We awoke the next morning and after a blowing my nose, I swear glitter came out, we decided to hit the rode. The drive to Vegas was one of the most scenic trips we had made. Heading through deserts such as Death Valley we could barely see the road as the suns heat warped and twisted the air. The empty desert quickly gave way to mountains built with a combination of tan and red earth. The road shifted from straight and empty to winding its way up the mountainside. We had arrived at the Hoover Dam and Lake Meade. Big Cat quickly took pictures of the beautiful landscape as I dreamt about riding my motorcycle through the mountain pass. After a quick vehicle inspection, they questioned why we had a dead cow in the back of my jeep but seeing the Big Cat and his teeth, quickly let us move on. The Hoover Dam was a great sight and Lake Meade was beautiful but nothing short of Megan Fox could keep us from moving on to Sin City.
Our first hotel was located in the heart of Old Vegas, Freemont Street. The street sports casinos such as the Golden Nugget and the Four Queens all with the original decorations and exterior. This part of Vegas was much cheaper than what our next two days would be so we decided to go down and do a little gambling. Brownbear found the poker tables so we sat down for a little tournament and after losing about 30 bucks we decided it was time for dinner. We hit up the nearest buffet; much like the plains of Africa it was all you can eat. Big Cat used his paws to destroy some crawfish while Brownbear piled his plate with everything from berries to slow roasted pheasant. Once again we hibernated until 8:30 and prepared for our first night in Vegas.
After using or animal magnetism to gain VIP passes to a club called Jet at the Mirage we caught a bus down to the strip. We quickly moved pass the line and into the packed Vegas club. We bought our first round of drinks; 9$ dollars for one Budweiser, and moved to the back of the club. Within 15 minutes a rapper, Chingy, arrived and began to perform on the front stage. The crowd was unusually excited for a mediocre rapper such as Chingy but I shrugged it off and continued to have a good time. Next to us was a roped off V.I.P. area filled with 4 girls and 2 guys whom we quickly discovered were from L.A. The group was celebrating their recent graduation from nursing school and was leaving the next day but for the time being needed relief from the creepy men who littered the club. We hung out with the group talking about the medical field, L.A., and many other highbrow subjects. As the club began to close and everyone filed out the doors we decided to walk through a few other casinos on our way to the bus that would take us home.
We eventually climbed aboard the RTC transit system and began to head to our hotel. After it finally arrived we rode the bus for a half hour or so only to find out that we had boarded on the wrong side of the street. Our bus took us to the end of line were we boarded a second bus that went through every stop in Vegas and finally reached Freemont Street. We had boarded the bus around 4:30 A.M. and had finally reached our hotel around 6:15 in the morning. My first sunrise in Vegas took place on the front of a metro bus while the Big Cat passed out unfortunately close to a hobo who seemed in desperate need of a cuddle buddy. As we reached our hotel we quickly went to our room, shut the blinds on the rising sun, and passed out.
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