Las Vegas ‘07, part 1
I met up with some college buddies in Las Vegas again. You can read about my previous trip here and here.
I got back into blackjack this time. Last time I didn’t play it much because I hadn’t refreshed my memory on the basic strategy. Well this time I didn’t prior to the trip either but I spent some time in the hotel room, enough to memorize it pretty well. I won some, lost some. But had a good time.
I also went to a couple of nightclubs there. Flew in on a Tuesday with my friend Joe. The others flew in later. We decided to check out Pure, in Caesar’s Palace. Supposedly it’s some hip place that celebrities occasionally go to. I went all out and wore a suit because - hey I was in Vegas. In Rochester if I went to a club in a suit, people would look at me like “what, did you just come from a wedding?” but in Vegas, it’s all good.
We figured on a Tuesday it would be dead but we had to wait in line for over an hour to get in there. We didn’t even want to get in that bad, we were just curious what the big deal was that people would wait so long - and didn’t have anything better to do just then. The reason it took so long is because there were all these people on a guest list in other lines and they’d be let in first then every once in a while they’d throw us a bone and let 5 or 6 from our “nobody” line in. We were still on Rochester time so we were tired. But we ended up hanging out there for a while and had a good time even though I didn’t see what was so special about that club.
On other days, we went to Body English inside Hard Rock, and Moon and ghostbar inside Palms. (Rain was closed that day.) Moon and ghostbar are at the top of the building and have an amazing view of the city. The music was pretty good too. Here’s a pic I grabbed from Moon’s website:
That’s the Strip you see in the background. The light beaming into the sky is the light from the top of the Luxor pyramid. Here’s one from ghostbar’s website:
I get a kick out of the descriptions on Moon and ghostbar’s websites. Here’s some snippets from ghostbar:
Indoors amid the seductive shadows, the sleek, chic ghostbar offers ultra lounging luxury among an ethereal color scheme of silver, white, greens and grays.
and
Behind the bar, shelves of premium spirits glow with the incandescence cast by backlit panels of acrylic-encased fabric.
Phew… is it hot in here? I feel like I need to take a cold shower after reading that. I bet you thought it was just a bar with a cool view, didn’t you?
Stay tuned for part two, where my Vegas trip takes a very strange twist. I guarantee whatever you’re thinking it is, it’s not. Well unless you’re one of the people I’ve talked to about it already.