John Luck Pickerd

Though there was a lot of things that I could comment about in Vegas, most can be summed up like this: slots and walking. There. That was pretty simple. If you have ever been to Vegas, you know exactly what I am saying. I asked Sonny if he thought we walked five miles in a day and he said, "Oh, easily." Great. Although the thing that I craved the most was a glass of milk. At the end of everyday, we would stop at the little shop in our hotel and get a snack (first night a pizza and the second night we each got a muffin), and I always wanted some milk but there was none to be had. There wasn't even milk at the big buffet we had for lunch on Monday. Weird.

Of course, I have to say that my favorite part about Vegas is that it seems to be primarily sponsored by Pepsi. It seemed like everywhere we went to eat, I got to have Mt. Dew. The only place I saw Coke was at Coca-Cola World. I made the comment, "Pepsi: The Official Sponsor of Las Vegas."

I guess I have commented more than I thought I would. Oh and if you want to know, I didn't win. In fact, I moped around alot because I was not winning. Although, yesterday, I started to win. Great. It was fun to finally win but it was too late to make up for the loss or to make enough to convince my husband to let us stay until the redeye flight.

I need to comment on the title of this blog. I seem to be taking my sweet time to do so. We went to the Hilton and they have the Star Trek Experience. Last time we were in Vegas, we ate at Quark's restaurant. Sonny wanted to take me on the ride but I was not all about that. This time, we did both of the 'rides'. They were called the "Borg Experience" and "Klingon Experience".

The Borg one was interesting. You got some 3-D glasses, and you sat in these chairs and they poked you and blew in your face as you were rushing to escape the Borg. Sonny was laughing because I would scream when I got poked in the back or when the vessle was making a nose dive.

The Klingon one was more action based. You weren't supposed to go on it if you were pregnant, prone to seizures, stuff like that. You were on the deck of the Enterprise and then you had to rush to escape the Klingons so you had to go through the halls to this escape pod. It was a bumpy ride and you did some fancy maneuvering. It was interesting.

I will say, in hindsight, that I enjoyed both. I liked the Klingon one better. Although I was apprehensive for both at first. I don't like non-predictability. I have a little fear of the unknown.

Speaking of fear of the unknown, I will have less for going to St. Louis because that was one of our stops on the way to Vegas. We had such a layover that we hoped on the train and went down by the stadium and had some lunch. We found our hotel for Thursday night, and I bought some Beatles stuff at a store called Beatles for Sale.