The weekend of May 20^th 2006, I took a road trip to Vegas with my buddies from the jiggsblog, a blog that my housemate Johno and his friends started to promote their website. I quickly became a contributor on the blog, and it became it's own thing.

No, really. One of our readers drove out to Vegas to hang with us (she's down at the bottom of the page).

We started out the trip by driving down to Orange county where we crashed at Johno's sister's place. Here are Johno and Jason (left... he just got his PhD from MIT, and was the reason we took the trip) discussing our plans for the day.



Johno's sister's turtle. I never found out his name, but he was cool.



Some pics on the road from LA to Vegas:







We foolishly let our tank run out (it was a rental car, though, in our defense), so we had to stop at this place in the middle of nowhere for a couple of extra gallons to make the last 70 miles to vegas.



The Luxor as we drove into town; our sweet suite was on the 5^th floor of the frontmost corner in this pic.



Here it is as you walk in:



And the rest of the room to the left





Hot Tub!



We tried going to this buffet at the Mirage the first night, but it was closed, so we went across to Harrah's and at here, at Marie's suggestion/request (I guess she went there when she was in Vegas and told us all about it):



One of the blog readers wanted a pic of Johno with male strippers:



The fake Eiffel Tower at the Paris casino:



Pics at the Luxor:









Excalibur, next door:



New York, New York:



et al:







'Star Trek: The Experience' at the Hilton was by far the highlight of the trip for me. Jeremy and I spent about 90% of the time there nerding out. Here we are sharing a 'Borg Sphere'. It was the half size one.

An Andorian female came up and pointed out that Jeremy's shirt was a chick magnet. I would have taken a picture, but I was made too anxious by her alien hotness.



The views from Quark's Bar and Restaurant (I had the Kahless Salad... I think Jason had the HamBORGer... awesome!):















For dessert we split the Oo-mox. I contend this was not at all gay.





This was the hall leading up to the ride entrances.



And another Enterprise at the entrance to the whole thing.:



Since we were on the 5^th floor we only needed to use a regular elevator... but we snuck on the inclinator and took some pics from the 22^nd floor.







A deranged Texas millionaire bet Johno he couldn't run across the gap between the beds. But he did, and the orphanage was saved:









They were handing out free Coca-cola Blak up and down the strip. You can see how popular it was



We finally made it to the Buffet:



Here's our friend from cyberspace, Miss Kendra. Her prime rib looked kind of like the Predator.



The Bellagio



We ended up at O'Sheas later that evening:



Then we walked Kendra back to her Hotel:



Inside the Excalibur:





Swag from ST: The Experience:



It looks more fun than it was in practice:







Turns out it wasn't from Romulus at all!!!! It was Guatemalan beer with blue food coloring in it:



A show I would have enjoyed:



We dropped Jason off before heading home (he stayed an extra day in downtown Vegas). Here's the neon cowboy: