Top Signs You've Been in Vegas Too Long...

...You take 50 lbs. of laundry to the hotel laundry facility.

...You know the actual distances between bars or casinos on the strip.

...You think $2.00 for a 20 oz. drink seems like a good deal.

...You pick a casino because they serve free coffee and doughnuts until 10am.

...You have a special key ring for all of your casino player's cards complete with a bungee belt attachment so these valuable cards aren't lost, stolen, or forgotten.


We were only in Vegas about 5 days, so I was only guilty of thinking the $2.00 bottle of water a good deal.

Vegas was a blast. We walked around looking at things for several days. Amazing buildings. Amazing landscape (mountains, etc. outside the city). We only gambled for about an hour one evening. Britt had a rough night at the nickel-slots. She lost a whopping $7 in about 15 minutes. Meanwhile I'd hit several good payouts and had gone from $1 to $10. Sensing she was getting bored and was refusing to put anymore money in the machine I cashed out, bought her Starbucks (conveniently located 30 feet behind us on the casino floor of our hotel), and then found a different machine that "looked like fun." While she sipped her frapp (to borrow a term from Matt Foreman) and I waited on my venti brewed to cool I hit another fairly big payout and ran my total to about $30. Played another few minutes and decided to cash out permanently with $25 (not a bad hour of work to have started with $1).