Back in 2003, Las Vegas had a Cow Parade featuring a bunch of cows with clever names. There was even a cow hospital!
Once it was over, the cows were sold for charity. These were located inside (what was then) the Desert Passage Mall inside the Aladdin Hotel. This is now The Miracle Mile inside the Planet Hollywood Hotel.
The one exception is my personal favorite cow, named Wayne Mooton. He was located outside the Stardust Hotel, where Wayne Newton performed (RIP Stardust)
This is an old trip report I am posting for the entertainment of Las Vegas addicts. While it was current while being written, a lot of it is now completely outdated. Much of what you read about may no longer exist.
Friday, March 21, 2003 – Day One of Nine
My mother and I are going to Las Vegas! We take JetBlue from JFK. Our flight leaves at 10:50 am and according to JetBlue, is scheduled to arrive at 1:40. We got in an hour early.
The flight goes great. We watch some footage of the war on JetBlue’s DirectTV and also some of Animal Planet. As we are on the plane, I hear a familiar voice. I can’t place it. I tune into it and realize that the girl in the seat in front of me was on a Las Vegas special I saw on the Discovery Channel (it was probably also on the Travel Channel, but since I don’t have that…) Anyway, this girl is a female boxer. I can’t for the life of me remember her name. But she boxes in Las Vegas and the special I saw outlined her life and challenges and when she almost quit. Her manager, who was also on that show, was in front of my mother.
Friday, January 4, 2008 – Day Four of Four
This is part four of a four part Las Vegas trip report. If you want to start from the beginning, go here!
I wake up early because it’s the last day and I need to get going. I wanted to make my first trip to the Palazzo and check it out. I could not decide if I should go there first or last. I’ve had quite a few trips where I end up spending my last day playing tourist on the strip because I was sick of losing money. But today I still have half of my entire budget that I left in the bank. So I decided to play and then maybe go visit Palazzo if I lose.
I went downstairs and lost all over Sahara. Like $170 before 8:00 am. On every machine I tried. Sigh.
Again, I had breakfast at The Caravan Café, using my comps. After, I went back to the room and packed and got ready to go. I checked out and checked my luggage at the Bell Desk and took the bus downtown.
I played Monopoly again, won again. I played my video poker machine again, won again. This machine is so wonderful. She loves to deal me four of a kinds. She seems to understand. She even gave me aces three times today. Best machine ever.
After some playing, I went downstairs and played a game called Cash Inferno. This machine is one of those machines where I normally hit a $50 bonus every time I play it, but I don’t play it that often because I like to keep it for when I NEED to win. I can’t explain my logic here. I do know that I hit a $60 bonus though.
I have a ton of comps at Fitzgeralds so I end up eating here.
After lunch, I go back to my video poker machine and she is no longer taking bills. She is mad at me because she knows I’m leaving and I don’t blame her. We are in love.
Wednesday, January 3, 2008
This is part two of a four part Las Vegas trip Report. If you want to start at the beginning, go here!
I woke up from a dream that a housekeeper had come into my room to tell me she switched my home made “do not disturb” sign with a real one. I had to actually open the door to make sure it was just a dream and it was. My homemade sign was still on the door.
Well I’m up now so time to go out! I am dressed and on the elevator at 8:00 am. I am very tired and I have a headache but neither of these are going to stop me from being in Vegas.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Today I am traveling to Atlantic City, to catch a flight on Spirit Airlines to Las Vegas. The total cost of the flight was $81 round trip. I have never in my life paid that little for a one way, let alone a non-stop round trip. What a great deal.
Another monumental event in today’s trip is that I had ZERO problems at all getting to the airport/getting to Vegas. This has never happened to me before. What a smooth trip.
I am working on a project of uploading all my old Las Vegas trip reports (there are somewhere between 200-300 individual days). I am right now up to November, 2003. These pictures are all from that one trip. I was kind of surprised when going through the disc these are saved on. I have been going to Las Vegas so regularly that I have seen all the changes as they happen. But to suddenly look back and see all the changes at once kind of astounded me.
Here are things that either no longer exist, have changed, or were just being built nearly a decade ago. I have plenty more pictures to share, many of things that no longer exist. Be patient and you shall see them all as I get further into this project.
I have been to Las Vegas more times than I have been anywhere else in the world. I don’t keep a running count, but if you held a gun to my head and made me answer, I would yell out “THIRTY! DON’T SHOOT!”
I am in the process of a very intense project of uploading so much Vegas stuff on here. But in the meantime, I will be doing some shorter posts.
Today, we will visit the top best and bottom worst rooms I have stayed in. Please keep in mind, I am not stating these are the best and worst in the entire city. Just out of what I personally have experienced.
So I love Las Vegas. I have been there 238947382 times and the amount of pages worth of trip reports I have for my many trips, is eleventy billion times that number.
Today, we shall be revisiting a single day back in December of 2008:
Monday, December 29, 2008 – Day Eighteen of Twenty One
Today is laundry day. I don’t really need to do laundry anymore this trip but I need to be at a machine where I put in money and take SOMETHING out of it.
Today is also moving day. I’m leaving Fitzgeralds and checking into Sahara.
Once packed, I called the bell desk to have my bags picked up and stored. I then pulled a Ross-from-Friends and stayed in my room until checkout. This was a mistake because my channel flipping got me the Maury Povich show. Today’s theme is “Pregnant at 13 – Who is the Father”. It seems a whole lotta under aged chicks boffed a whole lotta dudes and don’t know WHICH predator the father is. As if this isn’t disturbing enough, there was never a mention of statutory rape, nor were there any police officers there to bum rush the stage to handcuff anyone who was proven to have committed statutory rape once the paternity results were in.
That’s enough, I am out of here.