Good morning Las Vegas!

My plans today are to work and then head downtown to use my November free play.  Well thanks to Formula One, the bus is not running on the Strip.  Google Maps is telling me to walk to Polaris.  They cannot be serious about this?  I took an Uber to Circa.  I have dining credit here.  Saginaws got rid of my favorite sandwich, Nicole’s Tangy Turkey.  No no no no no.

Today was just not a good gamble day. For me anyway.  It was a good day for the dude I saw at California who was waiting on his $1600 handpay for hitting the progressive royal.

Being in California broke my heart.  I cannot stay here because they yanked my comps so other than the $10 free play, I also cannot play here because why would I?  But I love it here. But fuck you.

I went back to Cosmopolitan.  Some guy was sitting at one of the remaining two nickel Ultimate X machines, watching his wife play the other.  I ask him to move and he is very nice about it.  Him and his wife ask me a bunch of questions, they have no idea what they are doing. I honestly wanted to suggest maybe not playing a carnival game then but I never know if that sounds rude.  We discuss how much I love Double Double Bonus because Aces and moments after, I hit Aces with a kicker x 8 for $800.  Holy shit.  They are shocked, I am shocked.  I realize I don’t have my phone and cannot take a photo.  

We keep playing and the entire time they come back to how cool that was.  

I finally cash out to go to my room to get my phone and once I stand up, I feel it is my pants pocket NO bad Jennifer.

I walked over to Aria to grab some croissants for the room.  I borrowed a penny on heads from Buddha and put it in my bra.And oh heya.

Aria:

I go to the room to dump my wins and head out again.  I can’t hit anything so bed it is.

I wake up at 2:00 AM and….go gamble.   Single line quarter Ultimate X.  I did pretty well!
My entire budget for this leg of my trip was $600.  I am leaving with triple that.  I will also be candid that I have zero plans of taking it home.  I am using it to gamble on my cruises.  

I went back to the room to work and did not go into the casino at all for the rest of the day.  I did rebook my December hotel – cancelling my Bellagio stay and rebooking Cosmopolitan.  I had a hard time deciding this.  Yes, I want to stay at Bellagio.  Yes, I want a fountain view room.  Yes, I want to sleep in a Bellagio bed all day.  But at the end of the day, I have to work 2 days of the stay and the lack of a refrigerator coupled with how fucking FAR the Starbucks is, makes me choose Cosmopolitan. I can stock my refrigerator with iced coffee the night before.

I tried to nap after work but the sound of F1 cars whizzing by below my balcony was so loud.  So to the airport I go.  It was so dead here.

Everything about the LAX airport was awful. Even the poor bird in a backpack.

My luggage ended up in a different terminal than where we landed.  I had to take a bus.   The wait for the bus was longer than my flight.  It was storming outside.  The hotel shuttles stop at an uncovered spot.  Everything was getting soaked.  I wait too long and said fuck it, I will just pay for a fucking $50 Uber.  Well don’t ever get me started on that and how nowhere near anywhere the Uber pick up is, and how everything is fenced off and you have to walk very far to then double back.  

I arrived at my hotel frozen and soaked.  Hotel room view:

Bed and then awake to work one last time before Hawaii cruise yay.