Virgin American. $59 dollars each way 1 week in advance from SFO to LAS. $50 at the counter upgrade to first class. The airplanes tout their ambiance lighting.
Everything’s free in first class, so I was trying to get my $50 back immediately. Bought a couple of pay per view movies (but only watched 10 minutes of American Gangster before the system rebooted and 20 minutes of Walk Hard – which was kind of funny). 4 Miller Lites. Their first class snack box, which was a little too high class for me, so I asked for nuts or something of the like.
She offered me chocolate chip cookies or buffalo wing flavored potato chips or high end Chex mix.
I asked for the sampler platter.
The seats had a bunch of adjustments and plenty of leg room up at first class. Could recline to completely laying down. Though that made beer drinking difficult.
All in all, an enjoyable way to spend 1:15 minutes on our way to Las Vegas.
Ran into craps dealers at the Monte Carlo who asked me and my brother if we were here for the nerd convention. Then he started talking to his friend about how Hurl was going to be on that night. That’s a G4 show. Turns out they’re bigger nerds than we are. Well, maybe geeks is the right word. Had a fun conversation (they watch Scare Tactics too and Ninja Warrior and Wipeout), but no big luck with the dice…
…yet!