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Entry No. 1: Prologue and Day 1........

Prologue:
Saturday September 10, I almost called my vacation buddy Joe to tell him I was going to have to cancel on him. For the past week or so my mom has been dealing with bad bloody noses. Today she had to go into the ER twice for it. I am holding off hoping that things will be okay and I can go on my vacation. Pisses myself off for worrying about my vacation when my mom is sick. What a jerk I can be. :(
Sunday September 11, things seem to be staying stable with my mom, so I continue with vacation plans.

Day 1 September 12th
I got checked in at the Minneapolis airport. I was given an aisle seat. Darn... Although in one of the emergency exit aisles so at least there was a little more leg room. As we took off the pilot told us the weather in Vegas was 101 F. Yippy... The flight was fairly boring. As we started to approach Las Vegas, the pilot came on and said there as a storm over Vegas and they wanted us to circle for an hour. If that was the case the pilot said we didn't have enough fuel and we would have to land some place before landing in Las Vegas. After a few minutes he came back on and said we go the go ahead to land in Vegas. The temperature was now 81 F. Must have been quite the storm that went through. We landed and I found my friend Joe. We headed off to the car rental joint. Boy, did they see a sucker coming. I rented through Orbitz and it was $88. After being an idiot and getting talked into extras, gas and insurance, the bill was more like $220. UGH... Sorry about that joe. We were going to split cost of car and room. Instead, I paid for the car and Joe covered the room. So we headed over to the strip and drove up to our hotel, the Stratosphere. As far as Vegas is concerned not terribly fancy, but it was a nice place. :)
We decided to head out and walk down the strip. We ended up going about 1/2 way down it to Caesar's Palace. That is where I am seeing Cher tomorrow night and Joe is seeing Phantom across the street at the Venetian. We made our way back up the Strip and we found a little Denny's tucked into one block, so we stopped in for a late supper. Then it was back to the hotel for a night's sleep.