Let's see if I can finish up the group portion of the Vegas trip in this one post!
I'm already starting to forget what happened on what day! But I do know there was a lot of excitement on Sunday. But before I get ahead of myself, let's see if I can get through Saturday. There was one baseball game on that day in the morning. The boys wanted to ride the New York New York roller coaster, so we headed back to the Strip. While I love roller coasters, I was slightly reluctant to ride this one because I saw it being built, and my memory of it was the track ending mid-air! However, I didn't let that stop me, and I decided to ride it, but only once - the boys bought an all-day pass. It was quite exhilarating! There was a steep incline at first, and we were headed straight into the sun. At the highest point, it seemed like we could see all of Las Vegas, and we were definitely higher than the Statue of Liberty in front of the hotel. While I'm glad I tried it, once was enough!
After we got off the coaster, The Coach was waiting for us with some Nathan's hot dogs, which were really good hot dogs! That night was a fairly early night since our game the next day started at 7:30 a.m. The adults went to The Cal and had dinner at Aloha Specialties. I just had a large saimin with veggies (which was obscenely large - even the small was huge) and tofu. In the past, I really liked the tofu which was topped with bonito flakes, but this time I was disappointed. The portion was smaller and it looked like they just dumped it on the
plate istead of displaying it in a neat square.
Sunday was quite a day! We had a 7:30 a.m. game so we dropped the boys off really early, then the girls went to Smith's in search of food. This was not satisfactory, so we also went to Sonic, where I supplemented my ham sandwich from Smith's with tater tots with chili and cheese. A couple of the girls got burgers. Keep in mind that this was for breakfast!
We won that game and were scheduled to play in the finals sometime around 1:30 p.m. We took the boys to In-N
-Out Burger for lunch. Yes, burger number 2 for some of us! It was still early, about 10 a.m. The boys went to the door and it was locked, then we realized they didn't open until 10:30. But we were in luck, the manager opened the doors for us! Cool! If you go to Vegas, please go and patronize them - this is the one near Sunset Station and Galleria at Sunset. Elastagirl thanked the manager for opening and he said he remembered his days of playing ball. It was probably a good business call anyway, there were a number of other people who came in as well.
The afternoon game was the final game that we played against a team from California. The team was physically huge. They did not look like high school players at all. I later found out that they had all graduated, while our team was primarily made up of sophomores and juniors. Not really a fair game, and the other team won by one point. It was a good game though, and the boys still got a trophy for coming in second. Good for them!
From this point, all hell broke loose! On the way back to the hotel, Elastagirl and I were having a good ol' time talking about all kinds of things, including aliens (since Area 51 is nearby Vegas). We were talking so much that we completely missed the freeway cutoff! And The Coach was following us too. Oops. So we got off on the next offramp. But that was still wrong, we were supposed to get off the next one. That's okay, we'll figure it out. We ended up at a kind of strange intersection where we had to turn left on the right side of a median. But we ended up turning to the left of the median...facing oncoming traffic! And worse yet, The Coach followed us too! S!*t, what are we going to do??? I tried to quickly assess the situation. I didn't think we could make it over the median. Fortunately, the oncoming traffic had a red light. In my assessment, making a left turn was the only way to go...against the light! As soon as I saw that the coast was clear, I told Elastagirl to go, and The Coach followed. The passengers in our van were eerily quiet, at least for a while. Then there were some, "ho, aunty" comments going around, as well as, "that was too much excitement for me!"
But that wasn't it. We went back to our rooms and were supposed to meet downstairs at 6:30 to take the boys to go bowling. The brother of one of the adults works at Green Valley Ranch and could set up bowling for us. We got back to the hotel around 5, and Elastagirl and I couldn't get into our room. Our keys didn't work, but we noticed the lights didn't go on either. She explained this to the front desk, but they just gave us new keys...which still didn't work. Front desk says they'll call an engineer. At this point, we decided to just sit on the ground outside our room as we waited. Engineer comes along, a nice guy who was very helpful, and sticks what I call a slim jim for hotel room doors, under the door to open it, so at least we could get in the room. He can't figure it out either and says he has to have security reset the door. Without going into further detail, it turned into a big mess w
hich resulted in over 1 1/2 hours of lost time and an angry Elastagirl. We might've had to change rooms. We ended up just leaving the room in the hands of security and the engineers, we couldn't wait any longer.
