Caesars Palace, Morning Glory, Silly Human Race

so after having out flight changed to a longer flight, waiting for connection passengers and luggage through customs we finally land in VEGAS Baby and Caesars Palace, our base station for the week.
We get to the Registration desk to check in, M starts flirting with the young man behind the desk and the next thing you know, we are getting a FREE upgrade to the Penthouse Suite. This room is 3000 square feet, far bigger then my house and at $10k a night, the room for the week costs more then 2 years of mortgage payments. This place is ridiculous.

I am in "Hangover" city. Where is Mike Tyson and the dude with my $80,000 in chips?

Went to dinner and started hitting the tables. Around 1:30am i had my first attempted pickup moment by a drunk woman/prostitute. Since this is Vegas I am betting that she was working.

Back to the Penthouse Suite to try to sleep.

Bloody Mary

Hash A Go Go Bloody Mary

Nothing says Vegas better then a 9AM Bloody Mary

afternoon with Belle

Belle

so my Belle came home today, i heard my middle guy is somewhere around town, everybody is home to go to a celebration for a lost family member.

So i met Belle in the village, went to get cat food, for the cat, coffee, for belle, we finally went to a bar together for the first time together in Manhattan,  we went to McSorleys, one of the oldest bars in NYC, 1854, a place where i spent a lot of time when i was way younger. We stayed for the prerequisite two beers and then moved on to the Strand, a huge used book store on Broadway, went to USF liquor store for some free mescal margarita samples, then went to Mae's for some sushi.

Big Saturday, lots of stuff to do, hopefully it is a good day.

My Cat - Diggy

someone told me that they didn't think i was a cat person, i didn't think so either until Diggy Claws was brought into the house. This very good looking cat of mine is caught in hunter mode, climbing trees and chasing birds and squirrels. A real cat.

La Folie 2011

2011 La Folie

one of my favorite beers, you can't get them on the east coast. I have a 2007 caged and corked bottle aging, this one was a surprise find in some beer store in Milwaukee, 2011 version. Was going to age it but WTF, i drank it today and enjoyed every sour, puckering moment.

Pat's Hubba Hubba

Texas Burger

My Own Personalized Seat At The Counter

"The Fucker"

So we drove over to Cornwall HS today to see my little guy run for the first time in two years, in which he did alright for such a long layoff. After watching 3 out of 4 kids ran track for 10 years, today made me feel old. I realized that as the years go on, i get older and the track kids stay the same age.

We then drove down to Port Chester to the Clay Arts Center to see some art opening where once again I embarrassed myself by having a brain fart and knocking my own wine glass out of my hand, duhhh. My son told us about Pats Hubba Hubba restaurant which is really a small and narrow, counter seating only cheap burger joint with good chili. There were four big dudes working behind the counter, dancing around each other in a 30" narrow space and one dudes belly had to be 48". It was a decent cheap greasy burger meal with greasy fries and onion rings. I was thinking that i should have a second one but i am tying to be good, but then three ladies come in for take out and they ordered three burgers each, made me feel weak but i stayed the course and stuck with my one.

$3 Beer Near Yankee Stadium

so we were going to our first game of the season, three friends from home where driving down, i was heading uptown from downtown. some other friends had tickets and they told me that they were meeting at the Dugout, a bar right across the street from bleacher section of the stadium that had $3 PBR pounders. WHAT, the Dugout where two years ago i soaked for $40 in shots of Patron before a yankee game at the old stadium has cheap beer. As much of a beer geek as i am, i don't expect to drink anything good when i am up in this hood, the old good beer bar on 158th st is closed so i am in cheap beer mode.

due to the the first rainout in my 40+ years of going to games, we never left the bar, causing the case of drinking too many beers and spending too much money. Around 9PM, the game was canceled, so it was time to go home.

The Dugout is the Yankee bar to go to before the game, it is a huge space with 3 bars and a lot of young waitress' getting beer for you. Stan's is still the ultimate destination but they slam you in and you wind up paying too much or the same bad beer as the Dugout.