Part 3

Ok, hoping to finish up the roadtrip report so that I can rant about my mood. Roadtrip first though!

Our first night in Vegas ended around midnight or 1am. The next day we managed to get up in time for lunch. We wandered over to a nearby casino and ate at a diner. The staff there sung for our entertainment. We went into a tourist shop afterwards. The shop was so large that we all felt quite lost. After the tourist shop we bought ourselves bus tickets and took the bus back to our casino. The heat just took all of our energy away and we wanted a nap. We woke up in time for dinner. We wanted to do another buffet, but a nice one. We looked through a Vegas guide book and started eliminating things from the buffet page based on being too cheap, too expensive, too far away, or not in a casino. In the end we decided on Treasure Island. The buffet there was amazing. I'm sure David could write a whole blog entry about buffets in Vegas. I limited myself to 5 desserts.

After dinner we did a grand tour of the casinos. There should be photos of some of them on my picture page. I could have sworn Peter took more photos than he did. David has a bunch of videos though. Once we got back to our casino we went gambling. I managed to spend about half an hour losing 5 dollars in various video machines. David went for the tables and lost a bit more. I decided gambling wasn't for me, although it was still entertaining. I remember visiting as a kid and all of the machines took coins. Now they only take bills and instead of giving you cash if you win, you get 'credits' which can be printed out on a ticket and later cashed in. Boring. After losing a bit of money we all went to bed.

The next morning we woke up in time to check out, just barely. We set out from Vegas to aim for Death Valley. I'd like to point out that it was mostly Europeans who think it's a bright idea to drive across Death Valley in July. It was so hot that the car's temp started to increase and we had to turn off the AC for parts of the climb out of the Valley. The views were quite nice though. I slept through lots of it since I was quite sick, but it was still a nice trip. Leaving the Valley we stopped for smoothies, it was some much needed food. We then drove to Bakersfield, or maybe it was Fresno, for the night. We arrived at our hotel around 8pm and went swimming. It was sooo relaxing and the water was quite warm from being in the sun all day.

The next morning we woke up, had breakfast, then drove to the Sequoia national park. We looked at lots of nice views and BIG trees. There are definitely photos of us standing in front of the biggest of the trees there. I think I slept through some of the park too, but not as much since I was on Cold Medicine then. I love American cold medicine. After leaving the park we headed to either Bakersfield or Fresno, whichever is farther north and we didn't visit earlier. We spent another night in a motel called Econolodge. It's all that its name implies. We went swimming again before bed.

The next morning was the last day of our trip. I dragged the boys to Dennys since we managed to sleep through breakfast. Then we began the last day of driving to get back to Chico. It was nice to get back, even if the apartment was hot and my roommate showed up announcing that the carpet cleaners would be there the next day. They didn't show by the way.

And THAT was our roadtrip. Maybe tomorrow I'll whine about my horrible day today. For now I'm way too tired.