A Strip View

Okay, I'm back from a couple of days playing tourist down on the Strip. For starters, its not really all that exciting staying in a hotel down on the Strip when you actually live a mere few miles away from it. The only gambling I did was putting a few bucks through a video poker machine one night while a very bored Danielle looked on. If you don't gamble, and you don't have a budget that will allow you to see a $100 Cirque show, mid-strip is pretty damn boring! I do thank Jack21 though for the free room the past couple of nights though. The Flamingo is a nicer place than I gave it credit for, and it was pretty nice being able to get up less than an hour before my shift started and still being able to punch in with minutes to spare!

I just got back from Main Street Station where Jack21 is staying and Mikey and I had some pretty good fun at the table games. I was playing with some "scared money", so I didn't put too much out there and thus, just broke even for the night. Jack did okay, but Mikey tripled his buy-in by the time we called it quits. The week of work/fun is over though and now I must concentrate on my upcoming shifts and the move. My first night in the new house will be this upcoming Tuesday night, so don't expect a whole lot of activity on the blog this upcoming week.

One interesting story from the past couple of nights did happen at the Venetian. Danielle had never seen the Palazzo before, so we stopped by for some gawking on Tuesday night. After seeing all there was to see at the Palazzo (the fourth time for me), we walked back to the regular Venetian, passing by the restaurant where Jeff (my soon-to-be roommate) works. He wasn't around so we didn't have anyone to hassle at that point. Since it had been a while since I had walked through the Venetian casino, I led Danielle down a couple aisles of table games, just to see what they offered and what table limits they were spreading at the time. At one point, Danielle pointed at the floor and said she spotted some chips down there. I told her to pick them up and suddenly she was $2 richer as she now owned two white Venetian chips. Since she was pretty sure they just dropped off the cocktail waitress' tray , she started following her to give them back. I followed......and suddenly I spotted yet another chip on the floor next to the rapid roulette tables. After playing the role of "deer in the headlights" for a brief moment, I bent down and swiped up one big Venetian black chip off the floor! That's $100 baby!

To make a short story long though, we ended up at the security podium filling out a lost-and-found slip for that $102 we found. If someone doesn't "claim" the money within 25 days, I will have made a decent night of tokes for the night. But as Chris pointed out, the casino could simply say someone stopped by to claim them and just locked it up for the bottom line. I'm not really expecting the cash to be there, but it obviously won't stop me from making the walk down there 25 days from now, just to see for sure.