The Plan, Labor Day Weekend '21.

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A quick little trip to The Vegas in a week.

It may be ill-advised, but I'm going to be in Vegas as opposed to not, so it can't be all bad. Not doing a normal day by day run through this time, as it's a shorty and I have no real plan. Just some bullet points...

  • Relax. Its going to be packed on strip. It's going to be weird to be back to masks. The airport is going to be a challenge, probably both ways. Take a breath and go with it. This is always my toughest advice to follow for myself because I have the patience of an incontinent gnat but it HAS to be the way I roll this trip, or I will have no fun at all. People will be fucktards. Just deal with it.
  • Strip strategically. Avoid pinch points and lines and busy times. Taxi everywhere that you can, and if that fails stay local. There's plenty to do on the north strip if the taxi line is 20 people deep. Roll with the punches. Absolutely NO strip walking at peak times. Be planted somewhere by 9p every night, and stick until it lets up some. Staying on the north strip near Mirage is not failure.
  • Along the same vein, if the strip is bonkers, spend a day at Wynncore. It's always mellower in there and there's plenty to do. Classy environs, plenty of places to eat/drink and not having to be in a cloud of slushy-drinking idiots all day. Take advantage.
  • Eat well. Just about everything should be open that weekend, unlike other weekends in the past year+, so take advantage of that. Get a good, solid lunch and dinner every day. Soak up that Belvedere. The reservation at Costa Sunday doesn't have to be the only splurge meal.
  • Drink like a champion. You're only there for 3 full days. Drank. If you're not half-stumbling up to the room at 3a every morning you're doing it wrong. There is no need to moderate on this trip. Drunk Vegas is best Vegas.
  • Get your gamble on. Despite the last-minute nature of this trip, you'll have your full 1K per day cash spend on hand. Food will mostly go on the Mlife CC so most of that will be gamblefunds. Use it. Another VP hand pay will make this trip almost a wash, so get your reps in and pile up the Mlife points. With 2 more trips after this one Gold is almost guaranteed for next year but the more the merrier.
  • Enjoy the sports festivities. It's Giants v Dodgers weekend. All night games. Fuck Yeah. It's the first full weekend for CFB and the US Open, Tour Championship...should make for a festive sports weekend. 2 great sports books, Wynn and Mirage are right there for you. LDW is always the precursor to fall sports, and the playoff run in MLB. Game time!
  • Try something new. You're on the north strip so many of your haunts are close by, but there's always something new to check out. Sahara maybe? Properly delve into Resorts World? Get over to Virgin/Double Down? Getting off strip might be a great plan for a day. Staying within easy cab or easier walking distance of the Mirage will be a great strategy too. You don't have to hit Fuel and Cosmo every damn night, nor should you.
  • Relax. Did I mention relaxing? Yeah, fucking relax.
And so it may go. Going to let out some shaft on this trip and pack some "fuck yeah" into 3 days. Let's do this.

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