"WE WON'T PLAY YOUR MONEY GAME"

So here is our "competition" these guys from ASU that were also in some sort of group get together. The piano bar is just a money making machine. You request songs and give them money and they play them. Well, after gallons of beer or cosmos or whatever, people start getting willing to spend a lot of money to request songs. (Not us.) But the dueling piano people start pitting you against each other and they'd do a song for the Gauchos (wild screams from our side of the room) and then do a song for the ASU people (wild grunts from that side of the room.)

They started this, "I've got $40 to play whatever random song for ASU" and all this kind of nonsense like we're going to fork over another $20 so we can all sit around singing "I Think I Love You" instead of "Tamborine Man." We can sing in the car for free. Anyway, Cherie writes "we won't play your money game" on a request card and gives it to Jenny, the intended target being those guys and her new friend (see below). Jenny puts it in the dueling piano request jar.

At this point, God only knows what I was up to. Probably my clever, ah, dance moves - but I totally missed out on this scene. Since I'm not sure what happened, I will just make something up.

This was one of the rowdy guys from across the room and we were all waving back and forth and I think he kind of liked Jenny and Sacco. He came over and offered himself and Jenny immediately put money into his pants. Sacco just wanted to be friends.

Collette ended up leaving about 8:30pm because she is pregnant and the smoke was getting to her. We had requested a song for her birthday but when they finally got to it -- she was gone. So when they announce it's a birthday song for Collette, we all spontaneously turn around and look at Sacco and wildly applaud. Poor Sacco was a very good sport and acted thrilled and went up and sang, further impressing Mr. MoneyPants from across the room.

Cherie sang with one of the piano guys. Don't they look related? By this time, everything had pretty much degenerated into wild singing and dancing around. There are a half dozen photos of us waving our limbs about and as I don't believe any of these photos really flatters me, I am happily omitting them. That's the nice thing about making the webpage yourself.

This is the last page of the Vegas adventure. There is no photographic evidence (that I know of) of the rest of the evening but let's just say that after the piano bar I was ready for more fun and I found it and Sacco accompanied me. I spent most of Saturday in recovery and we mainly sat around the hot tub and had a leisurely day. Sunday everybody left insanely early. I was the last one and my plane took of at 10am.

See you next year.

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Posted: 3.31.00

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