I’m back from Vegas! I picked up Bee at around 3:30am on Saturday morning and we caught the first flight out of Bellingham to Vegas to meet Lisa and her sisters for her first stagette (she has two of everything for this wedding — lucky bride!). We arrived home late last night, but not before making a few new friends (it’s crazy how many stags and stagettes take place each weekend in Vegas) and shooting some guns. Turns out, I’m a decent shooter! Heh heh.
Tag Archives: Las Vegas
Vegas is for Girls
No, I didn’t tell them it was my birthday. The story is better than that! 
Several years ago, my friend and I went on a girls’ getaway. We booked our flights to Las Vegas through a travel agency that found a cheap flight and hotel package departing from Bellevue WA. As we were entering the plane on our way home, my friend was sneaking a glance at the cockpit and when she saw that one of the attendants was looking at her she said “just wanted to look at the cockpit”. It’s really not that funny, but it got the staff laughing.
Like Moths to a Flame
Approaching Vegas was overwhelming.You drive through miles of desert nothingness so dark at night that you can see the milky way and stars litter the skies like icing sugar on a chocolate cake. Then, you begin to approach a city of lights so bright you wonder if something is going to short circuit. The city gets bigger and bigger, and so do the buildings and towers. Suddenly you’re driving (or rather inching) along The Strip and your senses are overwhelmed by the stench of hundreds of people, the sounds of commercials and outdoor performances playing one after the other telling you that “Leanne Rhimes is performing at the Luxor” “Watch the #1 musical performance..” “Rated #1 show in all of Las Vegas” etc. as if you were on the set of Minority Report, and the bright lights twinkle, flash, and move across the buildings around you all trying to entice you to spend money at their resort. It’s an epileptic person’s worse nightmare.