Today started off slowly. I woke up at about 9-am and opened up my curtains on the 23rd floor of the Stratosphere hotel at the northern tip of the Strip to view my last glance south at the casinos that I had visited on the strip. After taking a bit of a shower, I packed up all of my belongings and went to the front desk to check out. After checking out we left our baggage at the front counter so that we could go to the buffet and have some breakfast / lunch. It was really pretty good and it definitely filled me up. After that we wandered through the casino over to the star-bucks where I used someone's free WIFI there to surf the internet while sitting on the sofa to wait for our shuttle to arrive at 1:45. Another hour or so passed and we went to the front of the hotel, acquired our checked baggage, and sat on the bench waiting for our shuttle to arrive. Once on the shuttle we went straight to the airport which was great. The driver took the highway so that sped things up a bit.
Arriving at the airport we did the self check-in and checked our bags (with the exception of my laptop). After having checked our bags we headed to our gate at terminal D. Security had a bit of a line and I set off the metal detector twice so I was the lucky winner of 'who gets searched' in Vegas. As expected they didn't find any contraband (such as that coke I had earlier). We got on the tram to the Terminal, had a Pretzel, and checked out some of the shops. Right now I'm sitting at my terminal, using power from the airport, on my laptop waiting until 5:55 local time (here it is 3:55). For now I think that I'll just be surfing the net and listening to some audio stuff before we go.
I really miss a lot of my friends and I'm dying to see the condition of my new apartment. I'm curious to see what my room-mates have been up to.

Until later,

Chris