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

Got a ticket to see Rise of Skywalker in Vegas. Prime seat in IMAX, right in the middle of the theater at a good time, 11:30a. Won't have to be up too early after a couple day's shenanigans. Only $13, so a cheap way to be entertained in town for a couple hours, and to give my head time to clear from the night before no doubt. So I will have completed my destiny and seen all 3 of the new trilogy in Vegas. Bit of an Xmas tradition 3 of the last 5 years. I'm not expecting much from this one honestly, TLJ pretty much murdered this trilogy, and I'm dubious that it can be saved but at the very least SW movies are all a spectacle. And hell, it's cheaper than sitting in some video poker bar grinding on a machine with a hangover, which is probably the only other thing I'd be doing at that hour. And that, friends, ends the planning for the Xmas trip. A movie on the Monday, a show on Tuesday, a meal on Wednesday, and nada on Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday. Nee...

Added one more day (and a night) to the Xmas trip. I have a shit ton of time off during the Xmas-New Year break. With 12 days off, 4 3/4 days was just feeling a little short for an Xmas trip, especially since past Xmas trips have gone as long as 7 full days. SO, I added a two-night stay at Mirage, comped, at the start of the trip. I'll now be flying out late Friday the 20th, getting in at around 10p, and the back end of the trip stays the same with me flying out the following Friday at the same time I had originally booked. The change fee on the flight means I'm paying damn near $300 on just the flight this time, but I spread the cost out over time and cards so not too much pain. It'll all be paid off before I'm even in the air. Same deal: priority boarding, 4th row seat and a carry-on both ways. So it'll be two nights at the Mirage, which is cool, and then the full five nights at Cosmo that I had already booked. 7 nights, 6 days, as they say. No need for f...

Racking up the Mlife points with the, uh, Mlife Credit card.  Have about $65 in points left over from the last trip, and by the time I get to Vegas for the Xmas trip I should have between $120-150, so to blast through those and simultaneously have the killer Xmas meal I have booked a reservation at Jean George steakhouse at the Aria on Xmas night.  I've eaten there before and the steak was quite good, don't remember it being Delmonico-tier but nothing else in Vegas that I've had really is. The big pluses for doing JG are that it is right next door to my home resort for that trip, and that it will be free, aside from a tip. I always try to book a splurge meal on Xmas night itself, and this will certainly do the trick. Hard to go wrong with a good steak and the location keeps me more or less center strip to continue the Xmas frivolity after the meal.  I'm also booking Delmonico at Venetian as my lead in meal before the Atomic saloon show there. No, No...