I was up at 5 AM again today. I don’t seem to be adjusting to the time change very well. I couldn’t stop thinking about having to do a room change so I got ready and called the front desk to see if it was ok if I did it at 7 am. They said fine so I switched and I was thrilled to have all my appliances immediately connect as soon as I walked in the door of the new room. I sat on the bed and got to work on the trip report for an hour and suddenly it hit me. I left my cash in the safe in the previous room!!! I didn’t have the keys anymore because they had told me to leave them in the room. So I went tearing back down to the desk (as much as it is possible for me to tear) and told them what I had done. They gave me another key and the room had not been touched yet, thank goodness. That is the second time in my life I have done that.
My new room faces Main Street Station so it made me want to visit and try their current buffet. The sidewalk by the Plaza is closed due to the construction so I crossed the street only to be confronted with a person who was quite clearly in some kind of altered state. It was just him and me on the sidewalk and I had no desire to get closer to him so I ducked into Circa and asked them if they had a back door that opened onto Ogden. They do, but they didn’t seem very clear about it. I wandered through the casino towards the back of the property and there were doors but a man was controlling them and he let me out. Anyhow I managed to circumvent a meeting with the strange fella and went into MSS. If you zoom in on the video you can see the fella in question and the little dance he was doing.
As everyone has noted, poor Main Street is practically deserted. So sad to see. I made my way over to the buffet. I remember paying $14 for it. Now the weekday buffet brunch is $26 and open from 8 am to 2 pm. The buffet itself was partially closed in places and doesn’t have the same variety it used to. There was no Asian section but maybe they put that out later. Everything I ate was tasty. No pecan pie anymore, sniffle. I was talking to the waitress about how dead it was now. Makes me very depressed. They need to do something to attract business again or I fear they are in trouble.
After eating I wondered whether my beloved old Loose Deuce machines were around and I was surprised to see there were there. So even though I no longer have a functioning Boyd card I sat down and stuck in a $100 ( or $200) to see if it remembered me and would give me those glorious 2500 coin deuces. It did not. Sigh….
I left MSS and walked over to Circa. What is it with Vegas and bumpy GD sidewalks? If it is not cobblestones, it is brick, and if it is not brick it is whatever the hell this stuff is! ( See picture) I notice surfaces a lot now that I have some walking issues. Anyway, I went in Circa’s back door because I knew I had 75 dollars in free play. I spotted my Wicked Wheel Fire and Ice and played that. I got a few bonuses but that is one machine that sucks up your money really quickly. It was noon by now and I was ready for a nap.
I returned to the Plaza and went to my room for a rest. Around 3 I showered and got ready to go out. At 5 pm I went to Oscar’s lounge to have a good Rusty Nail in a real glass glass! I enjoyed my beverage then went to the casino. I played Wicked Wheel for a bit but then returned to the bank of old Game Kings that I often sit at. While I was sitting there, trying to get a premium hand or two, a man from two machines down held up that enhanced picture of me and said “Excuse me but is this you?” Of course I answered in the affirmative. I am actually amazed that he could recognize me from that picture. It turns out that he is a huge fan of all things Vegas and has been reading my stuff for years. He is a private person so prefers not to post or participate, but he knows all about the Vegas community. We had the most lovely conversation, probably the nicest conversation I have had in years. I really enjoyed meeting you, if you are out there reading this. It made my night.
I continued to wrestle with my machine but it wasn’t giving up any deuces tonight. Dinner was just a Big Mac I grabbed on my way to the room. This particular location has done away with the menus that used to grace their walls and now you have to deal with this automated sign thing to order your food. Annoying.
Here are some pictures from today. The message I was getting when my wifi wouldn’t connect, construction in front of the Plaza, the crazy dude, Circa, the darn bumpy sidewalk, how empty MSS is, my buffet etc
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