Starbucks loophole

Okay, so we've got these friends, Paul and Nellie, and they ROCK! They are our youngest son's Godparents, just because they are so cool. Long story - another time...back to Starbucks.

So yesterday, we were in Vegas, gambling at the Monte Carlo - we'd just eaten this huge steak dinner at "Brand." Which sounds like a cool place, right? They had velvet on the walls in the bathroom stalls - is that sanitary? Seriously?

Anyway - so we've just eaten this huge meal with 9 dollar side dishes - who has two thumbs and just paid 9 dollars for a baked potato? This gal! I digress... We've just eaten this huge meal and we're all, "I'm stuffed and sleepy" so we go to the Starbucks. Nellie and I order normal drinks, but Paul ordered a triple shot of expresso. WELL, that would be, like, 8 dollars or something crazy, but here's the thing. Paul and Nellie can get away with anything... Paul instead orders some kind of blended drink that comes with 2 shots of expresso, then adds an extra 3 shots, and tells them, "hold the milk, hold the ice." Bam. 5 shots of expresso for like, 4 bucks. Genius.

Oh, and then - Nellie wants to learn craps, but the only tables open at 1 am are 10 dollar minimums. That's too much for us - just learning and all, so Nellie sweet talks the guys into letting us play for $5 instead. Who else could get that to happen??? I don't know. We had a really cool guy named Ricardo - who should have retired a few years ago and has the age spots to show for it - He blew kisses on our dice for me every time I threw. Uh, yeah...I lost $200 in about an hour and so we hit McDonalds.

Have you ever stood outside of a Vegas McDonalds at 5AM waiting for it to open so you can get breakfast? Yeah- a first for me, and I'm not proud of it. But the OJ was really good!