on my own on the strip

Checking in from my hotel room at Manadalay Bay in Vegas... C is attending the NAB conference, leaving me to my own devices which thus far has meant losing $20 in slots, losing my room key card somewhere on the fake beach, and paying $7 for a smoothie.  But the upsides are, I did spend a few calm hours relaxing on the fake beach getting a very real tan despite my good-girl 30 SPF sunblock, the hotel was kind enough to make me new room keys, and the smoothie was yummy and made with lots of real fruit.  And I'm banning myself from gambling the rest of my trip here so that I can instead spend my money (ha.  like i have any) at the Zappos outlet... which provides a FREE shuttle from the Luxor hotel next door... And in the mean time I'm chilling in the comfy little couchy nook in my hotel room.  It's been a few years since I've been to Vegas and I really had forgotten how far superior the hotels are here to anywhere else in the world.  So, that's awesome.  And driving here from Phoenix after a GOOD visit with my mom, my brother, his wife and my little niece, we got to see the Hoover Dam and some pretty scenery, and one of the few routes through the desert of this vicinity that we hadn't ever been to before.  The wind was furious today but it was still warm.  Not as hot as Phoenix, which even exceeded MY comfort zone, which really only happens over 100 degrees.  I prefer more like 90.  But supposedly it was about 79 here today which was not bad at all despite the winds that carried my key card away.

I'm missing my cats, all four of them, but enjoying myself in the mean time.  Trying to be a good girl and get some work done now...