Jennifer and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(s)

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If you are familiar with my blog, you may already know that every trip I take, has a bad day.  It has yet to be anything tragic.  I haven’t been assaulated, robbed, physically damaged, or anything like that.  There just always seems to be a full day where every single annoying, not tragic, simply annoying, thing will happen to me.  Well dear readers, yesterday AND today were those days.

I am on week six (?) of a ten week trip so I guess I was overdue.

Last night, I boarded an overnight train from Tbilisi, Georgia to Yerevan, Armenia.  There are 2 beds per room. I was hoping for my own room.  I tried to buy 2 tickets to have my own room, I was told no.

I board and so far, so good.  Own room.  But then in the room next to me, a couple is standing in the doorway, berating a man for sitting on one of their beds.  I ask him if he is in seat #6, in my cabin.  He starts to move his stuff but shows me his ticket which clearly states he belongs in the cabin the couple just kicked him out of.

The train attendant comes over and checks everyone’s tickets. The couple does not belong in this cabin, they don’t even belong in this car.  This car #3 for sleeper tickets.  They have row 3 seats in car #4.  They do not like this and begin insisting they bought sleeper seats, which their tickets do not show.

The guy though, is a nice guy and says that he can move if they want the beds and THE TRAIN ATTENDANT LETS THEM STAY.  And now I have a roommate that I don’t want.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: The Only Constant is Every Trip Must End

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Yet another “last day I am going home today waaaaaahhhhhhh” day in Las Vegas.

I wake up at Cosmopolitan at 7:00 AM.  I am supposed to go back to Luxor for my massage but I don’t want to.  I don’t.  I don’t want to, can’t make me.  I call and cancel and tell them they can charge it to my room since I have resort credit to cover it.  They seemed to feel bad for me that their policy is to charge for it if you are a no show.  It is fiiiiiiiine, just charge it.  Let me off the phone.  Bye bye.

I decided to walk through the casino to get to Starbucks rather than through the 3894873 mile walkway from the Chelsea Tower.  I played along the way, losing money.

Armed with coffee, I head back to MY Ultimate X video poker machine.  What a run I had.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: ACES!

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Day 10 Las Vegas trip report!

I woke up at Cosmopolitan.  At 5:00 AM.  View from my balcony:

Was on the world’s longest Starbucks line at 6:00.   That’s a thing in Las Vegas in current times, Starbucks lines.  They are fucking insane.   I stayed at Luxor, where Starbucks opens at 6:00 AM.  I moseyed over at 5:59 and the line was incredibly long.  Don’t even get me started with the Flamingo Starbucks of death, where the line never ends and goes out the door.  These places used to be 24 hours.  I fear this is never coming back.

I played my favorite Ultimate X Double Double Bonus video poker game and whoooooahhhhhhhhhhhh yay.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: I Hate the Chelsea Tower at Cosmopolitan

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Good morning Las Fucking Vegas!

I wake up at Treasure Island at 9:45.  I am out at 10:45.  I am not staying here tonight but since I am burning them, I booked the comp for tonight so I did not have to check out until I felt like it.

Reservations at all restaurants are still needed in Vegas during this trip.  I was able to score one for 12:45 at The Pantry at Mirage.  I cannot wait until the days of going to eat when you are hungry are back.   I hate having to keep track of time for meals.

I stopped at Starbucks, and then went to my Ultimate X video poker machine.  Lost 2 $100 bills before hitting this:
Also hit this:
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Las Vegas Trip Report: Visiting MY Buffalo Slot Machine at Linq

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Day 6 Las Vegas trip report starts at Fremont.  I am up early today to go to the spa at Flamingo.  I need a break from all the losing.  My breakfast was some left over chips from Saginaws that I have been holding onto for a couple of days.  Then off to Flamingo we go!

I booked a Happy Feet Remedy.  I had this on my last trip and it was great then, and it was great now.

After the spa, I obviously got Starbucks and went to visit my Buffalo slot machine at Linq.  Someone is playing it.   Fine, I will play another machine with you in my line of sight.  Holy shit this chick had a death grip on my machine.  I am not leaving.  I won’t be back around here for the rest of the trip, so I wait her out.

Some guy comes up to her with a bunch of to go food, including boxes of pizza.   I think okay, she is going to get up now.   Nope.  She is playing and keeps hitting bonuses.  When she does, she stops and sits back to watch.   Forever.   She sat there with her food getting cold for a good half hour before she fucking FINALLY got up.   MINE.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: Going to Jerry’s Nugget

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Day five Las Vegas trip report begins at Fremont.  I love this hotel so much.  I love it so much, I love it so much, I love it so much.

