Too Fast for Final Day

As is always the problem with trips like this - they go too fast. We started with breakfast at the McDonald's located in the "Adventuredome" theme park that is part of the hotel where the circus entertainment occurs. The whole upper level of this building is ringed with carnival type games such as basketball toss, knock down the bottles with baseballs, dart games, softball toss into baskets, etc. - you get the idea. The center of the building is where the circus acts perform. Examples of this are below:

Acts perform all day long. There is also a trapeeze area where high wire acts take place at various times during the day and night. Never a dull moment in this place.

After our morning of enjoying this part of the hotel, we came back to the room and got ready to go to the pool. The pool is actually across from the hotel parking lot and is in an unusual location. Most hotels have their pools tucked into a garden area or some opening within the hotel complex. This one is only accessable by taking several different elevators and walkways and exiting onto street level. Or, you can go out the hotel lobby, cross the street and go in that way. The following picture illustrates, somewhat, the location of the pool:

Those palm trees actually line the street on the other side of the wall. The glass circular building is the Adventuredome mentioned earlier. The tower building is one of two huge hotel towers and is the one we stayed in. We were on the 16th floor of that tower, and actually had a view of the pool and the Adventuredome from our room.

It got very windy in the afternoon so we went back to the room to shower and get ready for our last night in Vegas. We wandered down to the main casino at about 6 PM for our last night of slot play. Our luck has been with us for the whole trip. We had been hitting some medium size jackpots all along to keep us playing. Then it happened. Josie was playing a great penny machine that was keeping her entertained for at least an hour on the same, original $20 she put in. Bob went to a different area to play another, brand new penny machine in an area of all penny and nickel machines. Bob put in his ticket that had about $15 dollars on it. On the first spin, he won a $600 jackpot. He immediately cashed it out and went to tell Josie. She had simultaneousy hit a $250 jackpot on her machine. We have heard about people putting money into a machine and hitting a jackpot on the first spin, but it has never happened to us before. Imagine, winning that much money on a first spin - on a penny machine. It doesn't always happen that way though.

We will be leaving Vegas at about noon today. It was a terrific trip and we are thankful that it is all paid for now- and then some. Our next 5 days will be marathon work days but we are ready.
Until tomorrow...