It's Not A Bender, It's A Lifestyle.

Quickie trip added for Labor Day week. Going to get there on Sunday early (9a), have 9/10ths of Sunday, then all of Monday and Tuesday before a late morning fly-out on Wednesday. Since it's Labor Day off, just losing/using 2 vacation days and back to work on Thursday. No real reason to go aside from I can . I won't cost me that much and I frankly can afford it now. The job is going well (slightly stressful but I'm a rock star there), I'm making good money and I deserve/need a couple days off now and again to keep from getting into a 4 month no-Vegas rut, which I was facing until the Xmas trip. Great room and flight rates made it easy to book. $109 round trip on United, and only a little over $200 all-in for the 3 nights at Mandalay Bay. Order of magnitude less than coing in on the Friday before the holiday like I was looking at. Won't need as much cash from the bank this time either, as most of the incidentals (room, food, drink) will go on the Mlife CC. ...

A fun one, more interesting than most and for once I didn't run out of steam. Got in more or less on time, headed over to MGM to check in. Made my way up to the 9th floor West Wing room. WW gets a lot of hate as the rooms are small and older but they were fine for me. Coming from the hole I live in even a 300 sq/ft room seems like a palace to me. Strange layout, no real view and definitely showing it's age but again no problem for a single guy. Was easy enough to get in/out of and elevators were never too packed even on 4th w/e. Got out to the strip while the sun was still declining, hit a couple spots to liquor up then went up to Twin Peaks to get some food. Sort of meandered about after that not doing much memorable. This whole night pretty foggy really, made my way down, already pretty drunk to Fuel and hung out there for a long while. Met a girl from Kentucky who was kind of boring but we sort of hit it off I guess? She ended up having to leave to meet some arriving fri...