Today began with the most decadent morning; we lounged in bed until mid day! I think that all of those years of keeping innkeepers hours caught up with us this morning.
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| The casino floor |
After a rough morning ;-) we wandered over to the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino for our free buffet. Did I mention anything about our good food karma checking it's coat at the door yesterday? Well, it dropped off the rest of it's laundry today. This town is really set up to take all of your money and still make it possible to stay and eat...so you can scratch up more money to loose to them. If you're not staying in the cheap seats (i.e. rooms like ours), lodging is very expensive, but the food is really worse. You can eat cheap with complimentary buffets, fast food and cheap street eats, but this stuff is gross at best and probably dangerous at worst. If you want nice food, expect to pay triple what you would at home, simply because some celebrity chef has their name over the door, but don't expect it to be 3 times as good as what you'd find at home. The ambiance at these restaurants was upscale, but sterile with no character or atmosphere. We just felt it would be good to set our dining sights on New Orleans where we know we can get incredible food, service and ambiance at fair prices.
Our free entertainment consisted of partaking in a live Neilson Ratings focus group for a fall sitcom staring Robin Williams, called The Crazy Ones. What a waste of time - yes, both the focus group and the TV show.
With our freebies out of the way, it was time to spend some money. So, we went to the movies and saw a matinee of The Butler, which was a very good movie. Then, we came back to the room, ate all of our accumulated tidbits of food from the last couple of days, drank a beer and called it a night.
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