So here is a run down of our trip, from beginning to end.
Overheard in gas station bathroom: 3 yr old talking "Mom? What's that on your panties?" Ack!!! Some days I am so glad my son can't talk.
People hanging out of cars getting driving shots of other cars. Not too much drama until Nico breaks the lip on his bumper (not that it matters, he still won first place in Audi class).
Get to the hotel. Walk to our room to find Greg is our across the hall neighbor. Greg lives in Seattle and is the owner of Podi, who sponsors my husband. They have known each other for years but have never met. All of us and the people in his room become instant friends. Greg keeps calling Tyler a "scene celebrity" over and over to everyone he meets. It is so strange because he seems mildly star struck and yet he is the one with the company sponsoring Tyler. We make fun of him for this, but as the days go on, I begin to see what he means. Tyler came up and gave me a kiss. After he walked away, the person I had been talking to turned to me with wide eyes and asked, "Was that Tyler?" "Yeah...He's my husband. Do you know him?" "Not in person, I recognized him from pictures on his thread." Weird. Things like this kept happening. I guess my husband's a scene celebrity after all.
That first night, in the hall on our floor, some kid came up to us trying to sell us pills "Xanex, Oxy, whatever". Uh, no thank you. This same kid sat outside the elevator on our floor trying to sell pills literally the entire time (well, not in the morning but he was probably to messed up to get out of bed). By the end of the second night, Tyler asks him if he has had any luck. The kid says, "No man. People want to buy it but they are like, 'I don't do that stuff'"....wouldn't that mean that they don't actually want it? Tyler looks at him completely straight faced and says, "Maybe you should try selling something people actually want to buy." "Like what?" "Pancakes." (Kid looks like he is thinking WAY too hard for his little brain)...."What are pancakes?" We just laughed and walked away. I wish I could say he got a clue but every time we saw him he tried to ask us what pancakes were. Brain cells people, you need them.
Car show was awesome. Sadly, many of the cars I fell in love with last year didn't make it. Still, if you are interested in seeing some highlights, the pics are on Tyler's facebook page.
We went to Mesa Grill for lunch. Bobby Flay's restaurant in Ceasar's Palace (possibly my favorite casino because it is so darn beautiful). It was AMAZING. I got the spicy chicken and sweet potato hash with poached eggs on top, smothered with hollandase and some sort of chile creamy stuff. Amazing. And at only $16-$18ish a person (during the day), it was the same price as many other not as good restaurants. And the service was spectacular. I highly recommend it.
We also went to the pawn shop that Pawn Stars is filmed in. Pretty cool. You have to wait in line to get in it is so big now. None of the guys on the show were working (I imagine it would be hard because people would always be in their faces wanting pictures and what not). But it was cool to see some of the items that I recognized from the show.
Gabe had our one true tragedy. Totalled his car on Fremont street. : (
That night we walked the strip until our feet fell off (cool thing: bunch of guys were holding up signs 0-10 and yelling out which # went to which girl. They gave me a 10 : ) ), went to bed way too late, got up way too early for the awards ceremony. Actually, quite a few people that we know got awards so that was pretty cool. Tyler even picked up the award for "best vendor" for Integrated Engineering (he is their designer) and Joe got "farthest traveled" and they didn't even bring cars!
Drive home took forever but all in all it was so much fun. Can't wait to go again next year. Oh, and 4 of us drove in Jesse's Jetta TDI. We got about 38 miles to the gallon and only had to fill up twice the entire trip. I am thinking TDI is the way to go....
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