Day 115

Road-trip to Vegas baby!!!

We woke up and immediately got going practically. We had a good amount of driving left and when I say we I mean rocklicker as his name is the only one on the car. We stopped for breakfast at a small casino diner. We are so used to California prices that I felt like I was stealing from them. It’s also so sad to see ppl in a small town already at a casino at 8:30 in the morning. Like what the fuck. Caleb has some pretty good music taste. I knew a good amount of his songs. Good lil mash up. I think one of the highest compliments is when someone likes a song you suggest. Everytime I would put in a request, Caleb would nod along and give me a “damn this shit is good face” which felt very validating. Nothing really to report on the drive. It’s a drive. It’s boring. Everyone is uncomfortable and everyone is never the same temperature. As we got into Vegas, the smoke became thicker and thicker and it became hotter and hotter. Truly so nasty. Our first stop was a thrift store. I got two outfits, and a shirt I just liked lol. Sorry mom and dad if you see my clubbing outfit in advance. Everyone got a good fit and then we were off to go get makeup. Sparse and didn’t get everything I wanted but it’s okay. Klara and I planned the bachelorette as the guys were going go-karting. I booked the girls an escape room and then we planned to go to a karaoke bar after as Leonie loves karaoke. We all met at the hotel. It was so weird to see Marc all cleaned up lol. He had a hair cut and shaved and everything. So used to the hiker trash look. We chilled in the hotel room for a bit before deciding to go to Olive Garden as we have been talking about it all trail as the breadsticks and salad are unlimited. I don’t think I’ve been doing unlimited right as my stomach is truly fucked up and I hate being uncomfortable after I eat. Caleb says it’s just something I have to deal with but I truly truly truly hate being uncomfortable especially if it means I might throw up. My meal was 2000 cal psi the carb-o-load was great. We then went back to the hotel before walking to the escape room. Vegas stinks. I hate this city but love it at the same time for shit like this. Could never imagine living here. We barely made it to the escape room as we didn’t realize it was on the complete other side of Cesar’s palace. We decided to do the god rich theme as it was a good American experience for Leonie and Klara who are both international lol. We fucking killed that shit and loved it. I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun. It was just us three too so no randoms. There were three rooms (I love a multi room escape room). First one was easy and we got into the cabin quickly. The second one we had some troubles. There was a rifle lol and we didn’t know what to do with it so we did have to use a hint. Secondly, they had a BB gun where you got to shoot the “animals” down and the safety got all messed up so the game master let us skip it. We all tried it and it didn’t work and then after we had skipped it Leonie went back and it worked again. It was just sticky I think. We got through the second room and there was a slide down into the “mines.” Rocklicker would’ve had a field day with it as he works in the mines lol. We made sure to take lots of pictures but they are all on klaras phone so I will add them later. I was screaming out of joy practically the entire time. Klara was killing it and doing maths and getting that shit done. In the end we all ended up “blowing up” the mine, giggling and gaggling as we went. We finished with 11 minutes to spare. The game master came in and was electric with us, taking pictures and endlessly complimenting us about how fun we were to watch. It was klaras first escape room and I think she’s hooked. After we walked to smelly cat which is a karaoke bar and got up on the cat walk. Leonie was so kind to buy us drinks which I got the single ladies one and it came with a ring pop. I was sucking on that for the rest of the night. Peonies and klaras drink came with a plastic crown. It was so cute watching them come up the stairs withe drinks as I held down the fort at the tables. Karaoke was so fun. Some really good singers and some really bad ones. I think karaoke is only meant for bad singers personally. If you are good it’s takes away from the experience. I should say you have to be mediocre so I don’t lose my hearing listening to your tone deaf voice. One of my favorite songs sang was diggy diggy hole. Everyone please go listen to that. There were also some songs that you knew people just wanted to show off but were absolutely not the vibe. Two girls sang two very sad songs. Don’t bring that energy into Vegas. One of them was a good singer and one was bad. It was just awkward. We stayed until 12 when they shut down and headed back to the hotel. We got lost at first but I had to take over like the true wilderness specialist I am (navigation wise) and walk these fools back to the hotel. Of course I was always 20 feet in front of them bc I walk fast and these people are so slow but we all made it back safely to eat our cold delicious pasta. Another hot take: most foods taste better cold. Klara and I are on the pull out tonight but we will be upgrading to the bed tomorrow. Overall, great fucking day. This is also my first time off trail. Most people have already had a lil vacation off trail but this is my first time. So fun but I don’t want to lose the trail mindset.

Also after being in the woods for so long so fucking wierd to be in one of the most industrial/commercial places ever. Truly traumatizing and overstimulating.