T-Minus 1 Month.

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1 month.

Now it begins to get real. The final planning, if any, starts. The daily hands of practice video poker begin. The deciding on food reservations happens. I start to count down the days in my head. I start to scour the Vegas news sites pre-trip for juicy nuggets. The posts on this goofy blog get more frequent. All who read it suffer.

Since I am moneycashboy I decided to sneak in an extra night by just coming in the Wednesday instead of Thursday. I have Thursday off anyway and will just leave a little early from work on the Wed so no big whoop. Gives me a full 5 days on the ground. I booked the added night at Cromwell. Got a really good deal on Priceline, $30 less than booking direct. $105 all in. Always have wanted to stay there and the location is good to stroll across to Aria the next day. I thought about just cancelling my Aria res and re-booking but it looks like weekend rates went way up, so don't want to risk losing the great rate I booked early in the year.

The flight change cost me about $30, going from a $72 flight on Allegiant out of OAK (ugh) to a Southwest flight out of SFO (slightly less ugh). Got flight credit for the Allegiant flight so whatever. Can use it for something in the next year. So less than a hundy all in to add the night. I'm good for it right now.

Still not on the hype train yet for this one with all the stuff going on with work and such distracting me but it'll come. When it gets down to weeks and days before a trip the train starts rolling. 30 days to this one.

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