Day 5 Thursday - February 2, 2012

One of the best things about staying downtown is the Dunkin Donuts that is located in the Fremont Casino. So we start this morning with a coffee and croissant sandwich. Since it is already a bit after  9:00am we decide to play some bj at the Fremont before we have to trek up to the road for our tour of the Neon Boneyard Museum (more on that later). We don't do too badly here this morning and I think we cashed out about $25 up.
After this we walked the mile or so up the road to the Neon Boneyard Museum. For those that don't know, the "museum" is really just an outside storage area where they have many of the old neon signs from Vegas. It's not just about the casinos either, there are plenty that were just from businesses as well. They have a few projects going on, one for the downtown area I believe, one for the boulevard to erect some of the restored pieces and one for the museum location itself in which they will have a visitors center and be able to allow people to visit randomly. Currently you can only visit via appointments made in advance. It was a very interesting tour even though because the sizes and amounts of signs they have you could not really properly view all of them completely. Still I would recommend it to anyone interested in some of the history of Vegas.
Once the tour was complete we headed back to the downtown area and visited some of the outlining casinos that we had not previously been to including Gold Spike which is a small place (no bj tables open here at the time), California which had a nice casino in which we played some bj and came out even, Main Street Station which was also a really nice casino but we didn't do as good on the tables here so we left before we lost too much. Overall between the 2 that we played at we pretty much broke even.
By now it was almost 3:00 and we decided on a late lunch at Magnolias inside the Four Queens. We had a 2 for 1 coupon and Dave got the Muffaletta sandwich and I got the Spicy Chicken sandwich but we shared and both were good and filling and with the coupon was only just over $14 which by the way was less than what we paid for our breakfast at dunks.
Next we decided to go check out the Plaza Casino and while it was really nice and recently renovated, our luck here was limited and we didn't stay for too long.
We headed back to the El Cortez but the tables were not being good to us here either so we grabbed a couple of free beers from the bar (you guessed it, coupons) and headed back tot he room to chill out, watch some hoops and plot our strategy for the night.
After a little down time we head out again at about 8:30 and think that we would never be heading out anywhere at home at 8:30 at night.....we're such old foggies, but not in Vegas! So first we head down to Binion's grab a couple seats at some bj tables and quickly learn that this is not the place to play tonight so we stop the bleeding, cash out and head over to Four Queens. Dave and I end up at the same table which is usually disastrous for us but we get to play for about an hour and half with a great dealer named Linda and while we cashed out a little short, we had a great time.
Next we went and looked in the Golden Nugget and decided to have a drink at the Rush lounge. After a couple of $9 Margaritas we decided to call it a night.