Conquer Fear of Flying – Part 1

 Wednesday 

Breakfast is from Starbucks after Pierre sleeps for 12 hours – and then we’re off. 

We walk to the Las Vegas Sign and take the requisite picture. Then to Mandalay Bay to find the Border Grill – check. 4 miles later we’re back to the hotel to change jackets.

Lunch is at Samurai BBQ in Chinatown, as seen by Pierre on a Mikey Chen YouTube video. Ordered a combo American Wagyu and a bite of A5 from Japan. Lynn added French Fries and Pierre mushrooms and cucumber kimchi and had a couple of pieces of smoked beef tongue for dessert !!! Accompanied by Sapporo drafts and a very helpful server, a fantastic meal if not an unusual meal. 

Lunch at Samurai BBQ in Chinatown – Delicious

We walk around Chinatown which is a bunch of strip malls. Lots of noodles places and probably sketchy massage parlors. Lyft it to Treasure Island in search of a bar previously visited but the place has changed – is it gone? We never found out. We take the monorail to the Mirage (what’s the story with the volcano?) in search of a bar. It’s not easy to find one (lots closed) but finally do – The Center Bar appropriately name in the center of the casino.

This evening we are taking a helicopter tour. It’s a 10 minute flight seeing all of the sites along the Strip. We pass over zig zag lights which Pierre is determined to find that street. More on that later…

Dinner is at Ester’s Kitchen in the Arts District, which is a very hopping place. Excellent food and wine – especially the sour dough bread but then again Ellen’s bread is tops!  Pierre can’t stop commenting he is sitting across from a multi-tattooed (like the face) person wearing a black leather jacket with ‘Night Weapons’ written in white in the back, as well as a burgundy beret. Keeps saying the words ‘night weapons’, searches the internet for a meaning that was not to come. Oh how much fun can we have people watching. 

We walk to the street corner to call for our car and there in front of us is find the street with the zigzag lights that we saw in the helicopter. We call for a Lyft and Lynn states that waiting for more than 2 minutes will now be fully unacceptable.