a loooong day

yesterday was the first day of the year. happy new year everyone!

it was a very, very, very long day for us. we partied until around 3 after the countdown by the strip. slept around 4, and i woke up around 9. check out was 11 and i wanted to have time to hit the shops at the desert passage. by 11, we were out and waiting for the car. it took the valet almost forever since there was already an influx of people checking out.

took the 15 north exit towards salt lake city. we went against the traffic since we wanted to visit the new outlet stores by downtown. shopped a bit. hehehe. yeah, just a bit. had lunch at the food court there and i had some philly steak and fries.

left the place around 4. next stop was primm, nevada since traffic was already bumper to bumper, it was hopeless and we thought it would be better to just kill time in primm and let the others go. a stretch of only 27 miles from the las vegas strip to primm (stateline between nevada and california) took us forever: 2 hours to be exact.

wasted 5 and a half hours at the outlet store and the casino/restaurant in the area. left primm at 9:30 and 3 hours later, we were in barstow. half-way mark, baby! this was already half past 12 midnight. 2 and a half hours more and we were in LA.

my back's aching.