Jubilee!



We arrived at Newark Airport at 7:52 for a 9:30 flight. Yeah, we're punctual like that. Upon our arrival, we are told that our flight is delayed a whopping 3 hours.. HOORAY! Undaunted and still in high spirits, our jolly family trooped to the nearest Burger King for a quick dinner. (Think Sims -- "Have Quick Dinner".) With my ADD disorder, I got bored quickly and called up Katy.. yet another one of those random calls. I don't think she was very happy. "HII.. oh it's you. >sigh< What's up..." Then I called up my pals Jimmy-Pie and Jubilee Lieutenant, whose mother was utterly confused when I talked to her. Then my phone died and I was left alone in the Sahara Desert and was forced to talk to myself.

Yeah ok, so then minutes and hours rolled by and finally midnight came around. It was time to board. FINALLY!! Happily, we jumped on the plane and wrote some messages in the sky: "Give me a whip and I'll stop the trouble!", "I love them children with all my bee-ING!", "John, I've missed you..." and of course, "I saw Goody Chithran with the devil!!" We encountered some minor turbulence, and I promptly began to cry hysterically. Then they shot me with a tranquilizer dart and I fell asleep, drooling like a rabid monkey.

5 AM rolls around. We get to the enormously large McCarran Int'l Airport, where, just in case you wanted to know, there are large snakes with very dry skin coiled on the floor. How odd. Of course it took the crew forever to get the luggage out, and naturally our luggage had to come out like LAST on the carousel, so that took about an hour.

6 AM. We walked to Dollar-Rent-a-Car and were assigned to choose any car in Row 3. Pretty cool, I thought. Any car. Well, turned out they were all Dodge Intrepids. Puu. Family asked, "Which one?" I excitedly pointed to the black one. Family completely ignored my input and instead chose the beige one. Ahh, the Chinese monarchy.

It is now 6:30 AM. I failed to mention that we landed in a lightning storm, so now giant streaks of lightning are illuminating the sky in an eerie manner. One of them kind of resembled Patti Mayonnaise. Amidst vast bolts of lightning, we managed to find our way -- in our little egg-like Intrepid -- to the Luxor. Well, we got lost within the vast pyramid itself. It took us a good half an hour to check in and find out exactly WHERE THE ELEVATOR was. However, the Luxor does not have elevators, it has ... "inclinators." These rise at a 39 degree angle. Hah... what a bitch it must have been to engineer those.

7 AM marks the time our whole family, exhausted, stumbled into our room and flopped on the beds like day-old tuna. We fell into a deep slumber. The links below depict our family vacation, starting from the very next day after we arrived. Oh, and what a vacation it was.



8.20.00 - Shark Reef, synchronized water fountain show, a fiery volcano

8.21.00 - The Venetian, Blue Man Group

8.22.00 - Lion Habitat, American Superstars

8.23.00 - The Venetian, a statue.. the wax museum, white tigers