Vegas

May 4, 2007 | Filed Under Main |

On May 15th, I am going to Vegas. For work. I have to go to a conference about accounting software. What better place than Vegas?

Now – I have never been to Vegas before. I don’t even watch the TV shows about it (isn’t James Caan on one of them?). Plus I am not the gambling type. Actually, I MAY be the gambling type, but I know I’m not the winning type. My people don’t win games of chance. We don’t win raffles or scratch tickets or 50-50’s or lotteries or horse races. However – my Mom does pretty well with the horses. Every Derby season, she and my aunts bet on the ponies. And Mom has a very simple system – she bets on any horse that has the word “cat” in its name. My guess is that she does better than most professionals. There’s a “cat” horse running in this weekend’s Derby – “Cowtown Cat”. I bet she could make some money if she bet more than $2.00. She also won during her stint on Jeopardy many years ago…

Be that as it may, I will not be hanging around the one-armed bandits being suffocated by smoke and horrified by humanity. I have a ticket to see one show – Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles show “Love”. And my wife wants me to check out the Liberace Museum (I’m supposed to bring back fabulous baubles…). Other than that – I have no plans. I am staying at the Venetian which has fake canals and fake gondolas. There is much that is fake about Vegas.

BUT I am open to suggestions – the good and the bad. I can’t spend my entire time actually going to seminars, now can I?

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3 comments so far
  1. terry May 6, 2007 4:46 am

    Having gone with for my 40th, here’s some thoughts…

    During the day, go to the top of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel or at night, go to the top of the Rio. Both spectacular views.

    2 restaurants we liked: Samba Brazilian Steakhouse at the Mirage and Joe’s Stone Crab

    But be prepared to spend a lot, Vegas is really expensive.

    Have fun.

  2. Mike May 7, 2007 9:42 am

    Sorry…but I would get dis-owned if I described my two Vegas trips. Consisted of mostly Texas Hold-Em and strippers (unfortunately not at the same time). I did not, however, “make it rain” like Pacman Jones did. Didn’t want to call that much attention to myself. And since I didn’t see any shows/museums (or even really eat for that matter other than at the Denny’s next to the MGM), I can’t help with clean entertainment. Terry is correct, though, very expensive.

  3. gorky May 9, 2007 6:31 am

    Who said I wanted “clean” fun? I have “clean” fun(?) all the time. I want to know what stays in Vegas…