This page was exported from Almost-Daily Diary [ http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary ] Export date:Fri Apr 19 13:02:19 2024 / +0000 GMT ___________________________________________________ Title: 106F Yesterday to 48F This morning. I’m back. --------------------------------------------------- Frédéric Silva, the Paranormal Magic guy, did a completely-free, nothing to buy meet-and-Greer after the show. Very cool! And nobody knew I was gone. No Sunday ride on Strava; what's with that? Had something to do with my 40th wedding anniversary and a quick trip to Las Vegas. Original plan was to leave Sunday afternoon so I could get in a quick ride, but that didn't seem too romantic and hopefully I could score a few points (which, in relationships, always seem to expire before they can be redeemed... what's up with that?). Karen pointing to our upgraded hotel room So Saturday 10:30pm were on a plane from SFO to Vegas. Arrive at The LINQ about 1am and find that our room "reservation" was actually just a "request" and all the Kings were gone, leaving only a "full size" for the same low (NOT!) price. But gee they gave us a $25 food credit (think 2 large bottles of water at Vegas hotel pricing) and a promise to do better the next night. A really excellent breakfast on the LINQ Promenade. They DID do better the next night, upgrading us to a two-room suite with two TVs (neither used) and two bathrooms (both used). Nice view of the giant Ferris wheel too! Sunday afternoon we saw two shows, a 4pm "Paranormal Magic Show" with Frédéric Silva (pretty amazing stuff; somehow he really does know what you're thinking) and a 7pm magic show with Mat Franco, a bigger scale and glitzier but possibly less-impressive affair. Karen outside Hell's Kitchen But the real magic for my wife was yesterday (Sunday) when we went to Hell's Kitchen for dinner. She's a big Gordon Ramsey fan. It actually was a lot of fun. Gives new meaning to Dinner Theater?And yes, they have a red team and a blue team. Then it was time to fly home and breathe real air and go on a real bike ride this morning. Waiting for nobody to show But 100% solo; Kevin (kid) felt sick and nobody else out there either. I had no choice; just two days in Las Vegas had added 5 pounds to the scale!!! Sometimes it's nice to ride alone but this morning I could have used some company. Think most looked up at the clouds and fog and figured they'd ride later! Hopefully Thursday will be back to normal. --------------------------------------------------- Images: http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5936.jpg http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/58785131361__05db0580-d77f-4f61-8f29-561aed5e156d.jpg http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5917.jpg http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5974.jpg http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5997.jpg http://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_6013.jpg --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Post date: 2019-08-20 23:32:07 Post date GMT: 2019-08-21 06:32:07 Post modified date: 2019-08-20 23:36:12 Post modified date GMT: 2019-08-21 06:36:12 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Export of Post and Page as text file has been powered by [ Universal Post Manager ] plugin from www.gconverters.com