Lesson learned in Vegas!

So how many of us leave having earned regrets from Vegas? Well, now I'm one of the millions! My friend and I had a fabulous dinner at the Cheesecake Factory at Caesar's Palace.... Dinner was about $16 a plate - not a terrible price, but not something you do everyday. Lindsey called while we were there bragging about her Nutella Gelato she got for her birthday. Of course my appetite was already wetted by walking past the Gelato stand on the way to the Cheesecake Factory! So on our way, out who could resist the beautiful appeal of the Gelatto case? I browsed and tasted the Rocky Road, so nummy! So next step I pick the size - it looked like a pint size, but I'm used to the icecream scoops in the bowl. I'm thinking two nicely rounded icecream scoops full! I do half and half Rocky Road and Strawberry. The girl just keeps packing it in the cup and then decorates it with the toppings from the show case: a huge crystal looking (from being a little icey)strawberry, a slivered wedge of hard chocolate, two wedges of waffle cone triangles, and a large marshamallow. Beautiful! A stranger follows me to the register to find out the cost. I pull out a $20 just about to offer to buy my friend's for her. The stranger laughs and points out the size that costs $25 bucks. Umm.... I think maybe that was the name of the cup size I got. But no.... that's gotta be a joke!! "That'll be $26 and change, please!" Are you serious???? $25 for a cup of gelato?!? Uh!!!?? I pull out the plastic and debit the checking account in a stupor. I hold the melting cup just staring at it. I'm supposed to down this melting pottage that cost more than my dinner and it's only gonna make me FAT because I have to eat the whole thing before it melts in the Vegas heat?!? I just paid that much to make my butt bigger?? Lindsey, please please tell me your quart was almost that much!!! So I gulp it down, "butt" for some reason it just doesn't taste quite as good as it looked. And then to make matters better/worse? I set the cup with the melted soup on the dashboard of the car while we ran into the store real quick - I'd looked for a garbage can but didn't see one right off. Promptly forgot about it being there. On the drive to the condo I see goo down the dash board. Ooo - musta dripped it not paying attention to it very much. I'll clean it up. We get to the condo. I see a puddle on the floor, brown goo on my white capri's, and the cup and spoon hiding under the bag of stuff I'd just purchased. Uhhh....I didn't make it to garbage after all. Big sigh. K. So in cleaning Gelato? It scoops off the carpet with a spoon very nicely. It washes out of capri's fairly nicely with soap and water. It is a challenge to get it off of a dashboard that has some texture to it and out of the cracks. Creative cleaning with paper towels and knives do work.
So lesson learned: ALWAYS CHECK ON THE PRICE FIRST BEFORE YOU LET YOUR EYES AND TUMMY MAKE YOUR DECISIONS! ESPECIALLY in VEGAS!!!!
P.S. I was so discombobulated that I didn't even take a photo!!!

Get the thinking caps on...

K - this is for Mari! We need to help her think of the BEST Halloween costume... She just may be accompanying a member of KISS. My first thought was to do another recognizable musical figure... someone like Cher or Tina Turner. Do you really want that much leg exposure though?? What about Elton John? You could tons of Bling with that one - your girls would love it! Then there are other bands of the era. Flock of Seagulls comes to mind for riotous hair styles.... Any other ideas floating around there???