Heir To Magic

Dang Sea-Tac airport wanted to charge me to log into the connection there, and the by the time I got home and settled in enough to think about turning on my home computer I had already bypassed the time for getting a post in on the 13th, so I have officially missed one day on the NaBloPoMo.  Ah well, I’m not in this for prizes or anything anyway, just for the fun of getting things posted to this site and getting myself thinking about my need to be writing on Heir to Magic every day.  That is the most important reason for participating in NaBloPoMo for me.

I’m home though, and downloading mass e-mails I had not got to check in Vegas.  I also need to get back into writing, double-timing it even.  I know I can write 80,000+ words in a month, so I have a LOT of catching up to do for NaNoWriMo and see if I can maybe write 50,000 words in 15 days.  LOL  That’ll be a killer.  But, I know I can make that goal, as long as the muses for Magic of Love don’t flee away from me and leave me with nothing to write about.  So… cry havok and let loose the muses of war!

I am sitting at the gate at McCarran Airport waiting to board the flight to Sea-Tac in about half an hour.  Then, oh the joy, I have an 8 hour layover.  Hint to stop working on the future of my business and log into my sites and update my business of today.

I’m exhausted and have not got enough sleep, keep falling asleep working on computer.

It was a great trip though, Blog World Expo and PostieCon and the Tao and …. well, there was a LOT of things that there was to do and the little I played on slot machines I won.  Got CSI stuff too, hoodie and t-shirt and long sleeved shirt anf hat.  Need to make me some sweat pants for it now and I’ll have a full CSI running outfit.

Gal at Starbucks saw my hat and was uncertain on if I was a fan or some sort of special agent.  :::shaking head::: Hat was on my travel bear at the time. (long story)

Asleep now, going to find iced coffee to wake me up.  Will write more in Sea-Tac

They have imploded the Frontier hotel in Las Vegas.  It was a lovely send off, spectacular fireworks display that lasted for six minutes, I even caught some of that on video.  Then it lead up to a fake fuse made up of arcs of fireworks cascading up to the hotel and starting off a countdown on the front of the hotel, I could not see that from my angle, I was looking at the back of the hotel.  They had it on the local news, a huge countdown across the front of the hotel and then a specially designed image of a plunger dropping down to detonate the building.  It took only seconds for the explosions to start appearing in the hotel, then it collapsed into a plume of dust that billowed high into the air and drifted off between the towers of the Wynn.  Circus Circus was in my humble opinion the best place to watch from unless you could get a room in that Trump tower over there – but I think I read that is not yet opened.

They did justice to the Frontier being demolished though, I will give them that.  It was a lovely send off for the old hotel.  I’ll post video for it as soon as I get back to Alaska where my video editing programs are and I can fix it for upload to YouTube.

Okay, I am happy.  I went down to the casino and picked up the $25 gambling coupon that I got for checking into the Circus Circus and gave them my e-mail address for another $5 in play, so I got $30 worth of play credits from Circus Circus.  Went looking for a quarter machine and found a penny one that had a dragon theme to it.  I was caught, I knew that machine was the one for me.  I mean, knights and dragons! What more do you want?  So I played the $30 out on that machine, started with just $1 in case I did not like it then kept playing a little more and a little more and just stuck with that same machine.

I know I was bad in that I did not play the max amount, but I wanted to have fun for as long as I could before I came back up to watch them demolish the Frontier.  By the time I walked away from playing the machine I had hit several bonus rounds, where knights jousted (my black knight kicked ass on the white knight more than 8 out of 10 times. And I made my way through three dragon mazes.  First one I made to the end, but did not get the big treasure, second time the dragon caught me.  Third time I got the key to the treasure and maded $5 in bonuses for that alone, in addition to the money I had from the maze and the money from play.  That one was nice.

I took Kenny Rogers’ advice and did not count my money while I was sitting at the tab le, cased my collected slips in and went back to my room and added it all up – I walked away from the penny slot with $49.90.  And I did not take all the winnings I could have, I had played some of it back into the machine. 

And I still get a free after dinner show in a little while when they implode the Frontier Hotel.  I was just looking, it is 1 a.m. and the police have began blocking streets off, I can see the flashing lights on top their cars.  An hour and a half to go before the Frontier is no more.  :::whines::: I miss it already.

I am sitting here at the desk in my room in the Skyrise tower at Circus Circus waiting to see if they really are going to be imploding the frontier at 2:30 in the morning.  That is the word I have been getting from the taxi drivers around here, and me and the woman in the business center looked it up online and it looked like what their plans were.  Or at least the page said as long as thier plans were approved, but I think it would have been cancled by this afternoon if the plans were not going to be gone through with.

This is not just a hotel that is passing away, it is a part of America.  Opened in 1942 the Wild West themed Frontier was the first themed casino on the Las Vegas Strip.  More than that, I understand from what I have been reading that it was at the Frontier that Las Vegas was introduced to Elvis Presley when he  performed in Las Vegas for the first time at the Frontier in 1956.

MSNBC is advertising that they will be airing the implosion live on News 3 in Las Vegas – that is channel 22 if you are at the Circus Circus tonight.

I will be recording it with my little camera from my window at Circus Circus.  Should be one of the best seats in the city for viewing this event.  This is my view out onto the Frontier:

It is all primed with explosives now and ready to go off into the sunset. The strip will not be the same without the Frontier being here, which makes me glad that I was able to see it one last time before it was demolished.

There are some things that can never be errased from the hearts of those who have known Vegas for decades and one of those things will be the Frontier.  I for one shall be saddened to see it follow the cowboys along that dusty trail into the sunset, and hold memories of it as dearly as I hold the memories I have of cowboys.