I woke up early as usual. Michelle got up around 7:30a.

Right after Michelle waking up, our room phone rang. I was a little confused since everyone we knew would call us on our cell phones. It was the maintenance man talking in a very professional tone (I think someone else was around him). He said they had to put our room “out of order” so they could fix the banging problem with the A/C. He said since we had been inconvenienced over the last 2 days they didn’t want us to be dealing with all the noise they would make fixing it. So they were moving us to another room, but the only rooms they had available in the tower we had “specifically” requested were smoking rooms. To make up for moving us to a smoking room, they were upgrading us to a full suite with a jacuzzi/hot tub. Then as he was hanging up the phone he whispered “keep it on the down low”.

WOOHOO…. room upgrade. This room would have cost somewhere around $400 a night.

When we got down to the front desk to get key for the new room, the lady told us to go up & make sure the smoke smell didn’t bother us. Then she smiled at us & said “once you see the room, you may be able to overlook any smell.”

Ok. This hotel is not once of the 5 star super hotels you sometimes see pictures of. But it was still nice & this “new” room was awesome. Lots of space. An actual bar with 3 barstools & a large “mini” fridge. A great view of Fremont Street & the mountains in the background (first room was on 8th floor, this on was on 17th floor). The window actually slid open about a foot. So at night we were able to listen to the music from Fremont.

Here are some pics of the new room –

Here is the view from the new room -

Here is link to panoramic shot I took hanging out the window of our room -

LINK

After looking over the room & telling the front desk person we would definitely take it, we headed over to the hotel restaurant for breakfast. They had 2 specials – French toast, bacon or sausage & 2 eggs or Ham steak, 2 eggs, hasbrowns & toast for $5.95. Guess where we ate breakfast every morning?

After breakfast (and moving all of our stuff to the new room), we headed out to the strip to look at all the “fancy” hotels & casinos. The last time I was in Vegas, I was there for work & didn’t get a chance to see any of the other hotels or casinos. Even thought I didn’t want to stay on the strip, it was interesting to see all the hotels & the different designs, both inside & out.

Our first stop was the Venetian. They have modeled it after Italian architecture. They even have the Venice “canals” inside the hotel.

Here are some pics –

Then we went down to the famous “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign.

Next we went over to the Rio hotel. This is where Michelle used to stay all the time. We had a 2 for 1 for their “World Carnival” buffet. It was normally $18 a person for this buffet. They had a BUNCH of food. It was a very good late lunch, especially for the price.

When we got back to our hotel I stopped by the nickel slot machines again. Since Wheel of Fortune wasn’t paying out for me anymore, I moved on to “Monopoly” slot machines. It had the spinning reels like most slot machines, but then if you hit the “bonus” it gave you a Monopoly board to play on. I put in $24 & won $99. WOOHOO. Yes, I said $24. I had put in $20 & when I was down to about 20 cents, I put in another $5, I had one of those things gamblers call “a feeling I would win”. Unfortunately in between my winnings from the other day & this one, I had lost a good amount also. But hey, that’s what you expect to do in Vegas. And that “feeling I would win”, that is just a way of not admitting you can’t walk away from the machine.

Pic of winnings (after this the novelty of taking pics of these payout slips went away)-

At 6:30 we headed over to the casino that had bingo every night. Michelle decided we needed to be there for the 7pm session since it was double pay out. After seeing how easy it was to use the electronic machine, Michelle decided to switch over to using it instead of using the normal paper bingo “cards”.

The final game of the session is something the call “coverall”. As the name implies, they call numbers until someone has covered all the numbers on their sheet. Michelle won the coverall & the prize was $500. WOOHOO….

Next we headed back to our hotel/casino. Michelle had been wanting to play a card game called “Pai Gow”, so we sat down at the table & both cashed $50 for chips. What we didn’t realize is on Saturday nights all the card tables increased their minimum bets. This one was now up to $15. We had already started betting so we couldn’t walk away. So we bet $15. In a VERY short time I had most all my $50 & Michelle had lost part of hers, so we moved over to 3 card poker. Between playing slots & three card poker I won about $140 that night.

After that we had the $7.95 prime rib special again. Being a steak lover, there is no way I could pass up that meal. EVER.

I went to bed around 3:30am & woke up about 7:30am. Damn I didn’t think it was possible to get less sleep than I normally did.

Ok, that is it for day 3 update. On to day 4.

Thanks for reading so much.

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