1. I got the same impression of the TV. Luckily, we don’t watch much TV, so we didn’t particularly care.

2. Yeah, the fee for internet came pretty close to setting my wife off. Not to mention two of the methods they told us to use in getting it set up in the first place didn’t work. I didn’t bring my own laptop with me, so I didn’t get to experience the M2M Wifi though.

3. Not enough TV exposure to notice.

4. Yeah, one of our taxi drivers looked like he wanted to brain me with his tire iron when I didn’t give him 30% tip for the 3 minute drive from the airport. I told him how much change to give me and he looked at me for a minute, and then grabbed a couple of bills and handed them to my wife before he jumped back in his car and took off. We walked into the MGM and she looked at the cash, and he gave us back less than I told him to.

I forgot a couple more observations about Vegas.

1. What is the deal with the cheap, small 1990′s TV’s in supposedly premium strip hotels?
2. Anyone else offended when an expensive hotel still wants you to pay $15 per day for internet access? For that matter, did anyone else have a problem with the free M2M Wifi auto disconnecting every minute or two?
3. Did anyone else notice how vicious the political ads are there? 15 seconds of hate repeated several times during every commercial break.
4. Anybody else feel that tipping has gotten out of control? Maids, doormen, cabbies, skycaps, concierges, bellboys, and now even the retail workers think you should tip them for simply checking them out. I grew tired of making sure that I had enough physical money to tip everyone.

You’re certainly not the only one that draws drunk people. Though mine were far nicer than yours and didn’t bother throwing up on me. I usually attract the stupid ones that think they’re funny and like to put on shows for everyone around them. Or the ones that get really aggressive in some form or fashion. Like the girl on the monorail that was determined to get into her boyfriend’s pants…on the monorail. He put up a good fight and managed to keep her out most of the time. She was pretty insistent and rather sneaky with her hands though, so she got through more than once.

There’s no way you would have got me to get on that sky bridge with you. My 315 lbs says I could have busted one of those glass plates if I was inclined to do so (or somebody made me jump).

My coworker told me I should go check out the Fremont Street Experience, but I didn’t know where to find it and was too tired to bother asking. We went to see Cirque du Soleil’s KA there at the MGM Grand and Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian, though. Both were excellent shows.

I noticed the masses of foreigners too. We had dinner next to a family from Greece, another from Italy, and several from India. We met people from Asia (I can’t tell the different countries apart), Russia, Scotland, France, and England.