Vegas Part II

Yoinks - it's been a while since I promised the follow up to this story (I have been saying yoinks in my head this week - I'm annoying myself with it, maybe if I put it here it will be embarrassing enough to banish it from my head before I head home for Christmas).

When we left off, I had finished up at the spa.

12. Get dressed for dinner early, so that we can go gamble before dinner. And drink - we have vouchers (classier than coupon) for free drinks at the bar.
13. Lay on bed so as not to wrinkle dress and watch random sitcoms while Mr. D works (this is unexpected, and annoying, though one of his co-workers completely gave up an hour of her Saturday night to help him out, since he didn't have a computer).
14. Go down to the bar for a drink. Yes, if we sat at a table we could have a drink for free, but only a well drink.
15. Go to Alain Ducasse restaurant for dinner. It is at the top of the building, and the view is amazing, as we wait for our table when we check in for our reservation. I hate waiting when you have a reservation. The Les Halles on park is really bad at this, which is where we like to go with R&J at the last minute. So we make a reservation off our phones and then head over there. And then wait an hour. But I digress.
16. Tolerate waiter at dinner. I don't know why, but he rubs me the wrong way. At one point he says he likes the chocolate souffle, but not with the pistachio ice cream, he likes it with butter pecan. I don't really like pistachios, but I kept it with the souffle just to not do what he said.
17. We head down to go gamble. First we hit the blackjack tables - the discount blackjack tables - no joke. We found a $10 table, but the dealers were all very...odd. One would deal, and every time she put the cards in the shuffler, she would sit and pick at her fingernails. I won some money, so we got up to go find Pai Gow for Mr. D.
18. No Pai Gow tables open, so he sat down at Let It Ride. I watched for a while, then the dealer convinced me to play. I did not win a single hand. Luckily, I didn't lose more than I won and Mr. D won some, so we headed to bed happy campers.
19. Mr. D was up early, but the poker tables going were full, so he played some Pai Gow. And won. I sat down at video poker and was up a bunch, but got too greedy and lost a little. While I was there, Mr. D hit the craps table and won some more money. We decided to stop there.
20. We headed over to the Bellagio for a crazy buffet. The sushi portion was unexciting, California and veggie rolls.
21. As we are walking back, I start to cross the street on a flashing red. Mr. D stops me, then I decide to go ahead. I'm almost across the street when I eat it. Mostly I fall on my knees. And it hurts. They start swelling immediately, and by the time we get back to The Hotel, they are bad enough for me to put my feet up in the cab. At the airport, it felt like I had an egg under each knee. They are still purple, no skirts without tights in H-town over Christmas.