Macau

Macau was really crazy, but nothing like I had imagined. I had been told in the past that Macau was a seedy terrible place, and I really didn't find it that way. Of course compared top the rest of the world it's awful, and dirty and seedy, but compared to main land China it isn't too bad. The island has two different worlds. The casinos and the rest of the residential areas. The casinos are plush and great, while the other areas are terrible slums. The island has also kind of become too touristy. The old Portuguese area has just become a Mecca of touristy crap, so it's lost a lot of the appeal.

We headed to the casinos the first night we got there, and yes, we wore the matching suites. We looked ridiculous, and everywhere we went people actually pointed and laughed at us. It was really awkward at first, but after a while you get used the pit bosses calling over people to look at us, and once they came they would burst out laughing. It was like a scene out of Dumb and Dumber. What made it more ridiculous is that we all had dirty gym shoes on, and were always playing at the lowest possible limits available. Overall it was embarrassing, but we got over it and ended up enjoying ourselves.

As far as our success went Jake won some the first night, but then lost about half of it the next night. I did terribly loosing each night, I very few winning hands along the way. I sat down to play black jack with 300 and placed 6 50 bets in a row and lost all 6. Mike won, but didn't really play. He would sit, play 2 hands. Win both and then stand away from the table. He's smarter for winning, but didn't really play too much.

That was about it for Macau. The Venetian and the rest of the casinos were cool, but not s cool as Vegas. The rest of the place was a slum, and we were laughed off of the island.