Morning, Gameface, Lemsip, hhunter, Ams and Windy!
So many questions! So I'd better apologise in advance for weaving in and out of topic and Billydom before anyone kicks off...
My Gil-dar totally failed. The batteries totally went on my Billy Bat Signal. Not a pip to be seen or heard! No Spider or bee lit up the night sky of the city like a beacon! :lol: I had utterly convinced myself that being in the same time zone as William Petersen would have been enough! Never imagined he would be in Vegas with it being filmed in LA. (Apologies to PLG if she is reading this. She has heard this stress out a million times in a fortnight!)
It was the same weekend as the rodeo thing. We were bumping into cowboys all week down the strip, giving us, 'Howdy ma'ams and Howdy Sir,' every time we queued with them. Very lovely they were! Because I have a strong Yorkshire accent, everyone kept asking if I was Australian! (Maybe wearing my Bondi Beach Lifeguard tee shirt didn't help the matter! :lol
Still no idea Billy was there!
We went to Luxor for brekkie on the Saturday morning before we flew home and then decided to ransack Wallgreens and CVS for nasty American sweets. (Have you tried a grape flavoured Jolly Rancher?? Just spit it in the bin and cut out the middle man! Uff and urgh!!) Then went to the Monte Carlo for a pint in the Micro Brewery at the back. (I recommend a beer called Arrogant Bastard. I kid you not! It was fab. Took a pic of the bottle. When I find my camera, I'll upload it for you!)
Still no idea Billy was in town...
It was only when I got back and I opened my emails - 47 of them in a week! How did that happen??!?! - that I saw it... Billy at the Rodeo and at the Mandalay Bay... 200 yards from me... WAAAHHH!! My heart sunk into my boots. (Well, my new Adidas trainers bought on the Strip at the Adidas shop near Games Works - £20!! TOTAL BARGAIN!! Bright blue with orange trim... Size 12!! Shoe sizes are weird in America! I'm only a UK 10!)
But thank you one and all for the love. I fear Billy would not have been safe. It would not have been his ankles I was holding on to, I do assure you! (WAHEY! First innuendo of my return!! :devil: :devil: :devil
I would have been on ET licking his tonsils instead of Marg H! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Windy - your city is the best place on earth bar one thing. Where are the news stands?! New York has them everywhere. Getting TV Guide at Easter was a doddle - except it had Horatio Caine on the front - uff! I knew Billy and Anthony La Paglia (Is that how you spell it?) were on the front while I was in Vegas and I could not get one anywhere! Not even in a newspaper shop on Fremont!! That's all PLG wanted... and a Cubs T shirt... which we now have one of - each! I'm gonna get 'Petersen' put on the back of mine! Tee Hee!!! Only PLG and my mum will get it! Billy on my back... oh yeah! :lol:
Took a pic of a plaque at the Plaza too, wi Billy on it. You can see my shadow taking it and my mate looking hugely disturbed while pretending not to be with me! Will try and post that too. My camera is somewhere around. Not toally unpacked as I washed my jeans and t shirts and headed straight to London with 90 16 year olds on the Drama trip! I am suprised I am not dead.
And one more thing I was gutted with. The only time I will ever catch an episode in real time on American TV - and it was the Chip Shop Flip Flop one! I had been talking to my mate about it all day. Even he wanted to watch it and hyped it up so much... the proposal, annoying Ronnie etc. So we ate at New York New York, got gorgeous buns and donuts from a pattiserie there and loads of crisps and beer! We set it all out on the bed and settled down to it. Ugly Betty was on too... bonus!
3 lines. That is all I have to say as that is all I got of Grissom in that episode. My mate wet himself laughing. I'd had Billy thoughts all day and ... 3 lines. I am clearly a Billy free zone!
But I did have a go on the black jack tables after the episode - which I thought was heinously bad btw - and won a little. Only bet $20 but came away with $30 by the end. Low stakes tables in Excalibur! My mate likes Texas Hold Poker or something and he got a hand with two aces and had to pull the Wheel of Fortune infront of a paced casino! He won $200 on it though so he was happy!
And here ends my holiday journal. If you are still awake, thank you for tuning in. If you are bored to death, I'm sorry, but thank you for spending your twilight hours with me!