Wynning Ways
Trip Start
Aug 22, 2008
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Trip End
Ongoing
Las Vegas,
Nevada,
United States
Friday, March 13, 2009
You can tell that Wynn is trying to appeal to their Asian customers
Wynn Golf Course
. The casino is decked out in red, Chinese color for good luck. There are no floors numbered in the forties, because the number 4 is bad luck in China...of course they still had a 14th, 24th, etc. floor. Maybe they only have their non-Asian clients staying on those floor? Bill and I had lunch at the restaurant, Red 8. 8 is a lucky number in China. Being a Friday in Lent, I had calamari salad as an appetizer and a shrimp dish for entree. The food was okay, but the service was a little slow. Since I have not slept all night, I crashed on the couch after lunch. I woke up as my brother was headed to the casino to put in some time on the video poker machines. I headed to the apartment to see my mother; plus I wanted to watch Battlestar Galactica on TV and the Wynn did not have the Sci-Fi channel. My mom was not at the apartment; she must be at Sam's Town casino playing Deuces Wild. I should have called her to let her know I was at the apartment because she was not back by 1:30 when I left. Still awake I went to the Harrahs casino and played Blackjack for about 1.5 hours to let the Harrahs Corporation know I am still alive.On Saturday, I joined Bill for lunch at the convention room where the slot contest was taking place. Bill's flight does not play until 2 pm, so he was scouting the machines to see which ones were a little faster than most. The buffet they had was pretty good with a wide selection of dishes and sandwiches
Wynn Suite #1
. From the bar, I had a specialty drink which tasked like a pink lemonade but was made with lemon vodka...yum. I met up with my mom in the afternoon along with a Realtor, Sandy. I spent the rest of the afternoon looking at houses with my mom. We found one house, which I will be placing an offer. Maybe next time I visit and I am not staying at a casino, I can be sleeping in my own room. After looking at half dozen homes, Sandy, mom and I had dinner at Lao-Thai. I found it funny that Sandy and my mom would continue to order the meals speaking Thai to the waitress, who is Thai but can not speak Thai. The food dishes came from the Northeast area of Thai and had a lot of Laotian influence. Sandy's previous occupation was a chef, so she knew where to go to get some authentic Thai food.Bill and I capped off the night at one of the bars in the Encore casino. I thought the Wynn was bad in its overt attempt to appeal to the Asian customers; the Encore was way over the top decked in red...pleeaase! Bill ended up winning his entry fee back in the slot tournament, but he lost $8000 on the video poker machines. Our mission was to make up for that in free drinks. It was a lot of fun, people watching from our stools at the bar. We watched as well dressed people head towards the main nightclub; I did not bring any dress shoes so Bill and I would not be clubbing tonight. And we watched as the people, little more haggard looking, leave the club. I saw one poor woman, who had a little too much Vegas, vomit into a trash can. They had to wheel her out in a wheelchair. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...right?
