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Vegas, baby. Vegas.

I spent this past weekend in Las Vegas. Yeah, that IS really awesome. So here's how it went down. I had been to vegas only once before in my life, and it had been for a single afternoon when I was 19. We drove through it on our way to picking up some stuff from the house of some chick who lived there. I dont actually think that I got out of the car. Years later, when my friend Laura moved to vegas to work with Teach for America, I was given the perfect excuse to go out there. Amanda and I flew out from our respective cities and we all met up.

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I really hate the way this story is going so far, but I'm not rewriting it.
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I was in Las Vegas from thursday night to sunday morning and generally had a blast in between. I didnt have the typical vegas vacation, but I had a lot of fun just the same. Laura lives a half hour off the strip and that is where we spent most of our time. We spent our days doing randomly fun stuff and then hit the strip at night. The only real problem with this situation is that Laura doesnt gamble and even though Amanda will gamble if I am around, neither of them can really afford it. On the weekends, table minimums in the casinos on the strip are raised to 15 dollars per bet (3 times what either would probably play) and so gambling wasnt really an option. I was itching to play, but I am not so much of an asshole that I would make everyone else sit around and watch while I had fun. I did manage to play for an hour or two on saturday night, and walked away a winner, so it worked out. I really need to plan a gambling trip to vegas with some friends. This was much more a trip to visit with friends, and it would have been just as awesome in vegas or not. The three of us are all doing very different things in our lives and we only occasionally talk with one another. Still, when we are together it feels as though we have never been apart and we just can't help but have a good time. I wonder if things will stay this way. At some point do peoples' lives become too different and good friends become estranged? I never thought I'd keep any friends from high school. I never thought I'd keep my friends from college. We are all moving much too quickly towards different destinations in life. How can we hope to stay connected and remain friends in any real way? I wouldn't have thought it were possible, but this weekend goes to show that it is.