{"id":163,"date":"2006-12-27T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/?p=163"},"modified":"2006-12-27T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T02:50:58","slug":"christmas-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/2006\/12\/27\/christmas-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"christmas in vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spending Christmas in Vegas was much better than spending it at home, I must say. I took a lovely 40 minute walk down the strip (which, when you look at it on a map, everything seems so close together… and then you start to walk and you’re like… HEY! This is far! It took me 10-15 minutes just to walk past the Wynn alone! I’m not staying at the Sahara again, sheesh) and then I was treated to a very lovely gondola ride outside the Venetian with a certain someone who was in town at the same time as me. It was very beautiful and serene – the ride was right at dusk and the moon was out as well, making for a wonderful, romantic ride. <\/p>\n

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\nLater that night, after poking around in FAO Schwarz and then losing some money over at Caesar’s Palace, I discovered a little piano bar in the Paris hotel called “Napolean’s”. I listened to some dueling pianos and was pretty entertained (I even got to a hear a rendition of “Short People Ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Got No Reason To Live” which I’m sure someone I know out there will find amusing). The night was topped off with more drinking, more gambling, and some very tired feet. Monday I was pretty much tired all day, but I got a nice fill of some tasty cheap food (think $2.99 steak & eggs and later a $1 big basket of hot wings), watched “Big Elvis” perform, and of course, lost more money playing the Star Wars penny slots. That’s what you do in Vegas, though, isn’t it? I really wanted to go to the Star Trek experience since our hotel was right next to it, but my feet pretty much gave out on me. Next time I head out to Vegas, I’m going on the Star Trek thing. And I want to spring for tickets to check out Penn & Teller. Ohhhh yes. <\/p>\n

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Spending Christmas in Vegas was much better than spending it at home, I must say. I took a lovely 40 minute walk down the strip (which, when you look at it on a map, everything seems so close together… and then you start to walk and you’re like… HEY! This is far! It took me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}