Some interesting things happened today.

We started the day with a late checkout from our hotel. Just by chance I noticed I still had pepper spray in my bag. How that didn’t get picked up at Vegas security, I have no idea. I quickly chucked it in the bin. It could have been a disaster if I had’ve tried to bring that into NZ!

Then we wandered downstairs and sat by the pool and read our books. A couple of girls were vlogging there and we wondered if they were live streaming on YouTube. I asked them and they said they were so I told them about our YouTube channel too. Then they invited us on their livestream. We did a brief chat with them then sat backdown as we couldn’t imagine them being interested in us. Then I saw in the comments people were saying ‘bring back the van people’.

So they started looking at our vlog on our livestream and invited us over again and kind of interviewed us, which was really nerve wracking, knowing she had 86000 followers.

We had a good chat with them afterwards and they gave us some good tips on growing our channel, and live streaming is one of them. So we’ll give that a go sometime. They also seemed really interested in what we’re doing and thought others would be too because we are down to earth and have accents. Maybe we just need to find these people! Anyway, it was a good laugh and took our mind off things for a bit.

We had a little nap by the pool until it got really hot. Instead of going for a swim like normal people, we decided to head to the airport. When we got there we found we had two hours to wait before we could check in. Ugh. We could have been lazing by the pool, instead we’re stuck in a noisy, busy airport.

Once we’d checked in, we got through security, then headed for the Star Alliance lounge. This is where the next funny thing happened. We don’t have lounge membership, but you can pay to visit the lounge and it is $75 per person. We figured it was worth it, as we’d spent $100 having dinner at the airport the previous evening in Vegas. And we still had five hours to wait for our flight.

When we went to pay for the lounge, our payment was declined. We’d run out of money on our international card. Mike had another international card as well, but that only had $100 on it. He asked it he could pay over two credit cards. She said fine. She took one payment, and then said that would be fine, and she didn’t bother taking the second payment. Maybe she couldn’t be bothered or she felt sorry for us, but the two of us got into the lounge for only $75. We figured she must have felt sorry for us. Admittedly, we did feel a bit like hobos.

So we’re now, sitting in the outdoor area of the lounge, fire pit burning, waiting for our flight. See you soon.