With suspicions or not, I was hesitant to begin this article, until all due fairness was put to the test. So, being that the test failed- I started to write down my Las Vegas experience. What you are about to read is ONLY my opinion, not necessarily shared by any other individual or suite101.
This is the first part of my story...
One could almost hear "Viva Las Vegas" playing in the air as the plane touched down on the runway of the lighted city.
Boarding the plane a few hours earlier, I was about to set out on a new adventure.
Complete with overstuffed luggage and cargo, lugging it along the airport corridors, knowing full well that the other reason I was here, was because my best bud would be waiting in this massive building to greet me!
Seeing each other for the first time in over two years, it was just like old times down on the farm... a big hug and then we both start jabbering a mile a minute, barely able to catch a breath before going on to the next story. Here we were trying to catch a shuttle, get from point A to point B- and still have conversation in between!
An hour later, tired, hungry and heavily weighed down, we finally made our decent into the hotel room, you could still hear the echoes of the shuttle driver mumbling as he turned around in the concrete parking lot. We had warned him the luggage was heavy, but I guess the necessity of a tip must have far outweighed the worry of a back brace!
Once into our room, we were still talking and trying to fit our past 2 years into a 3 day weekend, we were not without topics to discuss.
Of course, we also talk via internet, and if not for such a thing we would never have met in the first place! Our entire connection had been born via internet communications, not only establishing a solid gold friendship, but also a partnership that would transcend many miles!
Of course talking via internet was not an equal to a physical presence, so this was an opportunity that would be rare and far in between for us- we had to make the most of the precious time we had. Only had one other time presented itself to us, when we were able to spend a week together in Memphis a few years ago.
