(O) Vegas Trip. (July 14 to 16, 2006) Grade: A-/D+

Thoughts: (A-) Why did I give this trip two grades? Well I’ll get into that. We left mid Friday evening hoping to beat some traffic; sadly no luck. Upon arrival we all realized Sahara has some creepy rooms, midget fixtures and ghetto people staying there. But hey it was cheap so I’m cool with that. The next day after a wonderful, great, amazing Wynn buffet (have you people tried this...yummers) we headed out to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway strip to see our friend drag race. One word – HOT!!!! How hot you ask? I think at one point it was 120 degrees more or less. Ugh. Our friend ended up ranking 7th place in the race so at least he did fairly well. Oh and I have a new found respect for drifting. You know that stupid Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift movie about cars that well pretty much drift on their turns? Well they had a whole competition out there for it and it was impressive to watch. After a few hours there we decided to head back to the strip for some food and drinks.

(D+) On Sunday we headed out for our journey back to LA, but little did we know we would be in for a long, long trip home. About 40 miles out of Vegas we were informed by a passing vehicle we had a flat tire. We pull over to a Shell station and change it with the help of a guy because well ...we were city folks and had trouble taking off a hub cap. HA HA. Soon we were driving along again until the engine started to sound funny and the next thing you know we are on the side of the road trying to figure out what happened. After calling AAA and waiting for about an hour we learned it was vapor lock. Finally, after some pit stops and loads of traffic, we get home 7 hours later. (sigh). It was a very tiring ordeal. One thing to note was there were tons of cars on the side of the road due to the heat and the havoc it was causing to the cars. I am never ever, ever going to Vegas between the months of May and Sept.