The List

Four months to go in this neat little western experience. What shall we do until we take the trek home? Here's some stuff we have yet to do but definitely plan on doing.

• The Atomic Testing Museum (in association with the Smithsonian!) is right up the street, and they are soon opening their Area 51 Exhibit. Neat-o.
• The Mob Museum is pretty close to Fremont Street, and would be a particularly fitting museum to visit as we are currently watching The Sopranos.
• Sing some karaoke at Champagne's over on Maryland. Pam's gotta warm up those pipes, I miss her voice.
• There's a bunch of other bars I'd like to hit up too: Beauty Bar at Fremont, Money Plays ("Cheers on acid" claims the website) on West Flamingo, Blue Martini (a fancy bar with a killer happy hour, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH BLEU MARTINI IN PHILADELPHIA I FREAKING HATE THAT PLACE), and plenty of others. Never enough happy hours around here.
• One more bar: Paddy's Pub. Definitely not the It's Always Sunny bar, but I swear there is a bar called Paddy's Pub a few miles up Flamingo. I'd like to go just to say we were there.
• Visit the Grand Canyon. Not sure how we're going to go about this one yet. We definitely ARE going, no doubt, but should we stay for a few days? Sleep in a tent? Or a cabin? Not quite sure yet. As the season gets warmer and there's absolutely no chance of cold winds (it still can get chilly in March), we'll fit this in.
• There's other national parks around here too, apparently. I haven't done extensive research on the subject, Pam was the one looking places up. Zion? That name has been floating through some of our conversations about taking a hike one day. It's about three hours yonder.
• Get some Maryland crabs at the Crab Corner, knowing that we'll probably never have crabs better than the ones we had on the Baltimore waterfront ever again.
• I can't even begin to mention how many restaurants there are here, even in walking distance, that we'd like to dine at. First on the list is this Moroccan Belly-Dancing restaurant not a block from the Can.
• Drink some more Ass Juice (kidding, Pam!)
• Go on the rides at the Stratosphere. We went to the top, but it was too cold to go over the edge.
• Gotta hit a flea market at some point. This one looks like it'll do. Reminds me of somewhere we'd go when we used to go to the Poconos every year.
• See some shows. We're already hitting up a comedy show at the Mirage when the Kains come to town. It would be nice to get to at least one or two more besides that before we leave town.
• Some other cool things that we need to do on the Strip: go to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (and not its haunted wax museum neighbor); go to the top of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris; see the outdoor Pirate show at Treasure Island; eat at Denny's.
• Buy one of those long mixed drink container things. You know, the ones that look like this and probably taste like sugar, rum, and armpit. It's such a tourist-y thing to do, I know, but I suppose we have to do it once, right?
• Every time we walk through a casino, we're harassed by a certain type of worker that tries to get us to sign up for a trip to check out a time share. If we go, they say, they'll set us up with a free dinner and show, etc., etc., if only we go check out the time share. I'd like to actually do this. Spend the day looking at a hotel or something, give them a resounding NO, and get hooked up with a free fancy dinner and a free fancy show.
• See the Pacific Ocean. This requires us to go to California, and I'm definitely not opposed to that (no hard feelings, California Nursing Board, we're doing just peachy in Nevada, no thanks to you). I wouldn't mind skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean either, but I guess that will depend on the logistics of the trip.
• See the Phillies play in another stadium. I wish their schedule was just a little better, but perhaps we can make due. The games in Phoenix and San Fran are mid-April, and they simply do not look doable at this point. Perhaps we could go to Los Angeles mid-July before our drive home to see a game at Dodger Stadium. Again, that's too far away to plan, but it's something to think about.
• No MLB teams in Vegas (apparently the MLB offices believe Vegas sports betting will ruin baseball), but there is a minor league team around here called the Las Vegas 51s. They are an affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays and, like most minor league teams, they probably have some great deals.
• Order a Jim's cheesesteak and have it shipped to Las Vegas when I start to get really homesick. Yes, you can actually do that. And let's be real, I'll probably be ordering about six of them.

I guess that's all I can think of for now. I would hope we're never bored.