Viva Las Vegas

    Well, we made it.  The highlight of the drive was taking a power cat nap with my niece, Kairi.  She leaned her head of my shoulder and I on her head.  It was a nice nap.  It was a cramped drive.  We dropped Kai off at her faternal grandparents and made our way to the Casa Blanca.  Which I have always thought was really upscale and really nice.  It turns out I was wrong.  It really is pretty ghetto and not as high quality as I always imagined.

     After a night's stay there, we made our way to the lovely land of Las Vegas.  And here we are.  As we were checking in, my dad and I were stopped by a nice woman who mistaked me as my dad's wife.  Gross.  Then she offered us some tickets for a really good deal.  She took us over to a kiosk with a nice woman named Teresa who was willing to offer us for tickets to the Lion King for fifty dollars and four tickets to the Secret Garden if we took tour of the facility tomorrow for a few hours and gave some feedback.  It sounded like a really good deal because that is why we are here, to see Lion King.  So we said we would take it.  So she searched for some tickets and after a few moments, with a very sober face, reported to us that all this week, the Lion King was "completely sold out."  And this is about when I got dizzy and utterly died inside.  She said she was so sorry and it broke her heart to say this yada yada yada.  I will not lie, there was a tear in my eye but it was that of anger.  I have never been so pissed off in my life.  I was so mad.  Not even at my dad for not simply buying the tickets online a week earlier like we had discussed.  No, there was indeed one person I was whole-heartedly blaming even though it was no fault of them at all.  It just made me feel better to blame one person.  So we checked in and got up to our room and I pulled my laptop out like a mad woman and searched for tickets.  Long story short, my father (the hero) called Mandalay Bay and purchased some tickets for Tuesday.  Teresa's company was only alotted some many tickets which were sold out.  Stupid Teresa.

   We had a late lunch at the buffet here at Excalibar, then Dad and I walked through Mandalay Bay (saw Pete Rose), the Luxor, and the Tropicana.  We are not back, blistered feet and all.

     I am so excited to see the Lion King on Tuesday.  So, so excited.