The ITB Four on Tour

[turny]

good start rooks and im sure  you will all have a great time.

my predictions for the trip.

shieldsy "motorboats" at least 5 women in the first week. shieldsy is arrested.
rosy wakes up after a heavy session with a tranny.
noly marries a vegas based polish prostitute returns to england and lives happily ever after.
rooks behaves impeccably the whole trip  (ling might be reading lol)
noly gets conned somehow to buy lunch every night by losing some sort of prop bet.

[Chompy]

The making of a pleasing diary.
Is there a poker room at the Riviera? Never used to be. It's about a half-hour walk to the Venetian from Circus Circus (bang opposite you).
Take a taxi imo. Ask the taxi driver where he's from. He'll say Ethiopia. Go from there.

[tikay]

About time we had a decent Diary. Good start, now keep it going, we want MORE.

You know the lad who sat to my left on my opening Table at the Stanley's Luton £250 - is he with you? Which one is he? Good player, good guy, I thought.

Enjoy, & get the lot.

I'll take care of 'Ling, don't worry.

[turny]

About time we had a decent Diary. Good start, now keep it going, we want MORE.

You know the lad who sat to my left on my opening Table at the Stanley's Luton £250 - is he with you? Which one is he? Good player, good guy, I thought.

Enjoy, & get the lot.

I'll take care of 'Ling, don't worry.

yes tony that'l be "rosy"

they left home at 5.30am and are only just taking off from los angeles as i type. by the time they hit their room in vegas its not gona be far of 24 hours travelling! the definatly something favouring flying direct imo

[steeveg]

happy birthday and have a great time,gl

[maldini32]

Enjoy it rooks i came back busto but the experience was priceless.

[vegaslover]

The making of a pleasing diary.
Is there a poker room at the Riviera? Never used to be. It's about a half-hour walk to the Venetian from Circus Circus (bang opposite you).
Take a taxi imo. Ask the taxi driver where he's from. He'll say Ethiopia. Go from there.

Been one there the last 3 years chompy.
Well, a couple of tables roped off anyway. Sod all players though, lucky if ya saw 20 in there!

[tikay]

About time we had a decent Diary. Good start, now keep it going, we want MORE.

You know the lad who sat to my left on my opening Table at the Stanley's Luton £250 - is he with you? Which one is he? Good player, good guy, I thought.

Enjoy, & get the lot.

I'll take care of 'Ling, don't worry.

yes tony that'l be "rosy"

they left home at 5.30am and are only just taking off from los angeles as i type. by the time they hit their room in vegas its not gona be far of 24 hours travelling! the definatly something favouring flying direct imo

Ah yes, so that was Rosy - I took to him, & liked his game, too.

[turny]

About time we had a decent Diary. Good start, now keep it going, we want MORE.

You know the lad who sat to my left on my opening Table at the Stanley's Luton £250 - is he with you? Which one is he? Good player, good guy, I thought.

Enjoy, & get the lot.

I'll take care of 'Ling, don't worry.

yes tony that'l be "rosy"

they left home at 5.30am and are only just taking off from los angeles as i type. by the time they hit their room in vegas its not gona be far of 24 hours travelling! the definatly something favouring flying direct imo

Ah yes, so that was Rosy - I took to him, & liked his game, too.

a genuine kid, i say kid though he's 26 he looks about 12 and gets i.d ed everywhere lol. very loyal the sort you'd want next to you in the trenchs. a true friend of mine.

his pokers came on leaps and bounds the last couple of years live and online where he more than holds his own! a complete luckbox mind 

[turny]

rooks just text hes arrived at the hotel, at last time for bed.
 im terrible when any of my kids are travelling, i think of nothing else the whole time and certainly couldnt contemplate sleeping, silly i know but i doubt im alone.

im sure rooks will be along at some point to fill you in on the "journey"

[Laxie]

Glad they got there safe and sound.  Now go have fun!!!  But be sure to tell us what yer up to. 

[Rookie (Rodney)]

So Monday morning finally came and we were on our way to Heathrow at 6.15am. We were flying with United Airlines at 11.15am. We got to the airport fine and checked in no problem. My bag was suprisingly just on the weight, as I thought for sure that I was going to receive a charge! Shieldsy's, being the self proclaimed tramp he is, had borrowed a suitcase from me, and the majority of his clothes came from his housemate!! Needless to say his suitcase weighed the least!

We got through security and it was soon time for breakfast. We went in the first place we saw, £8.95 for a full english. Not a good decision. I had plans to take a pic of it and put it on the fry up thread but I did not want to knock Amatay's awful effort off of bottom place. This would have done that for sure. Some of us ate it and some didnt, but none went to waste as we have Shieldsy with us, so its ok.

We wandered round to our gate after that, planning to stop in the arcades on the way. I couldn't believe it when we didn't pass one single arcade and when I asked I found out there is not one anywhere!!

When you walk round the airports there is always the travelator thingy. The one that is an escalator but flat and takes you a fair way without having to do any legwork - always nice. Well we get on those and Shieldsy by this time is getting a bit excited. He decides to do a "boogaloo" on the travelator (pictures below). Not only that but he decides to run around like a little girl for most of the journey through the terminal!

[Rookie (Rodney)]

We got onto the plane without any problems and on time. The way the plane's seats were set out was 2 - 5 - 2, and we were in the group of 5. So some poor sole would have to endure our ridiculous jokes and such for over 10 hours. It was a rather attractive woman who sat down just after us. And obviously Shieldsy decided to make it known to her that he fancied her. When pretending to talk to me or Noly he would just say out loud "She comes from fittown", amongst other things. Thankfully she was either deaf or pretended to not to hear!

During the taxi round for takeoff we had started a group "boogaloo". And the lady has a little chuckle and starts chatting to us. She is quite nervous about flying as she normally takes pills but never got any before this flight. So obviously, we invite her into our boogaloo club, which will take place on takeoff. Fair play to her, she joins in and it was rather funny! We get talking when in the air and find out that she is from LA (where our flight is going to, before going to LV). She was in England because on Saturday night she was on TV. I can't remember what the programme was called but it was on inbetween Xfactor and the Xfactor results, it also had Manuel and Basil from Fawlty Towers. Her name was Hayley Carr and she is an actress.

When up in the air we laughed quite loud numerous times to the film step brothers, ate the food (which was the best plane food I have had on all my flights), and I also showed Hayley how to play Rummy!

She was very friendly and not intimidated at all by the 4 of us. And midway through the flight she suddenly got these psychic feelings and blurted them out! Some were very good, and also a little scary, and some were just her getting  bit carried away we think! Needless to say the fact that she managed to say Rosy's son's name begins with a J, and my sister's birthday is on the 27th of the month, without any hints, was a bit spooky. I thought we was on a candid camera show at one point!

Funniest thing on the plane was when Shieldsy was drinking his water, and was in a bit of a silly mood. He drunk most of it and then for some reason threw the rest over his face ! I had my water in my hand and couldnt help but finish the job by throwing my full glass all over him and soaking his tshirt through, so now he had to sleep wet!

[thetank]

imo

[AndrewT]

Great report so far.

[  ] Hayley will be pleased to know that photo of her is on the internet.