[Brudder Andrusha]

Thanks to you guys here @ 2+2 who are enjoying my version of Vega$!


The next morning I was up early for a ride around the vicinity
Main/Fremont Street area with a good exercise. There is not much
traffic to interfere with the workout. Even the vagrants and
transients who prefer to sleep on the steets were not that
visible at this hour. Or maybe its because its starting to
get cold at this day of the year in the morning and they do have
find some covered shelter.

The ride included an Area which I called Law Office Alley - around
the famous Foley US Federal Courthouse. You wouldn't of thought
that the area was lawyer infested because the office are all
coverted residential houses, with manicured lawns or desert fauna.

After some breakfast and a quick check up of the Binions
Sportsbook where only a couple of folks were getting ready for
the Calder and Philly cards. Amazing that this sportsbook continues
to have its "scoreboard" manually updated in ink while the new
casinos of the Bellagio, Wynn, Caesars and Bally's are like sitting
in front of an electronic scoreboard.

I took a ride to the place where I can desiminate this information -
The Las Vegas Public Library. Although I could not use their
computers since Nevada resident library cards were requested
they do have a WIFI connection - Fantastically convenient!

Here, I had my first what I believe, YKPAIHIAH or maybe Slavic sighting.
Not far from the computers was a room where a class of "English
as a Second Language", 1 strikingly blonde, attractive woman was
sitting in the front row of the class which house anudder 30
Hispanics. After the class broke up this woman was closer identified
by the English accent which she had and no doubtedly I would have
picked YKPAIHA, Russia or somewhere in between as her place of
origin. If I were to place a future bet, I'd also say she was a Mail
Order Bride who had a pretty good position in the ol' country.

Back to the gambling! Which is what every *dumb* tourist should be
doing in Los' Wages! For today (Monday) I wanted to experience the
class poker experience of Bellagio. Definitely a much different
kind of player than the one who is sitting a Binions.
Had to wait for the game to start in the Racebook and was tempted
to play the Cal shipper @ Turf Paradise, Arizona. To dark to read
the Daily Racing Form which was left by some loser. Pass.

Into the $4-8 game I go and no sooner that being I get A2o as BB
I get A on the flop and the get runner-runner A-A and burn
some high classed lady from LA with Quad Aces. The playing gets
better as it is obvious that the table is full of rookies who
want to burn their money and have a good time. Well up in 2 hours
I leave for my well earned cultural tour of the Art Gallery which
had Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet and a couple of other tongue-twisters.
Then downstairs back to the Strip for the sightseeing tour and to
see the Fountains dance in front of the Bellagio to the tune of
Viva Las Vega$.

The corner of The Strip and Flamingo has got to be the most
photographed area of Vegas. With Paris casino and an Eiffel Tower
duplicate, Bellagio with fountains, Caesars Palace and Roman
antiquity and Bally's this place is inundated with traffic and
tourists.

The trip back on the Double Decker CAT#302 which are specially
priced @ $2 a ride back to downtown was infiltrated by a
confirmed YKPAIHIAH (Ukrainian) sitting. I was speaking with my
friend on the bus and while we were exitting and elderly couple
walking behind us said that's YKPAIHIAH they're speaking.
I guess its a rarity so I confirmed that we were. And the folks
confirmed that they were 4th generation YKPAIHIAHs from the fine
province of Manitoba and that could understand the language of
their forefathers but didn't speak it. What they did say was that
they were lucky to be in Vega$ because they left Winnipeg with
2 feet of snow! And now you can understand why the City of Las Vegas
has grown so large!