Day 18 - Audible #4: Las Vegas, NV

When we were originally planning this trip, we purposely excluded Las Vegas because we felt we wouldn't be able to give it the attention that it deserved. However, when we were in Denver, we decided that we were going to cut one of the two days out of Los Angeles, and take the 4.5 hour drive through the Mojave Desert to Vegas.

Hotels were on a firesale as a night at the Hard Rock went for just $80 - we couldn't pass up on a deal like this. However, things weren't all rainbows and sunshine, Vlad misplaced his ID somewhere between LA and Vegas. We knew, doing anything in Vegas without an ID would be tough.


We discussed the night's plans over dinner at The Cheesecake Factory in Cesars Palace. After dinner, Sal and Eros headed to Tao in the Venitian, while Vlad and I tried to track down a police station to file a report so that he could have some sort of identification. Two hours later, we finally found a police station that was open in Downtown Las Vegas. Just to let you know, even with the police report, no casino would let us do anything, including entrance into Tao. They were even reluctant to let Vlad just stand on the casino floor.

The good news is we all did pretty well in the casinos. A few of us cleaned up in roulette. I actually hit my numbers dead on about 5 times (36-to-1 payout), and about 4 times on the line (18-to-1 payout). Eros however, was the most efficient, putting one dollar in a video roulette machine and cashing out his $90 voucher within 5 minutes.


The next day, we relaxed at the Hard Rock Hotel's pool, which is the setting for the famous pool party, Rehab, every Sunday.


We soaked in the 114 degree heat for a little while and headed back towards LA and down to San Diego!