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Wednesday:
Uneventful flight from Midwest to Vegas on Air Tran Airlines. Take airport shuttle for $6 to Flamingo which is a pretty nice hotel if you stay in one of the remodeled rooms. It took 110 minute waiting in check in line at 1:30 PM to get checked in. Got a GO room, very nice (paid extra for strip view) $134 night through Travelocity. From hotel room we had a great view for strip and Caesars Palace.

First part of trip has wife, friend 1 and girlfriend (F1+G). Share room to save some dough. GO room has glass doors to bathrooms with gap at bottom (don’t pass gas if you don’t want everyone in room hearing it in stereo :). Walk strip for while after F1+G get in around 10:30 PM. Earlier in day did some gambling: O’Shea’s Casino Pai Gow poker (+$81), Harrah’s craps (-$185), Royal Casino blackjack (-$19), TI blackjack (+30), TI Pai Gow Poker (+$62.50), Mirage 3/6 limit poker (+$46). The Mirage poker room was very nice and run professionally.

For supper I ate at Imperial Palace Buffet was $12.99 but had a $5 coupon I was given when I checked into Flamingo. Imperial buffet was terrible, definitely not worth $8.99 I paid. When I travel to Vegas I like to bring Gorp (mix nuts, raison, cholate chips, etc.) that I eat for breakfast and lunch most days and save my appetite for a buffet at supper.

Thursday:
Wife arrives in Vegas 11:00 AM. Spent a couple of hours at Flamingo pool, nice water fall created a relaxing experience. Walked through topless pool area but guys were only people topless. Slip out of room as ladies are getting ready and play some more Pia Gow poker and make (+$81) in 2 hours it takes them to get ready to go out. Go to Bellagio Buffet which was great, wide selection of food items and food was excellently prepared. I think Bellagio has best buffet in town. Go to Fremont Street and have fun just watching shows overhead and some cheap blackjack for ladies that like very low limit gambling. Take bus ride back to strip and hear story from drunken guy on bus who bonked a cocktail waitress 26 years ago and has come back to Vegas every years sense to visit daughter.

Friday:
Training class 8-5. Eat supper at Jimmy Buffet's Margarita Ville, great food. Take ladies to Cirque du Soleil’s “O” at Bellagio, show is hard to describe but I would recommend that you see “O” sometime when traveling in Vegas. After show take free shuttle from Paris to Rio. Go to VooDoo night club at top of Rio Hotel, awesome view outside on top of Rio. VooDoo club is great, had witch doctor drink ($26) was great, 10 shots in drink that was shared between 4 of us, great way to start party. Voodoo has a pole set up and great entertainment watching woman using pole. Get back to room at 2:30 AM. Gambling: This was all done at lunch time from course and while waiting for ladies to get ready to go out. Flamingo Pai Gow poker (+$91) Craps (-$18), Fitzgerald’s blackjack (-$67), Tropicana 3 card poker (-$20) $5 blackjack (+$57), Flamingo Pai Gow Poker (+$69) Craps (+$26).

Saturday:
Training class 8-5. Go to Mandalay Bay for Buffet, second best buffet in Vegas. I love how crap legs are cut in half so just fork out meat and eat, yum. We go to Red Square Bar in Mandalay Bay and have some martinis, bartender pour all four martinis at once, neat. Bar has a freezer that if you buy a bottle of vodka, put on Russian looking coats bar provides and freeze your ass off while you drink your vodka. Take cab back to Fremont Street and have some more fun playing 3 dollar blackjack.

Sunday:
Training class 8-5. The ladies fly home so it’s just Vegas and the guys. Transfer to Tropicana for $35 rooms. Had a garden room but see what looked like a roach run across hallway floor on way to room and room smelled so we complained. Manager upgraded us to a tower room which was pretty nice for no charge. Played a couple of hours of poker at Flamingo and electronic tables at Excalibur and turned in a little early to catch up on sleep I lost while ladies were in town.

Monday:
Spend day at seminars. Go to supper at Craving (buffet at Mirage) and thought buffet was average, crap legs were tasteless. Have bad streak and lose $200 blackjack and $85 Roulette at Mirage. Poker $0.50/$1 no limit poker at electronic tables at Excalibur (+$0), I actual lost $50 playing poker on the last hand I play before I left but won a $50 drawing poker room was doing based on giving out a prize each time there was a score in Monday night football game. In hand I lost $47 I had pocket nines, $2 first round bet. 4 callers, flop in 3-9-J with one heart, $5 dollar bet, one caller. Turn is king hearts, I bet $5 and am raised to $25, I go all in and after some thought suck out calls with 3 and 5 of hearts. River is 2 hearts and my set loses to flush, tough way to end poker session.

We go to Sapphires at midnight – pretty good, were at Hard Rock Hotel and ask limo drivers if we could get free ride and entry to a gentlemen’s club. Initial response was no but later as we walked away an SUV cab offers us free entry to Sapphires if pay $15 for rider to club. Several $20’s later and couple of hour and get back to hotel at 5:30 AM. $23 for two beers at Sapphires.

Tuesday – Friday

More seminars, poker, drinking, buffets and I took a lot of pictures to help me remember fabulous trip. Went to top of Eiffel Tower which has great views of City. I though Wynn Buffet was only average. Recorded several of the Bellagio music/water shows, I love them and think shows are best free entertainment in Vegas. I also highly recommend checking out Planet Hollywood casino, great play on color changing lighting through casino.

-- George