Know When To Hold 'em

Can you believe how balmy the weather was this weekend? Man, I bet we hit 0 degrees today! I'm gonna have to break out the shorts soon...

So, Julie and I went to Las Vegas last weekend and had a great time. Neither of us had been there before and it was pretty much everything we imagined. Our friend Marc set us up at the Mandalay Bay and got us house seats for the Cirque show "O" which was fantastic.

We knew everything would be "big" in Vegas but the casinos and hotels still blew us away. We did a LOT of walking up and down the strip and tried to hit the major casinos like the Bellagio, MGM Grand (not impressed), New York New York, Paris, Luxor, Excalibur, and Caesar's Palace. They were all impressive in their own way with the exception of MGM.

We had a couple of buffets and the best one was at Bellagio. They had excellent food, and for an additional $2 Julie had an endless glass of champagne. We pretty much ate one big meal each day and snacked the rest of the time.

Our day's quickly got turned around as we were staying up into the middle of the morning and sleeping in late. The transition back to normal hours when we got home was tough. Another thing that was tough when we got back was the change in temperature - when we left Vegas it was 60 and when we landed at MSP it was 0 degrees. Nice.

We did ok on the gambling side of things. We ended up down for the weekend but thankfully Julie was hot on the last day we were there so it we didn't come home broke. One of the slots that we liked was the nickel slot Deal or No Deal. When you get three suitcases on the same spin you are taken to a board that allows you to pick suitcases just like on the TV show, including bank offers. Pretty cool and fun.

Check this out - my mom sent me this picture of me as a kid playing with one of my new toys.

See? If you pray hard enough, it DOES come true!

Seriously... it will get warm again, right?