Good morning Las Vegas. I woke up too late to shower or eat so I ate a Kind bar and…didn’t shower.  What am I too late for?  A tour!  Specifically, THIS one.

Got picked up at 9:00 on the dot and headed off on today’s tour. I am the sole person who signed up for this tour so I am thrilled they did not cancel on me.  I want to see the big horned sheep.  I attempted to see the big horn sheep last year but the tour I was on did not stop at the park. The driver said they aren’t out in winter. So why advertise it as part of the tour you jerk.

This year though, my driver assures me we are stopping.

This tour was a bit expensive for what it is but it seems new as it wasn’t an option last year when I spent 6 weeks between Vegas and Arizona and took a million tours that I should probably post about.

We started at Seven Magic Mountains.

Then to Hemenway Park, where there were no sheep.

Then to Lake Mead. My driver asked the woman at the entrance if there were sheep here. She tells him to go to the park. We already did. She tells him to go back, they are there every day. I think she is wrong and I don’t feel this guy is obligated to take me back, but he offers that he will.

Lake Mead is beautiful.

My driver gave me 2 bags of cheese popcorn to feed the fish. I loved how they were waiting with open mouths. I kept trying to toss popcorn directly into the open mouths as if they would catch it like dogs but we all failed.

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Back to look for sheep and my driver found two babies very quickly in a residential area YAY.

Since I am solo, my driver offers to drop me anywhere I want to be dropped off at. I want to be dropped off at Sahara.  I am still mad about failing to get there on the monorail the other day.  But I have my winter hoodie for the tour.  But I don’t want to have a second failed attempt at getting to Sahara.  So off to Sahara with my winter hoodie, physically uncomfortable.

I play Dancing Drums Prosperity and know I will never stop until I hit the progressives since they are high.

I have not yet won the Major on this trip and I always manage to pop it on an $.88 bet.  I lost my first hundred, could not get the lid to pop.  Second one, it pops and I get both the Mini and the Minor.  Still angry though.

I cannot find Ultimate X here and I know I have played it before.  I am walking around the casino over and over, cannot find it.  Holding my Starbucks in one hand and my winter hoodie over the other arm.  Getting frustrated.  Fuck it, I’ll just play regular video poker.  And I hit 4s twice.

I have $100 at freeplay at any Boyd casino and it would be easy to just go Downtown from here.  But my winter hoodie is annoying me, as is the fact I have not yet showered so I take an Uber back to Vdara.

After showering, I am out.  I take the bus to Downtown.  From door to door it takes an hour and 47 minutes.  That’s longer than a train from New York City to Philadelphia takes.  One bus did come before the one I got on, but at that point in time there were over 50 people at the bus stop and we could all not fit on the bus.  I decided to stay back assuming that since we had been waiting for SO. LONG. that another bus had to be coming any second.  Nope.

Got off the bus and stopped in Fremont to get Dunkin Donuts.  I’d love to play here but BOYCOTT.

Dinner is a Binions burger, my first of the trip and we are on day seventeen.

Over to California to play.  There are three homeless men on the three corners of the intersections you have to cross to get from Binions to California, one at each corner.  I pass one who tells me my coffee smells amazing.  I am very immune to the homeless, which is a whole other thing.  But for some reason, this guy gets to me.  My coffee DOES smell good. And it is cold outside.  I consider for one second to just give it to him but I don’t and then I feel like a fucking asshole for the entire time I am inside California.

$100 freeplay on the second to last hand:
Then quarter video poker:

AND AGAIN

Six of hearts blocking the kicker both times.

I walked back to Binions, once again past the guy who I now feel eternal guilt over not giving my coffee to him.  And I go inside to the deli and buy a cheeseburger with comps and go back outside and give it to him.  Guilt is now gone.

And I was rewarded with my third Aces of the night.

I took the Deuce bus back to Vdara and it took forever to come.  There were SO. MANY. PEOPLE. waiting.  The bus driver was getting annoyed and said he needed to stop letting people on so he could leave but there were still a million people waiting and no second bus in sight.  Get your shit together RTC.

Stopped to play Ultimate X on my way back to my room.

I stopped to smoke outside Vdara and noticed you can see stars, which is odd since shouldn’t light pollution block that?

And went to bed for the last time on this trip.  Good night Las Vegas.

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