osodecanela | Viva Las Vegas?

I am in Las Vegas. This would not have been my choice of destinations, but my mother and sister are driving cross country and this was the easiest place to rendezvous with them.

As I sit here writing this I realize that all three of my Las Vegas trips have been to rendezvous with my mother. iMessage does my parents hear of the early 90s & my husband and I joined all of my siblings here a decade ago to celebrate mom’s 80th.

So I am struck by the sheer chutzpah our species is capable of, every time I am here. This is a town is excess. Ginormous water fountains in the heart of the desert. Throngs of humanity. Never mind that there is a pandemic going on, the hordes need entertainment. There are signs everywhere indicating that there is a mandatory mask mandate in every last hotel here on the strip. Tons of people are wearing masks, but plenty are flouting the requirement. In almost every casino and every hotel lobby an employee is handing out masks what is tongs. Last night I saw plenty of scantily clad revelers stumbling past those employees many too drunk or too stoned to notice, or too indifferent to care.

Mom and my sister are staying at the cosmopolitan, one of the more expensive destinations on the strip. somehow, I heads up with a price tag the clientele would be also more upscale. Since when is a bikini appropriate evening attire in a casino? That was at 10 o’clock last night long after the pool and spa were closed. Not that I am someone who indulges in fat shaming, but at least that young woman has a bikini body. I have seen in the past 15 hours more pairs of leopard print stretch pants than I ever knew existed. Personal opinion? I don’t think those things look good on someone who’s a size 2. Now imagine them on someone who is a size 24. Call me a curmudgeon, but I have seen more square inches of exposed flesh wandering thru the lobbies, restaurants and casinos than at the pool. I’ve never seen so many short skirts and dresses in my life.
Mind you, I’m not going out of my way to wander through the casinos. You cannot get anywhere from hotel to hotel resort without wandering through their gaming areas. On the lower legends of the hotels they are everywhere. Given my own concerns about the pandemic, I am doing my best to steer clear of things.

At least my mother, my sister and I are all up on our vaccines, and likely soon to be bolstered.
More later.