Despite how insanely comfortable my bed was here at Green Valley Ranch, I was wide awake at 4:00 am. Well I am in Las Vegas. Let’s…go gamble?
I stop for coffee at The Grand Cafe. Meaning I ordered coffee, realized I didn’t put any cash in my wallet, and had to walk away to go back to my room which is a million miles away. Halfway there I realized hurr durr, I own both credit cards AND I have comps on my Stations card. I get that taken care of, sit down at a machine and HURR DURR HI I HAVE NO CASH ON ME.
Back to the room, back to the casino.
I decide to play Buffalo. I can never say enough how much I love these games. I am playing one of the ones with the super sized screen. I get one bonus symbol, then a second, then a guy walks by and smacks my machine yelling “GET IT! GET IT! GET IT!” and I do! And I win zero! Oh.
I keep playing and get another bonus. This time I win $118. WOO!
I go back up to my room, it is only 5:30. I pack my stuff and lay down for an hour. Then it is back out for breakfast. I get a buffet, free from MyVegas. My goal is to catch the 9:00 shuttle to the airport, so I can catch the WAX bus to downtown. I am moving to my last hotel of this trip today, California. I am very anxious to get down there because I want to be there NOW.
Let me tell you guys something. I do not know how I got this lucky. But my shuttle from Green Valley Ranch pulled into Zero Level at the airport, just as the WAX was pulling up. I was in my room at California by 10:00. That is right. I left Green Valley Ranch on a shuttle at 9:00 am, took a bus downtown and was checked in, and inside my room, only one hour later. It was a Christmas-Eve-Eve miracle.
California has remodeled a bunch of their rooms, but I am given an old one. I don’t care because I love this hotel and would happily accept any room here. Except that one where the roof leaked onto my bed and soaked it.
On my way out, I stop to rub Buddha’s belly. I tell him all about how I was in his birth country earlier this year. He just laughed at me.
