After enjoying the rest of my personal fountain show, I made my way back to Planet Hollywood through the flooded Las Vegas Boulevard. I met up with Lowell and we had supper at Pinn-Up Pizza. It was one of those order by the slice places where they warm it up in the brick oven after you ordered it. It was perfectly okay.
We had a brief discussion of going to Fremont Street, but with the late night, the early shuttle call, and the bad weather, we decided to call it a night.
Here is the final Per Diem Tally.
I started the day with $223.
Breakfast: Free
Lunch: $30
Supper: $17
Final Per Diem Balance: $176.
What did I do with this extra $176? Nothing really. I put the Per Diem in savings when I got it and never really transferred any of it. It is sitting there earning next to no interest in my lousy bank. However, I have a to do list I want to get knocked out in the next couple of months and it includes a little money management. It goes something like this:
1. New tires on the Camry.
2. Get my Real ID.
3. Renew the registration on the Camry.
4. Move most of my money to a different bank/credit union. Both dollars.
5. Sign-up for TSA Precheck.
6. Oil change for the Camry.
7. Oil change for the RAV4.
8. A whole bunch of Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Stuff.
9. Pick out, order, and enter 4 pictures for the Iowa State Fair Photo Contest.
I’ve knocked out the first 3 on this list. The 4th one is my birthday present to myself. I’ve knocked out a good chunk of #8. But there is still a lot to do there.
Any ways, here is the final collection of pictures from my last night in Las Vegas:
It was a pretty good trip to Las Vegas. Next up, I’ll share pictures from my trip to Chicago.
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This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is SCHOOL:
SCHOOL
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
Let me tell you about IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY!
Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1858 as Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, and it became the first land-grant institution in the United States in 1862, thanks to the Morrill Act.
Today, ISU is a comprehensive university with more than 35,000 students and offers over 100 undergraduate majors, 112 master’s degree programs, and 83 doctoral degree programs. The university is organized into eight colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, and Graduate.
ISU is known for its strong programs in agriculture, engineering, and science, and it has a reputation for being one of the top public universities in the United States. The university is home to several research centers and institutes, including the Bioeconomy Institute, the Ames Laboratory, and the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC).
The university’s mascot is Cy the Cardinal, and the school colors are cardinal and gold. The Cyclones, ISU’s athletic teams, compete in the Big 12 Conference and they completely dominated the Cy-Hawk Series with Iowa Hawkeyes this year.
Overall, Iowa State University is a well-respected and prestigious institution of higher education, offering a wide range of programs and opportunities for students to excel both academically and professionally.
Wait. Wait. Sorry. I’ve just been told that there are more SCHOOL(s) in the world than just Iowa State. I’m not entirely sure why. But I guess you can take a picture of some other stupid school nobody cares about.
SCHOOL! So what in the Terrence Allen is a SCHOOL picture? Simply put it is any image that involves SCHOOL. From a building to a playground to schoolbooks (before they all get banned) to report cards to teachers to really anything related to a SCHOOL. There are all types of different SCHOOL(s). Pre, secondary, high, middle, junior, dance, Sunday, vocational, technical, and even sometimes I take people to SCHOOL on the basketball court. It does NOT have to be Iowa State, but I mean, why would you take a picture of some lesser school? But you do you bro.
This isn’t the first time that SCHOOL or something similar has been a theme. Here are some submissions from the ghosts of WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGEs past to inspire you:
Elizabeth Nordeen – Week 329
Christopher D. Bennett – Week 329
Angie DeWaard – Week 329
Becky Parmelee – Week 329
Joe Duff – Week 329
Happy photo harvesting!
If it isn’t annoying to do so, I want to put in a plug for Global Entry instead of TSA Pre-Check. It includes all of the pre-check advantages, but it additionally has the ability to let you enter the US more easily at customs when you are traveling from Canada or similar for work. It has saved us multiple times on connections when we would not have made them with regular customs. It is only $25 more for the eight years
Thanks! I didn’t even know something like that existed. I don’t even have a Passport right now. It is another goal, even though I have no plans of leaving the country right now. Somebody was talking about Global Entry in Chicago and I legitimately thought they were just making something up, because the person just tends to run their mouth and what comes out of it is often nonsense.
That is a fair cause for concern!
You may have to get a passport first; I don’t remember during the application/interview process. Jon also got his when he saw how great the benefits were for me. Our Capital One travel Visa pays for one of us to get it or Pre-Check every eight years, so it was free to me and his was only $100. I got my first passport when at the Mine, as I went to the University of Manitoba a few times (among other Canadian locations) – I’m not sure if you all still do a lot of Canadian work or not.
I should text you a photo of Denver customs from last week. There was a line that bent back and forth probably eight times up on the first floor, and another six times on the second. In comparison, our Global Entry line literally just had us walk past all of that and do our customs check at an unmanned machine. It took us all of 90 seconds, which allowed us to make our connection AND eat before it. I promise I don’t work as a shill for Big Global Entry or anything – it’s legitimately been a trip-saver several times!
I’ll definitely look into it. I have some time before I fly again. Might not even be for another year. The only flight I know that is in my future would be potentially New Orleans for next year’s AAO if I’m still on the AAO team.