Thursday, December 21, 2006

Since You've Been Gone

So, today has been a long day. Didn't sleep last night, and wrote my exam at 9am. After that I opened the Spoke and drank for a couple hours. I drank for longer than planned which left me with about 20 minutes to pack to get out of London. Failed miserably. I had to rush and get my cabbie to run red lights in order to make my shuttle in time.

Slept the whole way to Toronto, but once arriving at the airport, found out I had to kill 4 1/2 hours before my flight. Ok. I drank. It was fun, except this random guy kept trying to talk to me, bashing Americans, and using Rick Mercer's "Talking to Americans" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" as proof of his arguments. Oh well, got drunk and went to the terminal. We still had time to kill so we drank at TGI Friday's. We caught our flight about 9pm and headed to Las Vegas. We arrived at about 11pm Vegas time. Took a stretch Limo to the MGM grand and checked in. The best part... free room upgrade to a Hollywood Celebrity Suite. We get to the room and it is amazing. Huge bathroom, bedroom, livingroom, eating area etc.

Now is time to see if I am going to have any luck down here. We went to New York, New York and sure enough, first bar we try, I walk in without being ID'ed. Bad sign. Drink there for a while, pick up a couple extra beers and head back to the MGM. Since I have a drink in my hand, nobody IDs me anywhere. I ended up playing Poker for 3 hours. Lost money, but drinks were free, so I don't know if I am up or down really.

The end of my night though was the most entertaining. Decided to leave the poker at about 3am. Start walking back to my room and a girl starts talking to me. We start walking around and talking and she asks if I want to go back to my room. I ignore it, and my little Canadian mind goes "maybe she is a prostitute". She keeps saying she is bored and that we should go 'have fun' so I suspect it huge. Well finally she just asks "are you rejecting me or are we gonna fuck". Well, wow. I said it wasn't happening. But we still continued to talk. I spent the next hour trying to help her find a target. The last part we approached two guys. I started talking to one, she pulled the other aside. Me and him started laughing about her being a prostitute. He thought I was her pimp though. At that point I thought I could be charged with accessory, and since I don't want to be arrested on my first day, went to bed.