Vegas Day 1

I had a direct 2 hour 15 minute flight to Vegas which left and arrived on time. We got on the tarmac at Vegas and pulled up to the hangar and we all stood to disembark and after a couple minutes the captain informs us that we can't leave the plane until a customs person comes to escort us off the plane. Huh! It must have been 15-20 minutes before that happened. Even the captain was getting a little annoyed. Anyways I guess coffee time was over we finally were able to disembark. We get to customs and a plane from somewhere in South America had landed before us so the customs wait was long. It was interesting watching the customs guys grill the Hispanic people on the flight. They even had them do the fingerprint thing. One guy was asked to go to the back room with one of the agents which of course got me and a couple passengers joking about the rubber glove thing. Anyways we get to customs and it was basically waving us through. Just asked a couple quickie questions. Totally different than the flight in front of us.

Get out to the cab and absolutely no wait. Gave the cab driver 20 bucks and said take me to the Flamingo and whatever left is your tip. Cab fare was 12.20. It's amazing how fast they get there when you do that.

Check in was slow at the Flamingo even though there was only 5 people in front of us. Took about a half hour. Anyways finally get to our room and was pretty disappointed with it. It was old, had a stained carpet and just not very nice. Had a much better room last time. We decided to wait until morning and request a room change.

We went for a quick dinner and then decided to head over to Harrah's and see the twins on the dueling pianos. Place was packed but we grabbed a table at the back and unfortunately only one of the twins was there but they had a guy on the other piano. He was good but I missed the back and forth banter the twins have but still a pleasant way to spend the first night in Las Vegas.

Played a few slots and had a couple drinks and made it a bit of an early night. No poker.