The American Tour (3)

I don't know many hours was it but we finally got to Las Vegas some time past noon. We settled in our Super 8 motel, most of us needed to wash up especially after not being able to shower for over 24 hours! The first sight of Las Vegas was all fancy 3D hotel facades, most of them had casinos in them. I'm not a fan of gambling, and even though it did seem like a little glamourous city, I didn't feel much attraction to this place.

Our first thing off the list in Las Vegas was the limousine ride, we were all very excited, especially after I heard all about it from Angela (who took this tour before). All of us dressed up for it. We had to walk over to another hotel where the limousine would come pick us up for dinner. Then after dinner, we would have a night ride :)

The short ride to the restaurant was a thrill with most of us crazily snapping away. We arrived in this italian restaurant named "Buca di Beppuo" shortly, a really cozy pick and awesome choice!

All of us sat down on a long table and Josh said two of us could order one dish for sharing. I chose this dish called baked rigatoni which turned out super yummy! Most of the stuff we ordered were all pretty good.
We used the money we paid into the kitty fund for the dinner with each of us topping up for our own drinks. Then the limousine fetched us, but we realised we had no drinks for the ride. So we stopped at a shop where all of us stocked up our alcoholic beverages! Of course, dear Syndy got a bottle of champagne.

Once we were back in the limo, Syndy got all hysterical, she started screaming and waving looking at the those half naked men on the music videos. That was even before she started drinking! Then after a while when no one else joined her frenzy, she quietened down. To be honest, I was more embarrassed than anything, so I decided to join the Korean clan for their milder style of partying! I recalled Johnathan coming up to ask me if Syndy was always like that, I didn't know what else to answer except,"Yes, when she's not with the husband! LOL!" We also stopped at a couple of places for photos.

The classic Las Vegas photo taken by this weird man who was giving us instructions on how to pose. And then like every other people in Las Vegas, he asked for a tip for being the photographer. So we gave him a dollar or two and learnt from it, no more taking up stranger's offer! The limousine ride seemed to be over too fast! We were dropped off at the hotel with the iconic effiel tower to witness the fountain show. After the show, one of our Korean friends realised her camera was missing, we all got into a little panic. We informed Josh and luckily it was found in the limousine later.

All of us got dispersed after the show. I was with Syndy, while the rest were in their own groups. We went into a casino where I had a go at the jackpot with USD1. LOL. It was crap as I didn't know how to adjust each stake to be 1cent, so ended up wasting the whole dollar at one go. We then roamed around the colourful streets of Las Vegas but I think we wandered too far and nobody seemed to know where our motel was! We were given wrong instructions and then ended up at another hotel which someone mistook for ours, so we went in and asked the security for instructions. He told us we had to walk 20-30 minutes along the main road to get back. As it was around midnight and I didn't feel safe at all, I told Syndy we should cab back. But she insisted we should walk, I didn't know what was wrong with her, she just seemed pissed the whole night anyway after the ride (probably because we didn't comprehend her craziness!). We managed to cab back and I was sure the decision was right as we passed by the badly lit main road, we saw a couple of homeless people on the roadside!

The following morning, I decided to go to the outlet for shopping as it was the only chance for outlet shopping in USA. I told Syndy she could go do whatever she wanted but I wasn't sure what got into her, she decided to come along. She's usually not a fan of shopping. So we went, we took a bus and spent almost 7 hours there! At about 6pm, I was almost ready to leave, we could go back and joined the rest for dinner but the lady decided she wanted to see Levi's at the last minute. So that means we would miss the dinner, it was fine as we could easily sort ourselves out. By the time, she was done, it was past 7 and we got back into the city centre around 8pm. I found this mexican place for dinner, it was then I realised Syndy got kind of temperamental, she wasn't smiling or talking much (so unusual of her). I think too much time together had gotten us on each other nerves. The following day when everyone asked where we went, of course she blamed all the long hours of shopping on me, that really pissed me off as she was the one who made us missed the dinner.

I was just glad the time with her alone was over as the rest of the time I could choose to join the rest of the group more. Just two more nights and then I would be in San Francisco where a friend of mine would join me, I was just so looking forward to that because too much Syndy was just annoying (sorry babe, but I just couldn't deal with your bipolar characteristics and dramatic outbursts a lot of the time).

Note: Trip was in May 2012.