Vegas Tidbits

Now that our time in Vegas is up, I thought I'd write about a few of the non-poker things that happened during our month here.
Addison had a great time. She especially loved the swimming pool. She would start chanting, "Cann-on-ball! Cann-on-ball!" She liked it when I did a cannonball and also when she jumped off the edge of the pool to me.
She also loved the guys who were sharing the house with us. She liked to play hide-and-seek with them, but she wasn't the toughest hide-and-seek player in the world. She would always go to the exact same spot, and when the guys faked like they were looking somewhere else, she would scream, "I'M OVER HERE!!!"
Once, when Eric didn't do something she wanted, she told him to go sit in time out, and when he did, she walked over there with a book and hit him on the head with it! I know I'm supposed to get her in trouble for that, but I couldn't quit laughing.

Missy and I let ourselves get roped into one of those time-share pitches. We got two free nights at one of the hotels on the strip and a $100 gift certificate to the Top of the World Restaurant at the Stratosphere. We sat through a two-hour spiel, and it was kind of crazy how everyone turned on us as soon as they realized we weren't going to buy anything.
First off, we were just walking through the Stratosphere when we got stopped and solicited for this meeting. It's not like we expressed any interest whatsoever in their product, so I don't really understand why they would get so mad that we wouldn't want to plunk down $40,000 for their vacation deal. Our saleswoman was super nice to us the whole time, but as soon as I told her we were 100 percent not buying anything, she jumped up without saying a word and took us to her supervisor so he could try to sell us even harder.
We had signed a contract before the meeting stating that we had to be there for two hours to collect our prizes. It had been two hours and ten minutes when she brought us to this guy. So when he started with the silly hypothetical questions like, "Would you like to go to Hawaii for a week for $1000?" or "If you are going to spend X amount of money on vacations, doesn't it make more sense to invest it with us instead of throwing it away to hotels and motels?" I just cut him off and said, "We're not buying anything. We've been here two hours, my mother-in-law is watching our daughter and we'd like to get back home to her."
He slammed our manila folder shut, got up and walked at lightning speed up to the front desk, where we got our hotel and meal vouchers. He walked so fast that Missy was about 10 yards behind him when he got to the front.
It was more than worth it to me to get the free prizes, I just don't get how they can expect to have a high success rate when they do zero vetting of their customers beforehand.

Me and the guys had a fun little contest one night. Eric has a ridiculous frat-party giveaway tank top that may have been white at one time but was now a creamy off-white with faded words that said "Fiji Island 2008."
So we decided to have an Olympics at the house, consisting of three events. We had a pool table here at the house, so that was one event. Then there's a game called Peggle that Travis has been hooked on lately -- look it up if you haven't heard of it. It's kind of like pinball on your laptop. And of course we had a poker tournament, where we played pot-limit Omaha. So we called it the Pool, Peggle, PLO Olympics.
There was no prize for winning the Olympics, but the loser had to wear that tank top to the Aria and play a full poker session with it on. Travis ended up with the honors. I'll try to get a picture to throw up on the blog soon.

Looking forward to coming back to Oklahoma. I miss my family and friends. See you all soon!