Chris, Tuan and I headed out to Vegas again a couple weeks ago. It was a little hard to get excited about after all the thinking about Berlin two posts ago. I wanted something authentic and real, and Vegas is anything but! I figured we'd make the best of it though. We'd drink a lot, gamble a little, and maybe do some hiking or mountain biking. There's all kinds of stuff to do outside the casinos, right?

It all started a little nuts. After the three separate flights there, we were tired, buzzed and slightly delirious. We had a cheap car reserved at Hertz, but I saw the pretty picture of the Shelby GT-H on display. Oops. We were slightly mislead by the woman behind the counter though. I don't really know much about big American iron, so when she said that the car had 500 horse I believed her. She must have had it confused with the Shelby GT500. But whatever. For only $400 more we took it. I figured it'd be smarter than renting an Elise for a day, and lately I've had been tempted by big throaty V8s.

After getting on the highway I figured something was up, because that didn't feel anything near 500 horse. I've driven a car with 425 before, and that was much crazier, despite being a much heavier car. But whatever... I had to get back at them for the false advertising somehow. After a quick search online I figured out how to disable the traction control. :) It's so unbelievably low-tech. There is a little paperclip behind the button. That's it. We removed it and had a little more fun. Oddly enough we didn't do anything stupid in the car. I must be getting old.

We did the usual Vegas thing, gambled, drank, ate a lot. We saw a Cirque show, Mystere. Pretty cool stuff. Slept a lot, oddly enough. But whatever... it was good times. We ended up seeing a magic show for free, because they were testing it out and it wasn't actually started yet. That was pretty cool, can't remember the name of the guy though. I think it was Steve. Right after that we hit up a comedy hypnotist. Chris went up on stage and did a lot of crazy shit. Haha!

The best part was our little trip to Red Rock. We did some climbing and playing around taking pics. There are some pretty good ones here on flickr.

I also had my new toy delivered to the hotel. VERY excited about that. I tracked a lot of cool stuff, like our hike through Red Rock and our golf session. That actually seems like a pretty cool sport. With the proper toys (GPS) it actually looks like it could be an awesome sport! I'm definitely going to be trying some more of that this summer.

The best part of the trip though was the shopping. I never thought I'd say that! There was a Ben Sherman store in our hotel and they were having a 60% off sale. This is where Tuan and I dragged Chris around for hours. Seriously. I picked up some cool shit! And that was pretty much it. Back a little too soon. We had no time for the gun store, and somehow I managed to miss out on winning a car. Sheesh.