But that's still not all! We get downstairs and one of the moms comes around and says some of the boys are stuck in the elevator and have been there for a while! She found out because her son called her on his cell, but then lost service. Another mom comes around and is talking to the useless security guy at the Plaza, who apparently made a comment that she could call the fire department if she wanted to. So she did. The boys had already been stuck for 40 minutes. The fire department showed up! I'm not quite sure what happened at that point, but I know
that just a couple minutes after the firefighters arrived, the doors were opened and the boys got out. Ten of them were in there and their biggest complaint was that it got really hot, and someone farted. They all had to file reports with the hotel. We were supposed to be bowling at 7, but didn't leave the hotel until 7:30.
But that's not all...the guy who arranged the bowling and one other van disappeared, but we knew where Green Valley Ranch was, so we headed there along with The Coaches van. Besides that, Elastagirl's aunty and clan were also on their way to Green Valley Ranch. Just as we're pulling into the driveway at Green Valley Ranch, someone calls and asks where we are, they're at Red R
ock already. Red Rock??? On the other side of town??? There was some kind of misunderstanding, so now we had just hauled our butts to Henderson (east of Las Vegas) when we were supposed to be on the far west side of Las Vegas.
We finally ma
de it to Red Rock and had a great time. The boys bowled while the adults went in search of food. The Coach said that Rubio's has good fish tacos, so I decided to try that. It was good! But I found the special fish taco to be better than the original. After we ate, we headed back to the bowling alley and Elastagirl and I played pool for a little while. At least the day ended well!
To be continued...
I'm already starting to forget what happened on what day! But I do know there was a lot of excitement on Sunday. But before I get ahead of myself, let's see if I can get through Saturday. There was one baseball game on that day in the morning. The boys wanted to ride the New York New York roller coaster, so we headed back to the Strip. While I love roller coasters, I was slightly reluctant to ride this one because I saw it being built, and my memory of it was the track ending mid-air! However, I didn't let that stop me, and I decided to ride it, but only once - the boys bought an all-day pass. It was quite exhilarating! There was a steep incline at first, and we were headed straight into the sun. At the highest point, it seemed like we could see all of Las Vegas, and we were definitely higher than the Statue of Liberty in front of the hotel. While I'm glad I tried it, once was enough!
After we got off the coaster, The Coach was waiting for us with some Nathan's hot dogs, which were really good hot dogs! That night was a fairly early night since our game the next day started at 7:30 a.m. The adults went to The Cal and had dinner at Aloha Specialties. I just had a large saimin with veggies (which was obscenely large - even the small was huge) and tofu. In the past, I really liked the tofu which was topped with bonito flakes, but this time I was disappointed. The portion was smaller and it looked like they just dumped it on the
plate istead of displaying it in a neat square.Sunday was quite a day! We had a 7:30 a.m. game so we dropped the boys off really early, then the girls went to Smith's in search of food. This was not satisfactory, so we also went to Sonic, where I supplemented my ham sandwich from Smith's with tater tots with chili and cheese. A couple of the girls got burgers. Keep in mind that this was for breakfast!
