Taking a Bite out Las Vegas & it taking a Bite out me!

Sunday, 8:00am

Friday night was interesting. I drove over to the Stratosphere for the show. I guess I got there around 7:30. With the show at 10:30, I had plenty of time. The first thing I did was sign up for the Ultimate Rewards program. I know I say I don’t like slots, but they had Star Trek Slots. The actually have episodes (levels). The only one I remember is the Enterprise Incident. But it had characters, ships, logos and equipment. Like all slots matching gave you points. I don’t know how, I could figure it out. It was a penny machine, but you end up betting like $1.00 per button push. I burned through my $10 pretty quick. I was supposed to get $5.00 in play, but the machine didn’t read my card correctly. I would have had to put in more money to get it.

I did sit a $5.00 Blackjack table & put down $40 dollars. This was the best time. There was guy playing $25 bets. If it was only the two of us, he would play two hands. The dealers were also friendly. I got up with my $50. So I did break even for the night.

At the Stratosphere, there is an observation tower. Normally there would be Outdoor and Indoor viewing, but the Trek Convention had rented out the indoor part for a party. The also have two rides. Insanity will spin out over the city 866ft up. You would be looking right down at the ground. The second, X-Scream, puts on a rail. From the top of the rail you get shot down. Again out over the city. At this point I was a bit depressed. The seats are in groups of 2. I chickened out. The view was nice, and I did get photos.

Back down stairs, I grabbed a pretzle. While eating, I saw the actor who played Tuvok on Voyager. Man did the looked spaced out. At the check-in desk, there was another actor. I know the face, but can’t place the B-movies he’s been in. My bush with fame,

By that time I was time for Bite!

My ticket was the back of the theatre, but the head usher took pity on me and sat me in front. I sat with a couple with 4 boys. (Yes). They where either foster kids, adopted or for 4 years straight this women was pregnant by racially diverce fathers. The kids, youngest just 18, were all in school and had saved up and paid for the trip themselves (including the parents and 2 sisters). So what ever you think about this woman for taking four young men to burlesque show, she did something right. (& they are adults in their own rights).

Bite is erotic (meaning breasts) vampire show. A king vampire needs to find his true love. There are 5 vampire dancers who strut around topless (20% of the time). Cat was the hottest. Meow. (I have pictures, not topless). At one point, 6 or 7 people get picked out the audience to go up on stage. 4 of there are plants. A couple does acrobatic thing on a rope. The other one is singer, OK. The last one is king’s true love. Each in turn is turned into a vampire. There was another woman doing acrobatics on two suspended lengths of clothe. She would wrap herself up and tumble down. Some magic and stage fight scenes (pretty bad) were tossed in for good measure. It was worth the $30.00.

After the show the cast (females) posed for pictures. I’ll post them sometime.

Saturday wasn’t the greatest of days. I did go yards saleing, and bought about $20 worth of stuff. I forgot all the papers for the other things I wanted to do in the city. When I got back to hotel at noon, I really didn’t feel like heading out again.

I played Blackjack. I lost $250.00. My worst sitting yet. But I did have 50% off coupon for the Spice Buffet at Planet Hollywood. So I took a walk down there. Food was good and for $11.50, it was worth it. I also sat at Pleasure Pit to play more Blackjack. In the Pit the female dealers are dressed in these Red Corsets showing off there bust line. It was a nice view while losing another $100.

On the way back, I collected a bunch of Las Vegas Hooker cards. I have about 200. At the hotel I relaxed a bit, and sorted my Hooker cards. I cleaned up bit went down to the casino. I watched some the Rays-Mariners & Dodgers-Braves games. I stopped at the Pick 6 table. While I did really want to gamble any more I figured it was only $20. Pick 6 is that big spinning wheel you see at carnivals. You can 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 or 40 to bets. They spin the wheel and where it stops determines the winner. Of course, I lost. I watched some other games 3 card poker, let it ride and roulette. Those other table games seem too complicated. And there is really no ‘skill’. I know roulette, pretty easy. Spin the ball, if it stops on you number you will. Play 35-1 to boot. But I got down the all the little side bets. Turns out that house has almost 6% advantage on the game (Blackjack the house advantage is 1 to 1.5%). It is worst game to play, but the big payout keeps ‘em coming back. Maybe I’ll play some on Sunday.