July 24, 2009

We woke up to the interesting, but not bright and shiny, Vegas strip and took a walk. It was more of a slow hobble for me, but we wandered down to Paris casino where we first realized that everything was very expensive here. It wasn't as exciting as it might have been for someone that has never been to Atlantic City but it was still an interesting town.

We ended up at the Fatburger where they did have veggie burgers. It was really good surprisingly. After we at we went back to our casino and hung out for a little while in the room.

We headed to the Hard Rock casino to get some dinner at the Pink Taco before the show. They have really good food, Mexican of course, and salsa. I got a burrito that I couldn't finish and pink lemonade that I shouldn't have drank because it just made me really thirsty.

We got into the Joint before anyone started and saw a joke performance by a rapper and then Chester French. They weren't bad but I wasn't into them for this show. Motion City Soundtrack came out and played an awesome set and got the crowd revved up for Blink. Then, the time had come for Blink-182! They came out to Dumpweed and killed it.

They played a great mix of songs, not too many from older CDs but every song was tight and they were hilarious between songs. It was the show we all wanted, the Blink we all know and love. Totally worth going to Vegas just to see them and one of the best concerts I've been to even though I was stuck standing in one place with a leg brace on. They closed with Dammit, as always, and Mark sang "The show is over now, please stop clapping now, goodnight the show is over now..." So great.

Jul 23, 2009

I went to the doctor in the morning where I was told to walk on my leg instead of staying off of it and that I would start physical therapy when I got back from my trip. Much better sounding than anything I had heard so far. I went home and packed for the trip which took about ten minutes and Ryan came over to play Nintendo for a while before we left. We got dropped off at the airport and got into the terminal early so we sat in the handicapped seats to wait.

They let me board the flight with the first class people because of my injury but it was just a nuisance because I had to stand up as everyone else in the plane got on so they didn't trip over my leg. Our plane took forever to take off because we were in line behind so many other planes but we finally got in the air. I read a lot of House of Leaves on the flight and tried to sleep a bit; no luck.

After what seemed like much longer than a five hour flight, we landed in Las Vegas. I walked out into a terminal filled with slot machines. We got in line for a taxi that took us to the MGM Grand where we were staying. After checking in and meeting drunk girls that locked themselves out of their room and had fired automatic weapons earlier in the day (they showed us pictures,) we got up to our room and got to bed for the night.

Jul 22, 2009

It was another pretty bland day until I went out to Atlantic City at night for food at a place that wasn't as good as I thought it would be from the description but still decent. They brew their own beer so I had some of that and it was good. After eating we went to Firewaters.

I tried a few new beers like Golden Monkey. The music wasn't even terrible there for once. After a few beers we headed out of the bar and back to the car.

Before heading home we stopped at Sunset Beach (long after the sun had set of course.) I couldn't really walk anywhere but after sitting there for a while we headed home.

Jul 21, 2009

I spent the day inside, of course, finishing King Dork. Good book. Chuck picked me up to go to Quizzo where we met Sam and Jeff. We weren't doing too well in the beginning but the last two rounds put us way ahead and we ended up in second! Good thing we know a lot of state capitals.

That's about all I did. Awesome.

Jul 20, 2009

I was tired of being inside so I decided to go down to the beach in Sea Isle and read for a while. it was hard to get comfortable there but I didn't really come prepared. I spent most of the rest of the day reading King Dork. It's going fast.

Jul 19, 2009

I spent most of the day sitting in a chair reading, as has become the norm since I hurt myself. Later, Chuck and Diebra came over, we picked up beer and pizza and watched some movies. We started with Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, which was a funny movie and we finished with Slumdog Millionaire.

I had a good time, good pizza, good beer and it was good to have some people to hang out with for a while too.

Jul 18, 2009

I went to Moe's for lunch with my mom. I had a bunch of leftovers. It was her first time there but I could tell that it won't be her last.

She came grocery shopping with me since it would be funny to try to operate a cart with crutches. I got some veggies and easy-to-make dinners since I spend all my time at my house.

Tracy invited me out to go to Philly with them so I went. We went to Eulogy, a pretty sweet little bar with a whole mess of microbrews and imports. Oh and don't forget the really good frites. We spent a few hours upstairs drinking new beer and laughing at the cougar fight at the table next to us. The one lady thought it was "The Prince and the Popper" and they were arguing about it, asking us for the popper.. er, proper title.

It was a fun night out of the house. It's funny that simply leaving my house is enough to make me (relatively) happy now.