Saturday 17th December 2011

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The other song was "I owe you nothing"!

[13:35 PST]

The Trump hotel here offers a late check-out facility which means we are still in our room, letting the time tick by until we need to get the taxi back to the airport. We're all checked in, even got the boarding passes printed off. The bags appear to be all safely under the limit.

We didn't rush to get up this morning, indeed the plan was just to get up and pack then chill in the room before leaving. However, two events conspired to foil that plan. One, Linda decided she just HAD to have one more visit to Nordstrom, which in all fairness is literally just over the road from our hotel. Second, I discovered a $15.50 casino credit from the Palazzo in my wallet, tucked in amongst the many many many receipts I'm still carrying around. So this conundrum meant we had to take a trip out, via the Fashion show Mall, onto the Palazzo and spend those last few dollars in the slots to win bugger-all once more. Still, that's what Vegas seems to be for us!

Walked back to the hotel and we're now back up in the room sitting relaxing for another half hour or so before our long trip back to the UK. Flight is now showing as leaving the US at 17:05 PST (01:05 GMT), arriving back in the UK 10 hours later.

[15:20 PST]

At the airport now. We got a car from the hotel to the airport. Not a taxi as such, one of the in hotel cars. We'd asked for a car big enough to cope with our four bags, so they suggested one of their big old SUVs which has an enormous boot! We were through security pretty quickly as the area was pretty deserted when we arrived. The area around the gate looks a little more busy.

Oddly, the gate times say that the flight will be on-time at 16:35, not the 17:05 that the on-line information is (still) predicting.