The Plan - April '18.

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50 days from Vegas-y goodness for my birthday.

Not going to do much planning on this one. It's a relatively short trip, just 4 full days and one half day, so I'm planning to KISS on this one. I had a lot going on on the Xmas trip as I was there for 7 nights and didn't want to just shuffle aimlessly from slot machine to bar for that whole time. All in all it worked out well, the only semi-dog of the trip was Mystere, everything else was worth the time/money.

Since this is a shorter trip I'm going to leave the shows/activities alone I think. Mainly because I want to maximize my casino and bar time but also due to the fact that there isn't much else that I really want to see in Vegas. I want to see MJ One at Mandalay Bay but I'll probably save that for the Xmas trip as I'll be staying down on that end of the strip. Really the only other show I haven't seen that I'm interested in is Absinthe. It's pretty damn expensive though so unless I stumble across a great price I don't see that happening this trip. My window for spending money pre-trip is pretty much over, I go into the Big Save starting Monday.

The only reservation of any kind I have on the books right now is for my big Bday dinner a day early on the 24th at Camelot Steakhouse at the Ex. Using a $50 off of $100 myVegas redemption to splurge without blowing a ton of money. Gotta have at least one good steak on every trip.

Food as a rule should be no problem on this trip as I have Restaurant.com certs for Carlos and Charlie's, Slice and Senor Frog's, a myVegas redemption for Nine Fine at NYNY and the reservation at Camelot. All are in the zones of where I usually hang out so no having to go out of my way and they'll all keep food costs down while still being tasty. With the R.com ones, they never expire so I can use them or not, no pressure. I think to be honest I'm going to try to make this a "foodie" trip in that rather than just sitting in bars slowly pickling myself, I'm going to try to keep snacking and keep my energy up all day to hopefully extend the days. Too many "in bed by 1am" nights last trip. Calorie loading while drinking is a good thing!

Tuesday may be the only real "plan" day, a south strip day, maybe do Slice for lunch, dick around at Ri Ra and HoB (great shrimp appetizer if a snack needed) and maybe gamble a bit at MB. Then time for a Skyfall/Foundation Room run, and head over to the Ex for dinner at 7:15. Still done with all that by 8-9p and free to stumble up-strip from there. Then that leaves my actual birthday, Wednesday, free to go wherever and do whatever without feeling like I have to be somewhere.

This trip in general though I think I'm just going to enjoy the center strip location of Cosmopolitan and really soak in the Vegas that I love...the posh bars and bad gambling and great food and girls who ignore me and the crazy ambiance and everything else I love about the town.

Simplicity and freedom to roll in year 49. I'm digging it.

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