Friday ---- it is Friday right? Between my danged cold and all of the crap that is going on with that, and being on vacationI think I have lost track of the day. The way Ms. Kate and I travel in Vegas, the days are best noted by "changing hotels or not changing hotels. We did three nights at Green Valley Ranch and resort and then moved to The "M" today.

We haven't done much today. We went to the Bellagio Resort for about 30 minutes. It is indeed a beautiful place and they have a conservatory inside of it that they seasonally decorate. One year they even had Martha Stewart do the Christmas decorations and it always looks great.  We spent a few minutes looking around and then left. Normally we would have stayed and played a few of the machines and given homage to the "one armed bandit" while we were there but --- the Bellagio is part of the MGM properties and they have instituted a new policy where they charge for parking by the hour for non hotel guests. Now, to me it seems incredibly "ballsy" of a place to charge people to park so they can come in and lose money in their slot machines!!!!! Allegedly, this new charge is to cover the cost of up grading their parking garages. Heaven forbid they would dip into the millions they make in profit from the machines. Anyway --- the first hour was free so, we took our pictures and moved on to a less greedy place.

Next we went to Treasure Island Hotel. The TI is is one of the original hotels taht we used to visit when we started coming out here. I really like the TI although it has gone through some changes in the past twenty years that I'm not fond of. But, we still like to go there to eat in their cafe and play a few machines.

From there we went on to The M and checked in to our room. It is really comfortable. This evening we went to the buffet fro dinner. Friday night is seafood night on the buffet and Ms. Kate had a free meal offer from the resort as part of her birthday package for the two free nights here.

So, that's where we are tonight. I'm still taking my cold medicines and hoping for a good nights sleep.  Last night was terrible but today hasn't been awful. Here's hoping your Saturday is a good one.!