Road trip to Reno! It's like Las Vegas...only not.

Some housekeeping before I begin. Is there a website for "blog post ideas" when you feel like you just don't have anything blogworthy to post about or are drawing a blank?
A few times I would go to post since it had been a few and just thought, "I got nothing." And when I say that (yes, I started a sentence with "And") I mean I really have a lot of great juicy material but just can't post it due to the need to protect my sources, oh well...

Ok, so I went to Reno this weekend to celebrate a friend's 40th Birthday. For those of you who have never been to downtown Reno, Nevada, let me describe it. There are a bunch of casinos ranging from fairly new to fairly old, gentlemen's clubs, and pawnshops. That is about it, really. At least that is all I could see in my immediate surroundings. We went to a few of the more popular casino's and besides the smokey ambience, I think I saw more Larks (a personal scooter thingy, often seen being driven by senior citizens) in one night than I had in the whole year previous.
Before I go on I want to say that I have nothing against the local scene, since I don't know anything about it, so please don't send me any comments telling me how great Reno is if you are from there, I'm sure there is a lot I don't know about, yadda yadda, but I digress!

We started out at this all-you-can eat sushi restaurant where I think I must have eaten a whole side of tuna to myself! It was gluttony, ugh, I was uncomfortable the rest of the night. That's what I get for eating like that, I guess. We move on to the Blackjack tables. I love 21 and I did all right for a while, but nothing to quit my day job over. I then went to the roulette table where I did very well, I couldn't lose! If you have ever played you know how addicting this game is when your number hits. I left the table before I started losing money (and also, it was too hard to reach over the two old ladies next to me, being that I was still stuffed from dinner).

Finally, one of my friends and I decide we are sick of the cheap, watered down wine we have been getting at the tables and go straight to the bar and start playing video poker so we could enjoy a decent glass of wine. Ahhh, that was nice! I also won ten bucks doing that and met some uh, interesting folks. At about one-ish in the morning (still early in the evening in Reno time) I figured I had about twenty minutes before I would collapse on the spot from exhaustion (ok, and some drinking) so I trek back to my room.

As per my midlife crisis, I was dressed in some tight jeans and black leather boots, pretty hot, eh? Until I had to take the boots off, holy moly, what a chore! I tried just bending forward to unzip them but found this position was for some reason hard to stand still in, so I fell backwards on to the bed to try it that way. Let's just say at this point I knew it would be mere seconds before I passed out, I mean, fell asleep, so I had to move quickly. The ONLY thing that kept me awake at that point was knowing that my hubs would eventually return to the room and would have loved to take a pic of me passed out on the bed in my boots! He would've tortured me with that for weeks, he is just that in love with me! Anyways! I finally got them off and slept for about nine hours. This is more sleep that I have gotten in months, so it was a nice.

Well, that was my weekend, it was fun! Thanks for reading about my exciting life. Now I just need a couple weeks to recover...