000 and 2000. I hit a couple of good hands early, a flush and a full house to build my stack to about 16,000 chips at one point. After about an hour we took a 10 minute break and I had the 2nd biggest stack at our table. At that point the field had been trimmed down to 30 players!
I was feeling pretty good, but as the blinds grew, my stack shrunk. Meanwhile the field dwindled to 25, 23, 22, then 21. At that point my stack was down to 3 $1000 chips and the blinds were 2000/4000. I got dealt 5-5 and decided to go All In with my 3 chips. If I lost, I would be out of tourney as the last non-winner. But I won the hand and doubled my stack to 6 chips. Meanwhile at another table, the last woman in the tourney went all in and lost. Cheering erupted as the rest of us received $300. We were shaking hands and high fiving each other for our victory. The whole tourney took about 2 hours to complete and I look forward to playing in it a few more times before we return home. I had won $88 in a cash game before the tourney started, so for the day I won 388. It went into the bank the next morning to pay down a charge card. Not sexy, but still a nice win!
My luck turned bad yesterday as I visited the Suncoast in the morning and dropped $65 in blackjack. Then I came home and made us lunch - a turkey sandwich for Helen and leftover spaghetti for me. Then I rolled over to Red Rock, determined to get back some of my $$$ that I left at Suncoast. Well, it didn't go well. I dropped another $40 in BJ for a daily loss of $105.
Today I'll be getting a hockey parlay for my friend Terry and probably making a hoops bet. Tomorrow night Helen and I have tickets to a concert at The Orleans. We'll be seeing Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a blues guitarist. We've seen him there a couple of other times and it's always a great show.
And so our LV Adventure continues...
The last three weeks have been filled with gaming adventures, the Super Bowl and some dining out highlights. Helen's been healing her broken ankle and is looking forward to visiting the orthopedic doctor on Tuesday morning. We're hoping that she's declared officially healed and can resume walking with her walker. She's been restricted to a wheelchair for the past two months.
Super Bowl was super fun for me. I had two winning bets on the Pats -1 and over 49 points. What we typically do is that I find someplace to watch the game for the first half, then at halftime I drive home and watch the 2nd half with Helen. So I headed over to the nearby Suncoast where they were having a FREE SB party. Down on the Strip they were charging from $40 to $200 for parties. The game started here at 3:30 and the Suncoast opened the doors to their showroom, where the party was held, at 2:30.
I got there a few minutes before 3 and took a seat at the rear of the room in a nice padded booth that seated 3 comfortably. While the party entrance was free, they charged for food and drinks. A bucket of 5 Miller,Miller lite, Coors or Coors lite was $12. I couldn't drink 5, but ordered two Coor lite at $3 each to wash down my order of Wings ($4.50) and popcorn ($1). As I sat there sipping my beer and munching popcorn, the room started to fill up as game time approached.
A 30-ish couple came in looking for a place to sit, but wasn't having any luck. They asked if they could join me and I was glad for the company. Turns out Jack and Claudine both work for The Venetian and are not a couple, but just co-workers who ran a 10 mile race, then played 9 holes of golf before coming over to watch the game. Jack is in the Venetian's accounting department, while Claudine is the hotel's public relations manager. Both are from Canada, Jack from Mississauga near Toronto and Claudine from Vancouver. Jack's a BIG hockey fan and former player. We talked about the Wings and he gave me some tips on who will win the Cup. Claudine and I talked about PR issues and her former life as a TV reporter.
After a couple of hours of talking, drinking and rooting for the Pats (they both liked NE to win), I left at halftime, promising to keep in touch with them. So on Monday, I emailed them and told how much I enjoyed talking with them. In return, Claudine offered to hook us up with some show tickets. So on Wednesday night, Feb. 11, Helen and I are going to see Human Nature, an Australian act that does classic Motown sounds. I remember this group when they were at the Imperial Palace for $30 a ticket. Now at the Venetian the tickets are $100 and up. So I thanked Claudine profusely in a follow-up email and promised to give her my opinion of the show later.
Over the past week I've been played poker at Bally's and posted enough hours to play in their weekly free roll tourney on Thursday. If you log 12 hours of play from Thursday thru Thursday, you get to play in the free event. Bally's pays $300 to the final 20 players. Everyone who finishes in the top 20 wins the cash and the tourney end there. So on Thursday there were 58 players who qualified to play.
