vegas luck

Well, our luck turned! We got to the Vegas airport this morning, checked in, and were sitting waiting for the boarding call when they asked for 2 volunteers to get bumped from our overbooked Delta flight to another American flight arriving in LAX only an hour later than our original one.

We'd planned a 13-hour layover in case of bad weather or other problems since our domestic and international flights were booked separately, so one hour wouldn't hurt...so we got an unrestricted credit that will more than cover the one-way tickets back from LAX next year, plus meal vouchers to use during the wait!

We forgot about our checked luggage, though...but everything worked out just fine, except for one more broken backpack strap. Guess that wasn't the place to cut corners.

Oh...almost forgot. Airport security doesn't really like one-way tickets. That was another thing we didn't think about beforehand. The giant air-puff-dangerous-powder-detecting-security-machines were kind of interesting to watch for the first 45-minute block of time, but not so interesting the next few.

Photo: Fountain outside Forum Shops, Caesar's Palace casino