The Great Santa Race

Tomorrow we leave for Vegas to participate in the Great Santa Run, a race sponsored by a charity called Opportunity Village that helps people with intellectual handicaps lead normal lives. It's a 5K starting on Fremont Street and ending...I'm assuming on Fremont Street. The funnest part is that each of the 10,000+ runners is dressed up as Santa Claus (they give you a free Santa suit at sign-in), so you have an otherwise trashy, drab Vegas street momentarily transformed into Christmas joy as a deluge of scarlet St. Nick's go running by.

Apparently they're also trying to break the world record for the largest gathering of Santas ever in one spot. So Guinness will be there. Consequently, this will be the third Guinness World Record attempt I've inadvertently been a part of in just 6 months. And, surprisingly enough, the least stupid.

Also, Sigfried and Roy are the honorary grand-marshals.

I won't lie to you. The most exciting part of this for me isn't the race, the world-record, or even the chance to help out a deserving charity. It's the free Santa suit.

Needless to say, this has the potential to be the best for-charity, set in the desert dressed as Santa Claus, surrounded by 10,000 other idiots trying to set a meaningless world record 5K grand-marshaled by two homosexual magicians, one of whom was mauled by a rare White Tiger that I've ever been in. Wish me luck!


Oh yeah, and Cheeth - I totally won your "Name that Quote" from a few days ago and I want my ramen. Go check your comments.