Day 4 Friday Dec. 5, 1997Started out as usual with nickel VP - 2nd hand hit 4 eights! I love starting the day with 250 greasy nickels.Played more. While waiting for Karen in the women's room, I 'invested'So many machines to play! There are the tendon-pull inducing red stools. View from Nefertiti's Lounge in 2002.$10 in a quarter Bonus VP machine just outside the Pyramid Cafe. I hit 4 eights again ..read more

Day 2 Wed. Dec. 3, 1997Our first full day in Vegas. One of the ways we economize is to bring half a dozen bagels and a box of cereal with us. You can get a pint of milk 24 hours a day in Sobek's Sundries. Often a bowl of cereal is all I want to start my day, that and coffee in the Casino, of course.International Grounds at one end of the lobby makes a fine, if pricey cappuccino.One of the reasons ..read more

Welcome to the Vintage 1997 Royal Flusher and Quad Queen Trip Report.This goes back to a time when we were just starting to figure Las Vegas out. Over the last thirty years or so, things have changed. Boy have they changed.This was written before Royal Flusher was a fully-developed idiot, the ne'er-do-well with a heart of cash that you've gotten to know and hopefully love. The writing style ..read more

My sun went out the day the Quad Queen died. Five months later, it went out for real.It's been quite a stretch of time since I last wrote a post, and I finally have a few things to say. Thank you all for your interest, caring, and support in the interim. I've heard from a lot of you in one way or another and appreciate it.Since Karen passed away, life is a thumbnail sketch of what it used to be ..read more

Realizing tonight is New Year's Eve, and I that get some sort of a fresh start with 2024 tomorrow, I thought it would be good to bang out this final post for this trip, and leave this year behind me.The trip was not just a vacation, not just a Vegas trip, but a whole lot more. It was a coping mechanism, a pilgrimage, a ritual, a way of saying goodbye to places that meant so much to the Quad Queen ..read more

Day 9 Part 2 Thursday Dec 28, 2023 and I arrived at Orleans, got my room forthwith, and decided on Chinese for lunch.Oddly, coincidentally, astonishingly, and I can't stress this enough, I got the room 1814. And now all I can think of is "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton.The Orleans is a lot bigger than it looks, some 1,800 plus rooms. I assume they all looked as 'gumbo jumbalaya ..read more

Day 9 Part 1 Thursday Dec 28, 2023 and it's my last morning at Wynn. One more day of vacation, then I get back to retirement.Sounds pretty good, but I think I should partly unretire and get a job this summer. Maybe Royal Canadian Veeblefetzer will take me back as a Senior Grommet Inspector.I slept well and woke at 6:00 am again, but I've got irritated lungs and a nasty cough. It's not from ..read more

Day 8 Part 2 Wednesday Dec 27, 2023 and after I made some good typey-typey for the blog, I sat for a bit, and then headed to the casino.In the first minute, I almost struck gold, hitting a straight flush, one off the Royal.I switched up to 50 cents and in 2 minutes, I was out. I had one more close call, but no, none, zero hands of note.After that, I had the doom feeling return bigtime.Have you ..read more

Day 8 Part 1 Wednesday Dec 27, 2023 and I've done so well this trip, I'm almost afraid to play and lose a bunch in the last 2 days!I enjoyed Terrace Pointe Cafe so much for breakfast that I planned a return engagement this morning. The food was great and the service was wonderful.Well, not to harp on it, but today's experience sucked. The food wasn't great and the service was awful. When I ..read more

Day 7 Tuesday Dec 26, 2023 and I'm enjoying Wynn as always, even though there's precious little video poker to play.Not sure why, maybe it's the various pillows that are different from what I'm used to, but I've woken up with a headache each and every morning. Sore shoulders too. Maybe it's the pillows and the button pushing. It's certainly not the quality bourbon.I keep meaning to check out the ..read more