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2) went to some amazing bars, including one with a firepit in the middle of a fountain<\/a><\/p>\n 3) celebrated Kate’s 30th birthday<\/p>\n 4) stayed for free, courtesy of our landlord<\/p>\n 5) had amazing gambling luck for 2 days, and not-so-great luck the last day<\/p>\n 6) went to the strip club and made use of some singles<\/p>\n 7) met April and Kara for a fantastic brunch at Mesa Grill<\/a><\/p>\n 8) fell in love with Pai Gow (even more than blackjack!)<\/p>\n 9) walked about a billion miles in almost-100-degree heat<\/p>\n 10) won some free money from the Hooters Casino<\/p>\n 11) swing-danced to Stevie Ray Vaughn in the plaza at the Hawaiian Marketplace before heading to the airport<\/p>\n 12) had my foot problem<\/a> magically and unexpectedly cured<\/p>\n 13) partook in the legendary dollar margaritas at Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall (the trick is to drink the Sauza off the top and throw the rest out), while listening to Journey<\/p>\n 14) was on a flight with Gary Spivey<\/a><\/p>\n 15) covered a lot of ground: Planet Hollywood, Paris, Bally’s, Mandalay Bay, New York – New York, MGM Grand, Hooters, Flamingo, Caesar’s Palace, Treasure Island, Venetian, Palazzo, O’Shea’s, Sahara, Binion’s, Stratosphere, Harrah’s.<\/p>\n I’m working on photos and will hopefully be done soon. Here’s most of them, though!<\/a><\/p>\n More after I unbury myself from my mountains of work. Happy almost-weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WE’RE BACK!! Ok, we’ve been back from Vegas since very late Monday night, but I’ve been insanely busy. Here’s some of what we did there: 1) had the best meal of my life at Fleur de Lys 2) went to some amazing bars, including one with a firepit in the middle of a fountain 3) …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/so9qt-viva","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}