Weeeeee're back! Getting down here was not much of an effort. We didn't have to get to the airport until around noon. We rode Bus #100 from the 22nd station to Marine Drive Station and got the Canada Line to the airport. That took a little over an hour.
We got on our 2:20 United flight to San Francisco and got in a bit early. We could have made the next United flight to Vegas but we had booked a later 7:00 pm flight. Waiting in SF was easy and nice. In fact, flying today felt like the old days when doing so was enjoyable. The schedules were stress free. The staff were friendly and gracious. The airplanes were clean and efficient. There was little waiting or unpleasantness. Our second flight left a little late but we made up most of the time. As I remembered, we saw slot machines right at the gates in LAS.
It's almost better to get into Vegas after dark as one can see the strip in all it's electrified glory. We decided to take Uber and although the airport made that a bit of a hike to the pickup location, it was effortless too. So we got to the Excalibur Hotel around 9:30, I think.
We had a lovely agent when checking in and she noticed that Jay's birthday is on Sunday. I mentioned something about making sure we got to see the Tournament of the Kings dinner theatre. As it is in this hotel, she ensured it will be compensated as long as we charged it to our hotel room. The weekend performances are around $80 each, so that was a very nice surprise!
We had a late Chinese dinner in the hotel and went walking this end of the strip.
This is our view from room #27143. We went to bed tired at about 12:30 am. We're in Vegas, baby!
