3 posts tagged “laughlan”
Well its Sunday. The casino is still going when we head downstairs in the morning. Our first mission; breakfast. We stay in the hotel and have breakfast at one of the restaurants here. Decent food, but my god is it extremely greasy. I hate greasy food. No wonder there are so many fat people here. Like I said before, these people are enormous! I am one of the skinniest people here, and I am not that skinny! In I am considered to be average, but here I am like a super light! He he. Not nice to talk about ‘large’ people in this way, but I can see now how obesity is a National problem! It’s quite unfortunate, but I am not surprised considering in our hotel alone we have a McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Krispy Cream, Dairy Queen and an Orange Julius. That isn’t even including the multiple restaurants or the hotels around us. I am pretty sure that there is another McDonalds within walking distance of here, and we have a nice view of another one from our Hotel window. To each their own I guess.
Anyways, it was great because the waitress at breakfast gave Ron a lot of flack for trying to order before Jeanette. It was pretty funny. She just shot him down! Rob and Jeanette attempted to win the ‘big money’ at Keno. They picked 8 numbers each and I think in total they managed to get 2 numbers each. Oh well, it only costs a dollar per play. After breakfast, Jeanette and I were on a mission to get pedicures. We found a small little spa place at the hotel next to us, and booked pedicures for tomorrow. The boys are heading off to play golf at a course that Jeanette and I can’t play. With the way the week is counting down, I don’t forsee us getting to play at all this trip. No big deal I guess, but I really want to play some desert golf. Well, its not really desert golf as they probably pay millions of dollars per year to actually have grass! Pretty funny to see nothing but desert vegetation, and then one huge area covered in grass. Too bad I forgot my camera, it would have been a cool picture. I seem to be forgetting the camera a lot, but I really don’t think that there is very much to snap photos of. Laughlan isn’t that exciting. In comparison, its probably about as exciting as Airdre. It is completely populated by tourists. The locals all live in which is just across the water. We went shopping there today. We managed to spend $200 at K-mart!! Then again, we bought a lot of drugs and about 6 boxes of cereal. We walked past the cereal isle, and Rob was like a kid in a candy store! They have so many cereals that you can’t get in like: Trix, Yogert Burst Cheerios (I am convinced you can get these in but Rob disagrees), Apple Crisps, Fruity Lucky Charms, Fruity Pebbles, and Kelloggs Smores. Drug wise, I purchased 4 boxes of Aleeve, a box of Excedrin and a tube of Migrane Salve (for lack of a better description, it is like Tiger Balm except the applicator looks similar to a glue stick). Meh, whatever. I am on vacation to spend money. I just have to work on saving for Vegas!!
Not much else happened today. Oh wait, nevermind! I won $18 at the nickel slots and Jeanette won $150 at the VLT at our favorite Sports Bar! Looks like she will be buying all the meals for the remainder of the trip (or so we keep bugging her about).
Weather so far hasn’t been that great. Sunny but very windy. Not really skirt weather, which is basically all I packed. I am kicking myself for not packing that extra pair of jeans. Oh well, maybe I will find a pair at the Outlet Mall in Vegas, but by then it is already too late.
That’s about the it for today. More tomorrow.
Sorry, still no real-time blogging. Unfortunately the internet here is fairly expensive, and I am not spending my money on shitty internet service. Whatever, Microsoft Word will suite my needs just fine and I will post this all upon my return to free and better internet.
Much to tell – well, not really. We went to the mall this morning. Just an outlet mall, but we ended up picking up some decent items at really great prices. Rob bought a couple pairs of jeans and some shirts, and I bought a dress and a new skirt. I think I only spent $60. I ended up coming back to the hotel for a nap as I really wasn’t feeling all that great. I think it was a hangover from last night.
