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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.

Next up I head to Venetian. I lose a little bit (which is expected) and have my first Grand Lux meal. I got a bacon cheeseburger, sooooooooooooo good.

Back to Treasure Island, collect my bags and head over to Palace Station for my third hotel of this trip.

I check into Palace Station. I get room 15030.  It is an average room, nothing special. I do have Strip view.

I try to nap and can’t. I cannot fall asleep. So I decide to get up and begin my casino crawl. My plan is to spend $9 in every casino, $3 on a Megabucks, $6 on a nickel slot machine. 9 is my favorite number. Let’s see how this goes!

I take the Palace Station shuttle to Tropicana. Once I’m here, I walk to San Remo because I’ve never been there. I splurge with $10 here, and $10 at Tropicana.  For some reason I decided to not make those two hotels part of my “$9 and leave” casino crawl. I lose the $10 in both casinos and now I’m ready to start my crawl at Mandalay bay.

Rules of casino crawl:

Take ONE pull of a Megabucks slot machine and cash out if you win anything at all.

Play $6 in any nickel slot of your choice.  If you get up to 200 in nickels ‑ CASH OUT DO NOT PLAY THEM DOWN.

Here’s how it went:

Mandalay Bay:
$3 in Megabucks, won $15
$6 in a nickel Red, White & Blue slot machine ‑ won $20

Luxor:
$3 in Megabucks, won NOTHING
$6 in a Beverly Hillbillies slot machine ‑ won NOTHING

Excalibur:
I broke the rules and skipped both Megabucks and nickels to play a Mr. Magoo slot machine and I won $75! Woo‑hoo Magoo!

New York, New York:
I win $15 on Megabucks, and $20 on a Super Cherry slot machine.

MGM Grand:
I lost on Megabucks, lost on an Uncle Sam slot machine.

Here is where I heard something dropping out of my pocket on the street and I don’t realize what it is because I cannot see anything on the ground.

Monte Carlo:
I win $15 on Megabucks, $20 on an I Dream of Jeannie slot machine.

I stop and eat dinner at McDonalds just because easy, and I get a huge bottle of water at CVS.

Boardwalk:
Zilch on Megabucks, $65 on Jackpot Party

Here is where I realize what I had dropped earlier. I dropped my CHAPSTICK OH GOD NO NOT MY CHAPSTICK I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEED IT TO LIVE!!!!!!

Aladdin:
Zilch and zilch

Paris:
Zilch and zilch

Ballys:
Zilch and zilch

Oh this isn’t fun anymore!

Bellagio:
I win $5 on Megabucks and here I discover a Cops and Donuts slot machine. I lose the $6 and put in $40 of my own money because it is a new game and I have to get the bonus. I get it and get back my $40. This game is really cute.

Barbary Coast:
I can’t find the Megabucks here! So I put the $3 in a Beverly Hillbillies slot machine and lose. I put the $6 in a Little Green Men Junior slot machine and win $15

This is where I start to sort of flip out of my freaking face. I am lacking Chap Stick. It is now 3:00 AM (in my typical obsessive behavior, I wrote down the times I left every casino ‑ average time from one casino to the next was 30 minutes) with lots of extra walking INSIDE the casinos. If you are only going to play ONE slot machine, you better believe you are going to walk and walk and walk until you find the right one.

I have no Chap Stick, I can’t even begin to think where I can acquire any before hitting up Walgreens which is all the way past Venetian. I need more water. I’m in the Barbary Coast and they don’t sell huge bottles of water.  I am not playing long enough to get water from a cocktail server.

Flamingo:
Lose and lose

O’Sheas:
I start flipping out again. I walk right in, decide without looking “there is no Megabucks here” and put $9 in a Sale of the Century slot machine.  One $5 bill, $4 singles. Each time you put money in, the machine says “Welcome to Sale of the Century!” This annoys me and I start to say out loud to the machine “SHUT UP ALREADY!” I lose my $9 and kick the machine and put in $20 of my own because I have never gotten the bonus on here. It takes my $20 and I head out of there, craving Chap Stick and water.

Imperial Palace:
I lose on Megabucks, win $15 on a Yahtzee slot machine.

Harrahs:
I lose and lose AGAIN on a Sale of the Century slot machine.

The people mover into Caesars isn’t working. If I go in the main entrance, I have to walk alllllllllllll the way back to the main entrance to get in.  I do this.

Caesars:
Megabucks, $0. Elvira slot machine, $0

Since the people mover exit is closed, I now have to rewalk all the way back to where i just was, to continue north of Harrahs.  It is 5:30 AM and I don’t want to do this. I want Chap Stick and water. I haven’t slept much. I am exhausted. i am dehydrated. I need Chap Stick. so I put $20 in the machine and lose it. I pull out another $20 and decide that instead of putting that in a machine as well, I’d just take a cab back to my hotel.

I’m so disappointed I didn’t finish my casino crawl. I’m definitely going to do it again on my next trip, only it will be winter and I’ll do it in the day so as to be able to take pictures all the way up and down the Strip. I have SO many night pictures because I sleep all day.

I head back to Palace Station.  I pass out at 6:30 AM.

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