Random Pics of Vegas

It's been a while, but I present Random Pics of the Las Vegas Art District-Daytime Edition. Enjoy:

Way creepier in person!

My handsome husband.

Really cool mural.

These Blues Brothers bobble heads were enormous!

Massive chairs fit for royalty. Seriously, they were as large as Renaissance thrones.

True Story

A few days ago, I stopped by the office of a potential customer. He was busy, so I left my card. He contacts me to set up a meeting. Today we meet.

All seems normal.

Except, he surprises me with some new-found information about me, my education and probing my experience. You know, stuff NOT on my business card. I was caught completely off-guard by this sudden turn of events. Do you know how disarming it is to talk to a total stranger who possesses knowledge on your past you didn't provide.

It wasn't creepy. Really, it was more funny....in a creepy way.

After coming to the conclusion he must have Google'd me, I came home and frantically reviewed what dirty little internet bugs pop up with variations of my name. Thankfully, I recently privatized many of my accounts and removed inappropriate content (some stuff I say makes for awkward conversation later). While locking my internet profile up tighter and throwing away the key, a light bulb went off over my pretty little head.

If HE can search ME, I most certainly can search HIM. It's only less weird when done in reciprocation.

To my surprise, a quick Google search only pulls up his Twitter account, which is private. But it links to his semi-private Facebook page where I wonderfully discovered he read the Twilight Saga and The Dresden Files-which I will tease mercilessly and praise, respectfully. And that's not all...FB gives up the MySpace account which, like the rest of society, hasn't been updated in years and has all the juicy shit we posted on the internet before we knew to make our accounts private, then forgot all about.

As we say in Las Vegas: "Jackpot, Baby!"

Random Pics of Vegas

Ok, not Random so much as pictures from June 3rd's First Friday in Las Vegas. The art was amazing and it was a great night spent out with the hubby. Highlight: purchasing my burse (more details HERE).

THE ART:

And THE OUTSIDE:

Random Pics of Vegas

Random Pics of Vegas

Random Pics of Vegas

Sacramento Edition! These are actually random pics taken during my business trip to Sacramento. Hope you enjoy the change. Actually, I didn't get out much (at all) so it's really just the airport and one view from my hotel room.

Skylight at the airport. The structure reminded me of a plane.

Airline lost your luggage?

 The sunrise lit the sky in a very ethereal way.

Flying in the rain=TURBULENCE.

Okay, I cheated. This one is actually the Las Vegas airport parking garage.

Southwest, how I love thee...

The Bro Hits Vegas

Spent a fun-filled weekend in Phoenix and got Daniel all packed up for his big move to Vegas. Started the drive back Tuesday evening with trailer in tow.

Yeah, his mattress, dresser, clothes and TV turned into a completely full truck bed and 6x11 trailer. No joke.

We left Phoenix at 730pm and arrived at my doorstep 6.5 bumpy hours later. It wasn't all bad. My brother fortuitously has an after-market DVD player installed in his 20-year-old Ford truck and I spent the whole time watching True Blood.

I had never seen the show before, he had seasons 1 and 2 on DVD player and I was the perfect captive audience. One thing led to another and I have currently invested over 15 hours of my life to that show over the past 2 days.

I spent Wednesday morning unpacking Daniel and getting him comfortable in his new abode. Wednesday afternoon was devoted to True Blood. Finally Wednesday night rolled around and Daniel, ever restless, had me drive him to the Strip. I showed him the sights and we even stopped at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop where Pawn Stars on History channel is filmed.

I guess earlier in the day, Daniel saw this T-Mobile commercial:

Because he would not stop humming "Ble Bloo. Ble-de-be-boo-boop. It's the final countdown!" Seriously that song is stuck in my head now. 

At midnight Daniel decides to go to the corner store for snacks, stays over an hour talking to the night shift clerk and comes home with a bunch of free stuff. This kid can make friends with a pig in a cornfield. It's weird.

So Thursday before Bryce is off to work, we all take time to drive around Vegas and show Daniel where different stores and malls and movie theaters, etc are so he can get acquainted with the town. Returning home after lunch, Daniel and I nestle in for another True Blood marathon-we're finally on season 2! Next thing I know, there's a young black man streaking across my back yard, paused at the corner of the wall, he looks around before jumping the 5 foot brick wall leading to the street, where he proceeds to run across the street to another neighborhood. I see him jump that fence into another backyard and then out of that yard to another before I lose track of him in a blur just as the sirens from a couple cop cars whiz by on the street he just ran across. Thoroughly freaked, I grab Daniel who was at my side and we run out back to witness the ordeal. Well, now would be a good time to learn how to shoot the rifle my brother brought with him, so 15 minutes of hastened lessons later, I consider myself armed and dangerous.

Also on Thursday: Daniel humming Final Countdown by Europe from the stupid T-Mobile commercial and it is now stuck in my husband's head and the periodically break into song throughout the day. I can't make this shit up.

So I think today will prove uneventful as the final day of my week long vacation. Alas, a once-in-a-lifetime event happens: I am wrong. I follow up my 2 hours of cardio this morning with another desperate true Blood marathon (so close to caught up!) and Daniel, growing weary of my new obsession, ventures out alone for a haircut and a car-wash. he texts me 30 minutes later to inform me he was rear-ended. Luckily, everyone is okay and his giant truck with a tow hitch did damaged the other car while sustaining no injuries. The other driver still felt terrible and gave Daniel $20 to cover his car wash. WTF? And now, as I am posting this, Daniel is out on a date. Less than 72 hours in Vegas and he has been in an accident, made a new friend at the Shell station, and is dating. I have been here almost 2 years and don't know anybody outside of my work. This kid. 

Well....

Do-do-do-doooo. Do-do-dee-de-do. Dun-de-de-do. Do-do-do-do-do. 5..4..3..2..1..

Random Pics of Vegas

Time for an all new Random Pics of Vegas. 

The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

 The institution is located down the street from the Las Vegas Premium Outlets

Absolutely stunning architecture

There is also a gorgeous rock sculpture on the side of the building 

Views of the Eiffel Tower replica in front of Paris Las Vegas

 Shot in black and white during the evening

Caesar's Palace as seen while driving southbound on Las Vegas Blvd