Baseball... and Wind

Hello from the Stratosphere in Vegas!

I'm sort of online... and I really hope this posts. I'm on wireless which is supposedly offered here, but you have to pay for it. ($10 per day) But at $10 per day, I'm thinking I should be getting a bit better signal than just 2 bars out of 5. Why can't Cingular do hot spots? ;)

Anyway, we hit the UNLV baseball stadium today to see the Arizona Wildcats play the UNLV Rebels. The U of A had won the previous 2 games but they lost this afternoon's so it wasn't a complete sweep. It was fun sitting out watching the game, especially since I was playing with an electronic device for most of it. ;) I was keeping score on my Palm OS PDA using a program called ScorePad which is really cool. It tracks live stats throughout the game and can even sync the stats back to a desktop system to maintain season stats. It would probably be really cool for a little league or minor league team to use.

What wasn't fun was the wind. Gusting to over 40mph at times, it just got too much for us. Thank goodness the stadium faces northeast and the winds were pretty much at our backs. The stands behind us broke much of the wind but occasionally there was a pretty big gust.

After the game, we drove up and checked in here at the Stratosphere. This is probably my favorite hotel as far as location and affordability goes. Located way north on Las Vegas Blvd, it's situated far from the traffic jams that occur in the main drag of the strip, yet close enough to allow you to get down to the action quickly if you wanted. It's also fairly close to Fremont Street and the downtown action, so all-in-all a fairly good spot. And at just $40 a night, you can't go wrong. ;)

Anyway, we walked through Luxor and spent some time at the slots, but never won anything. Tomorrow we have tickets to see "Phantom" and that looks to be pretty cool.