Well, we are back in PA. Glad to be back. Vegas was OK. There are some really cool things to see, but it is a city designed by morons. Nothing flows. Nothing is cohesive. Everything, even to get out of your hotel, is a 10-minute walk at minimum. It is the most technologically lagging city I've ever been in. It is far from handicap accessible. It is insane. I got my Vegas fix for a while...maybe for a lifetime. It would have been a fun trip for my 20 or 30-something self and friends when I was drinking. Now I only want to go back again for another SEMA show.
We are all exhausted. We left Vegas Wednesday night at 10:30 PM and got in at 6:00 AM on Thursday or something like that. The flight out on a Boeing 737 was fine and smooth as can be. I took one antianxiety pill at the beginning and that smooth flight gave me hope that I could do flying again no problem. Then on the way home we hit every bit of turbulence and the Airbus A321 was loud AF! I hated it. At one point the plane was rocking and shaking from turbulence and all these red lights inside the cabin illuminated. I thought we were going down.
flying!
I was worried I'd run out of cardiac/aerobic stamina from all the walking in Vegas because of my old AF transplanted heart. That wasn't the case at all. I didn't get tired in that way which is a good thing. My legs on the other hand are done. We walked an average of 4.25 miles per day, which doesn't seem like a lot, but I am a fairly sedentary pencil pusher these days. And some days in Vegas we walked almost 7 miles and that walking was on a bum left knee and bum right ankle. I hope to not walk for the entire weekend so I can rest. LOL So how did I get the bum knee and ankle? On Thursday evening my girlfriend took her father's mobility scooter rental to dinner (she has a twice-broken bad ankle with unconnected tendons). On the way back I was sitting on the scooter and she was driving it from my lap. As we went through the automatic doors into the Luxor hotel, the door shut and I took the edge of a 1" thick glass door directly to the kneecap while full speed on the scooter. It hurt so bad I got nauseous for a second. That knee bothered me the entire trip and still hurts. Then the next day, her mom and dad, both on scooters, tried to get on the ******* piece of ******* shit monorail and the door was shutting. Her mom panicked and gave the scooter the beans wide open and slammed my opposite ankle between the scooter and monorail door. The hotel, elevator and monorail doors close on you even if a scooter is halfway in. It is retarded. So a bum left knee and bum right ankle was the start of my Vegas trip.
What really started it off was her dad slipped on the bathroom floor getting out of the shower and spent the first full day in the ER. Thankfully he was only bruised. He stayed behind in the hotel that night for dinner which is why we had the use of his scooter. The Luxor hotel is run by morons. My girlfriend tried getting an accessible room for her 78- and 84-year-old parents at the time of booking, again before we even left PA then again when we checked in. Each time she was told they didn't have any accessible rooms open and didn't show "anything in their records" regarding the request. Real effing convenient. They didn't even give him a bathmat for getting out of the shower. The parents tried using a towel, but that didn't prevent him from falling. Then after he fell and his trip to the ER, numerous pleas from my girlfriend only got them one tiny mat to cover the entire, slippery tile floor. Then my girlfriend asked me to come downstairs with her to talk to the manager and I had to be the dick. He was a douchebag prick and kept trying to talk over me and cut me off, but I wasn't having any of that BS. Suddenly he found an accessible room on a different floor. Imagine that! They comped 3 days of the stay totaling just under $1,000. That's it. The managers don't have the power to do any more than that. Shows how powerless those guys are. I wasn't there for this, but my girlfriend said another manager basically said if you don't take this offer and sign our paper, good lucking suing us. The lawsuit wasn't worth it because he, thankfully, didn't get seriously injured, but I wouldn't have signed it pending the ER bills. Just beware of the Luxor and the morons working there. The room and even the bed were good for us though.
I probably could have enjoyed the mechanicalness of the dam and the engineering involved, but I'm not fascinated with it. I did see a sign that said the construction company was given 7 years to complete it and they finished it 2 years early and it has withstood the test of time. That shit doesn't happen anymore. Now things run long and over budget or they are a crap finished project.
Meow Wolf absolutely sucked ass. I absolutely hated it. It is a high school art project designed by and for psychedelic drug users. And it is extremely overpriced. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have even paid $20 to get in and it was $187 for two adults and a 10-year old boy.
Pics of SEMA to follow. I took over 400 photos. We also saw the Mob Museum (awesome), Michael Jackson One by Cirque du Soleil (OK. There wasn't much typical acrobatic Cirque-type stuff. It was more dancing. But the show was stopped for 30 minutes about 30 minutes into the show because one of the performers got yeeted and got injured so we are thinking that affected the rest of the show), Awakening (Very cool theatrical performance that typically isn't my thing, but we all really enjoyed it) and Blue Man Group which was awesome.
