Day 8 - Vegas Baby!!!

Excuse me for the lack of effort in this post, I’d just finished typing it up and pressed the wrong button and deleted everything. I’m also hungover, tired and needing food, so here goes (again).

We took a long walk down the strip to find somewhere for our traditional stomach busting breakfast and ended up in a rock café using our newly found egg knowledge to order a large portion of calories. Luckily the strip is rather long, so the walk back to the hotel helped us work it off.

Back at the hotel we decided to have a go on the roller-coaster which was pretty good. We barrel-rolled and looped the loop at 20 stories high before a vertical drop helped turn our over-easy breakfast eggs into scrambled ones.

To avoid the extortionate Vegas food and drink prices, we thought we’d beat the system and head to Wallmart to stock up. We then successfully smuggled the booze into the casino using shoe boxes, it’s like the good ol’ prohibition days! The drink prices as previously mentioned in Vegas can be pretty high in the casinos, but we have found a new system to get free drinks. Find yourself a table to sit at, wait for the waitress, pretend to be playing and get some free drinks. Even if you do end up betting, you can play most hands for less than a round of drinks anyway, and if the waitress isn’t busy you can easily get a couple in before you’ve lost it all.

We moved up and down the strip trying to find a decent roulette table which didn’t have crazy minimum bets and some empty slots for us to play at, 3 casinos later and we were happily losing our life savings. All was looking lost when Martin made a heroic comeback and got a positive score. Hurrah!

I appreciate that this is
a picture of a fish and
there probably were
far better things to
take pics of in Coyote
Ugly but we were keeping
a low profile!

Early evening we went to the Coyote Ugly bar for happy hour drinks (that’s right, that was the ONLY reason we were there). Unfortunately there was a lot of audience participation to get free shots but we managed to avoid this being the shy English people we are. Luckily for us, some drunk americans turned up and we were off the hook and didn’t end up bump’n’grinding on the bar, sorry, I know it would have made for some good pictures!

Later that evening we went to Rok which is the ‘exclusive’ in house club in the hotel. It was a little underwhelming, but the music was good and it was fairly cheap to get in. It closed at 2am along with most other bars though, where is this 24 hour party scene that Vegas is famous for? We stumbled up and down the strip being moved on from bar to bar as they closed and ended up doing some late night gambling instead. Martin hit the high roller video poker machines and instantly won 25c which he tried to cash, but as the amount was so low the machines wouldn’t pay out so he embarrassingly had to visit the cashier for his winnings.

Achievement: ‘Debated’ with American’s about the war.

A long walk back to the hotel followed with our newly found entourage.