LSADGBAST 2005

[LegoSkier]

Getting ready for the LegoSkier And DiveGirl BigAss Stadium Tour 2005. In the next 3 weeks we have:

This weekend:
Sat - U2 at the MGM Garden Arena on the Vegas Strip.

Next weekend:
Sat - Cal/USC at Memorial statium in Berkeley
Sun - Rolling Stones/Metallica at SBC in San Fran.

Following Weekend:
Sun - 49ers/Seahawks at Candlestick or 3Com or whatever its called.

And did I mention we didn't pay a dime for any of these tickets? Should be interesting (especially the SF concert, My mom wanted to see the stones so she bought those tics anthough I don't know how much she will be into metallica. Although she claims to be psyched to see them after watching Some Kind Of Monster on VH1 last week.)

[divegirl]

FKNA!!!!! Lego, your mom rules.

I can't wait!!! No pay, feeling soooo gay!! (as in, happy)

You know why I don't care that we're gone every weekend in November? Because it's not going to snow FOR 18 MORE YEARS!!!

(that's a prediction from one of our, errr, park jibber friends here at work)


YAY!

[LegoSkier]

Saturday Nov. 5 - U2 at the MGM Garden Arena on the Vegas Strip.
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Sometimes things work out in the end...
Friday
DG and I touch down in vegas and proceed to the shuttle line. This turns out to be a JONG mistake as we end up waiting forever for a shuttle then when we do get one it takes forever to get to the MGM. Never do this...take a cab instead.
When we finally got into the MGM, we decided to play a rousing game of cell phone marco polo with my dad...
dad calls: "Meet me in the round area with seats." (5 minutes of looking)
I call: "OK we are in the round area with seats and I don't see shit." (5 minutes of looking)
dad calls: "Its the round area near the Tropicana ave entrance." (5 minutes of looking)
I call: "Thats where we are, I still don't see shit." (5 minutes of looking)
dad calls: "Its the round area with marble seating, I'm right here damit!" (5 minutes of looking, several trips up and down stairs)
I call: "OK, there are several tropicana ave entrances all with round seating areas, you come to us at the lion habitat."
dad: "Whats the lion habitat?"
me: "The place with the big fucking cats behind glass! Theres only one of those!"
Finally we meet up and he gives us the room keys and tickets. Both DG and I are beat so we head up to the room, stick the tickets in the safe, order big ass sandwiches from room service and crash for a while. Later we hit up the M&M store to get some desert.
Saturday
Slept in. Around 11 we monorailed it down the strip to meet my dad, aunts, and uncle for lunch at their buffet. DG and I get off at the Harrahs/Imerial Palace stop to walk it to the Wynn. Like all things in vegas, they designed the monorail stations so you have to walk through a casino to get to a street. We refuse to do this and go comando by hopping a fence, going through a parking garage, through two construction sites, past the open sewer, around the service entrances, and finally got to the Wynn 15 minutes longer than it would have taken going through the casino. It was an adventure anyway.
A simple fact: the Wynn is the best, most posh big hotel/casino on the strip hands down. The buffet rules (and so does using the VIP line) and so do the rooms. We went up to see my dads room and all I can say is that place is PIMP. Marble bath w. whirlpool tub, feather beds, and floor to ceiling windows which from the 43rd floor look out onto a very beautiful view of the desert mountains and not more ugly buildings. Working off the buffet we walk it back down the strip to the MGM.
Chill, shower, grab tickets and its off to dinner then U2! Dinner was the shit! Seablue is a great fish place indeed. Had the raw and fried samplers which included ahi tar tar, salmon tar tar, some sort of fish eggs, fried frog legs, lobster corn dogs, and finally kebobs of scallops, foie gras, and white peaches!
Finally, concert time! We queue up and head on in. DG gets the ticket scanned. I get the ticket scanned and get the beep. WTF? Lady looks at the ticket and goes, "Um, this is a ticket for last nights show." Massive sinking feeling ensues...Anger ensues...casino f'd up (we specifically asked for the saturday show), we f'd up (just stuffed them in the safe and didn't look at them yesterday). Fortunately, the lady takes pity on us and takes us over to the managers desk. We get tickets. Not nearly as good as where we would have been sitting on Friday, but we will see the show.
Damian Marley opens. One guys only job is to prance around waiving the Jamacian flag. He is obviously a man of tremendous talent.
U2 - what can I say here? This was truely a great life experience. I was a fan but not a huge one (had a few CDs, etc), but what I saw that night was much more than a rock concert. The place just went nuts when they went on stage and it just kept getting better and better. Somewhere in there it stopped being 16000 people watching a band and became a unified joyous mass of human emotion. Reflecting, it left me very much the same way I felt after my first time heli skiing in the Chugach. An experience so intense that after you are not sure if you were really there and can't actually remember much about it but you feel its effects inside you. It actually turns out the show on Friday that we did have tickets to was actually fairly flat and not reviewed well where the Saturday show we did go to is considered probably the best of the tour so far so thing did work out in the end.
Sunday
Breakfast in bed. Walk around the strip to gamble/shop etc. DG goes for a $1 slot. Gets skunked. I put a $5 in it and pull once...$200 comes my way. Get some good sushi for dinner. Fight home, and crash.

[LegoSkier]

Saturday Nov.12 - Cal/USC at Memorial statium in Berkeley
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[LegoSkier]

Sunday Nov 13 - Rolling Stones/Metallica at SBC in San Fran.
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