We are in Vegas Baby!

We arrived into Vegas yesturday, greeted with blue skies & much warmer weather than LA had provided. It's actually a lot bigger than i thought it would be, based on what ive read online & what people have previously said. First of all Circus Circus (our hotel) is maaaaaasive, never ever seen a hotel so big. Never seen a hotel with a theme park inside it for that matter! Fully equiped with 360 loop de loop rollorcoaster and several other "interesting" rides. After wandering around the hotel we found the casino section. Its an "Andy Kilmister dream land, before karen tightened the rains" ;)

My only bug bear is there are no "UK style" gamblers, just nutty american "things"... But we are not here for that, mainly BlackJack & Texas Holden poker is our games :)) The first night we hit the blackjack tables.

We both started with $40 each, about 20 quid. After 2 hours we were still playing !!! surprised me, to be honest. After about 2.5hrs lynsey bowed out, this is where i stopped $14 up =) Well happy. The other guys at the table & the various different dealers, made it very good fun. Not to mention free drinks as you play - Waitress ill have , erm, Corona, Corona, Corona...

So onto today.... The picture above depicts our biggest coup so far, Yup Lady luck has showed her head - for my little wifey ! =))) Lynsey put $5 into one of these crazy gamblers and promptly won $50 !!!! she then immediately pressed "cash out". Job done. Lynsey then proceded to move seats and put $4 into a different gambler. Within 2 minutes shes only gone and won another $30..... jesus christ, we both didnt have a clue on what was going on, how to play it, or where we were, but we didnt care ;) Cash out button located and pressed once again!

Tomorrow we register for our first Texas Hold'em Poker tournament, which starts at 11.30am, this is where the fun starts. You pay a small entry fee, then get given about $600 worth of chips to play with. Probably approx 50 players, First four places pay out with 1st place paying $280. See how we get on..... Vegas rocks....

Other than the gambling side, were off up "the strip" tmw, to see the sparkly lights... Show wise, the "Blue man Group" are here, and "Penn & Teller" which will be a must.... Amusingly "The Hoff" is also around....