Musings of a Displaced HK-Aussie

What’s a more appropriate place to spend your time during Thanksgiving than "Sin City" itself! Yup, Wendy and I went to Vegas during the past Thanksgiving long weekend, staying at the Hyatt Las Vegas resort 20 minutes from the Strip.

Sin City was crawling with people who have nothing better to do on Thanksgiving than frivilous fun and stuffing themselves silly with the famed Vegas buffet lunch/dinner.

We went to see performances by David Copperfield on day 1 and Blue Man Group on day 2. Let me say that both shows are were seeing, especially Copperfield where the audience is seated quite close to the stage. Blue Man is hard to describe, but it was definitely a visual and audio experience. Pics to follow soon!

Went to S.F. 2 weeks ago, mainly to see The Rock. I’m a movie buff and like to visit sites where movies were filmed. Surprisingly, there is no "lower lighthouse" on Alcatraz as portrayed in the Cage/Connery flick from the 90s. It was explained that having 2 lighthouses on a single island makes no sense!

The Rock wasn’t much to see. It’s infamous for criminals like Al Capone and "the birdman". The prison cells resembled the movie scenes, but we didn’t get to see the shower facility where the marines (from the movie) and me (from the xbox game) were ambushed. That section in the game took us 3 hours to get through!

Woohoo! The Socceroos will be going to the World Cup after beating Uruguay last night. Its been 8 years since I went to the World Cup Qualifier vs. Iran at the MCG, when the aussies blew a 2-0 half-time lead to miss qualification. So much for Uruguay’s trash-talking before Game 2!

One advantage of working in a small town like Sacramento is the lack of decent hotels, so visiting NBA teams only have 2 choices - Hyatt or Sheraton. I’ve bumped into some Pistons and Nuggets players this week…they are frickin’ tall when you stand next to them in the elevator haha.

I heard that Sheraton is preferred by the ballers over Hyatt because Sheraton has California King beds. Still, I’d imagine they have to sleep diagonally with the legs left hanging over the bed.

Drove down from Ahnuld’s place of defeat (he lost 4 propositions this week) back home in O.C. last night. Actually it was a little more than that…we stayed overnight in Sticksville aka Bakersville. Those of you who watched "The Running Man" will remember it as the place where Ahnuld refused to shoot civilians from the chopper and was subsequently framed and jailed. The "Butcher of Bakersville" haha.

The drive was boring, and being at night time it was too cold to go topless in the convertible. Gotta drive back up tomorrow…should have flown instead!