Catching Up: Vegas Day 2

Working hard to catch up on our adventures thus far - it's Thursday, but I only have time to brief you on Monday. Tomorrow we have a 10 hour drive to Kansas City, so I'll have some time to write some posts in the car. Until then...

Monday, May 6

Monday morning we got to the Strip around 10:30 a.m. - pretty good considering we spent the night in Vegas ;)

Our first stop was to the ABSOLUTE coolest thing in Vegas: Mob Attraction. This is the cross between a haunted house and a museum. Let me explain. They first take you through a few rooms that are mob themed (Ellis Island, then a dock, then a police station, etc.) and put you in some scenarios to see if you have what it takes to be made (otherwise, you are whacked). I don't want to give anything away, because I seriously recommend this to anyone who is in Vegas, but there are actors throughout testing your commitment to the mob (which is the part that reminds me of a haunted house).

Once you make your way through some scenes, you wind up in an incredibly informative museum that briefs you on several mafia members who were big in Vegas. I took a "History of Organized Crime" class in college (and am a very proud Italian), and Joe has always been interested in mob history, so we loved seeing the stories of people we don't often read/hear about.

Joe at Ellis Island

Multiple mobsters

I'd hitch a ride with the mob... though I'd probably be whacked.

After you are through with the museum, you are led to one of two rooms. In one room you are "Made" (become part of the mafia family), and in the other room you are "Whacked."

Joe and I were whacked.

It was not pretty.

I screamed and buried my head in Joe's shoulder.

Then I felt like I was a let-down to my Italian family.

I was whacked mostly because I am a people pleaser and I can't keep my big mouth shut: two things that do not bode well for a mafia-member-wanna-be.

Nevertheless, the whole experience was a TON of fun and we are so glad we made the time to do it.

After the Mob Attraction, Joe and I did a bit of gambling an earned about $4. SCORE!

We were killing time because we had an appointment at a CBS screening of a pilot that will be released this Fall. CBS has a place in Vegas where you can go and give your opinions on TV shows for coupons. Since they are so close to pilot season, however, they were offering $20 to anyone who would give up 1 hour to watch a show in development and then fill out a survey.

Being the fans of cash money that we are, Joe and I eagerly signed up.

How I rated what I thought about the show.

CASH MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our show was a pilot for Reign - which I would describe as a cross between Gossip Girl and The Tudors. We were instructed to flip our dial consistently throughout the 42 minute pilot. We could flip it anywhere from 0-100 depending on how much we "liked" what was going on during the show. I was around a 75-100 for most of the episode. I thought it was a good pilot and showed some real promise. I will definitely check it out in the Fall.

Joe, being the good student he is, was the absolute last person in the room to finish his survey. He agreed the show was pretty good - but a bit too CW. Funny he should say that, because we found out the show will be on the CW. I happened to love it BECAUSE I thought it would be a good fit for the CW.

I am pretty sure they are going to think I am crazy, though, because there were some pretty bloody parts (which I absolutely rated a 100), and then there were some sex scenes that I rated a 0.

Come on. In one of the scenes a chick was "enjoying" herself in the hall. It was pretty disgusting (especially because the king saw and liked it), so not only did I rate it a 0 on my Neilson dial, but I wrote on the survey that, "I could do without the girl in the hall. It was disgusting and irrelevant to the plot. A family watching this show would turn it off. Totally needless."

Sometimes I am a bit prudish - but COME ON. This isn't the Playboy channel.

(Some of the men in the room verbally announced during that scene that we should all rank it 100 - you'll have to tune in this fall to see who they listened to lol).

After we earned $40 total (SCORE!!!!) we walked down the strip checking out the casinos and hotels. We also had some dinner and a couple of drinks, then made our way back to the shuttle to take us back to the Rio.

We split pizza and...

Some Mac N Cheese. YUM!

When we arrived at the Rio, we were hoping to play video Blackjack (our new favorite game because you can take your time and not lose too much) - but they didn't have any video blackjack machines :(

We played a little bit of Texas Tea (my favorite slot), and actually won about $7 (SCORE!)

I find relaxed gambling is the luckiest gambling ;)

Then we went upstairs, made drinks with our Costco vodka, and watched The Simpsons.

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