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Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since we have been enjoying this feature…It is time for another Marcie…..

Adventures in Las Vegas

So I’ve recently returned from my trip to Las Vegas. I’m happy to report the trip disaster fairy stayed home, but her friend the giggle fairy ventured along with us.  We had ourselves a good time and lots of laughs which began as soon as we landed.  First off we’re dead tired cause we’ve been up since 3:30 a.m. eastern time and it’s 10:30 a.m. pacific time, we’re jet lagged and just want our luggage and go to our hotel.  Standing in the cab line I see a cabbie outside her cab, singing along to the music she has playing.  Guess who’s cab I get, yup the singing cabbie and she’s a friendly one.  She starts talking to us about Vegas and then goes onto her life story.  My sister and I are trying our best not to burst into giggles.  She’s telling us about her new car, her Mother’s Day, even pulls out her card to show us, and anything else under the sun.  Cab rides are always entertaining.  It’s amazing what perfect strangers will talk to you about. 

If anyone has ever been in Vegas then you know all about the kiosks/vendors in every single shopping area.  I don’t know what it was this time but I think we had some vendor magnet attached to us that we didn’t know about or else I would have turned it off. I swear every day we were harassed by at least one vendor in each different area.  If they weren’t trying to sell us a facial product, it was a hair product.  Now I realize it’s their job to try and make a sale, but really come on, how much B.S. do they have to shovel at us???  We got stuck with this one guy for almost an hour in his shop after he actually took us by the hand and walked us to his station.  He’s telling us all about this product that was featured on Dr. Oz.  I don’t watch him so I have no clue about the product, nor do I care.  He then proceeds to apply it to our faces even after we said no thanks.  He’s trying his hardest to make the sale and the whole time we’re rolling our eyes and laughing at the whole situation.  As if I’d spend $500 on eye cream, what’s in it liquid gold?????  All I could keep thinking about was the scene in Mama Mia where Christine Baranski’s character is hung over and they are trying to wake her up and her friend is yelling; ‘donkey testicles, get the donkey testicle cream’.  Really what do they put in that stuff that makes it cost that much, donkey testicles??? 

Another vendor was trying desperately to sell us a hair straightener. He even went so far as to sit my poor sister in his chair and proceed to take her hair down and start straightening it.  She’s telling him it’s okay he can stop now, does he listen, no, just keeps doing her hair, telling her about the product, how long are we in Vegas, if she comes back every day he’ll do her hair for free cause he likes her.  Oh puh-lease, gag me already.  He’s dripping in something and it’s called oil, cause he’s a slick one.  It got to the point where we felt we needed to ninja roll out of the way whenever we saw a vendor, or go purchase a pair of blinders, you know the kind they put on horses to keep their focus straight ahead.  It was just crazy.  I swear we attract them all, I really need to get my idiot magnet taken care of before my next adventure. (makes note to self about this)

Has anyone ever gone to spa for an exfoliation???  Well I can tell you there’s no need for spending that type of money.  Next time you want a full body exfoliation, just take a trip to the Grand Canyon on a windy day, and not just a breeze, I’m talking gale force winds.  The wind was so strong the day we went that you felt it pushing you as you walked, and if I were back home and it was winter, that wind would have shut my city down, we’d be in a blizzard with zero visibility.  If it were somewhere tropical it be classified a tropical storm. I’ve never experienced wind that crazy.  Thanks to Mother Nature I experienced nature’s version of a full body exfoliation and ate more sand and dirt then you could imagine.  Sand was everywhere, in my nose, my eyes, ears, hair, let me just say the shower was the first place I went when I got back to the hotel.  😉  At one point I was standing near an edge for a pic when a gust of wind came up and I couldn’t see a thing cause of my hair in my face, but I  went into the stop, drop and roll position for fear of being knocked over and pushed to close to the edge of the cliff.  It was just wild that day, the Canyon is a wonder to see, but do so on a non gale force wind day, you may enjoy it more.  😉  BTW, how many times does a person fall into the Canyon?  Just once.  That was one of the jokes our tour guide told us.

