15. Junket with Dave Johnson, Mary Thrasher, Holly House, Linda Oldenburg, and Heidi Miller

• In order to call yourself a true Vegas person, you have to at least once go on an up-and-back junket on a bus. Why? So that you can tell all your friends what a living nightmare it is.

• This trip marked the first time I saw a craps player make a place bet on the point by putting his chips on the outside line of the Pass Line. By now, I thought I knew everything there was to know about craps, so I was surprised I'd never seen it before.