They seat 10 players at each table, so there were 6 tables in action.
My plan was to win a few hands early, build a stack, then sit back and let the other stacks be melted down by the rising blinds. We started with 5,000 in chips with blinds of 50 and 100. Every 15 minutes the blinds increased to 100 and 200, then 200 and 400, 400 and 800, 500 and 1000, 1000 and 2000. I hit a couple of good hands early, a flush and a full house to build my stack to about 16,000 chips at one point. After about an hour we took a 10 minute break and I had the 2nd biggest stack at our table. At that point the field had been trimmed down to 30 players!
I was feeling pretty good, but as the blinds grew, my stack shrunk. Meanwhile the field dwindled to 25, 23, 22, then 21. At that point my stack was down to 3 $1000 chips and the blinds were 2000/4000. I got dealt 5-5 and decided to go All In with my 3 chips. If I lost, I would be out of tourney as the last non-winner. But I won the hand and doubled my stack to 6 chips. Meanwhile at another table, the last woman in the tourney went all in and lost. Cheering erupted as the rest of us received $300. We were shaking hands and high fiving each other for our victory. The whole tourney took about 2 hours to complete and I look forward to playing in it a few more times before we return home. I had won $88 in a cash game before the tourney started, so for the day I won 388. It went into the bank the next morning to pay down a charge card. Not sexy, but still a nice win!
My luck turned bad yesterday as I visited the Suncoast in the morning and dropped $65 in blackjack. Then I came home and made us lunch - a turkey sandwich for Helen and leftover spaghetti for me. Then I rolled over to Red Rock, determined to get back some of my $$$ that I left at Suncoast. Well, it didn't go well. I dropped another $40 in BJ for a daily loss of $105.
Today I'll be getting a hockey parlay for my friend Terry and probably making a hoops bet. Tomorrow night Helen and I have tickets to a concert at The Orleans. We'll be seeing Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a blues guitarist. We've seen him there a couple of other times and it's always a great show.
And so our LV Adventure continues...
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Friends Arrive
Yesterday a friend of ours and her husband arrived from Traverse City. Gail and David Molby landed about noon and are staying in a beautiful suite on the 32nd floor of the Venetian for a week.
Helen and I went down to the Venetian to welcome them to town. While we were waiting for them, I played a bit of blackjack while Helen watched. I managed to win $115 and we decided to walk away winners. Gail and David had some trouble checking in and getting the right room, so while they worked that out, Helen and I walked around the casino.
I was getting a bit tired and we sat down at a penny slot machine. Helen encouraged me to try it, so I put in $10 and on the first spin was a winner. I couldn't tell how much I won, so I just watched the credits roll up and up...100, 200,300....of course those were pennies, so it wasn't that much. But when the credits stopped, I had won 900 pennies!!
We then met up with Gail and David and went off to the Grand Lux Café for dinner. We all ended up ordering sandwiches with fries. Helen had a grilled chicken sandwich, while I had a Cuban sandwich of pork and ham on a toasted roll. David and I each had a beer with meals. They were $7 each, a bit pricey.
After the early dinner, we went up to see their suite. It's a beautiful room that overlooks the Strip, all the way to the Bellagio Fountains. The sun was just going down and the neon was starting to fire up the LV night. Helen and I stayed a while, then decided to give them time to rest. They had been awake since 4 a.m. Michigan time and it was already 6 p.m. LV time.
As I drove home, Helen talked with her friend Sandy in Washington. They are childhood friends who have kept in touch for all these years. Helen told her about getting her cast off and wearing this new "Frankenstein" boot that she's sporting. Helen got this fancy new footwear on Tuesday and will wear it for another four weeks until her next doc appointment. Helen's fractured ankle is healing slowly, but steadily. She's gaining more confidence and independence every day.
She needs to wear this most of the day, but can take it off to sleep. It's lighter than the cast, but has about 7 or 8 Velcro strips to keep it in place.
Today Helen and Gail are planning a shopping trip to the Miracle Mile stores at Planet Hollywood. David is a gun guy and wants to check out a couple of gun shops in the area. I'll take the girls to PH and hit the poker room while they shop. Then we're going to meet at the PH buffet for a meal.
