Back From Vegas, part 1
Wow, we just spent three days and two nights in Vegas. No, it wasn’t to do some timeshare presentation, we were going out to say goodbye to the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. It was wild! Very sad and a bit frustrating. We had a group of 8, and we were so excited getting into town. Friday we flew in on Southwest, and got checked into the hotel, got unpacked, and then walked to the strip and checked out the tickets available at the tix2night place. There were options, but we needed to figure out what to do. So we spent the next two hours hanging out at the Peppermill, where Kathy took very good care of us. I had barbeque chicken that ROCKED!!! All the food was good. We decided to hit the Rat Pack show at the Plaza that night, since we could get great tickets at a discount. Everyone went their own way for the next few hours, and while Ed and Charlie went hotel hopping, Arty, David and I went back to the hotel and played the new Star Trek slot machine for a while. very fun!!! And then David and I took a nap.
I think Audi, Kathryn and Nancy took a cab back to the hotel and rested until it was time to go that night. The Rat Pack show was great! The performers were really good at their jobs, and we all enjoyed it so much. And the jokes? We were laughing so hard….. Anyway, we went to eat at Binions, good food. David, Ed and I hung out downtown for a little while-Ed finally had found some machines where he could put in the quarters he’d brought from home.
Saturday, we had breakfast at the Paradise Cafe, and then Ed, Arty and David went to get tickets from the half price place—Penn and Teller— while the rest of us hung out near the experience. The doors opened at 11:30, and the line began to move, finally. Charlie stayed in line while we waited for the guys to get back (that’s another story in itself) and I was gathering information on the packages. They only had a couple of packages left, the Latinum package and the Captain’s package. We had coupons, too. While the guys kept trying to get back, I bought tickets for the latinum package for Arty, Ed, David and myself. The rest of the gang were right behind me, and they got their own tickets. The guys showed up at that point. We got into the 4:30 backstage show (barely) and then went to hit the museum and do our first ride, which was the Klingon ride.
I’ll finish this up later tonight with part 2.
Posted: Monday, August 25th, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
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