We are all exhausted. We left Vegas Wednesday night at 10:30 PM and got in at 6:00 AM on Thursday or something like that. The flight out on a Boeing 737 was fine and smooth as can be. I took one antianxiety pill at the beginning and that smooth flight gave me hope that I could do flying again no problem. Then on the way home we hit every bit of turbulence and the Airbus A321 was loud AF! I hated it. At one point the plane was rocking and shaking from turbulence and all these red lights inside the cabin illuminated. I thought we were going down.
flying!I was worried I'd run out of cardiac/aerobic stamina from all the walking in Vegas because of my old AF transplanted heart. That wasn't the case at all. I didn't get tired in that way which is a good thing. My legs on the other hand are done. We walked an average of 4.25 miles per day, which doesn't seem like a lot, but I am a fairly sedentary pencil pusher these days. And some days in Vegas we walked almost 7 miles and that walking was on a bum left knee and bum right ankle. I hope to not walk for the entire weekend so I can rest. LOL So how did I get the bum knee and ankle? On Thursday evening my girlfriend took her father's mobility scooter rental to dinner (she has a twice-broken bad ankle with unconnected tendons). On the way back I was sitting on the scooter and she was driving it from my lap. As we went through the automatic doors into the Luxor hotel, the door shut and I took the edge of a 1" thick glass door directly to the kneecap while full speed on the scooter. It hurt so bad I got nauseous for a second. That knee bothered me the entire trip and still hurts. Then the next day, her mom and dad, both on scooters, tried to get on the ******* piece of ******* shit monorail and the door was shutting. Her mom panicked and gave the scooter the beans wide open and slammed my opposite ankle between the scooter and monorail door. The hotel, elevator and monorail doors close on you even if a scooter is halfway in. It is retarded. So a bum left knee and bum right ankle was the start of my Vegas trip.
What really started it off was her dad slipped on the bathroom floor getting out of the shower and spent the first full day in the ER. Thankfully he was only bruised. He stayed behind in the hotel that night for dinner which is why we had the use of his scooter. The Luxor hotel is run by morons. My girlfriend tried getting an accessible room for her 78- and 84-year-old parents at the time of booking, again before we even left PA then again when we checked in. Each time she was told they didn't have any accessible rooms open and didn't show "anything in their records" regarding the request. Real effing convenient. They didn't even give him a bathmat for getting out of the shower. The parents tried using a towel, but that didn't prevent him from falling. Then after he fell and his trip to the ER, numerous pleas from my girlfriend only got them one tiny mat to cover the entire, slippery tile floor. Then my girlfriend asked me to come downstairs with her to talk to the manager and I had to be the dick. He was a douchebag prick and kept trying to talk over me and cut me off, but I wasn't having any of that BS. Suddenly he found an accessible room on a different floor. Imagine that! They comped 3 days of the stay totaling just under $1,000. That's it. The managers don't have the power to do any more than that. Shows how powerless those guys are. I wasn't there for this, but my girlfriend said another manager basically said if you don't take this offer and sign our paper, good lucking suing us. The lawsuit wasn't worth it because he, thankfully, didn't get seriously injured, but I wouldn't have signed it pending the ER bills. Just beware of the Luxor and the morons working there. The room and even the bed were good for us though.
It's funny that many of the places in Vegas are also located not far from me - Maggiano's, Fogo de Chao, etc. I guess that's one of the very few good things about living an hour and a half away from Philthy.
I probably could have enjoyed the mechanicalness of the dam and the engineering involved, but I'm not fascinated with it. I did see a sign that said the construction company was given 7 years to complete it and they finished it 2 years early and it has withstood the test of time. That shit doesn't happen anymore. Now things run long and over budget or they are a crap finished project.
Thanks, but I've never been a health nut. I eat like a child since I'm so picky and hate most foods. It's not a choice. I just think my taste buds are so much different than the average person.
Meow Wolf absolutely sucked ass. I absolutely hated it. It is a high school art project designed by and for psychedelic drug users. And it is extremely overpriced. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have even paid $20 to get in and it was $187 for two adults and a 10-year old boy.
I would have loved to do this. There just wasn't any time.
My late girlfriend experienced something similar so I understand. I am a DD for my girlfriend. She likes to have drinks with dinner. I've tasted some of the sour beers she enjoys and I really wish they had those back in my partying days. I absolutely love sour candy and the sour beers are right up my alley. So I'm jealous I can't enjoy those beers with my girlfriend, but oh well.
I rarely got hangovers. I think I had two in my life. I was good at knowing when to say when with my body. The last time I got drunk, the hangover lasted 2 or 3 days though. That was the only time I have ever been blackout drunk.
Pics of SEMA to follow. I took over 400 photos. We also saw the Mob Museum (awesome), Michael Jackson One by Cirque du Soleil (OK. There wasn't much typical acrobatic Cirque-type stuff. It was more dancing. But the show was stopped for 30 minutes about 30 minutes into the show because one of the performers got yeeted and got injured so we are thinking that affected the rest of the show), Awakening (Very cool theatrical performance that typically isn't my thing, but we all really enjoyed it) and Blue Man Group which was awesome.
to be able to afford that. Really missed marketing opportunities from the RC companies IMO.
I didn't hate Vegas. There was some good and bad and overall it was a good trip. I think we all felt that way. I did vent a bit so I'm sure it came off way more negative than intended.
