Lights so bright, palm sweat and blackjack on a Saturday night (Leaving Las Vegas)

This past Saturday, my family went to Vegas for the long awaited celebration of my cousin Lauren's (a.k.a. Lo-Lo) birthday. On the drive over, we stopped in Baker to grab a drink and stand in awe of the Giant Thermometer. My mom bought the each one of us a scratcher, I won six bucks on it!

We stayed at the Tropicana, though it's old, it was the funnest to play at. We went and saw the Folies Bergere show and it was actually really really cool. All of us were surprised. Here is the view from our room.

We didn't really see my cousin too much, she and her friends that came with her were out clubin' until three am. Thus why there are no photo's of her. Since she and her friends split, her brothers went to the rodeo with my uncle and my dad was heading to sleep, I decided to hit up some of the Casino's i'd been wanting to go to. I wanted to head up to Ceasar's Palace to stop in the Paul Frank store, as well as to return to Treasure Island since I haven't been there since I was thriteen and I know they've missed me. Unfortunately it started to rain and it was a long walk; I was not going to be stuck walking down The Strip in my blazer when it started to pour.
All together I played the entire day on forty bucks, then I went back to the Tropican to "my" monopoly slot in hopes to break a twenty to pay back my dad. The way the game was set up, if you got a certain combination you got to roll dice for free spins. While the machine was "free spinning" i continued to win more free spins, all the way up to 43 free spins. While it was doing this I was still winning money. I didn't have to do a thing, it just kept spinning on it's own and I ended up winning sixty six bucks! As soon as my spins were spent, I cashed out, tipped the drink lady five bucks paid my dad back and was up a few more bucks than I came with.
The next morning my we had a hillarious Champaign brunch with my family and my parents insisted I play roulette. It was a great experience, but I lost twenty bucks super quick. So while my dad continued to play, I dropped a dollar into a random slot and won twenty bucks! Then I played the twenty bucks and lost it. All around it was a great twentyfour hours. As we left, I saw the world largest In-n-Out sign.

It was a fun trip, especially seeing as I didn't really lose much money and I got to hang with family I haven't seen in a long time. Until next time, enjoy exploring the Infinite Abyss.