You know, the whole time we were in Vegas we discovered something important about clothing and woman.  Anyone can wear a bikini, short skirt or skin tight dress. I couldn’t believe some of the outfits and swim suits I was seeing.  I swear some were wearing dental floss and passing it off as a swim suit, and how the heck some were walking in those shoes I’ll never know.  My poor foot (the injured one) looked like a balloon every day thanks to the heat.  I was living on IBProfin and icing my foot every night, and these girls are walking on shoes with heals that looked like spikes, oy vey my foot hurts just thinking about it.   Vegas pools and the strip are a great place to kick back with a drink and people watch.  Boy did we get an eyeful on our trip, it’s always entertaining and brings on the giggles for us.  Aside from people watching, sightseeing, chatting it up with other tourists, and having a good time, we ate at some great places and saw some amazing shows.  For anyone thinking of heading to Vegas I highly recommend Le Rev at the Wynn.  I’m a fan of Cirque du Solei shows, but Le Rev blows them out of the water.  It was freaking amazing and one can really see Maks’(from DWTS) dance style come to life in the dance numbers.  He’s an incredible dancer and teacher and it showed through in Le Rev. In case anyone’s wondering, yes I’m a fan of Maksim Chmerkovskiy 😉  If you’re looking for fun drinks and amazing desserts then The Sugar Factory at the Paris is the place to go.  Your jaw will drop when you your dessert is delivered to your table, they are incredible.  One thing’s for sure, Vegas doesn’t skimp on the food servings cause they are huge and delicious and the drinks don’t disappoint either.  I’ve been to Vegas a few times now and I’m ready to go back again.  It’s a fun place to vacation and there’s always something new to do and see.  (walks off humming Katy Perry’s Waking Up in Vegas)    

Marcie

Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since we have been enjoying this feature…It is time for another Marcie…..

Adventures on Vacations

For anyone who loves to go on vacations I’m sure you’ve all had your share of mishaps, funny incidents and just plain old out of your hands situations.  Well my friends I’m no different and I swear every time I go on vacation, whether it’s a short one or long one, the trip disaster fairy decides to show up.   

For example, for one of our first big adventures, we decided it would be fun to take the train and travel to Montreal and Quebec.  Not wanting to leave our car for a week in another city, we took the Greyhound bus to get there.  All was going well till we reached our destination and have been introduced to the trip disaster fairy.  We were told the train would be delayed for 3 hours due an emergency stop.  No vehicle with us we were stuck at the train station in the middle of no where.  I’m serious this train station is called a junction point and it’s in the middle of the bush with nothing around but the people who work there.  Talk about an exciting 3 hours.  One creepy worker wouldn’t leave us alone, kept talking to us, played cards with us, even talked to us about our nail polish since we decided to paint our nails to pass some time.  Who does that at their job????  Oh and lets not forget the wildlife, they came out to visit too.  At one point we couldn’t identify this one creature, who came out of the bushes and crossed the tracks, probably looking for food.  Upon returning from our trip, Mr. Creepy decided to drive us back to the bus station because he felt bad for us having to wait all that time for our train and didn’t want us to have to wait for a cab to come get us. Again who does that, and why did we agree to the ride??????  Must have been tired from our trip.  😉

Flying is always another adventure for us as it seems we are never destined to get home on time.  For one reason or another we are always delayed, either due to weather or mechanical issues.  Coming back from Las Vegas our first time we were delayed landing in Detroit due to weather.  I’m stuck on the plane with turbulence and trying not to be sick.  Finally land only to learn our connecting flight is delayed, and delayed, and delayed.  Thought we were never leaving Detroit that night, but finally at midnight they have us board the plane.  We go to take off, the plane goes into darkness as the trip disaster fairy strikes again.  We’re told the electrical part of the plane has no power and needs to be charged.  So we are stuck on the plane with no power as they call for a generator, it’s hot, humid and we’re exhausted.  Enter the giggle fairy, we can’t stop laughing and we’re dying of heat.  At one point, my sister is laughing so hard she almost falls out of her seat and flight attendants are looking at us like we’ve lost it (which I’m pretty sure we had at this point) and asks us if we’re okay.  In between fits of laughter and snorting I reply, ‘it’s been a really long day, can you open a window’.  Yup I had lost it by now.  😉  Flying is always an adventure for us and the trip disaster fairy never disappoints us. 

Over the years as we’ve traveled throughout North America we’ve had some pretty funny situations, from spending a week out East in total fog and looking like drowned rats every day thanks to the moisture in the air, to being out West for the Calgary Stampede, and dealing with weather changes almost every 10 mins.  Everyone in Calgary told us they having a saying, ‘if you don’t like the weather, wait 10 mins’. They weren’t kidding.  I can go on and on about our adventures on vacation courtesy of the trip disaster fairy but I fear you’d be reading forever.  Just know whenever I travel, you can be sure something crazy and out of my control will occur, and all involved will be attacked by the giggle fairy, completely loosing it over the situation we are finding ourselves in.   Well that’s all for now, got to go pack for my next adventure, let’s hope the trip disaster fairy stays home this time.  😉 

Marcie