Thursday, Thanksgiving, we enjoyed a delicious buffet at the Petro Truck Stop with all the traditional dishes being served. True to our past festive holiday eating, we ate too much but managed to make it back to the truck to undo the pants and make ourselves comfortable. The rest of the day was spent watching football and a marathon of "What not to Wear" on the TLC channel.
Friday we lounged around watching TV and playing our computer games until 2pm, and then managed to get out of the truck to take showers and do laundry. We had quite a bit to do as our laundry bag was filled to the brim.
Saturday we decided it was time to hit the Las Vegas strip. We left the Petro and headed to the Flying J Truck stop, which was about 7 miles closer to the strip. After consulting the internet, we determined we could walk about 2 miles from the truck stop and catch a bus to the strip. All went according to plan, until the bus stopped at the old strip downtown.
Therefore, off we went on foot again. We could see the Stratosphere and knew that would be the start of the casinos. We had to walk through some areas that I would not like to walk back through again. I was just happy it was daylight. As we continued to walk north, I kept seeing people with Starbucks cups. That was all the incentive I needed to keep walking. We finally located my oasis and after a short break, we were walking again. Our first stop was Treasure Island, then Caesar’s Palace.
By now, it was past the noon hour so we went into Paris for some lunch. We were fortunate to be seated in the courtyard area of one of the restaurants where we could see the casino action around us. After a great lunch, which included some wine, we were on our way again.
We spent some time inside New York New York and then the MGM. We had heard about the new monorail system but never saw it until we were handed a brochure, which showed that the monorail ran behind the casinos on the east side of the strip. Having now walked over 10 miles,(I checked our mapping program to confirm how far we walked), and with our feet telling us it was time to stop, we decided to take the monorail at the MGM back to the north end of the strip.
We were more than happy to flag down a cab at the Sahara Hotel to take us back to the truck stop. We had spent well over 9 hours gambling and enjoying ourselves, and came back to our truck with the same amount of money we left with. Overall, it was a very successful day and a great way to spend one of our idle days while in Las Vegas. We will be more than happy to rest our weary,blistered feet Sunday watching football. We are hopeful to receive a new assignment Monday morning, if not we may just have to make another trip down to the strip, but this time, in a cab!
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