Still missing several recent events in the blog, along with Cirque part 2, I will catch up. In the meantime, I took a quick trip out for lunch today, to catch up with the new slider truck in town.
This was only their second day out on the road, but they were very happy and friendly to have some adventurous Twitter folks join them for lunch. @PokerVixen and I headed out there around 2pm this afternoon, to their location in a parking lot at Buffalo & Flamingo.
I ordered two of the Pep Pep Sliders ($2 each), classic burger with tomato, lettuce, cheese & bacon, along with a secret sauce of the thousand island variety. Joined it with a lovely glass bottle, real sugar coke for a filling and satisfying meal.
We chatted with Ricardo the driving force behind the truck and watched as the nearby high school kids also stopped in for a burger or soda. There were also many gawkers driving by on Buffalo wondering what was going on. I will definitely be looking up the Slider Truck again in the near future.
The Slider Truck can be found on Twitter (@SliderTruck), Facebook and at their website. You can also check out my Foodspotting submission for a picture of the meal.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Cirque Viva Elvis Bloggers Night Part 1
We were back with Cirque a couple weeks ago to celebrate the opening of their newest show, Viva Elvis. This newest resident show is hosted at the new Aria Hotel in City Center.
It was my first opportunity to visit the recently opened City Center and although we spent most of the time in the Aria, over all the place was very impressive. My party arrived early to pick up our tickets, and were nearly rundown by Gene Simmons body guards. Quite an auspicious start to the evening.
We made our way to the ticket booth, procured our passes and headed out to explore the Aria before the show. We took a tour around the second and first floors, checking out the bars and looking for a place to have a drink. We finally settled on the centrally located City Bar for one of their signature cocktails. Some other friends found us there (thanks GoWalla!) and joined us there for a pre show drink.
We headed back up to the theater and watched a bit of the "Blue Carpet", most of the stars waited until really late to start heading into the show. There was really too many cameras and press to get a really good look at the folks "arriving". They had been partying at a pre show event next to the "Blue Carpet".
We all ended up heading into the show to find our seats, since we were scattered in a few different sections. @Stormyiz and I ended up in a row with some other friends and in a good spot to watch the celebreties. Notable, along with our decriptors were:
Chris "Mr Big" Noth, actually we watch the Good Wife, his current show, so we keep telling people how good a show it is.
Lawrence Fishburn, yeah the guy from the Matrix.
Hilton Perez, who cares, but apparently he knows that really short guy Ryan Seacrest.
Jeff Probst who looked just like he does on Survivor with little rolled up sleeves and epalets, I should talk, I just
purchased stock in epaleted shirts. The eighties are back!
That guy from Prison Break.
Regis Philbin and his wife, who ignored the ushers request to wait for someone to bring you to your seat, she thought we
had their row and they needed 3 seats, not the 2 empties between us and another couple.
Andrew Dice "you can see him from space" Clay
NPH, the NPH, with his bow tie shirt and boyfriend. If I have to explain this one, you really shouldn't be reading my blog, or back to the 2008 entries and figure out.
We spotted some others, but really there were a lot of Vegas celebs and minor tv celebs, still it was fun if you watch tv. A lot of our friends apparently do not, hence the interesting descriptors.
So on with show, in the next blog post, forthcoming.
It was my first opportunity to visit the recently opened City Center and although we spent most of the time in the Aria, over all the place was very impressive. My party arrived early to pick up our tickets, and were nearly rundown by Gene Simmons body guards. Quite an auspicious start to the evening.
We made our way to the ticket booth, procured our passes and headed out to explore the Aria before the show. We took a tour around the second and first floors, checking out the bars and looking for a place to have a drink. We finally settled on the centrally located City Bar for one of their signature cocktails. Some other friends found us there (thanks GoWalla!) and joined us there for a pre show drink.
We headed back up to the theater and watched a bit of the "Blue Carpet", most of the stars waited until really late to start heading into the show. There was really too many cameras and press to get a really good look at the folks "arriving". They had been partying at a pre show event next to the "Blue Carpet".
We all ended up heading into the show to find our seats, since we were scattered in a few different sections. @Stormyiz and I ended up in a row with some other friends and in a good spot to watch the celebreties. Notable, along with our decriptors were:
Chris "Mr Big" Noth, actually we watch the Good Wife, his current show, so we keep telling people how good a show it is.
Lawrence Fishburn, yeah the guy from the Matrix.
Hilton Perez, who cares, but apparently he knows that really short guy Ryan Seacrest.
Jeff Probst who looked just like he does on Survivor with little rolled up sleeves and epalets, I should talk, I just
purchased stock in epaleted shirts. The eighties are back!
That guy from Prison Break.
Regis Philbin and his wife, who ignored the ushers request to wait for someone to bring you to your seat, she thought we
had their row and they needed 3 seats, not the 2 empties between us and another couple.
Andrew Dice "you can see him from space" Clay
NPH, the NPH, with his bow tie shirt and boyfriend. If I have to explain this one, you really shouldn't be reading my blog, or back to the 2008 entries and figure out.
We spotted some others, but really there were a lot of Vegas celebs and minor tv celebs, still it was fun if you watch tv. A lot of our friends apparently do not, hence the interesting descriptors.
So on with show, in the next blog post, forthcoming.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Catching Up
Falling behind on the ole blogging, I have one huge event in the Cirque Viva Elvis premier that I am working on now, trying to knock that out. There were some other small events in the past few weeks that may or may not end up getting covered, including a Hilton Tweetup, Snug Crawl and others.
Upcoming is the Lake Las Vegas Beer Fest in a couple Saturdays, St. Patrick's Day and many Gowalla inspired trips. Hoping to get caught up soon, really need to start pushing from the mobile again, because I am out there busy doing these things, leaving little time to write about them!
Upcoming is the Lake Las Vegas Beer Fest in a couple Saturdays, St. Patrick's Day and many Gowalla inspired trips. Hoping to get caught up soon, really need to start pushing from the mobile again, because I am out there busy doing these things, leaving little time to write about them!
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