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My Grandma on my mother's side has lived in Las Vegas for 26 years now, and I have gone out to visit her with my family every year of my life. I love it out here, just just something so great about being able to come visit annually, for 3 week periods of time...not too much, not too little. I have so many memories of all the places she's lived in the areas, and each one carries its own little cache of memories

She used to live in this open complex of large apartments...Oh man the memorires are just flooding back! The Main pool...the one that was always heated...was close...just ahd to walk out and too the left...but you had to pass under this tunnel (really it was a square tunnel cause we were on the bottom level and there were 3 levels...)...so many hours spent in that pool. Really my height could be gaged by memopries of how far I could stand in the 6 foot deep pool...casue it had a gradient height to it. Then of course there was the cold pool..on the other side of the complex...the One we'd almost never Use...but it was larger and had a spring board...but it was REALLY cold..but hey its Vegas. Man playing in the grass field in the middle of it...Adventuring to *shock* THE THJIRD FLOOR!!!!! playing multiple level frisbee...so many memories there. The new place is way nicer then the old...but still...you can't substitute those years...they'll always be remembered warmly.

Anyways, Vegas has always been fun, but now turnign 23 I find that some thigns have just grown stale. As a kid...theres always somethign to do...The water Park, the Arcades, the 2 Amusement Parks, slipping a quarter into the slot machine with grandma's permission. Later on like when I was 16 or so...they actually opened up this really cool kindaz Video game BAr...where you played Mech Warriors...in this climb in Video Game Pod which was friggin Awesome. But it all changes... The settigns as I mentioned earlier, That bar isnt there anymore, the water park is gone (before I could fully appreciate the feminine surroundings while inside :-p), Only one of the amusement parks is still there...and its the worse of the 2, and the arcades have drastically shrunk, skeeball in its classic glory has been reduced to mere shadows of its former self with retarded ripoffs like Iceball. Its so sad to see it all go, I feel like I've lost so much of what Vegas used to be for me.

And now that I can gamble...yeah its fun, but at the same time...I'm by no means a very rich man...so I need to control myself, which isnt too hard, but still some of the glamour of FINALLY being able to gamble is destroyed in that fashion. It's just kidna funny how my trips to Vegas have progressed, growing up and wishing I could the things I can do now...but now I would give anythign just to see those days again...The old apartment with the pool and that tunnel...The enormous Arcade and Midway with 20 classic skeeball ramps...full size with prizes of pewter figurines...the water Park...I miss it all so much.
Oh well Life goes on I guess...gotta remember the good times right folks? Anyways thanx for listening, hope you enjoyed :-p