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The day finally arrived for the Natural History auction at the Venetian Casino. I’ve been waiting a long time to see this action. Real, honest to goodness, dinosaur skeletons were on the auction block. And it happened in Las Vegas! Unlike the jewelry auction, there was hardly an empty chair in the former Guggenheim Museum in the Venetian Casino on this day. There were even people standing in the back of the room throughout the auction. The action started with fossilized leaves and small fish, but it got to the good stuff rather quickly. There were only 42 lots to sell and “Samson”, the T. Rex, was number twenty-three. In speaking with Tom Lindgren, the Co-Director of Natural History at Bonhams & Butterfields, he had told me he thought the bidding could go as high as ten million dollars. A less important discovery, “Sue”, another Tyrannosaurus rex ... Read the full blog post...

Today was the Salon Jewelry auction by Bonhams & Butterfields at the Venetian in Las Vegas. So many totally awesome items were for sale. There were plenty of rings, watches of all types, necklaces, brooches and oddball pins. I watched for a couple of hours to get a feel for how this works. The one I’m really looking forward to is the Natural History auction where they are going to sell “Samson”, the Tyrannosaurs Rex, a Wooly Mammoth and a whole lot of other fossils and skeletons. That will take place on October 3rd, 2009. This auction was tied in with both Los Angeles and San Francisco. People were bidding live even though they were not physically present. Each location had their own auctioneer. The auctioneers would rotate with one leading the auction from Las Vegas, then they would switch. There were ... Read the full blog post...

I took a little drive down the strip this morning because I needed to go to the Bellagio Casino for something. I’ll get into that in a later story. I enjoy driving on the Vegas strip in the mornings. It is so car free! It isn’t really, there are plenty of cars in the morning but you can actually get somewhere. They aren’t all jammed up and dodging ambulances. Plus, in the mornings I can always park in my favorite area in the Bellagio parking garage. It is right near the door on the ground level. Call me lazy, but I really look forward to that spot. It is such an easy in and easy out. I love it. The problem with the Bellagio self parking is getting to the Bellagio self parking. In the evenings there is a very, very long ... Read the full blog post...

There is a new game of Roulette at The Orleans Casino in Las Vegas. The creator of table games, Casino Gaming, LLC, came up with this new idea. They have also created the Blackjack betting option Automatic Win™ and the craps betting option 7 Point 7™. This new betting option is called COLORS and The Orleans is the first casino in Las Vegas to have it. COLORS allows you to bet that either red or black will hit three consecutive times in a row. The normal Roulette rules do still apply, you just have an this additional option of betting that the red or black will hit three times in a row. If your chosen color does win three times in a row then you are paid 8 to 1. So, if you bet $10 that Red will come up three times and it does, then you are ... Read the full blog post...

The first time I ever set my foot down in Las Vegas, is when I exited my boyfriend's beat up, olive green, VW Bug, in 1975. I graduated High School that year. As the custom was in Southern California at the time, you all piled in buses and went to Disneyland. Being the more 'interesting' type of kid at seventeen, I took off for Vegas with my first love. He had a brother living there and we thought we'd have some fun with him and his wife for a few days in Fabulous Las Vegas. It has been a very long time really and my memories have faded, but I do remember still some of the good stuff of the trip. The boyfriend, well, let's just say I try to block that memory. I learned some real lessons there. Vegas, on the other hand, ... Read the full blog post...

I spent the night at the Luxor a few nights ago. I got a room in the East Tower for the night. It was great to see a show and just go to my room and fall into bed just like you tourists get to! The Luxor has some really interesting exhibits going on all the time. I really enjoyed the Titanic exhibit when I saw it earlier this year, although it left me a bit bummed out. They do a good job of showing you some of the reality of it all. I haven’t been in The Body’s exhibit because I took a biology course at the University of Utah and I’m afraid between the cadavers in the lab and also doing my duty on the Havre Kadisha committee, I think I’ve seen all the dead bodies I’m in the mood for just now. ... Read the full blog post...