Strange Pulse

Vegas just isn’t my scene. The lights seemed so ridiculous–so much electricity being wasted. The crazy buildings were so tacky. The naked people on billboards everywhere, redundant–the funniest, though, was a billboard advertising a mall of clothing outlet stores, and the only thing the model was wearing was a hat. It was an ugly hat, too.

Gambling seems like a sin to me, not because it’s addictive or dangerous (one of my kids told me Las Vegas has the highest suicide rate of any city), but because it’s so wasteful. You’re just handing your money over to some rich casino owner.

I don’t have the pics I took the first day, I had to unload them onto Daniel’s boss’s laptop so I had room for more on my camera. Not sure when I can get them from him, hopefully tomorrow though.

Here are a couple from the second day. I didn’t take many on the strip, I didn’t spend much time there.

Here’s the fake Eifel Tower. I didn’t go up it.

Here’s the Bellagio, where Cirque du Soleil performs O (we didn’t go) and I think this is where there’s a big pirate boat thing they enact. Didn’t see it.

We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel.

I spent a few minutes wandering around, taking pictures of everything they had displayed there that was *not* Hard Rock. Like Britney Spears’ outfit.

And the Ginger Spice display.

There was a Nirvana display that was kinda creepy. They had his old worn out flannel jacket and stuff. Weird memories.

Every room had a band photo in it. Ours was the Monkees.

Spongebob was happy.

We had internet access in the room but our ancient laptop is incredibly slow. But we could check in with the kids via IM.

I got bored waiting for Daniel to get back from the trade show and took some pictures of myself waiting in the hotel room.

Three Inches of Blood have to be the funnest band around. They’re all super nice, too. They played this little cafe and the stage was about 5 inches off the ground. It was all ages and all the kids knew all the words to every song. In between songs they’d start chanting, “Blood! Blood! Blood! Blood!” It was awesome.

The show was sponsored by Daniel’s company, Third Drawer Snowboards, as well as Rock Star energy drinks.

It was a tight squeeze on the stage, but these guys are used to that–there’s 6 members in the band. Here’s the two singers with an audience member in the background:

I love getting shots of other people taking pictures.

Superfun.

Seeing the show was the main reason I went, had a blast. I think the band’s going to post some of the pictures on their website.

Oh, and I got them all to autograph a poster for Elijah. He was stoked.