Insolvency

After the 6am bedtime, we had a slow start to the day. The giddy excitement of the previous night had turned to a bleak wasteland of depression, as a further review of the trip's bank account confirmed that we had actually run out of money. We frantically scanned the room for Cashbook. We had constantly ignored his warnings, throwing him aside at every possibility to indulge ourselves in excess spending. Now in a desperate state, we needed his advice, but alas, he was nowhere to be found. 

With a full day of blog writing ahead,and just enough cash in our wallets to make it through the day, we climbed into Spot to visit Town Square, the venue recommended to us the previous night. What turned out to be essentially an open air shopping mall lacked the charm suggested in the name, but the quiet shopping streets were a welcome break from the clamorous strip. We instantly found Millers Ale House, the bar we'd been recommended, and immediately felt at home. We found a spot with a plug socket for the laptops and settled in for a day of blog writing, fuelled by $7 pitchers of Miller MGD. Our friendly and charmingly unimpressed waitress, Emily kept the frosted pitchers constantly refreshed as the hours and blog entries racked up. It had been a productive day, and as we finished the last greasy morsels of a hearty bar meal, we reflected that everything looked a lot rosier than it had that morning.

The honeymoon period didn't last long as back in the dingy surroundings of Circus Circus, we were instantly reminded of our dire financial predicament. Cashbook was nowhere to be seen, but a single coke-powdered, torn off page revealed he had gone out on a gambling bender. 

We were alone. Lost. We needed cash. As we sat in the room, looking for inspiration, Tom suddenly burst to life! Remembering days of gambling gone past, Tom recalled the modest leftovers of his 2010 World Cup gambling spree. It was locked up in his Ladbrookes online account! If only he could remember the pass word, we could enter it, win a shit-load of money and solve all our problems!

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