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Recap!
07 May 2004
2:04 pm

Things I learned While in Las Vegas:

  • If you�re gonna go there, you might as well do it in style
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  • Las Vegas cab drivers are all either completely mad, bitter, or downright rude.
  • There�s only so many luxury hotels you can tour before it starts getting really old, really quickly
  • My parents really do run into someone they know on every single trip they take
  • I can now wear a bathing suit in public without completely freaking out.
  • Lee is a really good sport when it comes to dealing with / humouring my parents.
  • If you stay at the Bellagio make sure to bring your own sunblock because they sell it at $25.00 a tube.
  • The palm trees on The Strip are grown somewhere else and then replanted in Vegas. They cost $10,000 a piece.
  • They aren�t lying about that obesity epidemic which might be because people apparently love nothing more than the all you can eat buffet.
  • I no longer want to get married in Vegas. I saw so many brides it was ridiculous and seemed completely impersonal. I used to want to get married there but not after seeing at least 10 brides per day wandering around the casino. It just seemed to cheapen the sentiment somehow.
  • I will never be a real gambler.
  • There are some sketchy ass people out there and they all seemed to flock to Freemont Street for the laser light show.
  • Trent Carlini is the greatest performer in the entire world!

    I really hate flying in small planes.

  • Never rat on the passenger sitting next to you because he�s been in the bathroom for a really long time and you�re sure he�s up to no good. It�ll turn out he just has digestive issues.
  • Things I learned While in New York:

    • Things sure change quickly.
    • Chinatown really is filthy. I was served a cockroach. You can read about it here.
    • There is a lot to NYC I�ve yet to explore and it makes me want to live there again.
    • Anything tastes good in a diner at 3:00am
    • Central Park is entirely manmade. I was not aware of that.
    • Nothing beats NY pizza. Nothing.
    • The subway is bigger but not as efficient as The Tube. That said, those express trains are something else.
    • The places I used to hang out in while at NYU aren�t cool at all and probably never were.
    • Shoe stores on 8th street don�t open until after 11:00am.
    • Speaking of shoes, the Foot Locker on Broadway near Astor Place is having a very good sale on Converse at the moment.
    • Beetlejuice is even weirder looking in person than he is on the Howard Stern E! show and he can be hired (along with a fellow little person) for your dwarf tossing entertainment at bachelor parties.
    • There are things I miss about Long Island. Did I just admit that?
    • I miss my parents more than I realised.

    Things I learned on The Tube this morning:

    • Women look really stupid when applying a full face of make-up (including lotion and foundation) while sitting on the train. Get up 15 minutes earlier honey, you look like an idiot.

    All in all, it was a really nice trip despite being stressful and emotional at times. I�ll post pictures sometime this weekend.

    Only three more hours before I bust out of here and the weekend begins. I can�t wait.

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