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mikeknNo shows planned for today, and it was raining so we skipped any outdoor activities.
We did our usual morning stuff then headed out to breakfast/lunch. This time we drove up to a place called the Peppermill. We had seem them on TV before we left - it is one of Penn Jillette's favorites for after the show (or so he said). Good food, good portions, ok prices (for what you get). We had wanted to see Penn & Teller's show while we were out here, but the entire week was marked: sold out/unavailable. I'm guessing that Penn is at the Sundance Film Festival where his film "The Aristocrats" is being shown.
After lunch we went over to the Las Vegas Hilton, home of the Star Trek Experience. We puttered around the casino floor a little, and got players club cards. With the cards came vouchers to play their Supernova game, a simple computer game where you select planets to blow up, each one awarding you a letter. If you can spell "million" before selecting the planet that will blow up the entire system, you win a million dollars. Either way everyone wins something - better stuff if you got further. In our case, Amy won a deck of cards and I got a wooden box with places for a few pictures on top (whee!).
Next stop was the Star Trek Experience. They've got a very nice Star Trek museum, full of all sorts of goodies: tons of props, a huge time line, details on the various classes of ships, and a bunch of other stuff that was mostly lost on me. I've watched Star Trek, but I've not seen every episode or even every movie. It just never caught my interest for long enough.
After the museum we got in line for the first of the two "rides" that they have: Borg Invasion 4D. I've since learned that 4D means it's a 3D movie, where they throw stuff at you, or your chair interacts with you or both. Being monocular, the 3D movie left me flat. The show wasn't bad and the effects were neat, but it wasn't that great. After the show, we worked our way thought the gift shop, back around the museum, and back into line; this time for the Klingon Encounter. This one was a motion simulator ride, and was a much better show - very well done.
We explored the gift shop picking up a few things here and there (we've figured out that we are going to have spent more on souvenirs then we do on gambling). My souvenir of choice is a t-shirt, so I'm going to be coming home with quite a few of them :)
By this point it was dinner time, and we decided to seek out the cheapest prime rib we could find. In our guide books we found a place downtown, The California, which offered a $6.99 prime rib dinner, so we hopped in the car and headed downtown. We found the restaurant we were looking for, but it had a huge line. We played some slots for a bit, hoping the line would die down, but no luck. So we started looking into some of the other restaurants and found that the Main Street Station (a sister casino to the California) had a brew pub, so off we went. Turns out the brew pub also had a $6.99 prime rib so we completely lucked out. I sampled all their beers (five different kinds, in 5 oz glasses), and Amy got the prime rib. I opted for a burger instead of steak, and it came with some of the strongest horseradish that I've had in a long time - very good! (Actually the horseradish came with the steak, but Amy doesn't eat it).
Before heading back to the hotel (must resist saying "home"), Amy wanted to play some blackjack. The table we ended up at turned out to be a blackjack variant called Super Fun 21. It only uses a single deck, and has very liberal rules but only pays a straight bet for blackjack. Anyway, Amy got in with a good group of players and some good dealers and had a great time. I mostly watched or wandered around the casino floor, since I wasn't up for playing anything at that point.
After she finished playing, we headed back, completely worn out from the day.
We did our usual morning stuff then headed out to breakfast/lunch. This time we drove up to a place called the Peppermill. We had seem them on TV before we left - it is one of Penn Jillette's favorites for after the show (or so he said). Good food, good portions, ok prices (for what you get). We had wanted to see Penn & Teller's show while we were out here, but the entire week was marked: sold out/unavailable. I'm guessing that Penn is at the Sundance Film Festival where his film "The Aristocrats" is being shown.
After lunch we went over to the Las Vegas Hilton, home of the Star Trek Experience. We puttered around the casino floor a little, and got players club cards. With the cards came vouchers to play their Supernova game, a simple computer game where you select planets to blow up, each one awarding you a letter. If you can spell "million" before selecting the planet that will blow up the entire system, you win a million dollars. Either way everyone wins something - better stuff if you got further. In our case, Amy won a deck of cards and I got a wooden box with places for a few pictures on top (whee!).
Next stop was the Star Trek Experience. They've got a very nice Star Trek museum, full of all sorts of goodies: tons of props, a huge time line, details on the various classes of ships, and a bunch of other stuff that was mostly lost on me. I've watched Star Trek, but I've not seen every episode or even every movie. It just never caught my interest for long enough.
After the museum we got in line for the first of the two "rides" that they have: Borg Invasion 4D. I've since learned that 4D means it's a 3D movie, where they throw stuff at you, or your chair interacts with you or both. Being monocular, the 3D movie left me flat. The show wasn't bad and the effects were neat, but it wasn't that great. After the show, we worked our way thought the gift shop, back around the museum, and back into line; this time for the Klingon Encounter. This one was a motion simulator ride, and was a much better show - very well done.
We explored the gift shop picking up a few things here and there (we've figured out that we are going to have spent more on souvenirs then we do on gambling). My souvenir of choice is a t-shirt, so I'm going to be coming home with quite a few of them :)
By this point it was dinner time, and we decided to seek out the cheapest prime rib we could find. In our guide books we found a place downtown, The California, which offered a $6.99 prime rib dinner, so we hopped in the car and headed downtown. We found the restaurant we were looking for, but it had a huge line. We played some slots for a bit, hoping the line would die down, but no luck. So we started looking into some of the other restaurants and found that the Main Street Station (a sister casino to the California) had a brew pub, so off we went. Turns out the brew pub also had a $6.99 prime rib so we completely lucked out. I sampled all their beers (five different kinds, in 5 oz glasses), and Amy got the prime rib. I opted for a burger instead of steak, and it came with some of the strongest horseradish that I've had in a long time - very good! (Actually the horseradish came with the steak, but Amy doesn't eat it).
Before heading back to the hotel (must resist saying "home"), Amy wanted to play some blackjack. The table we ended up at turned out to be a blackjack variant called Super Fun 21. It only uses a single deck, and has very liberal rules but only pays a straight bet for blackjack. Anyway, Amy got in with a good group of players and some good dealers and had a great time. I mostly watched or wandered around the casino floor, since I wasn't up for playing anything at that point.
After she finished playing, we headed back, completely worn out from the day.
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Date: 2005-01-28 06:24 pm (UTC)I saw a ST props show a while back. What amused me is how rinkydink things looked, up close. The big conference table off the bridge, with the granite columns and the black top, it's all Formica, and Really Really Obvious even 10 feet away. But not in the TV show, it's quite believable.