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Day 4 ... according to Rachel "Rocky" Osborn
Las Vegas

The day began with a call for breakfast. We were hungry beavers! We began walking up and down the strip, grabbing food, sipping drinks, playing slots and shopping for cheap Vegas crap... I mean thoughtful souvenirs. We took some fun pictures out and about.

Our Beaver "Kitty" found the Kitty Club at Mandalay Bay. She was escorted off the stage.
WE won BIG on the world's BIGGEST SLOT machine and sweated like beavers walking in the 115 degree heat.

The highlight of the day was Kangaroo Court poolside at the Paris Hotel. We began promptly at 4:18 pm PST and heinous crime after heinous crime was brought to the judge. And, par for the course, the judge's decisions were unfair, cruel and frickin' hilarious. The pictures of us chillin' at the pool make me wonder if this is REALLY A RUGBY TOUR??? We ended up having drinks and appetizers poolside until it was time to head out for dinner. We loaded up Da Bus and made our way to McMullan's Pub, the rugby team's sponsor bar, for fantastic Shepherd's Pie, Lobster Rolls, Potato Soup and Salmon. We ate and ran as we had FREE tickets to a Hypnotist show at 10:30 pm at the new Planet Hollywood Hotel (formerly Aladdin). Tiffany "T-Hole" and I both went on stage as hopeful volunteers and neither one of us was remotely hypnotized... the catch is that I left the stage and T-Hole faked like she was under and stayed on the stage acting a fool with the rest of the 12 or 13 people that REALLY were hypnotized. The Beavers cheered and were the most rowdy fans in the crowd. T-Hole represented well as she stomped around like a River Dancer, tried to pick up a man in drag (remember Wanda from In Living Color?), and competed in a "lolly pop" licking contest. Let's just leave it at that.

Some of us were so exhausted that we could barely walk back to the hotel while most of the crowd continued to the casinos for some more late night gambling.

One interesting thing today is that I taught Bags and Burns to play Roulette... and created MONSTERS! My next call may be to Gamblers' Anonymous as these two could not get enough of the game tables.

And that is Day 4 according to Rocky.