Vegas

This is where my husband lives Mon-Fri. In this tiny little hotel room. Kinda sad huh?

He is there for work, the company he works for is based out of San Diego, but all the work is here right now. This is a new section of hotels, malls, and condo's on the las vegas strip called CENTER CITY. It is the largest construction project in the worlds right now. It is so crappy to have him gone during the week, but it is a great job to have on his resume. He is there with all his co workers/friends from CA so they hang out at night and do man activities like bowling/golf etc.

These pictures dont even do this place justice. The size of this project is truly remarkable. Huge! He drives to work from behind the strip in a golf cart, and has to drive it around the job all day because the place is so freakin big!

There are 5,6,7 sometimes more cranes here at any given time.

Can you see those tall skinny things attached to the exterior of the two side buildings? Those are the man lifts. (think temporary elevators??) can you say SCARY?? Oh and here something even freakier. Apparently 22 guys have died at this job so far? That sounds like a lot, which it is, but there are around 10,000 people working on this job at times.

The buildings in the front that face the strip have some really cool architecture. It will be neat to walk through when its all done. I was not aloud to go in yet, they are very strict about who is aloud on the job right now. Everyone has to be drug tested, badged, and all this crazy security stuff because of the deaths that have occurred. Apparently guys were getting drunk on their lunch breaks and then going back to work and getting in to accidents, so they Breathalyze at random to get back on the job after lunch! CRAZY huh?

This is the "ghetto" breakfast dave took me to at this Wild Wild West place right by his company office. It is open 24 hours so sometimes he and his co workers go there to eat breakfast because they go in to work as early as 4 am. The place was freaky looking on the outside, and at night it is known for housing "women of the night" because it is located right across from a truck stop. Awesome! Oh another interesting fact- directly across from his office is a place called BATTA BING, a"gentleman's club". Awesome #2! Back to breakfast. They go there because it is close and cheap. Cheap as in they must loose money cheap. we ate"the gamblers breakfast" $1.49.

$1.49? That is not a typo. Eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, and toast for $1.49. That seriously was Awesome with out sarcasm. Who cares if there are hookers when your total meal for 2 people is less than five bucks? the best part is the conversations i overheard in the place. That's a different post in itself. Vegas is a scary place.

Next item of business... The random girl on the right of the picture above is walking around with that plastic guitar strapped around her neck and there is an alcoholic beverage in it, which she sips as she walks down the street through a 2 foot long straw? Awesome? And if your not a rock star at heart you can have your choice of other ridiculous looking drink holding contraptions like a cowboy boot, 3 foot long plastic tube, cactus, Eiffel tower and many others.

So that pretty much sums up Vegas. We also did some fun stuff. We went to some shows, ate some good food and had fun just being together.