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.