On our journey to find a place to go bowling, and through a twist of events we ended up stumbling upon Heather Beers the star of the movie Charly by Jack Weyland (famous LDS writer and my former bishop up at BYU-Idaho). After Ashlee and I finished riding the New York, New York roller coaster, we decided that bowling would be a fun activity. We started asking people and information desks (only after i tried texting google to no avail) for directions to the nearest bowling alley. We came across a timeshare saleswomen at her booth that asked us if we were living together or something like that. We laughed and told her we didn't and that we were just looking for a place to go bowling. She laughed hysterically, almost mockingly and told us we are in Vegas (like we didn't know) and that we should go clubbing (ironically we had decided earlier to leave PURE, one of the nicest and most popular clubs on the strip, to find cleaner more wholesome fun- like roller coasters and bowling). She handed us an envelope that contained tickets to PURE, Coyote Ugly, LAX, and Tao (apparently the hottest clubs around). Instantly in my mind I thought about selling the tickets. I asked her how much the tickets cost and she said between $20-30 each. We had just struck gold. I told Ashlee we were going to go sell the tickets and she laughed and responded, 'that's hilarious'. I was trying to figure out if that was a good hilarious like 'that will be fun' hilarious, or like a 'Mike you are really crazy and I would rather not but I can't tell you because we are on a date and that wouldn't be proper' hilarious. So I compromised between the two interpretations of hilarious and decided to give them away instead of sell them. We started towards Coyote Ugly. After being lost in the casinos and teaching Ashlee how to play Craps (I had learned the night before), we finally found our way to the entrance of the club and we went up to the back of the line and handed the tickets to the last two people in line. They graciously and confusingly accepted and we walked away. Ashlee turned to me and said, "I think that was the actress in Charly." I told her it probably wasn't, and she affirmed that it was. So we passed back and forth a few times, trying to get a glimpse of her without being seen by them. As we passed they were still looking at their free tickets to read and see if they were valid and so they didn't notice us staring and passing. After a little deliberation, I decided that I wasn't going to wonder all night if it really was her, so as I approached them I thought in my mind to say "I'm sorry to bother you, but my friend thinks you are the actress in Charly and I just want to make sure that you aren't so we are not wondering all night," but as I tapped her on the shoulder, I knew that it was her, the one and only Charly/Heather Beers, and I said "hey, my friend Ashlee realized that you are the famous actress on the movie Charly and she wanted her picture with you, would that be ok?" She graciously replied and I waved Ashlee over, took the picture, and left.
