The view from our 27th floor 1,400+ sq ft suite. Luxor out of the left bank of windows, the strip out of the right. Here's the view at night.
I won $400+ playing craps in Las Vegas! I've tried to write a "Seven Deadly Sins" post for a while now, and realized that in reality I had a pretty laid back time. Yes, there was manwatching and yes, there were great bars, but nothing unsavory happened. I think. ;-)
Your favorite gay geek / careerist discussing something and gesturing wildly. A friend captured me through a loop of pastry and fresh fruit, set atop a creme brulee from our first dinner in town.
The Ice Lounge where we spent an hour or so, stumbled into a CNN Producer, and learned about what your favorite anchors are like off-air.
The Grand Canyon, as viewed from a mesa on the canyon floor.
Those small white dots on the above picture? Helicopters. That's how big this place is. Sorry folks... bigger images are saved for my "real" blog. I took a 180-degree panorama with my shiny new camera. ;-)
Our ride to and from the Grand Canyon. Did I mention we got a limo in addition to this?
I also got a "Gentleman's Facial and Deep Tissue Massage" at the Spa in the hotel. Getting a rubdown from a cute guy? Fun! Also, I'm sold on facials... (minds out of the gutter!)
So, to sum up I:
- Learned craps by sitting in the starbucks at TheHotel, and using the free WiFi to play a craps simulator online. Your best bet's the "Don't Pass" line, with full odds.
- Paid for 1/3 of the trip by gambling one hour a day
- Got a massage from a cute guy
- Got a facial from a super-nice woman who wasn't phased when I came out in reply to her "Women must be all over you!" comment. She later suggested that my partner and I treat ourselves to a pair of in-home massages at one point as a romantic night. Sold! ;-)
- Stayed in a hotel suite bigger than my parents' first house
- Went to numerous excellent restaurants
- Tried escargot and carpaccio
- Manwatched
- Discovered that grindr is actually useful
- Rode in a stretch limo
- Rode in a jet chopper :-D
- Walked on the floor of the Grand Canyon
- Met some cool new friends
- Got hit on by one of the new friends ;-)
- Ran a total of 10 miles
Shoutouts:
- B Kushner, Emo biochemist: Aspiring molecular biologist, student, and gay geek. He got the reference to my pseudonym! Now let's see if he gets the reference(s) to the title of the blog. ;-P
- MAC, Yummy of the Day (possibly NSFW, depending on which day you catch him): Fellow Texan, Gay, married, with a kiddo. Living the life, it seems, and posting "yummy" pictures on his blog. ;-)
- Aaron, A Beautifool Chaos: Labels aren't for him, he just is.
- SR: You don't have a blogger profile linked to your google connect profile, and I can't find a link to you easily. :-(
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Thanks for the shout out and I am incredibly jealous!
ReplyDeleteoh Vegas.... how I hate it. Luckily, when I make my triumphant return this year, I plan on squeezing in both Jerzey Boys and Lion King.
ReplyDeleteYou've had quite the adventure in Vegas! By the way, thanks for the shoutout, Gauss Jordan!
ReplyDeleteLet me guess, the title of your blog... Does it have to do with augmenting an identity to a square matrix to find the inverse of that matrix? [I | A] --> [A^-1 | I]
@BK: Of course. :-) And by the way, I'm now the top hit for "augmented identity" on Google. I wonder what the Augmented Reality researchers that stumble onto this blog think. ;-)
ReplyDelete@Any AR Researchers: My apologies. Hopefully you get a kick out of reading what's here, and stick around. :-)
@Aaron: Quite welcome. :-)
ReplyDelete@El Genio: Enjoy! I've seen Lion King twice, and am sure you'll enjoy it. Have fun! :-)
"bigger images are saved for my "real" blog." *pouts*
ReplyDeleteSounds like a metric tonne of fun! Glad you were able to be so relaxed this time around.
ReplyDeleteI"ve never wanted to go to vegas, but now I kinda want to
@Urs (and whoever else) email me. I just don't want google finding the same image twice. :-P
ReplyDelete@OlyQueerKid: It was. You can, in fact, do other stuff than gamble in Las Vegas. I do think that next time I'm going to play a little more, and go bar hopping. The problem we had was that I was the only one in the group who could drink more than 3 drinks and stay upright. Everyone else dropped like flies.