Las Vegas trip report day 9!  Happy New Year’s Eve!

I am up at 7:00 and out at 9:00. You might think this means it takes me 2 hours to get ready, but the joke is on you. I haven’t showered and I am wearing filthy clothes. I am just a lazy slob.

I am supposed to take the bus to Emerald Island but I opt for an Uber instead because aforementioned lazy slob. My driver assumes I live in Henderson, does not occur to him that I am a tourist. This happens to me often.

Even though I have been to Emerald Island before, it has been so long since my last visit that I am considered a new player and get new player stuff. Such as a coupon book that includes free meals if I hit 50 points, which I do.

FINALLY get a win on Buffalo Chief.

There is a wait for seating at the coffee shop so I walk over to Rainbow and play Cleopatra Keno.

Rainbow has the best Cleopatra Keno pay table in all of Las Vegas.

I lose and switch over to Double Double Bonus video poker and get a straight flush:

Back to Emerald Island where my reservation is useless since I still have to wait about another 30 minutes . I lose on Buffalo and then say fuck it and sit outside the coffee shop and play on an old Mystical Mermaid slot machine for one penny per hand. I get a bonus of 15 spins when my name is called. The bonus retriggers. Come ON man. I won like $0.78 total.

My meal is chosen by my meal coupon and not by myself. I get a weirdo breakfast bowl with Royal Flusher’s own Country Throw up Gravy.

I lost some more on Buffalo and got out of here.

Next I took the bus to Joker’s Wild. I am not sure if I have been here before?

I am dying of thirst and neeeeeeeeeed a drink. I found the world’s largest Diet Pepsi and I sure as all fuck hope I win so I can be here long enough to finish it all.

I played some Double Double Bonus, lost $20. Then Cleopatra Keno where I lost $20. Then Buffalo where I….broke even YAY.

Back to Double Double Bonus where I hit Jacks.

Got back on the bus and headed for Skyline. This is one of those annoying bus stops where you are let off past where you are trying to go.

Vegas Vic’s son and Weirdo Hot Dog Guy live here:
This is my first time at Skyline. I liked it, although I did not play at the bar, which is the big thing to do here.

I signed up for a slot card and got a free bottle of hand sanitizer, which I am sure I will find in my bathroom closet if I ever move out of my apartment (I have been in the same apartment since 1998) and hopefully at that point, I’ll think “Wow remember Covid?!”

Fours!

I lost around after that on Cleopatra Keno and Buffalo. Then I went completely fucking DEGENERATE on Buffalo. Get me OUT of here.

I decide to walk from here to Klondike. I walk a lot in Las Vegas. I take a lot of “THE BOOGEYMAN IS GOING TO GET YOU” kinds of routes. I also frequent the “I wouldn’t do it as a solo woman!!!” types of places because unlike the boomer male perception of solo women, I am not a weak and fragile flower.

This walk was kind of desolate and didn’t have a sidewalk most of the way, so I kept getting pebbles in my shoe and having to stop to take them out. I was annoyed because if I were to get murdered on this route, I feel like my death would appear on message boards with boomer males saying “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!” But I didn’t get kidnapped or murdered, so suck it.

KLONDIKE.

I am again super thirsty and they do not have a gift shop. Fine, I’ll wait for a cocktail server. I saw one but she never saw me any of the fifty times she walked past at a distance. I would have had to yell for her attention, and I do not do that.

I was playing a new to me slot machine for quite awhile before I realized this was a Buffalo machine. That shows you how bad it was going. This one is called Luxury Line. I could not get a bonus, I could not get a win, I could not stop shoving more and more money in it.

Finally I am done – let me get the fuck out of here.

I go outside and try to get an Uber or a Lyft, either will do. Neither had cars. It is New Year’s Eve. I try for about 20 minutes and say fuck it and walk back to Boulder Highway to catch a bus back to Sam’s Town.

As I am on the bus, I notice the signage stating we are going South and somehow believe I am going the wrong way, even though I know I am not. A few seconds of panicking and then we are at Sam’s Town!

I grab an iced oat milk latte from Dunkin Donuts and French fries from McDonalds and I am in my room at 7:22. I kind of want to go to bed, kind of want to play forever.

I go out with $300, which is my daily budget, despite having already lost today’s daily budget. I lose that pretty quickly on Ultimate X video poker.

Back in my room at 8:57 and say fuck it and do not go back out. I am woken up at midnight by the sound of fireworks. Not sure if I could hear the Plaza fireworks from this far away or if they were coming from somewhere else? There are no fireworks on the Strip this year because Covid.

Later 2020!

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