When you live here-nothing surprises you.

Seriously!
So here in Las Vegas we have video poker everywhere--I mean everywhere! Gas station, grocery store, dollar store, car wash. We also have smoke shops on every corner. You can smoke just about everywhere and these places also sell illegal smoking utensils (wink, wink). The bars are open 24hrs and advertise 24hr gaming available. Most of the hole in the wall bars do not serve food, but you are able to bring food in. So, if at 5am you are dying for a smoke and a bloody mary-you are not alone and can go grab an egg McMuffin and cruise into a bar and make friends. This unfortunately is not good for me because I am always looking to make a friend over some cocktails.

Yesterday I went to another job fair and then Adam and I hit downtown Vegas. My brother who lives in FL had a friend in town for one of the conventions and he was downtown so we went and met him for some drinks. He was in town for the furniture convention. Serioulsy there is a convention for everything in this town. The lumber show just left and the furniture show finished up this week. There are three large warehouses that have nothing but furniture in them constantly. They are show rooms for furniture buyers and retail chains. This is right next to the Las Vegas outlets (which we have about 3 outlet malls). This outlet is higher end (Gucci, David Yurman, etc). So we left Henderson (south of the strip) around 3:15pm and headed to North Las Vegas. Downtown Las Vegas is old Vegas, this is where it all happened. This is where Vegas started. Before the Bellagio, Wynn and MGM there was the Plaza, Golden Nugget and Binyons (original world series of poker location). I really like downtown-it feels like Vegas and it is cheesy, cheap and lots of entertainment-from the guy on stilts to the wasted chicks walking the street. I am sure you all know how much Adam and I hate traffic and that was a plus to getting out of NOVA. Well, we hit the highway at around 3:20 and did not make it downtown (11miles) until well after 4pm. We were not happy.
So we met with Jerry, walked through the Fremont experience and headed to Hennessy's for food and drinks. Afterward our poor asses went to play Keno--that is the cheap way to gamble. You know Adam and I do not need to be in casinos. I got yelled at for using my phone in the sports book and Adam walked through the pits-LOL. We had a good time-unlimited drinks just chillin playing the numbers.
So today has been a bit low key. Adam went and took his drug test (he starts work on Monday). He said that when he went to go take the test they were administering breathalizer tests. He was like, "who comes in to take their drug test drunk?" Only in Vegas. I asked if they had video poker. So we went and grabbed some dinner at the Asia Buffet. 12.95 for all you can eat Mongolian BBQ, sushi, chinese food, crab legs, thai, etc. So we are fat and happy.

Oh--Asia Buffet does not have video poker!
My St. Patty's day ladies--we will be hitting up downtown for St.Pats. It will be a good time and low tables for gambling!