Wow! We are now in our 10th state (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Nevada). Left Austin on a very bumpy Southwest Airlines flight and touched down in Las Vegas about 3-ish.
Took a bus and checked into the modest but looovely Desert Rose Resort. Paid a brief (2 hour) visit to the managers reception. This sounds fancy like dinner at the captain's table but it is in fact free wine or beer in plastic cups - result! I lost at Bingo - my first gambling experience not a successful one. High on life, we headed to the famous Strip and made our first stop at New York New York to ride the roller-coaster - it was aaammmaaazzziiinnnngggg! We were the oldest people on it by some way but who cares.
Afterwards we shuffled on down he strip a bit more, had a couple of cold ones, Mark talked me into buying a "what happens in Vegas..." t-shirt, and we headed back via Hooters for a $1 beer from a very miserable Hooters girl.
First full day tomorrow.