It's Alive! It's Alive!!!

So I was thinking about what to blog about on this, my first day back to LexVegas in almost 10 days. And I thought about blogging about our fantastic trip to Siesta Key, but I thought NB-C said it pretty well and so I thought I'd give a synopsis on my trip to Vegas this past week.

Now I'll remind you that my trip was for work, not for pleasure, and so that should sum up my lack of anything real substantial on the good story front (aka there is nothing that need stay in Vegas) but there were some things I thought I should note:

• Running down 3 terminals in the glorious Atlanta-Hartsfield airport with a 20 pound carry-on strapped to your shoulder SUCKS. Running up two escalators and one international terminal where your gate is the VERY last one is even worse.
• Arriving in Las (not Lex) Vegas at what amounts to 1:00 a.m. Eastern time only to find that your 60lb suitcase has not arrived with you BLOWS.
• Wading and Waiting through a mile long taxi cab line is enough to make this girl who has only had a few drunken cigarettes want to begin to smoke again...
• Alas, arrive at beautiful Mandalay Bay hotel two hours after landing in Las Vegas and go to hotel room that 1) is handicap 2) has an adjoining door. Of course! (This is pretty much the defacto for me when staying in any hotel).
• Participate in tradeshow during odd hours : 8-10 p.m., 8-9 a.m., 12-2 p.m., 5-6:30 p.m., repeat.
• Eat alone in restaurant. Twice. (Not bad, next I must try the movies)
• Observation: alongside our conference was a conference for eBay-ers. This conference would have been the perfect thing to attend had NB-C and I ever started that little business of ours. I digress...eBay-ers are weird. They wear funny hats and their badges have ribbons that touch the floor. They quit their jobs and find bubble wrap out of the trash. No lie, I heard someone say that.
• Why do people bring children to Vegas? I stood outside the tram station at MB and literally was subjected to a gnarly-9 year old at the top of her lungs going "AND THEN we we went to see the sharks! AND THEN we went to...AND THEN...AND THEN!!!" It was the most infurating thing I've ever heard.
• I averaged only 2 cocktails a day. Except my last night where I had 3.
• I spent only $3 on slot machines and won, here's a surprise, no money.
• Finally made it to the pool, glorious pool, on Wednesday. Had fruity drink that cost $12.00. Times two.

• This is the type of person serving fruity drinks by glorious pool. This is also why we wear one pieces.
  

• Took a stroll down Las Vegas boulevard (from MGM to Ceasar's - that's a long F'in way) and didn't take one picture on my real camera but managed to capture this image outside of Paris for NB-C as a reminder of her wedding...

• After walking a bizillion miles between my room and the Mandalay Bay convention center for three days and then up and down the strip, retired exhaustedly to my room where I was reminded of how fat and out of shape I really am.
• While I am sort of enjoying solidarity in my roadtrips I have concluded that Las Vegas is not a place to go when you are traveling alone...

And so friends, I'm back if only temporarily. Heading back up the I-71 highway to the big Columbus this weekend yet AGAIN (um, we're up to like 4 trips in 6 weeks or something un-natural like that) to get My Girl. She's been vacationing with her grandparents while I've been away and barking a lot, so much so the neighbors complained about her and her friends Nicki & Kayle. Good times, she's going to hate coming back to the Hobbit House.

Anywhoooooooo...that's all I got.