Las Vegas trip report day 4!

I woke up just before 8:00 and showered and finished packing.  My plans this morning are:

Play $100 at Four Queens
Collect my free play from the June promotion and my cash back
Go to The D and play $100 on Dancing Drums

How did it go?

Well I lost $100 in the Four Queens.  Collected my $31 cash back and $120 free play.   Lost the $120 on dollar video poker.  Had to try one last time.

Cashed out my freeplay and found a penny on heads. Into the bra you go.

Over to The D where I was on my third hundred dollar bill when thanksfully, this saved me.
I cashed out and got another penny to put in my bra.  Grabbed a McMuffin from McDonalds and went back to the room.

I am checking into to Treasure Island today for 3 nights.  I had to pay $60 for the third night, which is fine by me.  Makes it easier with working.  Also note, I am double booked for three nights at Mirage as well.  That comes with $60 free play and $100 resort credit, which will cover my meals.  I would have booked just Mirage, but when working from Vegas, I really like having a smoking room so I am not vanishing during work to head down to the casino to smoke while working.  I feel like that is crossing an extremely degenerate line.

I took an Uber first to Paiute to get cheap cigarettes, second stop: Treasure Island.  While I am waiting for my Uber, a crazy person is having a fight with an invisible person.  He comes close to me so I move.  And as luck would have it, the invisible person also moved so he is near me again.  Please hurry up Uber Driver.  There is a windstorm outside blowing burning hot air on me as I wait.  Ugh.

The outside of Four Queens is so elegant.

Treasure Island grants me early check in. I get room 36057.  All smoking rooms are on the top floor.  I don’t honestly know if all rooms at Treasure Island have the super high ceilings, but these rooms do.

Got the shitty view as expected.

I had $65 free play with my offer and I went to play Ultimate X video poker.  There used to be one bank, there are now three.  Added bonus, one of the banks is now between MY machine and the super loud game that no one ever turns the volume down on.

I get an iced coffee and load my free play and $20 and it goes up and up and then I hit Aces x 2.  Then full house x 10.

I took the tram to the Mirage, stopping to play Buffalo which netted me a $100 TITO that I kept with me rather than cashing out.  My plans are to get my Mirage free play loaded, visit my room, and eat lunch/dinner.  I had 2 MyKonami free play rewards for Mirage since a second batch came out before I left.  She let me use both which was great.   I played Ultimate X video poker and turned my free play into $100 cash.  Lost that in Buffalo and then lost every bit of cash on Dancing Drums.

I am exhausted and starving.  But I cannot stand the thought of going to get something to eat.  Waiting to be seated.  Being seated.  I would have went to The Pantry and they would have as always forgotten to give me something, usually it is a spoon or sugar or milk for my coffee.  Every time.  Then the menu.   You scan the QR code and it doesn’t care that you tell your phone to download again, it will always pull up a menu from a completely different MLife restaurant because all the MLife scannable menus are named “Menu” without the restaurant name so my phone just pulls up whichever one it wants and it never pulls up the one I am at.

I say fuck it and go back to Treasure Island.  As I am getting off the tram, a wedding party is getting on the tram.

I get pizza and am completely bummed that they no longer sell bottles of Sobe water.  Whiiiiiiiiiiine.

To the room, scarf down the pizza and go to update my blog and no no NO.  Fuck.  I somehow didn’t take into consideration that without a resort fee, I don’t get free wifi.  They have a free option but I am guessing it is not strong enough to present in a work meeting to Leadership tomorrow morning?  Also I wanted to mute my background so people can’t see I am in Vegas.  My job does not care at all where I work from, this is crystal clear.  But they, most especially my manager, love talking about me being in a hotel again.  I don’t like attention and I surely cannot hear my manager say even one more time “It is like “where in the world is Carmen Santiago everytime Jennifer logs on!!!”

And here I am with a perfectly good room next door with perfect FREE wifi and I don’t want to stay there because I can’t smoke.   My meetings run back to back to back to back to back to back.  I will just mute my video for 5 minutes here and there and smoke.  Can’t do that if I have to go downstairs. Nevermind wearing a BRA get the fuck out of here.

I do consider booking a third room at a CET property with both free wifi and smoking but say fuck it.   This is a crazy pants idea.  I am not sure how my trips got so insane that I treat comped rooms as if they are different rooms in my home.  Oh the wifi isn’t working?  Let me just move across the street to a different room.

My Treasure Island room is also warm, which I deserve.

I take a nap and have a nightmare that there are bugs in my room.  I wake up and think I see one but it is just the top of the lamp.  I am already fucking freaked out though and I am so scared that I start choking and some bile comes up from choking so hard.  Jesus fucking Christ.  Get it together lady.

I have to go out, mainly at the very least, to go to CVS to buy a toothbrush.  I packed so incredibly light this trip.  I am not sure if it is lighter than normal, or if it just feels so since I had just been in Europe for ten weeks with a lot more stuff.  And yet the only thing I am lacking is a toothbrush.  I didn’t forget it, I just didn’t have enough at home.  I don’t like moving hotels with a used one. I am weird.

In the elevator is a couple who got married today, which I know because they mentioned it to each other about 7 times.  I felt like they were hoping for a congratulations and I might have given them one if they had not kissed between sentences, making these gross and loud sucking noises.

I have my $100 TITO from earlier in the day and some more cash because degenerate.  I stop at Starbucks and the line is 983274832 years long.  Then Ultimate X video poker, where I lose.  Then I play Dancing Drums, where I do not lose.

Back to Ultimate X video poker and have 2 great hits.  I am blissfully rich again.  I have had at least one big win every day so far.  Can I keep it up?

Back to the room at 11:30 PM.  I have to be “at” work in 5.5 hours.  Bleh.  Good night Las Vegas.