When we got in after the flight, we went directly to the Sports Bar. We proceeded to start drinking immediately. When you put the money in the machine you get complimentary drinks. A good deal if you ask me. So we drank. Around 6ish, we decided to go for dinner. After dinner, it was back to the sports bar for more gambling and drinking. I got completely addicted to Deuces Wild. I lost about $20, but walked out completely drunk. THEN we get the worst phone call we could possibly have received. Dan can’t get into our suite at home, and therefore cannot feed the Sage-cat. We both panicked at that exact moment. We had no idea what to do. Since it was around 11pm, we knew that there was nothing we could do until morning, so we went to bed. But not before a quick trip downstairs for a smoke and a stop at the information desk to find out where the nearest courier service was. While downstairs I became completely overwhelmed by the multiple different patterns in the carpets and on the walls. Casinos are not meant for the drunk peoples. Very traumatic. Well, after that experience I spent the night throwing up. I didn’t get much sleep. Hence the little nap I took today.
After my nap, we went out for dinner at Harrah’s, a hotel down the strip. We spent the night gambling and having a buffet dinner. It was great, they had a huge selection of different foods. But may I say, there are a lot of fat people here. Not just fat, MASSIVE! They seem to gravitate to the all-you-can-eat buffets. Kinda sad really. More on that at another time, I am going to pass out.
Two hours (or so) in, and I am still compressed on a plane. This isn’t your normal flight either, its like something from the Outer Limits. First of all, the plane is VERY SMALL. Only 6 seats across – thankfully Rob and I scored a set of 3 seats where they only seated the two of us. We have quite a bit of extra room because of that. Secondly, Rob and I are the youngest ( with the exception of a kid) on the plane by at least 25 – 30 years. Normally I wouldn’t care, but these ‘adults’ seem to have a difficult time understanding Airplane Codes of Conduct – or so I am calling them. No standing unless: A) You need to use the bathroom, B) Your on an 8+ hour flight and you just need to stretch your legs, or C) Your under the age of 12 and don’t know any better. Apparently these people missed the memo, and they are walking around the plane like its Soul Plane. The back (where we are sitting) is the designated ‘nightclub’ where they all gather to fornicate (or in this case talk like the bunch of drunkin idiots they are). They guys behind us have been kicking our seats since we left , and Rob looks like he is about to snap. Its very hard to remain calm when exposed to this kind of environment: small confined space with recycled oxygen with a bunch of children masquerading as old geezers. It’s sad really. I feel sorry for the stewardess’ who are forced to walk around them or ask them to move every time they need to walk the isles. Pathetic really. I know all the fogies are all excited to take one last trip before they add their second foot in the grave, but this is too much! Worst part is that we have to fly back with the same people! My hope is that we get there early enough to pick spots at the front of the plane!! Thank god, the Fasten Seatbelts sign has just illuminated signaling that we will be landing soon!!
Ok, off the plane, checked into the hotel, went out for dinner. Funniest thing happened. While standing in line at a restaurant, we ran into this couple (old people – from now on, when I speak of other people, just ASSUME they are old). The lady is apparently a ‘talent agent’ of sorts and she flies around the country looking for models for Target. Well, she instantly fell in love with Rob, claiming him as her ‘son’. I don’t know what kind of crack she was smoking, but that’s besides the point. She keeps going on and on about how he could be a model (don’t die laughing because it gets better). He can only be a model from ‘here up’ with here being just below his shoulders!!! HAHA. He keeps bragging about it, and we keep shooting him down. Bit she kept talking about it. Funny thing is that she only commented that I have great teeth – must be because she only recruits men. That in itself is a little creepy because she recruits young men and flies them around the with her to see ‘executives’. More then likely she is jetting them around the country to her private hotel rooms and making them perform sexual favors for her. It would explain why she is so perky!!! She probably had one up in her room at that minute, tied up for desert!! She must be feeding Rob’s ego in hopes that he will either be her breakfast or her late night snack! My god, I have a wild imagination. Must be this country, it does things to people. It would explain the 10 seasons of Survivor, Who Wants to Marry a Midget, and their latest embarrassment: Are You Smarter Then a Fifth Grader? If you could see me, I am rolling my eyes at this very moment.
