After a trip to Las Vegas in 2006 and a cruise to Mexico last year, the Medallion family heads back to the City of Sin for their 2008 Christmas/Vegas Vacation tomorrow. It’s like getting your “Mr. Papagiorgio” and “Shitter’s  Full” fix all at the same time.  (Making note to self to call Chevy Chase about a new movie idea.) Our theme for the week… “Birth of Christ, Roll the Dice, Part II.” (Yeah, I said it.) Actually, we’re just a bunch of degenerate gamblers that would rather spend our Christmas drinking, eating, and gambling in Sin City (as a “family” mind you) than with Uncle Rico and Aunt Pearl at Grandma Josephine’s house in [enter small town in the South here] like everyone else that we know.

While you’re eating the typical Christmas fare at the family dinner table (or the kiddy table if you haven’t graduated to the main table yet) and then the leftovers the following two three four days, we’ll be dining on $200 entrees at places like Nobu, Rosemary’s, Bouchon, Daniel Boulud, and Tao, and other places like Mesa and Spago for lunch. So the food should be at least as good as your grandmother’s pot roast.

But one thing’s for certain, we’re hoping that the weather holds up because last week in Vegas looked brutal…

Though, for my brother (Patrick Medallion) and I, there is something even more important than the gambling, drinking, and eating in Vegas. We have some unfinished business to attend to. We plan to answer a question that we didn’t get to answer during our first Christmas/Vegas vacation: “What’s the Spearmint Rhino like during Christmas time?” (I say “time” because I doubt we make it on Christmas Eve or Christmas Night, but you never know.) So, we’ll try to get that answered for all of you that want to know and, don’t worry, we’ll be sure to tell Ferrari and Mercedes you said hello.

Though I had planned to post from Vegas, I decided it would be better to just give everyone a full rundown of the trip next week when I get back (read: Below Average Photo Essay). Until then, enjoy opening your presents and drinking eggnog and otherwise not having as much as we are  in Vegas.