Day 238: Vegas baby!

Aaahhhh up early on 4 hours notice and heading off to Vegas for work, although I'm pretty sure there will be plenty of play too.

I'm going with the Cheerleader, and one of our photographers.

We landed and hit the ground running, within an hour we had checked into the hotel and started filming.

While we were waiting to check in I looked over at the bank of slot machines and for one brief moment I thought about running away to Sin City, then reality set in and I realized I have entirely too many responsibilities for that to happen.

When we first walked into the room to start filming I immediately noticed one guy. He was absolutely beautiful, salt and pepper hair, olive skin, with a good sense of style.

As we were taping, I was taking notes but had plenty of time to survey the territory, I saw him checking in on us to see what we were doing, then I glanced at the left hand.

Wouldn't you know it... he was wearing a wedding ring. Well of course he is married. I decided to just enjoy his beauty and leave it at that.

Later I was filling the Cheerleader in on the days events. She arrived a little later than we did and wasn't there for the earlier taping.

I mentioned the hot guy, but told her he was married so too bad for me, and we headed out to our last taping of the day.

When we walked out we saw two motorized scooters sitting in the hallway, and we all started laughing hysterically because one of our co-workers has been using one to get around the station due to a leg injury.

It's so funny to see him zooming around the building, so we decided we needed to get on them and take a picture to send to our boss.

In the picture we look like we're on a roller coaster, or zooming around at 100 miles an hour.

We ended up at Margaritaville for dinner where we enjoyed a cocktail with dinner. When the server came over to see if we wanted another cocktail 'for the road' (it is Vegas after all) the Cheerleader piped up 'yes I do! And they do too!'

The photographer and I looked at each other and did a little 'aaah why not' move... and from that point on the night was on.

We all decided to go to the photographer's favorite tiki bar, so we hailed a cab and were on our way.

We didn't have the exact address, only an area, so we hopped in and gave the cabbie the closest description we could.

On the way there he said 'I've been driving a cab for 30 years in Vegas and I've never taken anyone here'

The Cheerleader and I started to get a little concerned that maybe we were heading into a less than desirable part of town, but after 2 rum runners it didn't seem to bother me.

When we walked in we were pleasantly surprised. As we sat around drinking yet another rum drinks, we started sharing embarassing drinking stories, and the laughs ensued.

From there we headed back to the casino and decided to have a few beers, on the way to the bar, we see some cutouts of Donny & Marie Osmond and decided it is the perfect photo op.

The Cheerleader jumped in and cozied up to Donny while I snapped the photo with my phone, then the photographer jumped in the shot and got on his knees and looked up with wide eyes at his new parents.

I was laughing so hard I almost peed my pants, I don't know how I managed to even snap the photo.

By the time it was all said and done we felt like we had partied like rock stars until the wee hours of the morning, but in reality it was 930.

I can't wait to see what tomorrow has in store. I know there's a cocktail party on our list, but I have a feeling it's going to be more than that.