Got back around noon yesterday from Las Vegas with the Spitfire. Quite the adventure but we had a very good time, stayed at the Excalibur since we got a FREE stay. When we signed the lease on our apartment, they also provided a free room from many hotels in the world and we decided to hit up Sin City. You can see some of the photos of our trip on my Twitter/X @powerandmight.
Ate at a few restaurants in town, wasn't really impressed with most but it wasn't the worst I've had. Took a tour at Allegiant Stadium where the Raiders play. That was fucking awesome; being in the broadcast booth, seeing the suits, the locker room, some of the VIP areas, Mark Davis' Suit, seeing a lot of the Artwork throughout. 2 of the paintings we saw was of Marilyn Monroe depicted as a Raiderette which was pretty funny and the other was of Elvis Pressley as a player with the number 20 (which represented the year the stadium opened in 2020). Lots of pictures and got to be as close to touching down on the field as you can get. The sight was incredible.
Did a ton of walking, roughly 6-8 miles a day going through shops, up many flights of stairs, over bridges and walking through casinos, hell of a way to burn off some of the food we ate. Expensive as shit but it's Vegas, what are you going to do. Got to experience the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay, seeing all kinds of animals from a Gator to a Komodo Dragon, seeing Piranha, sharks (obviously) of various kinds, big fucking turtles, Jelly Fish, Octopus, Sting Rays and many other creatures of land and the deep. Did a virtual reality theater experience afterwards looking through the eyes of a diver in the deep sea among Tiger Sharks and others, seat had a moving mechanism that mimicked being in the ocean and riding a shark to get a "feel" of how they move and see the world around them. Insane.
Took pictures of the Botanical Gardens at the Bellagio of their fall display that looked like something out of Harry Potter mixed with The Lord Of The Rings. Rode the trams from various places so we can take little breaks from all the walking. It was still hotter than Satan's Hooves out there being in the dry heat of mid-upper 80's to upper 90's so there was a lot of water drunk (especially ones with electrolytes) but it was worth it.
Our last night we spent some time on Fremont Street and quite frankly, not that impressed lol. Wasn't stupid crowded but enough to think "yeah this was more than enough" with a bunch of crazy acts (not just the performers on stage) in the street and leaving very little to the imagination with the showgirls and Coyote Ugly type dancers at many outdoor bars. Spent probably an hour or so down there before taking an uber back.
Picked up a few souvenirs including a shirt from the Aquarium, a Bo Jackson Jersey, a deck of cards for my collection and a cool shark tooth necklace. Wife picked up a few things herself and just had that little maniacal giggle whenever she bought something, pretty funny. Overall, it was a blast, wouldn't want to go back anytime soon but every few years or so maybe but I'm more of a Disneyland kind of vacationer or maybe Hawaii next time.
My training over the course of the trip was all in the hotel room doing Isometrics, my joint loosening exercises, a circuit of push-ups, squats and mountain climbers after a long day of walking totaling 300 reps and a squat variation I picked up on from The Bioneer where you take a step and then do a deep squat and repeat that in a flow type style to build strength, condition and building a pump in the legs. My first workout with that was just feeling it out and working the legs until I felt tired. The next couple days between yesterday and today was working the exercise doing intervals going for 60 seconds on, 30 seconds off for 5 Rounds which the whole workout was over 7 1/2 minutes. Solid micro workout that really fires the quads like crazy and resting only half the time. Great training and always liked how the guy treats training like I always have, as an adventure and showing what works while having fun with it.
Never a dull moment anywhere I go and will train using basic stuff and make things up as I go along as well cause I love having that energy and drive along with keeping myself in shape for the fun outside of a workout. Even while walking along the strip, never really felt I needed to stop to sit down, if I did, it was to eat or sit in a squat position waiting for something otherwise always on the move. Some of those stairs there were steep but it was a fun way to work the legs, you rarely ever saw people use the stairs, almost all used the escalators. Use them from time to time but mostly climbed the stairs and I can hear my wife as I climb "You're crazy".
That's what life is about, having adventures with the ones you love and be able to travel together and have loads of fun. The highs, the lows and whatever in between. Make the most of what you can and do things that make life grand. Be amazingly awesome and hope you have great adventures along your journey.
