So we managed to avoid Hangover esc problems on our guys trip to Vegas, there was a lot of money lost, not a lot won and well some dignity lost too, in a nightclub which we were really too old to be in let alone dancing! I am shattered after a long fourteen hour flight I did manage to write some of this post on the plane until I lost all feeling in my legs!
Anyway our trip
Not going to go into the journey to Vegas much needless to say a long , long flight with two stop offs is not ideal especially as we were only allowed of the plane once, next time I have a flight over six hours it will be taken in first class or business class. A quick taxi from the airport to the Bellagio was fairly pain free traffic no more crazy than the UK really. This hotel is really quite grand and massive but clean and spotless. Checking in was quick and easy think it must have been our arrival time as many people have faced long ques. Getting up to our rooms which were together was easy so we didn’t get lost! Inside the rooms were clean and spacious, nice big TV on the wall and a good view really.
We didn’t do much drinking in the hotel bars or when we were sat around the pool, prices are extortionate. Instead for us drinking was reserved for when we were playing because you find that in many of the casinos you get free drinks while you are playing especially if you have unlucky streaks! We ate at a couple of the hotels restaurants and some in different hotels including one all you can eat buffet which was our highlight, we aren’t into this fancy posh nosh malarkey!
I don’t really want to go too much into the gambling aspect as I am trying to hide from the wife how much I actually lost, needless to say if she found out I won’t see my car again, yes it’s in those leagues! Before I lost the majority of my money I did get her a couple of gifts so hopefully this should keep her quiet, I also bought myself some stuff to such as a new stash tray, lighter and watch. The watch was quite pricy and have included that cost into the losses of the trip!
There will defiantly be another trip to Vegas again as we all loved it, one of the highlights was the Grand Canyon Tour that was fantastic, we are all in agreement though we really need to be better at this gambling stuff otherwise we may never afford to come home!
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Well with Leeds season now over and a loss for our final game our position and GD really sums up how dire this season has been. Mediocre really from players and manager but nothing a good influx of cash wouldn’t have helped. Unless something changes next season then I fear we will be looking at similar dismal results if not worse.
Some boffin has found that men alive now may have a life expectancy of 87, well according to research (and we all know how reliable that can be). We may soon be living as long as women which will throw a number of pension estimations into chaos! Over the last decade at least we men have been closing the longevity gap on women.
It seems my interest in Leeds has taken a back burner, because there is much more interesting football going on elsewhere. Whilst Leeds mull along the middle of the championship not really doing anything interesting, European seems to becoming exciting. This week saw a cracking game between Barcelona and Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final.
Leeds haven’t really made much of an effort to climb up the leader table in the Championship with a 1-0 loss against Blackpool and a 1-1 draw against Cardiff City, both tough teams mind, but we still need to clinch a couple of good wins to do any good. We had a couple of players return for the Cardiff City game with Becchio making the score line equal and denying Cardiff the three points they were desperately after.
Oh yeah how could I forget Leeds won a game, yes that’s right we actually won a game. In fact we came from a goal behind to beat Peterborough four goals to one, get in! McCormick scored two and Paynter also scored two which is a nice result and keeps us above Derby now on goal difference. It seems like we had a bit of form on Saturday and a good stride, no only if we can keep it up into the remaining games. One can only hope.
