Well, it is Day 2 in Vegas and I am feeling every bit of alcohol that I drank last night. The four of us woke up pretty late into the day and had lunch with the rest of the group.
Like I said in my previous post, we didn't have anything really planned for the trip except for the Penn and Teller show and that was for tonight. All we knew is that we had to be at the hotel lobby around 6 so we could get to the Rio and get our tickets.
We decided that getting some lunch would be the best thing to do since nobody has eaten since the day before. The idea for lunch was supposed to be the whole group eating together, but that was very hard to do since everyone was gone and could not be reached by phone.
The place that was chosen for our food intake was an awesome place called "The Pub". I thought this place was funny because instead of having some sort of drink as its mascot, they decided to have a whale instead. Of course this makes sense to a retard to use a whale blowing water out of its blowhole as a mascot, but at least the food was good.
Since the majority of us stayed out extremely too late the night before, we ordered the best hamburger they had to offer. The Hangover Cure Burger. The Hangover Cure Burger is your basic burger with meat, cheese, bacon, and whatever condiments that you would like to be put on it. But what makes it different from all of the rest is that they put a fried egg on it. And let me tell you, that had to be one of best burgers that I had ever eaten. I kind of felt like Samuel L. Jackson eating a Big Kahuna Burger from Pulp Fiction.
After what should have been a 30 to 45 minute lunch quickly became at least an hour and a half because everyone from the group were coming in and ordering at different times, it was time to leave and gamble some more. But there was only one problem, a couple of us were still feeling the pains and regret from the night before. So, it officially became nap time.
It was a good idea that I took a nap like an 80 year old man because I felt great and ready to go to the Penn and Teller Show. Since it was at the Rio, we had to get a cab because there was no way in hell that I was walk the whole way there.
When we walked into the auditorium for the show, there were some cool things going on as wait for everything to start. To the right of the stage was the Mike Jones Duo. Obviously there were 2 members in the group. Mike Jones, the leader of the two, was playing the piano while Penn was the bass player. The two actually sounded pretty good.
While the Mike James Duo was playing, everyone in the audience was invited to come on stage and inspect and get into a large wooden box and sign their name on a large envelope. Both of these props were going to be used in the show and it was actually pretty amazing.
Once everyone left the stage, a stage hand laid the box down and Teller came out of it while Penn walked out from behind a curtain. It was very interesting since everyone looked and got in the box and was in plain sight the whole time but no one knew how Teller got in the box in the first place.
The envelope that everyone signed was even more mind boggling. The trick was that Penn and Teller picked a random person from the audience by letting the rest of the audience pass around books to everyone. Penn would randomly pick a book and who ever had that book was invited to come on stage. You knew this guy was not a part of the trick because that meant that the whole audience had to be in on the trick in order to pass that book to him.
Like I said in my previous post, we didn't have anything really planned for the trip except for the Penn and Teller show and that was for tonight. All we knew is that we had to be at the hotel lobby around 6 so we could get to the Rio and get our tickets.
We decided that getting some lunch would be the best thing to do since nobody has eaten since the day before. The idea for lunch was supposed to be the whole group eating together, but that was very hard to do since everyone was gone and could not be reached by phone.
The place that was chosen for our food intake was an awesome place called "The Pub". I thought this place was funny because instead of having some sort of drink as its mascot, they decided to have a whale instead. Of course this makes sense to a retard to use a whale blowing water out of its blowhole as a mascot, but at least the food was good.
Since the majority of us stayed out extremely too late the night before, we ordered the best hamburger they had to offer. The Hangover Cure Burger. The Hangover Cure Burger is your basic burger with meat, cheese, bacon, and whatever condiments that you would like to be put on it. But what makes it different from all of the rest is that they put a fried egg on it. And let me tell you, that had to be one of best burgers that I had ever eaten. I kind of felt like Samuel L. Jackson eating a Big Kahuna Burger from Pulp Fiction.After what should have been a 30 to 45 minute lunch quickly became at least an hour and a half because everyone from the group were coming in and ordering at different times, it was time to leave and gamble some more. But there was only one problem, a couple of us were still feeling the pains and regret from the night before. So, it officially became nap time.
It was a good idea that I took a nap like an 80 year old man because I felt great and ready to go to the Penn and Teller Show. Since it was at the Rio, we had to get a cab because there was no way in hell that I was walk the whole way there.
When we walked into the auditorium for the show, there were some cool things going on as wait for everything to start. To the right of the stage was the Mike Jones Duo. Obviously there were 2 members in the group. Mike Jones, the leader of the two, was playing the piano while Penn was the bass player. The two actually sounded pretty good.
While the Mike James Duo was playing, everyone in the audience was invited to come on stage and inspect and get into a large wooden box and sign their name on a large envelope. Both of these props were going to be used in the show and it was actually pretty amazing.
Once everyone left the stage, a stage hand laid the box down and Teller came out of it while Penn walked out from behind a curtain. It was very interesting since everyone looked and got in the box and was in plain sight the whole time but no one knew how Teller got in the box in the first place.
The envelope that everyone signed was even more mind boggling. The trick was that Penn and Teller picked a random person from the audience by letting the rest of the audience pass around books to everyone. Penn would randomly pick a book and who ever had that book was invited to come on stage. You knew this guy was not a part of the trick because that meant that the whole audience had to be in on the trick in order to pass that book to him.
Basically, the trick was that Penn and Teller could determine which joke the audience member was going to choose from the book and the punchline would be written in the envelope that everyone signed earlier in the night. I don't know how they did it, but it was remarkable.
The show lasted about 2 hours and it was time for us to leave. We decided that the 9 of us were going to see the Hoover Dam the next day and had to be ready no later than 9 in the morning. Because of this, everyone wanted to go to bed even though it was only about 11 at night.
Paul and I decided to venture out on our own because we figured we don't get to visit Vegas that often and we wanted to have as much fun as possible. The two of us gambled at a couple of casinos and checked out some of the other bars since there is not last call in Vegas. At one bar, I ordered my drink and was then asked the greatest question of all time. "Do you want this drink for here or to go"? Just because of that question, I had to get the drink to go and explore more of what Vegas had to offer.We ended up spending the most of our time at Bill's Gambling Hall. The penny slots were calling my name so of course I had to answer. I only spent a couple of bucks there and the majority of it went towards tipping the cocktail girl to ensure that she would come back with more drinks.
After a couple of hours at Bill's Gambling Hall, it was time for me to retire and head back to the hotel. Paul wanted to stay since he was doing well at the blackjack table, but once the clock hit 4 in the morning, I knew I was done for the day.
On the way back to the Monte Carlo Hotel, I stopped at the New York New York Hotel just to check out the Coyote Ugly Bar and the Nine Fine Irishman Bar. Both places were good but the prices for the drinks were really pricey. 30 minutes went by quickly and I don't think I have ever been so tired before. I finally made it back to room and got as much sleep as I could before the Hoover Dam trip the next morning.
Las Vegas: Day 3 coming soon.
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