Needing a break from a stressful month of remodeling, job hopping, and life— Grant and I decided to take a quick weekend trip to Vegas. Grant just went to Vegas and is always trying to get me to go. I finally caved under the condition that this weekend was not going to be about weird shows, but rather activities or hands-on experiences.
Our flight left Saturday morning and it was delayed. Evidently, its extremely difficult to get a flight crew the day before Easter for a 45 minute flight. So even though the plane was here and ready to go— we had a 2 hour delay due to flight attendants having to be brought in. A minor snafu because everything was already scheduled, but Vegas is really great about being flexible with rescheduling things if needed.
We took an uber from the airport to our grand hotel— The Linq. Straight up real talk— don’t stay at The Linq. It sucks. The food is awful, gambling is awful, rooms are tiny, weird smells, and a $35 resort fee per night. We originally were going to stay at Park MGM, but due to the timing of our flight this was a better deal. Upon entering our room we opened the window to find that we were looking at a cement wall. Needless to say our room looked like a prison.
Needing substance since we had only eaten junk food at the airport— we went over to Julian Serano’s Tapas at the Aria. Tapas are expensive little bits of Spanish food that are super flavorful. We ordered about 6 of them and our total skyrocketed north of $150.
The only thing memoriable thing about the lunch was when Grnat and I started intentionally saying super embarassing things. A guy leaned over the glass wall that was next to our table to talk to the table beside us. Finding this rude, instead of just being quite I started saying really perverted and inappropraite things really loud to embarass the guy to leave. It worked and we had a very nice remaining time at the resturant.
On a full stomach we left to go shoot zombies. We signed up for this Zombie Apocalypse experience taught by marines where we would storm buildings and shoot up anything in sight. We geared up and were taught the basics of breaching doors and where to go upon entering. If your the last person in you become the lookout. The experiecne on a whole was cool even though the zombies were a bit cheesy. Basically, guys dressed up in bunny costumes, clown costumes, and football costumes.
Having survived out encourter we then ran over to see Chris Angel’s new show Mindfreak. Fair warning. I hate Chris Angel. I find his show boring and dumb. Grant on the otherhand loves the show. Found it to be amazing and one of his favorite shows. My favorite part was sitting next to this “local” who had seen the show a few times, was clearly apart of Chris Angel’s fan club, and narrated the entire show. Even though everyone kept yelling at her to “shut-up” he beligerant demeanor and love of Chris Angel prevented her from shutting her trap. The real show was her.
I couldn’t convice Grant to leave early so we were running a bit late to our last stop, which was the Saw Escape Room. They dropped us off at a random meat packing plant, which was a cover for the game. Not knowing this in advance, we circled the block, which was not a smart idea considering where we were. Thankfully we were not mugged and made our way back to the store front. This time a security guard was there to usher us in.
Our team included Grant, myself, and 3 other random girls. We tried to be friendly and ask them if they had ever done an escape room. There response was “no we have never done an escape room, but we have done a room escape.” I was a bit puzzled by this response, but just said “cool.” The entire escape room was top notch and a lot of fun to do. Jigsaw was there to greet us and explained the rules of the game.
Once it got started Grant and I took over and tried giving people tasks. The other team members kind of just stood around. We would give them codes to put into doors and they would “attempt it” and it wouldn’t work. So I would then try it and it miraculously worked. Since its timed it is critical to be able to get everything done in a timely manner and they were not helping. We completed 4 out of the 7 rooms, which I took as a win. At the end we were brought into a gift shop. Grant and I looked around and the girls we were with just sat down. We went to leave and the girls who were super confused thought the gift shop was apart of the game. They literally got stuck in a gift shop. lol. We ended the night with room service.
The next morning we ate at our favorite Italian buffet — Buddy V’s. It was delicious as always and was a good price of $40 for a buffet on Easter. We then walked the strip up and down looking at the different hotels. Grant took off to go to the spa and I went back to the room to chill and watch the game. We checked out, our plane was again 2 hours late due to the flight attendants, and made our way home that is under construction. Fun times.