Day One in Vegas

It started like any other trip out of town. Everything was going smoothly until we got on the plane. The pilot came on and informed us that there was a maintenance problem that would be taken care of in a half an hour. Two hours later, we were informed that a tire had been changed along with the brakes on one of the wheels. I never even felt the plane getting jacked up - pretty amazing that they changed the tire on a 200,000lb machine with 200 people on board and I couldn't even feel it happening. Once the pilot was satisfied, we were off. The problem with this delay was that we were now late to the show. Instead of 5 hours the first day, we were reduced to 2.5 hours.

We got to the show and headed in to check out the show. We separated due to different interests and people to see. At the end of the day was Cross Vegas. The plan was to pick up the Eriksen's and head out to the race around 7ish. Even with a GPS unit in the car, we struggled to find there hotel. We finally found them at 7:30 and headed out. We completely missed the women's race (a trend). We found the beer garden and found a good spot at the top of a hill with a 180 degree turn. The race started and boy was it cool!! A front group of 11 formed and they lit it up!! Not that anyone else was particularly slow, but they couldn't bridge up. As the race developed, those further back began to pick up dollar bills and beers from the crowd. It was a loud and rowdy crowd!! Here is a picture of Molly Cameron with bills tucked in his lid and carrying a beer:



After the race, we headed for sushi. The Osaka Bistro is probably my favorite sushi place ever. We had nine of us and sat at a tatami table. We had a great waiter and basically we told him to just keep bringing whatever the chef was up for, we would let him know when we were done. Great conversation and food ended the evening around 2am.

What a great day!!!!