Sunday, October 20th (continued)<br><br>[color:blue] Casinos and Side Trips </font color=blue><br><br><br>"One Pee Emm, max!!" "click!"<br><br>I could check in, or at least give my stuff to the bell service to put in their storage at the Orleans, at any time on Sunday. Check out at Terrible's is 11am, but it's always worth trying for a late check out. <br><br>My game plan was to drop off a half a weeks laundry at Arrow Laundry, a place i felt i had a vested interest in by this time, go back to Terrible's, eat, check out, stuff in trunk and down the street to the hardrock, leave the Hardrock and pick up laundry when ready, go to the Orleans and check in. The extra two hours gave me enough time to do this.<br><br>After the laundry drop off, checking out, getting my credit cards from the cage deposit box and putting my stuff in the trunk of the rental car, i went back into terrible's, got a cheeseburger at McDonalds and stood at the sports bar and watched the last quarter of the Buffalo/Miami Game.<br><br>It was time to end my time at Terrible's and i played VP on the way out. Lost $20, down $20 for the day.<br><br>The Hardrock Hotel is a pleasure doing business with. It's the most easy to navigate of major casino i've ever been in. It's condensed, it has all the good stuff but none of the walking and the turned around, lost in a casino, (because that's the way we designed it) features of other casinos. There's a very wide, shiny, hardwood floor, a circle encompassing the entire casino. The floor is raised and the main casino activity within the circle can be easily observed. If you were walking around on the expansive walkway, in a counter clockwise direction, the sunken casino floor would be on your left and on your right would be the border of the floor, beginning an outer circle where the entrances to the spots book, restaurants, bars, high stakes area, showroom, night club, mall/( and on to the parking garage) hallway to the rooms/elevators, ect. are located. All neatly accessible off the circle as you walk around. Think space station with a lot of babes running around. In the middle of the sunken casino rises the famous Center Bar of The Hardrock Hotel and Casino. I didn't get a chance to see the pool area, equally famous for the same reasons. <br><br>I was glad to see the same dealer from the day before at the Pai Gow table. She was very personable and talked about her eighteen years in the casino business and how much she liked living in Vegas. Bob Dylan was playing in the show room that night. In the back of my mind i remembered that Bob Dylan was playing at the Hardrock the week i was there. When i asked her about it, she said, yes, he's here tonight. It stuck in my mind because she said it with interest, but not with the emphasis that you would expect, considering the fact it was a big name headliner. I understood the reason for this. The Hardrock is unique in a lot of ways, one of which is big name rock that is constantly playing there. Melissa Etheridge, The Who, The Eagles ect. What would be a big deal at other hotels, Bob Dylan is another of the great legendary bands and performers that play the Hardrock regularly. Had a great time at the Hardrock as always. Lost $65, down $85 for the day.<br><br>I dropped the laundry off at about 11:30am and it was scheduled to be done at 3:pm, After leaving the Hardrock about 5pm i picked up the laundry, it came to about $8. I didn't ask, but i think it's a $1 a pound to wash it only. It would probably cost $8 for one shirt to be washed and ironed from the valet service of most hotels. <br><br>I checked in and spent the rest of the night at the Orleans Hotel and Casino.<br><br>The Orleans has an 18 screen state of the art sound and seating (big rockers, steep, with no possible obstruction from people sitting in front of you) theater complex, BIG screens. The theaters are upstairs, the Orleans is a big place. I spent a considerable amount of time on the internet checking every one of the movies that would be playing while i was there. I narrowed it down to <br>a Robert De Niro movie that sounded great. But, movies never entered my mind. No posters around, there's never anything in a casino to remind you to do anything but stay in the casino. <br><br>I got some scrambled eggs for $3.50 in the excellent coffee shop, won $10 playing VP at the lounge bar, lost $65 at Pai Gow and went up to the room that's bigger and better than it looks in this pic, watched some T.V. and got eight and a half hours sleep.<br>Lost $135 for the day.<br>