Thursday, August 21, 2008

Relaxing in Vegas

Well we went early to Vegas before the show to relax for a while. We are at the Mandalay Bay and there will be a bunch of posts about how they screwed up and made my life miserable. But we are making the best of it.

The pool is pretty cool but very busy. So we hung out for part of the day, but the wife wanted to go to the Spa. We got tandem massages where the massage the husband and wife next to each other. My masseuse Pat was very good and she really got into my torn rotator cuff in a big way. Man that hurt.

Before the massage you got to hang out in the Spa which had separate Men's and Woman's sections. They have a sauna, steam room and three pools. A warm pool a hot tub and a cold pool. The idea is to go from the sauna and then into the cold pool. They also had nice chaise lounges to rest on while reading magazines and stuff.

There were basically two types of guys in the spa. Oh by the way everyone was naked. There were the gay guys who were there for the facials and manicures and stuff. Then there were the fat old bastards like me or the athletes who all have aches and pains and who just want to sit in the hot tub and soak away the pain.

Anyway the massage was really great and I am totally relaxed. Dinner tonight with our flamboyantly gay friend who is a big executive at one of the casino's. The last time when we were in the cab line he started making fun of this cholo drug dealer guy and almost got us killed. It should be interesting. Stay tuned,


5 comments:

reader_iam said...

Oh, expand your experience.

What's wrong with soaking away the pain AND doing a facial (really, think about it, a targeted soak etc.) and spa pedicure (again, really, think about it, a targeted soak etc.--and you don't have to opt for polish, you know; even we women don't have to).

Why not have it all? Serious question, whether you like that sort of thing or not.

Trooper York said...

Oh I had the spa pedicure, what makes you think, that I am a barbarian. But I draw the line at the cucumber facial. The herbal wrap was fab though. Don't tell Titus, he will think I switched teams.

Meade said...

Out there in Sin City, you're probably not keeping up with the NEWS so, here, let me give you hand:

In a Cyclist-Friendly City, a Black Hole for Bikes

By IAN FLEEIN
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: August 21, 2008

GALAPAGOS, OHIO — What exactly was he planning to do with 2,865 bicycles?

That is just one of many questions the police and others have been puzzling over since the arrest last month of RH Hardin, the owner of a used-bike shop and chicken soup kitchen here in this small rural town of 600 just outside city limits of the Ohio capital.

Mr. Hardin's legacy now fills a former police garage with a leaky roof. Organized by brand name and mostly resting on their handlebars, wheels pointed upward, are 2,396 of the bicycles and 4,873 chickens that police say Mr. Hardin either stole or arranged to have stolen.

The jumbled collection of bicycles and fowl suggests that Mr. Hardin is the unofficial world champion of bicycle/chicken thieves. But as he awaits trial next month on 58 charges related to theft and weapons possession, the biggest mysteries of all are Mr. Hardin’s motives and his ultimate plan for the armada of steel, rubber, aluminum, and poultry he amassed.

Meade said...

Officials are starting to put two and two together:

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/pamela_anderson_general?c=kfcalba0708&source=kfcalbas0708

blake said...

Honestly, I think it would drive me nuts--can't imagine going the full route like reader suggests.