Vegas Day 1

Hello welcome to my first blog. Ill try to update this regularly for the duration of the trip.

I met up with Andy and Hui at sydney airport on june 15th (sunday morning aus time). Sara and Mum were with me so I said goodbye to them and we hopped on the plane about 1pmm. The flight was ordinary, we played a bit of poker and blackjack on the plane to pass the time, and I also played chess and stuffed around on my laptop. I think I slept about 2 hrs. I think they maybe gave us 2 or 3 kinda crap meals. All in all it was a long 12 hr flight.

We arrived at LA at 11am local time, got absolutely grilled by the immigration/customs guys about where we were from, what the purpose of our trip was, where we were staying etc. I managed to restrain myself from telling any terrorist jokes.

LA to LV - another crap flight, really bumpy and me and Hui especially felt ordinary by the end of it. Possibly something to do with the food on the previous flight. But we made it....to find they had left half our luggage in LA. Andys showed up on the next flight, but mine and Huis didnt arrive to our hotel until about 8pm.

We checked in to Tuscany hotel and casino around 2pm (i think) and spent the next few hours getting a feed, and walking around the strip. there was a temperature thing on one of the buildings that told us it was 47 degrees..yuck...when we were walking back to our hotel at 7pm we saw it again and it was STILL 47 degrees. Anyway the strip basically consists of casino after casino, the ones we went into included the venetian (sp?), harrahs, cesars palace..and that all i can think of. I have no idea what one was what...all i remember is lots of poker machine noises and flashy things. we didnt play any games or anything, just walked through them all.

I think today we will probably have a online poker session then tonight maybe go and try our luck live. Andy went really well in the live poker games last year so hopefully that is a sign of things to come for both of us. Hui is planning to play blackjack aswell so good luck to him on that. We have another 2 nights here in Tuscany then we have to sort out some other accomodation. Its about 5am now (day 2, 16th july) so I will probably write another blog tonight or tommorow morning and give an update.

p.s when we got here we logged on to the net and saw that the raiders had a win over the broncos. woo hoo!