Vegas Blog - Day 2

Miles: 1286.4
Gallons Burned: 29.7
Elvis Sightings: 0.0 !!
Total Miles: 15922.6
Total Gallons Burned: 530.4
Total Caffeinated Drinks: 89
Total Gigabytes of Pictures: 33.615 - Apologies I can't upload my pics from my Camera phone without my card reader back in Seattle, so you'll have to wait.

Par and I made it to Las Vegas' Circus Circus Hotel/Casino with little trouble (there was that one little 60 mile 'detour' through the Nevada wilderness). We met up with Derek and Alejandro, Par's friends from LA, and got to know each other during the $12.99 all-you-can-eat Prime Rib eating contest. Alejandro was triumphant by finishing 4.25 12oz cuts of Prime Rib, Par finished about 4, but he only ate the interior of the fillet, and I finished 3. Following our great meal, we walked the Vegas Strip from C&C to Aria stopping at the Treasure Island Hotel/Casino. Playing the penny slot machines, Alejandro won $5, Derek won $5.67, Par won $7.25, and I won $10.37 (including a $7.50 semi-jackpot on my last pull). We didn't even have to put any of our own money at risk because the casino gives any first-time player a free $10 game credit to play with, each of us used that credit and nothing else to win with. Each of us used Par's Rule #2 - "casinos provide free alcoholic beverages to all active gamblers". We each scored free alcohol, I enjoyed my rum and coke.
We enjoyed the architecture of the Casinos, discussing various missiological approaches, that could work in a city like Vegas and what the Reformed view of biblical participation in the Lord's Table is.
I got to walk through Caesar's Palace, the Bellagio (Where i saw some guy win $7,000 playing Roulette), and Treasure Island. It is amazing how intentionally convoluted the designers have made these places; even a person like me who can almost always find the fastest route anywhere, had to pause and think before finding the exit.
Vegas is an amazing place, some what similar to my experiences in New Orleans last March, but on a MUCH grander scale. The biggest downside of Vegas is how much pornography is given away; the hucksters will hand out there "business cards" featuring working girls to anyone and by 2am the sidewalks are covered.
Tomorrow is karaoke, hopefully Par will pick a song or two I know.