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Up at 5:00 AM at Fremont, after a horrible night’s sleep.  Live bands are back on Fremont, which I had not considered when booking this hotel to work from.  The music went until 1:00 AM, and I have to be up at 5:00 AM for work.  They will do that again every night this week.  My bed was vibrating.   I have stayed at Fremont a million times in my life but I have only worked from here during Covid.  The bands were not playing prior to this trip because of Covid restrictions so I was not expecting this.  I also honestly don’t remember this ever being an issue before Covid?  Am I just that much older that the music is that much louder? I am going to suffer.

I spent way too much time trying to get the lighting in my room to make me not look like a blurry ghost on a morning video call with all of Leadership at work.  I wasn’t too successful.  Oh well?

I did like being up in time to see the sunrise.  I cannot say enough times how much I love sunrise in Las Vegas.  That feeling of a fresh, new day.  The idea that anything can happen.   Those first early morning steps in a quiet casino.  The knowledge that if you  have a heart attack from winning a million dollars, the paramedics will be able to reach you easier while the casino is still empty. Eye on the prize mother fucker!

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I wake up at Harrahs at 6:47 AM.   I really need to cut the internet out of my life because I wasted an hour doing nothing.

I went down and got Starbucks.  There were 37 people in line in front of me.  Fucking kill me.

I played some single line Ultimate X / Double SuperTimes Pay and hit 3s.  YAY.

Walked over to Mirage to use my MyKonami free play.   The first machine I tried kept telling me that my balance was too low to play it.  Fuck you.

Second machine took both my free play and $20 of my hard earned cash.

I went over to Happy Prosperous.   Sometimes I like to randomly hit max bet.  Not often.  But sometimes.  I did this on the first spin and got the bonus.   Holy shit I am going to be rich!

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I am up at the crack of dawn. I go downstairs, lose money, and then eat at the Paris buffet. This is definitely the best breakfast buffet on the strip.

I take a peek at my Park Place coupons and discover I have one for 15% off merchandise at the store I bought my Paris themed pajamas at yesterday. Yay!  I go back and get my mother a pair.  It is 15% off with the coupon, and then an additional 10% off with my Park Place card. Excellent!!!

I go outside and take some photos.

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Good morning from Palace Station! Despite crawling to bed at 6:30 AM, I am awake at 8:30 AM.  I head downstairs for breakfast at the buffet, and return for a long nap.  I am up at 4:00 PM.

I go down to the casino and play and Uncle Sam slot machine, cashing out with $50. I decide to go up to the room, shower and pick up where I left off on last night’s Strip casino crawl.

Well although last night went on forever, tonight only lasted an hour.

I started off at the Venetian, lost and lost. Casino Royale, lost and lost. Mirage!  Lost and lost and called it quits.

This simply isn’t fun when you are walking these long distances between casinos and not getting anything for your efforts so I decided to stay put.

I gambled at Mirage for quite some time, never hitting anything worth documenting.  Then over to Treasure Island where I played until I was broke.

I took a cab back to Palace Station and fell asleep watching some television show named “Vegas.”  2022 me wants to know what the fuck television show I was watching named “Vegas” in June of 2003, and even Google doesn’t know.

Since this day was incredibly short, I’ll just keep going into tomorrow.

I am up at 8:30 AM.  Today is supposed to be a sleep in day. Oh well, I will sleep when I am dead.

Breakfast is at the buffet again. After eating, I play and lose on slots. I go outside and take pictures of the hotel. Come back, shower and check out.

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I wake up at Treasure Island at 6:30 AM (one hour sleep ‑ YAY!) I shower and head to buffet. It is not as bad as I’ve heard it was.

After eating, I play a Munsters slot machine and get nothing. I play a Risqué Business slot machine, get nothing.  I play a Lobstermania slot machine. I am losing so I am only playing 5 lines 1 credit. I cash out $25. Next up, Catch a Wave slot machine. I lose $15 of my winnings. I try a Price is Right Punch a Bunch slot machine.  I put in my remaining $10 and get up to $50. YAY!

I get back to the room at 8:30 AM to nap. As I type this, I am amazed at how much I did before 8:30. I and even more amazed when realizing I did this on one hour’s sleep.

I nap for 2 hours, wake up, shower again. I pack for my next move and leave my bags with the Bell Desk. I next get a Frappuccino and I’m ready!

I go back to the Price is Right Punch a Bunch machine.  This time I lose. I went over to Mirage and I lose lose lose lose. I dare to try an Austin Powers Time Portal slot machine again. I hate this game it is a big fat money suck.  WhydoIkeepplayingit???

Some photos of Treasure Island.  I am absolutely mindblown with amount of photos I used to take.  Since this trip report was back from 2003 – my camera was so crappy.   Even after deleting about 70% of all the crappiest photos, I still have eleventy billion left.

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Up at Fremont at 7:00 AM to begin my last day of this trip.  I am depressed not only because it is my last day, but also because last night was one of those nights I could not get ANYTHING going.  Will today be like that too?  God I hate.

I am starting my day at Binions.  Look at how lonely this ATM is.  I hope I don’t have to spend some time with her at any point today.

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I am up at 7:00 and out by 7:45.  Today I am going to revisit the Strip.  I am smart enough to have thought ahead to getting Dunkin Donuts last night to keep in my refrigerator so I could have a large iced coffee while playing at Bellagio this morning.

It is fucking HOT outside.  Like the hot where the sun burns your eyes and they really hurt.  I had to wait 17 minutes for my Uber.  This is abnormally long for this trip, albeit at this time last year, I would have been psyched just to be able to get one at all.

I watched as my driver passed by me on his way to drop off the person before me at Four Queens.  Please pick me up on the way, I need air conditioning?

My plans for Bellagio are to play the Dancing Drums machine I won on last trip, play some Cleopatra Keno and some Buffalo.  I have enough comps for the buffet.  Even though I am not a fan of it, I am less of a fan of leaving comps on the table.

I play Dancing Drums.  Woo hoo, this is going to plan!
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