And the LV adventure continues.
Helen and I went down to the Venetian to welcome them to town. While we were waiting for them, I played a bit of blackjack while Helen watched. I managed to win $115 and we decided to walk away winners. Gail and David had some trouble checking in and getting the right room, so while they worked that out, Helen and I walked around the casino.
I was getting a bit tired and we sat down at a penny slot machine. Helen encouraged me to try it, so I put in $10 and on the first spin was a winner. I couldn't tell how much I won, so I just watched the credits roll up and up...100, 200,300....of course those were pennies, so it wasn't that much. But when the credits stopped, I had won 900 pennies!!
We then met up with Gail and David and went off to the Grand Lux Café for dinner. We all ended up ordering sandwiches with fries. Helen had a grilled chicken sandwich, while I had a Cuban sandwich of pork and ham on a toasted roll. David and I each had a beer with meals. They were $7 each, a bit pricey.
After the early dinner, we went up to see their suite. It's a beautiful room that overlooks the Strip, all the way to the Bellagio Fountains. The sun was just going down and the neon was starting to fire up the LV night. Helen and I stayed a while, then decided to give them time to rest. They had been awake since 4 a.m. Michigan time and it was already 6 p.m. LV time.
As I drove home, Helen talked with her friend Sandy in Washington. They are childhood friends who have kept in touch for all these years. Helen told her about getting her cast off and wearing this new "Frankenstein" boot that she's sporting. Helen got this fancy new footwear on Tuesday and will wear it for another four weeks until her next doc appointment. Helen's fractured ankle is healing slowly, but steadily. She's gaining more confidence and independence every day.
She needs to wear this most of the day, but can take it off to sleep. It's lighter than the cast, but has about 7 or 8 Velcro strips to keep it in place.
Today Helen and Gail are planning a shopping trip to the Miracle Mile stores at Planet Hollywood. David is a gun guy and wants to check out a couple of gun shops in the area. I'll take the girls to PH and hit the poker room while they shop. Then we're going to meet at the PH buffet for a meal.
And the LV adventure continues.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Updated Super Bowl Odds
During my Tuesday visit to The Suncoast, I picked up a sheet with the current Super Bowl odds. Here's what it looks like now:
Seahawks 2-1
Patriots 5-2
Cowboys 4-1
Broncos 9-2
Packers 5-1
Ravens 6-1
Colts 8-1
Panthers 10-1.
Seahawks 2-1
Patriots 5-2
Cowboys 4-1
Broncos 9-2
Packers 5-1
Ravens 6-1
Colts 8-1
Panthers 10-1.
Red Rock Canyon & a Return to the Tables
On Monday, Helen and I took Scott out to tour Red Rock Canyon, a national nature preserve only 10 minutes from our apartment.
The charge for visiting Red Rock is $7 per car, but Helen has a lifetime National Parks pass which gets us in for free. She received that a few years back when we visited the Grand Canyon. It's available to anyone who is permanently disabled.
Red Rock features a 13-mile paved road that takes you through the impressive beauty of the canyon. There are several spots to stop along the way to take pictures and soak up the scenery.
The weather was beautiful, roughly 60 degrees and bright sun, and we spent almost two hours doing the tour. Scott and I got out at several stops to take pics.
By the time we ended the tour, it was time for some lunch. We went to Red Rock Casino, just a couple of miles from the Canyon, and ate at Yardhouse, which boasts a selection of about 100 different beers on tap. We didn't have any brews, but enjoyed a great lunch. Helen had a Southwest Chicken Salad, Scott enjoyed a big plate of Chicken Nachos and I had a lunch combo of a small Caesar Salad and a BBQ Chicken personal pan pizza. Lots of chickens in that meal...
After lunch we headed back to our apt and just relaxed, watching TV and talking. We were so full from lunch that we didn't even think about dinner. Scott had to head over to Green Valley Ranch to prepare for a Tuesday business meeting, so he left and Helen and I watched TV.
On Tuesday, I did a morning interview with a woman who runs a delivery service in TC. It's for an article I'm writing for the TC Business News. I also left a voice mail for another article involving an Elk Rapids group that is setting up a home for older dogs who are abandoned. It's called Silver Muzzle Cottage and I'll write that one for The Ticker. www.traverseticker.com.