We won that game and were scheduled to play in the finals sometime around 1:30 p.m. We took the boys to In-N
-Out Burger for lunch. Yes, burger number 2 for some of us! It was still early, about 10 a.m. The boys went to the door and it was locked, then we realized they didn't open until 10:30. But we were in luck, the manager opened the doors for us! Cool! If you go to Vegas, please go and patronize them - this is the one near Sunset Station and Galleria at Sunset. Elastagirl thanked the manager for opening and he said he remembered his days of playing ball. It was probably a good business call anyway, there were a number of other people who came in as well.The afternoon game was the final game that we played against a team from California. The team was physically huge. They did not look like high school players at all. I later found out that they had all graduated, while our team was primarily made up of sophomores and juniors. Not really a fair game, and the other team won by one point. It was a good game though, and the boys still got a trophy for coming in second. Good for them!
From this point, all hell broke loose! On the way back to the hotel, Elastagirl and I were having a good ol' time talking about all kinds of things, including aliens (since Area 51 is nearby Vegas). We were talking so much that we completely missed the freeway cutoff! And The Coach was following us too. Oops. So we got off on the next offramp. But that was still wrong, we were supposed to get off the next one. That's okay, we'll figure it out. We ended up at a kind of strange intersection where we had to turn left on the right side of a median. But we ended up turning to the left of the median...facing oncoming traffic! And worse yet, The Coach followed us too! S!*t, what are we going to do??? I tried to quickly assess the situation. I didn't think we could make it over the median. Fortunately, the oncoming traffic had a red light. In my assessment, making a left turn was the only way to go...against the light! As soon as I saw that the coast was clear, I told Elastagirl to go, and The Coach followed. The passengers in our van were eerily quiet, at least for a while. Then there were some, "ho, aunty" comments going around, as well as, "that was too much excitement for me!"
But that wasn't it. We went back to our rooms and were supposed to meet downstairs at 6:30 to take the boys to go bowling. The brother of one of the adults works at Green Valley Ranch and could set up bowling for us. We got back to the hotel around 5, and Elastagirl and I couldn't get into our room. Our keys didn't work, but we noticed the lights didn't go on either. She explained this to the front desk, but they just gave us new keys...which still didn't work. Front desk says they'll call an engineer. At this point, we decided to just sit on the ground outside our room as we waited. Engineer comes along, a nice guy who was very helpful, and sticks what I call a slim jim for hotel room doors, under the door to open it, so at least we could get in the room. He can't figure it out either and says he has to have security reset the door. Without going into further detail, it turned into a big mess w
hich resulted in over 1 1/2 hours of lost time and an angry Elastagirl. We might've had to change rooms. We ended up just leaving the room in the hands of security and the engineers, we couldn't wait any longer.But that's still not all! We get downstairs and one of the moms comes around and says some of the boys are stuck in the elevator and have been there for a while! She found out because her son called her on his cell, but then lost service. Another mom comes around and is talking to the useless security guy at the Plaza, who apparently made a comment that she could call the fire department if she wanted to. So she did. The boys had already been stuck for 40 minutes. The fire department showed up! I'm not quite sure what happened at that point, but I know
that just a couple minutes after the firefighters arrived, the doors were opened and the boys got out. Ten of them were in there and their biggest complaint was that it got really hot, and someone farted. They all had to file reports with the hotel. We were supposed to be bowling at 7, but didn't leave the hotel until 7:30.But that's not all...the guy who arranged the bowling and one other van disappeared, but we knew where Green Valley Ranch was, so we headed there along with The Coaches van. Besides that, Elastagirl's aunty and clan were also on their way to Green Valley Ranch. Just as we're pulling into the driveway at Green Valley Ranch, someone calls and asks where we are, they're at Red R
ock already. Red Rock??? On the other side of town??? There was some kind of misunderstanding, so now we had just hauled our butts to Henderson (east of Las Vegas) when we were supposed to be on the far west side of Las Vegas.We finally ma
de it to Red Rock and had a great time. The boys bowled while the adults went in search of food. The Coach said that Rubio's has good fish tacos, so I decided to try that. It was good! But I found the special fish taco to be better than the original. After we ate, we headed back to the bowling alley and Elastagirl and I played pool for a little while. At least the day ended well!To be continued...
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