After class last night, I was dragged out to have a quick drink before my weekend trip to LA-LV. Getting home at 3am, I woke up at 5am to catch my flight. The plan was that of a classic solider weekend trip. Start off running on 2 hours of sleep, hop on a flight, drive 5 to 6 hours straight with the ever trusty printed google maps. With a feature phone that had no LCD, I would survive the weekend and red-eye it back to work on Monday morning...
I arrive bright and early in the morning (ok.. 9:30am) to the sunny land of Cali. As always, Cali is great. This trip had two objectives. One was to attend Casino Buddy's bachelors, the other was the main reason I flew into LA instead of LV... the Getty Museum! Finally after several missed attempts and years past, I finally get to visit the Getty Museum. For those who don't know what it is, it is essentially a reconstructed Roman villa in Malibu. The pictures on the website were really pretty. I was really lucky that it was a sunny day (I actually checked the weather report to see what it'd be like), so I got to walk around the entire villa.
On the driving... Driving along the coast was great. If I wasn't strapped on time and aiming to make it to Vegas by 6pm, I would have wanted to just park the car, go down to the beach, and surf or just sit by the beach for a few hours.
LA traffic is very congested at all times of the day. The good thing though is people actually know how to drive! So even though there was alot of volume, the car was actually moving.
Didn't really stop anywhere along the way, because I wanted to get out of the core of LA latest by 2ish, so I wouldn't be stuck in highway traffic. On the way though, I kept my eyes peeled for a Boston Market to no avail... eventually stopping by a roadside McDs instead. Fell asleep almost 3 times along the way, but soldier Mson marches forward!
I did reach Vegas before 6pm. Amazingly on just one tank of gas. Strangely Vegas felt very familiar... I just seemed to know where to go for some reason. The gambling part was horrible - so I won't say more than that. Though I did get to try the 'switch blackjack' that I've been hearing about. Pretty interesting rules and has some good interaction, though I am not quite sure what kind of odds it actually has (I would imagine it'd be lower than regular blackjack).
Dinner was buffet at the Wynn, where the food was pretty good. Though I have to say I think I might be getting too spoiled with seafood in S.town. The AYCE crab legs was nice, but the whole time I was thinking, the Safeway $8.99/lb alaskan king crab legs would be so much meatier and tastier.
And so the fun continues...
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