About noon, Helen encouraged me to go play some blackjack, so I headed over to the Suncoast. We also needed some fresh bread from the Middle Eastern Market, so I headed there first. I got all the way to the store before realizing that I had left my money clip at home. So it was back in the car and back home for the $$$$$. Then I headed to the Suncoast and sat at a blackjack table that was empty. The whole casino seemed real quiet for 1 p.m.
Anyway, on my first hand I bet $10 and got a 9-2 against the dealers 6. Naturally, I doubled down, putting out another $10. The dealer flipped a 3, then slapped a King on there for 19. I got another King for 21 and was up $20 to start. That was sort of an omen, as the cards ran pretty well. I stayed between $20 and$50 up for the half hour that I played. I decided to leave before the cards turned bad, so I walked with a profit of $55. Not huge, but a nice little run.
Then it was home and an evening of TV with Helen, who is getting more independent each day. Her ankle seems to be healing nicely and she's reporting less discomfort each day. She's looking forward to her dr. appointment next Tuesday and we're hopeful that her cast will come off then. Her good friend Gail and her husband David are coming to town next Wednesday for a week. They are staying at the Venetian and we're planning on spending some time with them, so Helen is really eager to get this broken ankle episode behind her.
And now our LV adventure continues...
Monday, January 5, 2015
Scott Comes to Town
Scott flew into LV on Sunday for a Tuesday business meeting at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, south of the Las Vegas Strip. If the weather in Grand Rapids cooperates, he'll be flying out early Wednesday. It's great to see him and nice that he can stay in our spare bedroom, which we equipped with an inflatable bed. Scott says the bed is pretty comfy.
He arrived in the morning, rented a car and drove out to our apartment, arriving about 10 or so. We hung out at the apartment for a bit, then decided to head over to the Suncoast Casino to watch the 1:30 Lions game at a new sports bar, The Game, which boasts more than 25 big screen TVs, plus a personal tv on each table.
I wasn't sure how busy it would be, so we got there about 1 and it was perfect. We got a great table, got Helen settled in and were able to see the game, along with the UNLV vs. Kansas hoops game. I won't go into the sordid details of the Lions defeat, but we had fun through most of the contest. We were whooping and clapping on each Lions first down and sitting silently as Dallas stole the contest. Over the course of three hours, we shared a veggie pizza and a dozen Buffalo Wings. Scott and I each had a couple of craft beers (liked the local Tenaya Creek Ale the best), while Helen opted for water.
We left about 5 or so and enjoyed a beautiful sight as the sun set over the western mountains. Back home we were too full to do dinner, so we just watched some TV, enjoying the new Downton Abbey episode, then off to bed.
This morning I made a run to the local Einstein Bagels for a half dozen bagels and two types of cream cheese. Pretty tasty with a hot black cup of coffee. Not sure what else we'll be doing today, but our LV adventure continues...
He arrived in the morning, rented a car and drove out to our apartment, arriving about 10 or so. We hung out at the apartment for a bit, then decided to head over to the Suncoast Casino to watch the 1:30 Lions game at a new sports bar, The Game, which boasts more than 25 big screen TVs, plus a personal tv on each table.
I wasn't sure how busy it would be, so we got there about 1 and it was perfect. We got a great table, got Helen settled in and were able to see the game, along with the UNLV vs. Kansas hoops game. I won't go into the sordid details of the Lions defeat, but we had fun through most of the contest. We were whooping and clapping on each Lions first down and sitting silently as Dallas stole the contest. Over the course of three hours, we shared a veggie pizza and a dozen Buffalo Wings. Scott and I each had a couple of craft beers (liked the local Tenaya Creek Ale the best), while Helen opted for water.
We left about 5 or so and enjoyed a beautiful sight as the sun set over the western mountains. Back home we were too full to do dinner, so we just watched some TV, enjoying the new Downton Abbey episode, then off to bed.
This morning I made a run to the local Einstein Bagels for a half dozen bagels and two types of cream cheese. Pretty tasty with a hot black cup of coffee. Not sure what else we'll be doing today, but our LV adventure continues...
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