LouAnna woke
up feeling like she’d been hit by a Mack truck.
Sore throat is full blown, stuffy nose and chest congestion. All she wants to do is stay in her PJs and
sleep it off, but there are 2 more sessions and then she and Chris are off to
explore Vegas! While in session, Chris
ran to the drug store to get medicine, cough drops and Puffs for her already
sore nose. Why does one of us get sick
during big occasions? UGH!
LouAnna
powers through and makes it through the morning sessions and the end of the conference! She and Chris then get a cab to Acrylic Tank Manufacturing for the
tour. LouAnna’s first time in a cab and
now she can mark that off the bucket list.
A $25 (>5 miles) cab ride there and they make it just in time for the
tour to start. Here’s some of the pics
of us getting to meet/see from the show Tanked
on Animal Planet: Redneck, Frankie, Agnes, Chewie, Brett and Wayde. We also met Trish, who conducted the tour for
us. We were able to see the projects
they have been working on, meet the guy that does the initial graphic design
renderings of the tanks, and have a meet and greet with Wayde and Brett. What do you think?
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| Chewie off to the left |
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| Redneck |
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| Wayde |
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| Brett and Chris!! |
We stopped
for a quick lunch and then headed back to the hotel to buy/reserve the Hoover Dam tour
for tomorrow, catch up on the blog, and allow LouAnna to rest. Next stop…downtown Vegas!
We bought a
3-day pass to ride the Strip bus that takes you all the way to downtown and
then all the way down past where we even care to venture. So, we hop on at Harrah’s and ride all the
way to downtown, the old Strip. We
played penny slots in a couple of them and LouAnna played roulette for the
first time ever in the Golden Nugget!
She turned 20 into 37 and then ended up walking away with $17. That was fun!
We saw all
types of characters while walking around the old section on Fremont Street. People in all stages of undress and lots of
impersonators. Neither of us being huge
gamblers, we walked around for about 2.5 hours and then got back on the bus for
the trip back to the hotel. We met a couple that we from Ohio that were in town for the NACADA conference, as well. He works for Wright State and we swapped business cards, advising, conference and Vegas stories during the ride back and that was pretty fun. We arrived
back to our room at about 10:30pm completely exhausted and LouAnna dead on her
feet and spiriting a pretty dry cough and chapped nose. L
But check out these pics of the lights of the old strip!
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| We found a bar with Jameson on tap - they are no joke! |
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| There was a canopy between casinos that was lit up! |
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| LouAnna in front of the Golden Nuggest with Elvis. |
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