i won big in vegas!

if by big you mean $29 and by won you mean lost.

no, seriously, i DID win! $29! it was awesome!

so the trip was exhausting, non-stop, on planes and in casinos and up and down the strip and monorails (Monorail? Monorail! i hear those things are awfully loud...).

but i won't bore you with deets. i'll skip to the good stuff. first night- bed IMMEDIATELY. it's 2hr 45min from DC to Houston, another 2.5hr to Las Vegas. sitting around is exhausting.

next day, a little electronic slots action at my hotel, the Sahara. put in $5. i was up $2.50, but i lost it. went down to $2.75 when i hit the jackpot. or something. i don't actually understand the slot machines, because you can win on not just a straight-across combo. when the thing finally stopped dinging, i was up to $34. that's when i got my ticket and cashed out.

and that was it. i played, i won. that was all i needed from the vegas casinos. i did play some more slots & video poker & blackjack the next morning, before we had to leave for the airport, at Mandalay Bay. lost all the dollars i put in. i think the high point of my winnings for that stint was like 50 cents. which is funny, because at the "cheap" casino i was winning more. so i think, just gambling totals, i netted like $20. of course, i spent $15 on monorail, and $40 on cabs, and god knows how much on food... but all in all, not bad. i got what i came for. i saw vegas.