The Meadows

Sorry I've been slightly MIA. A series of events have and are happening such as me working on a million things for school. Also (more interestingly) I went to Vegas with my boyfriend and family friends. I got to stay at the MGM Signature Hotel to boot.

I had never been to Vegas before, and I don't really know what I expected. It's pretty horrible. We would walk around and my friend would say very loudly near Touropeans, "Look Dodo! The Eiffel Tower! Now I never have to go to Paris! And the Statue of Liberty! Why would anyone go anywhere other than Vegas if they wanted to see a monument???" I don't think they got it. We would also make a game of who could spot the most hookers in an evening.

One of the bigger surprises was how many slot machines there are in casinos. They make up about 90-95% of casinos. Having had an awesome math teacher in high school who taught us probability through gambling figures, I suppose it's not all that surprising -- you're more likely to get ripped off by a slot machine than anything else in a casino. The existence of "high bidding" slot machines (machines that took no less than $50 or $100) made this fact especially silly. Of course, we found our favorite slot machine that made absolutely no sense, KITTY GLITTER. Behold:



Pretty majestic, huh? Let's take a closer look:

That would be a cat dish full of diamonds. Somehow the Kitty Glitter machine wasn't all that popular.

Needless to say, if you go to Vegas with the right people, it is quite enjoyable. I may go back someday and actually gamble a little.