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Post by Dan on Feb 8, 2014 13:11:37 GMT -8
About once a month, Sugar and I have a Date Night. I get home around midnight from work, and Sugar has had a nap and is ready to go. We usually go to a little place down the street and have cocktails and munchies. Last night was Date Night, and we ran into a guy I used to work with, and haven't seen for years. We talked for quite awhile, and had a very nice time. Didn't get home until around 3:30 AM (bars in Las Vegas are 24 hours. No such thing as Last Call here) and found these two waiting up for us. Can you see the look in their eyes? Where have you two been?!? We were worried sick, and haven't slept! Shame on you!!!  |
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Post by Jackie on Feb 9, 2014 12:15:10 GMT -8
Scooter does that that worried look in his eye brows  You guys are heros!!! 3:30am!  |
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Post by Dan on Feb 9, 2014 17:35:15 GMT -8
They were both glaring at Sugar, to my left in the photo. They were seriously pissed...
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Post by lynxlady on Feb 10, 2014 21:25:22 GMT -8
I'm sure they are so used to sleeping with Sugar.. I think you are both amazing.. I'm zonked out by 10:00 so a 3:30 AM would never happen with me .. being old sucks  |
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Post by Jackie on Feb 11, 2014 8:57:49 GMT -8
The very best I've done is back in October when we let our 26yr old son have a send off to Nicaragua/Halloween party here with 75 of his friends and 4 DJ's. We danced until Ron came in and said.."Time to BLEEP shut er down!!!" You'd think the cops came and it was a raid! Never saw so many people split so fast! That was 5am...Woot!
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Post by Dan on Feb 11, 2014 10:28:38 GMT -8
I don't really think about it that much, I'm just used to it. My work schedule is 2:30 PM to 12:30 AM so I usually don't go to bed until around 2:00 AM anyway. On our date nights, Sugar has a nap from about 10:00 until just before I get home, so she's rested up. It does surprise us sometimes when we are on vacation. Just starting to have a good time and the waitress will tell us it's Last Call, and all the lights come on... On New Years Eve 1999, I was posted on at the intersection of LV Blvd. (The Strip) and Flamingo. We close the road to vehicular traffic and the drunks take the lanes. 14 hours on my feet listening to drunks... And then there was the Y2K Bug. No one really believed when the clock hit zero that planes would fall from the sky, but the thought was still in the back of everyone's head. What if everything really does shut down at the stroke of midnight? I got home around 4:00 AM on 01-01-2000, lined up 3 beers around my spa and got in to soak off the 14 hour day. On about my third beer, the sky turned from black to that pre-dawn glow, and I watched a plane go over with enough altitude that it was already in the sunlight. It was an epiphany moment for me. The world had not ended. I was watching the dawn of a new day. I was watching the dawn a new year. I was watching the dawn a new century. And I was watching the dawn of a new millennium. Literally. Then it struck me that in a city of 2 million people I was likely in a very small minority of folks that saw this truly historic sunrise. Most were sleeping off a hangover, and tucked away in their homes or hotel rooms... I have to work every New Years Eve, everyone does, no exceptions. I've not kissed my wife at the stroke of midnight for 17 years. So, after the Y2K NYE, I make it a habit to sit in my spa, drink a beer and watch the first sunrise of the new year when I get home from work. Sugar sets her alarm and joins me just before dawn. It's a Las Vegas thing, and I wouldn't have it any other way...  |
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Post by Jackie on Feb 11, 2014 13:24:33 GMT -8
Great post Dan. You and Sugar sound like 2 peas in a pod  Great visual with the airplane on the 1st of January, 2000. We also had it in the back of our minds about the computers and bank accounts going sideways... |
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You guys are heros!!! 3:30am! 
Great visual with the airplane on the 1st of January, 2000. We also had it in the back of our minds about the computers and bank accounts going sideways...