July 6, 2008

• Las Vegas trip: Ehhhh

  

  Note to self (and everyone else):  If you go to Las Vegas, DON’T go with your family if you
  wish to have a lot of fun.  All that
  stuff you see on tv and movies?  Doesn’t
  even have a chance to happen when you’re forced to be with your family during
  the entire time you’re in Sin
  City.  I want to commit some sins!!! 

  

  The week here hasn’t been all bad, I guess.  I did get to take in the scenery of Las Vegas and all of it’s
  crazy looking hotels.  The day trip to Los Angeles was pretty
  cool.  I got to see Hollywood Blvd. and a bunch of celebrity
  houses while riding in a tour bus w/ a smooth talking Nigerian fella (“Jackie
  Chan Jackie Chan Jackie Chan ladies and gentlemen, mmmmmm.”)

  

  Two interesting moments happened during the trip as
  well.  The night we came back from LA, we
  got back to our hotel rooms and found out we had to move to another room at a
  different part of the hotel.  When I
  asked why, the manager or whoever told me that “there was a water problem” in
  our tower and thus we couldn’t get water, or something like that.  Fine, sounds reasonable enough.  Later that night I was watching the local
  news when the top story was our hotel, the Tropicana, having to evacuate the
  tower we stayed in because they found traces of E. Coli in the water!  That manager lied to me!  I should have demanded some free amenities to
  w/ our new (admittedly upgraded) room!  I
  suppose it’s fine…as long as I’m not glued to the toilet seat for the next week
  haha.

  The other interesting incident happened on the plane ride
  back to BWI from LAX.  It’s about 4am, so
  the lights are all turned off in the plane. 
  I couldn’t go to sleep during the 5 and half ride back home, so I stayed
  up reading Sampra’s book (great book). 
  All of a sudden, I hear a guy in the back call for an attendant and all
  the lights were instantly turned on, waking up most of the passengers.  A guy (looked about 30s/40s) was seizuring a
  few rows behind me!  Luckily, there was a
  doctor/nurse on board to help out, but the guy went into a second seizure on
  our way down which seemed to have freaked some people out.  When we landed he was immediately taken out
  and he seemed okay.  Funny; during the
  entire time I kept thinking about this little girl sitting a row behind me that
  I overheard say this was her first time flying on a plane.  Guess that will be the memory she’ll be
  having for that  .

  With all that being said, I still can’t help but think:  there are probably people nearby getting
  laid, making huge wagers, getting drunk out of their minds, macking on pretty girls in the pool, staying up all night
  cruising the town, etc. etc…and here I am, forced to taking care of my little
  brother and having to go to bed at 12am. 
  It’s really sad.  For most of the
  trip I found myself just daydreaming the time away (if you know me well enough
  I don’t have to tell you about what).

  I really want to come back to Las Vegas, but definitely with friends
  instead.  Seriously, anybody up for going
  to Las Vegas
  any time soon?  If so let me know, because
  after seeing all the things here that I wanted to do but couldn’t, I will spend
  the money to go back so I can let loose, for real.  Any takers?

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