Vegas Vacation Part II - What not to do on the first day
Traveling to Vegas was a pretty uneventful, but long day of traveling. One item of note, if you're taking a large suitcase such as we were, be sure that it's less then 50 pounds. We checked in to find out that ours was 2 pounds over the limit, but the check-in clerk was kind enough to let this slide. Our stop over in Houston was pretty boring, with nothing of note.
Our second leg was uneventful as well. The only thing that comes to mind is that our ticket claimed that we had a snack on the flight and I'm not entirely sure whether a mini-sandwich, bag of chips and a salty nut roll should be considerd a snack or a light dinner. Niether of which is very filling.
At this point I'm getting to the one thing that one should not do on the first day traveling to a city where you will be doing a lot of walking. While gathering our monster of a bag (remember this is a 52lb bag), I managed to catch a toenail on the bag (thanks to wearing sandals) and cause some serious pain. While I didn't really think much of it at first, by the time I got to the rental car building away from the airport, the entire front of my sandal was covered in blood. At this point my first thought is not "This looks really bad," or "I should really wash this up and get it looked at. My first thought was "Oh great! I've hurt my foot and I'm going to have a hard time walking this week."
Well, I'm happy to report that nothing serious came of this injury. The worst part wasn't the pain so much as trying to cut a roll of gauze with blunt objects. BTW, if you do ever need to cut gauze without the aid of a knife or scissors, don't bother using a set of keys.
Once this trauma was done, we managed to get to the Stratosphere Hotel without incident other then some directionaly challenged moments. At this point we entered what I can only describe as a illogical maze of a casino. The signs pointing to the front desk were horrible and it took almost 10 minutes of limping to find the hotel registration desk.
After checking in, we managed to relax with a drink and stayed up late into the night. OK, so we only made it to 12:45am. That's late for a couple of parents of a 2 year old.
More to come...
Our second leg was uneventful as well. The only thing that comes to mind is that our ticket claimed that we had a snack on the flight and I'm not entirely sure whether a mini-sandwich, bag of chips and a salty nut roll should be considerd a snack or a light dinner. Niether of which is very filling.
At this point I'm getting to the one thing that one should not do on the first day traveling to a city where you will be doing a lot of walking. While gathering our monster of a bag (remember this is a 52lb bag), I managed to catch a toenail on the bag (thanks to wearing sandals) and cause some serious pain. While I didn't really think much of it at first, by the time I got to the rental car building away from the airport, the entire front of my sandal was covered in blood. At this point my first thought is not "This looks really bad," or "I should really wash this up and get it looked at. My first thought was "Oh great! I've hurt my foot and I'm going to have a hard time walking this week."
Well, I'm happy to report that nothing serious came of this injury. The worst part wasn't the pain so much as trying to cut a roll of gauze with blunt objects. BTW, if you do ever need to cut gauze without the aid of a knife or scissors, don't bother using a set of keys.
Once this trauma was done, we managed to get to the Stratosphere Hotel without incident other then some directionaly challenged moments. At this point we entered what I can only describe as a illogical maze of a casino. The signs pointing to the front desk were horrible and it took almost 10 minutes of limping to find the hotel registration desk.
After checking in, we managed to relax with a drink and stayed up late into the night. OK, so we only made it to 12:45am. That's late for a couple of parents of a 2 year old.
More to come...
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