Random notes from my two recent trips to Las Vegas
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If you’re ever at the Luxor Hotel and get a chance to see an Imax 3-D movie called The Haunted Castle — don’t. While the computer-generated graphics are well done from a technical standpoint, the 3 D’s stand for Dumb, Dumb, and Dumb.
Hint for ticket scalpers: If a football game is not sold out and has already started, you’re not going to get more than face value for tickets, so don’t even try.
The Palace Station all-you-can-eat brunch buffet is both good and cheap, which means you may have to stand in line for things. And they don’t offer chocolate milk.
The Sahara all-you-can-eat brunch buffet is a little more expensive than Palace Station. The food is about the same quality. And on a Saturday morning, it’s about as deserted as, well, a desert. Basically no waiting. But they don’t offer chocolate milk.
The MGM Grand all-you-can-eat brunch buffet is more expensive than the Sahara’s. If Eggs Benedict isn’t classy enough for you, and you want Salmon Eggs Benedict (No, it is not made with salmon eggs), then this is the place for you. Plus, they have chocolate milk.
Chocolate milk is good, isn’t it?
Let’s say you’re in charge of seating at a busy restaurant at a casino. (“You’re in charge of seating at a busy restaurant at a casino.”) A party of ten arrives, followed by a party of two and several other small parties. Would you force everyone to wait until you can finally seat the party of ten in the smoking section, even though you have tables free in the non-smoking section that can seat the smaller parties? If you answered “Yes” to that question, you’re qualified for a job as hostess at the Caravan Cafe in the Sahara Hotel. I was in the party of two right behind the party of ten, and waited for half an hour to then be seated at a table that had been open for at least ten minutes.
I mean, it’s got that sweet chocolately flavor, and yet it has all that protein and calcium that are good for you.
Speed: The Ride is a great roller-coaster. (It’s at the Sahara.) But it’s probably best to ride it in the morning or at night, because the afternoon sun ended up being almost blinding on parts of the ride.
The Shark Reef exhibit at the Mandalay Bay is very interesting, even if the emphasis on environmental propaganda is a bit much sometimes.
Sharks are cool.
Why do some all-you-can-eat buffets (e.g., MGM Grand, Palace Station) insist on having a waitperson bring you your drinks? If I’m thirsty, I don’t want to wait for drinks to be brought to me. (If I wait for a waiter, does that make me a waiter waiter?)
If you’re a shark in an aquarium stocked with exotic coral-reef fish, the upside is that it must be like an all-you-can-eat buffet. The downside: no chocolate milk.
A guy sitting next to Scott and me at the BYU-UNLV game was cheering for BYU. Not because he went to BYU. Not because he was LDS. Not because he hated UNLV. Because he bet on BYU to beat the spread.
I bet you thought that I was going to mention a certain flavored dairy beverage in this bullet point. Well, you were wrong.
