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After dinner last night, we sat around wondering what to do for the rest of the weekend. I had planned to go shopping with a friend the next day, but other than that it was looking to be a quiet weekend.

Then Jae said, “Let’s go to vegas.”
“Uhh, like this weekend?”
“Sure”
“… ok”

We pulled out the laptop, booked a room at the Hard Rock, packed our , hopped in the car, and 4 1/2 hours later at 2 am we arrived.

Las Vegas

Havn’t been here in a while. We’re not big gamblers, drinkers, or even party much in general. But it was nice to get out of town, somewhere different.

The hotel room was nice, we even got a big flatscreen on the wall which made the room look even bigger. The only problem was that there wasn’t any hot water. We had to call maintenance to come fix the problem. Next came some banging sounds in the stairwell next to our room. It sounded like someone was sweeping. In the middle of the night?! Few minutes later, he left and we could finally sleep. Well, sort of. since our room was an end unit, there seemed to be some maintenance room next to us. In it was a machine that sounded like a dryer. That thing stayed on for the rest of the night. Good thing that we were tired and soon fell asleep.

Even though we didn’t get to bed till amost 4am, we woke up at around 10:30. We swapped our room for one that wasn’t so noisy and faced the pool. I went to the window to check out the pool that the hotel was so famous for.

Unfortunately, the pool was dry. Not a drop of water in it. ~sigh. I was looking forward to that pool. I called guest services again and they said that the pool is closed during the winter, and that many hotels did the same. How crappy huh. With the amount of money we paid for the rooms, they should keep the pools open year round! Dissappointing, I have half a mind to write a complaint after I get home….

But, Vegas isn’t just about the hotel or the pool. We had a weekend ahead of us! For lunch, we ate at a nearby Malaysian restaurant that we discovered a few years ago when we were last here. After lunch, we took a long 4-5 hour stroll down the strip, starting at the big mall and ending at the 4 floor M&M store. I just can’t believe how many stores are here. We didn’t buy anything since everything they had was either too expensive or could be found in a mall at home. We were also planning to hit the outlets on our way back tomorrow, so we’ll save our money for that. The M&M store was fun, they even had a little 3D movie.

When we got tired, we’d sit at the slots and play the penny machines. I think the penny machines are actually worse than the 25 cent machines. 25 cent machines usually allows you to play 1, 3, or 5 lines. The penny machines, aside from having 5 variabls, you can play 1-20 lines, with 1-10 cents per line. Which means you could be playing multiple dollars for worse odds! All in all, we lost about $15. Not too bad.

By the time we were done, we were exausted and hungry. There was no way we were going to walk all the way back, so we took the monorail. We went to Bellagio and stuffed ourselves silly on the buffet.

We’re now back in our room, Jae’s passed out. We had planned to go back out later tonight… we’ll see.