I went to Vegas last week, that was fun as hell. I went down for NeonCon, they had a LARP section that the Las Vegas domain for the Camarilla was hosting. It ran Oct 29-Nov 2nd, which meant HALLOWEEN IN VEGAS!!! My local Domain prompted to skip ICC to go to this as it was cheaper, closer and on Halloween.

Thursday Oct 30 2008
I went with Stacie, Don and Futch, there where two other cars. We got there around 4pm Thursday, checked in than rested for a bit before gambling than walking the strip. Treasure Island looked very cool from outside, I didn't get to see the show though which make me sad. I did get to see the water show at the Bellagio, that was pretty cool. After walking the strip for a bit we all meet up at Planet Hollywood and hopped on a bus and headed down to Fremont Street, the old strip. The 10+ of us loud and a bit drunk must of been friggin obnoxious on the bus, the locals seemed to not notice us and the tourists sat on the other end of the bus, must of been freaked out. Once we got to Fremont I got lots of free beads and booze while playing penny slots. Than got a massive drink of yummy mudslide doom. Once we had our Yard drinks, Cocktails (I feel like a lush) and beads, we headed back onto the street and watched the ceiling thing show video of hot chicks in sexy Firefighter uniforms. Sex doesn't sell in Vegas, not at ALL. The entire time my buddy Jared freaking out cause he wanted to go to his first strip club and we where all watching the ceiling. A random guy tried to give us "free" stuff, we ran away as he was creepy and nothing is free in Vegas. We went into the strip club, it was a nice one too. We all sat on the runway thing and watch pretty cute girls, okay looking girls and leather faces dance naked for us, I went through my $10 in ones pretty quickly. Stacie and I where the only ones who did not get a lap dance, I paid $20 to get in there, I was just going to sit back and watch. Erin blow $40 on two girls, Jared $200 on two girls (but won it back the next day, and Mike blow $400 on one girl. You can tell the boys had issues holding onto money. However, Mike did throw up on the stripper, I think he gave her more cash cause he felt bad. After the strip club we all stumbled around drunkly in other casinos and eventually made it to a cab and back to the hotel. Mmm drunken sleep.

Friday Oct 31st 2008
I woke up very early for being up till 3am. Very slowly got ready and went down to the Circus, Circus buffet. I had a huge plate of food than my hang over hit. Suck. I didn't eat nearly 10 bucks worth of food, oh well. We walked down to the shop area and saw Ben and Erin they ate and said to hold up and we could all do the tourist thing. Mike ended up meeting us too. We went to the M&Ms store and the Choke a Chola store. Much stuff was bought. We went to the MGM to see the Lion Enclosure, it was closed. Anger! We did end up going to the Secret Garden and seeing Lions, Tigers, Dolphins and Lamas, oh my! Went back to the hotel, got ready for game and went to Vampire. Game was slow and I was tired. Went back, changed eat cheesecake and bed.

Saturday Nov 1st
Breakfast, than Changeling. That was a lot of fun, I met Juliet from the Vegas game, I've know her through online RP for ages now. The game was crazy fun and Gerri lost Morality. At break went to Lunch, back to the Hotel and changed for the next Vampire game. Vampire rocked, Ze've almost reset the local venue. Went back to the hotel, packed, ate dinner than crashed.

Sunday Nov 2nd
Checked out, loaded stuff into the car, checked out the Luxor than home. I will have to say the Luxor looks huge, than you go inside and it's friggin tiny. I was angry at the lack of Egyptian type stuff, everything was just pyramids.

I didn't get to go to any shows which made me sad. No rides, also sad, and I didn't get to take my time, sad. I will have to go again with just the chicka. It was a blast all in all and all the saving and being broke for months so we could go, SO WORTH IT!

Pictures below.

Las Vegas Oct 2008

Rant on Prop 8, the church and who I am.

I've heard a few people saw things to the effect of "It's about time you realized how bad the LDS church is." Okay - there is nothing to realize. I've always known exactly where the church stands on what in everything and still supported them cause there where things I believed in. And there are still things I believe in. I did not do the "right" or "Wrong" thing when I sent in my letter of resignation, it was just what I did. I felt the church did many things it said they would never do, and went about it as sneaky as they could. As long as I have been a member of the church, when it came to voting they said do your homework, do research get a good ideas of all parties involved, and make sure you have your facts, after that pray about it and the Lord will guide you.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:9

All of a sudden, a new prophet is running the church and there reversing there word. Gorden B Hinkley would never of done this. The fact that the church did things like have each ward in Utah donate $2,000 to make the money add up so they could get there tax exempt status makes me sick. The church is doing exactly the things they said they would never do and I feel this is yet another dark spot on the church history books. Yes, for a very long time I've been a bisexual and a member of the church. Guess what? I was LDS before I figured out I liked girls and was active in the church when I knew it was lingering there. Being a bisexual is a big part of me and my life, I have been this way for a long time but I have been LDS longer. I may have left the church, but I still support some of there ideals.

Let me get this straght I do not believe in organized religion. I think its crap, and I think every organized religion is out for them selfs in the end and they always will be. I've seen people of every religion act high and mighty, I see it everyday. The Mormons are just one of them. Call them what you want, I know your religion has a million flaws too, weather you think so or not, at lest I acknowledge mine.