First stop is Dunkin Donuts where there is a penny on heads on the floor.  YAY.  I pick it up and put it in my bra.

I allow myself $360 for the day.  I am not too sure I understand daily budgets any longer.  I think my daily budget has officially gone from $200 to $400, without ever taking a stop at $300.

I played Buffalo Cash Express Luxury Line.  I played this on my last trip at Klondike in Henderson.  It was nicer to me today.
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Las Vegas Trip Report: Leaving Plaza YAY

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Day four of my losing Las Vegas trip report.  Yeargh.

I am up at 8:00 AM.  I shower and finish packing.  I am gung ho to move hotels.  I don’t want to be at The Plaza anymore, I definitely do not ever again want to be inside the casino.  I don’t have change for housekeeping so I leave a $20 because I do not want to go downstairs to break a bill.

I attempt to leave through the South exit as I had yesterday and today it is locked.  So I now need to walk alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way through the casino unnecessarily.

I cash out my Golden Gate TITO on my walk.  And ahhhhhhhhh I am at Fremont.  My favorite hotel in all of Las Vegas, which I know is crazy but I love it so much here, I love it so much, I LOVE YOU FREMONT.

I got room 626.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: Traveling Around Sahara

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Day three of this Las Vegas trip report begins in my warm room at the Plaza.  I cannot wait to leave this shitty hotel tomorrow.

Today I am getting the hell away from Downtown.  I am out at around 9:00.   One huge plus of being in the South Tower is that the exit to the Uber pick up is right here.  Spoiler alert, when I need to leave with luggage tomorrow, the exit will be locked.

I take an Uber to The Egg and I.   I have always wanted to come here for breakfast and finally after 2 decades of this place being on my itinerary, here I am!

There was a bit of a wait to be seated, maybe 20 minutes?  Not bad if you have a car.  But I don’t.  There wasn’t much shade so I just kept walking and looking in store windows to kill time.

The food here was good.  Not great.  Not “paid for an Uber” kind of worth it.   But still very good.  Way too many potatoes though.  I feel like you can see how salty they were.  Also you keep that ketchup AWAY FROM ME.

After eating, I took the bus to Palace Station.

I start with Starbucks and get going on Buffalo.  First I lose $20.  But then I move machines and win $20.  Holy shit, I have won something!   Keep going.  I win $40!  I win $80!  I lose $120.  Shit.

On the way out I lose another $100 in Double Double Bonus Supertimes Pay.  Oh well.

I get back on the bus and head to Sahara.  I hate how far the entrance is from the bus stop.
I get a new card and have $10 free play and some dining credit I did not use.  Probably should have seen if it was usable at Starbucks.

The casino is all a mess because they are doing construction.  The casino also seems really small compared to what I remember.  Not sure if this is actually the case or if parts of it were behind a construction wall.

I sit down at Buffalo Gold and fuck it, let’s go all out.  YES!

Oh god bless you Buffalo Gold at Sahara!

I played a lot around Sahara.  I moved up a level on their player’s card but did not collect my new card.  I tried a new (to me) Monopoly game and won $60.  Then just kept going on old school Buffalo Deluxe, one game at a dollar a hand.  This blessedly kept me busy for over an hour.  YAY look at me, I am finally PLAYING.

I had wanted to go to Stratosphere next but I have a pounding headache and it is now hot outside so I take the bus Downtown, transferring to something that stops near The D, which I don’t recall, but I have this photo.

Golden Gate, I have $15 free play.  I play some game I had never heard of before called Wild Chuco. I won $100 on the Lightening Link feature.  Woo hoo!   I also hit this:
I accidentally left Golden Gate without cashing out my TITO.  I was walking around the casino and an exit door I didn’t really notice opened with my motion and I just kept walking.  It was a weird experience.  If it was a movie, it would have been a door opening to a new dimension.  In real life, my new dimension was Plaza.

Fucking FUCK this place.  I lost another $200 on Buffalo.

Head to the room to chill a bit before going back out tonight.   This room is the worst.  It just sucks any last bit of luck out of me.  Notice how the further I traveled away from it, the more I won?

I decide I am done playing until I switch hotels tomorrow.  I went back out to grab dinner at Saginaws at Circa to go and ate dinner in my shitty, crappy room.  I packed so I can get the fuck out of here tomorrow with the quickness.

Good night Plaza, I hate you.

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