My Holiday Weekend

I had a good Thanksgiving Weekend. To start it off I went to a Godsmack / Metallica concert Wednesday night at the San Diego Sports Arena. Ordinarily not the type of show I would go to (I'm too mellow for those high energy shows), but nonetheless it was good. Godsmack opened, and they were real good. Then of course everyone went nuts when Metallica came on. It was too loud in there, and at times I couldn't tell what they were playing, but I have been told that the acoustics in the Sports Arena suck.

Then I spent Thanksgiving Day with my girlfriends' family. And on Friday we headed out to Las Vegas for two nights. Vegas is always fun, although the weather was quite cold and windy (by desert standards), in the 40s during the day. I didn't win big, but I came home with money which is always a bonus when you spend your weekend in casinos.

We tried to get out to the Hoover Dam, but the traffic was backup up quite a bit so we turned around and went back to the hotel. The excitement for the weekend came when we almost got hit by a plywood sized piece of paneling that fell off the top of the MGM Grand tower. That's how strong the wind was...

Then to top it off, it took 8 hours to get back to San Diego, because people drive like crazy and when you're in the middle of the desert there is no where to get on or off the highway, and traffic bunches up. We hit one accident which stopped us for about half an hour, then for no real reason at all we were going around 20mph for about 2 hours (still about 60 miles out of Barstow), and then it cleared up out of nowhere and was fine the rest of the way home. But going that slow in the middle of NOWHERE with no option of getting off the highway is not fun, I can tell you that.