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ok here it goes guys!! we arrived on friday in oct at around 5pm. did the usual run around town catching up with friends stockpiling liquor for the rooms etc and arrive at the palms around 7....shower up right away and head down stairs to the island bar and start pounding, hang downstairs drinking and gambling till about 10 at which point we jump in a limo and head to mandalay bay to foundation room....hang at foundation room until I am seeing triple about 3am and we head back to palms for a little more drinking and gambling hit the sack at about4:30am for a little cat nap until 8:30......still drunk i realize I left NY at 2pm and didnt eat anything since about 10am ny time so its been about 24 hours. So needless to say I go down grab a bite to eat and realize college football is on already and head right to the book to place all my bets........here is where it starts getting really interesting. Me and my buddy bet a 4 team parlay to win about 3K we win the first three games and the last game is the michigan penn state, we have michigan getting 26.5 michigan is up by 3 with 3 minutes left in the 3rd 1/4.........DONE!!! our asses are making it rain at the pool throwing back bottles, hell we just won 3K..........HOLD UP NAH AHHHHH NOT SO FAST!!! michigan loses by 29, so what to do BUT drink more in complete shock at the way it unraveled. Anyway we have a great time at the pool until about 6 or so before getting ready for the night and hitting up little buddha for some dinner. right after dinner we go over to wynn where we have a table reserved at tryst BUT its only about 730 so we hit the bar right outside the door I think it might be parasol up??? at this point we are out of our minds but under control(if that makes sense) you know just having a good time getting the whole place going a little being loud comical Nyers. While at the bar we end up befriending a couple sitting next to us and it turns out their both b-list celebs from LA and we invite them down to our table for a complete night of debauchery we end up meeting a bunch of people staying at the palms so we plan a pool party the next day. patrick frank hooked us up with my usual table on the lake. we partied here until 3:30 am head back to palms for more gambling and call it a night at about 4am. 10 am my phone rings and its the couple from the night before telling us be at the pool in 20 minutes....DONE.... head down to the pool where we meet up with the couple from tryst and carry on with the partying, they had flights out that evening but we werent letting it happen we made them change their flights to the next day (I can just imagine the southwest operators faces while getting drunks calling to change their flights). we literally get pushed out of the pool by security at 5 or 6 whatever time the pool closes on a sunday (they were actually really cool for how drunk we were). we end up at the bar at palms place, its a cool place to chill but there was noone else in the joint. we have few drinks here and plan a dinner at social house (the bartender actually called and made the reservations for us). This was the best meal I have ever had, we did a omikase it was absolutely outrageous. At this point i am on my last legs so we head back to the plams hang for a little at the island bar and then go up to playboy, which is a great spot but to be completely honest I couldnt fully enjoy it....it actually got hopping at around 1am or so but I called it a night at about 3 due to liver failure, no brain cells and my body in complete shutdown. overall it was one of the best trips out, total sleep hours amounted to approx 11 hours in 3 nights, which is right on target for a good vegas trip. sorry for the worls longest run-on sentence but hell its not a grammar test.

The characters - Me, my buddy Jason, my wife Christina, Jason's girlfriend Jamie, my buddy from high school Kenny who I only get to see once in awhile since he moved to California.

The pre trip debacle - We were supposed to be at the MGM. Another friend of mine was getting a a skyloft suite. He bailed due to a medical scare about 2 weeks before hand which left us looking for hotel rooms. We settled on the Monte Carlo but 3 days after making the reservation my brother bailed on the trip due to finances. That put us with Kenny in a room alone and he couldn't afford the Monte Carlo alone. So with just days left we booked rooms for $50 a night at the Orleans. Skeptical of the place..it's still Vegas so we took off.


The Trip

The Orleans - Wednesday we arrive at the Orleans to find it is a small city of it's own. It's very clean. The rooms were very large each had it's own couch chair and table. The sports book was great and they even had a ballroom open for the NCAA Tournament. The place has a 13 screen movie theatre, really nice pool area and a huge bowling alley. It even has a TGI Firdays in it. A cab ride to the strip was $12. There was a shuttle until 12:30am for free. Overall I found the Orleans to be an excellent value. Not a great vibe there but for the money I can't complain.

Nightlife
Wednesday - My wife was tired from the travel. Kenny wanted to go out so my wife crashed and we decided to hit some clubs. I had heard about $88 bottles at Rum Jungle. We checked it out but it was dead. So we tried to head up to Mix. It was closed. We walked past a bar at Mandalay called Eyecandy. We grabbed a drink and it turned out to be a great spot to people watch and to catch up since we hadn;t seen wach other in a few years. Drunks stumbling in from the casino floor and other clubs just wasted off their asses and dancing made for a great laugh. These drunk girls were getting wild hiking up the skirts above the waist. The dance floor lights up and the lighting guy made it bright each time a girls skirt got up high for better viewing lol. We walked over to check out LAX once but we didn't feel like dealing with a fake line (long line out front but talked to a couple who was leaving and they said it was ind of dead inside), so we went back to Rum Jungle and they were closed at 2am..Really! . So back to Eyecandy to drink and laugh at people. About 3:30am the place closed so we headed over to....

Cathouse for after hours - Not overly crowded on Wednesday at 3:30 we walked right in. Inside there was a solid crowd that built as the night went on. Lots of gorgeous women here. The staff was very nice. Strippers off work hanging from the ceiling. We had a great time and talked to lots of cool people. 7 trips to Vegas and this was the best After Hours I've been to. I would highly recommend checking it out. We stolled into the Orleans about 7am with the sun up. Great night!

Thursday - Jason and Jamie arrived. We pre-gamed in the room with Kettle One and Patron with plans on hitting Tryst. We wanted to be in line at Tryst by 10 so as not to have to deal with greasing and such. However, Jason got absolutley wasted pre-gaming and literally couldn't dress himself. We decided we needed to eat first to sober his ass up. So we went to The Peppermill and then walked up to Tryst. The food settled Jason down a bit. He doesn't remember going tot he Peppermill at all. He doesn;t remember anything beofre being in line at Tryst. At one point his speech was severly impaired and it wasn't a good look for him. We got it line at Tryst about 11:00.

Tryst - The line here is just a stupid set-up. If you have to piss parts of the line are roped off so you can't just step out and rejoin your group. People are in line for more than an hour and can't leave to piss. I don't like lines so we greased a guy to get in. He gave us free admission for the ladies but the guys were supposed to pay. When I got to the cashier I gave her a pass I got from ebay. She accepted it and that $1 pass saved me $30 bucks. It saved Kenny $30 bucks too. Jason however was too drunk to remember to use his pass and paid the $30. Tryst is beautiful and REALLY happening. My only complaint and it's a big one, it's too crowded. They let so many people in it becomes uncomfortable and hard to have a good time. Lots of attitude from people who had been bumped into all night. I had a drink spilled down my back from a girl who got slammed into by a guy. It was just way too crowded here. Had a guy get bumped into by Jason adn he stopped to spout off to us. I understood his frustration as it was a constant pounding you took here. My advice get a table or don't bother even going. At about 2:30 we split and headed to ...

Drais Afterhours. We were some of the first people in Drais. It was nice to get there early, just pay the cover and relax before the crowd jammed in. Hip hop in one room, House in the other. We went back and forth between the two. Not the best looking late night crowd, Cathouse was way better but it was a good time. After Hours rocks because people are just too wasted to care what anyone thinks. Strolled ino the Orleans at 7am again..damn sun was already up.

Friday -
We started off by going downtown. We watced the Freemont Street Experiance. Grabbed some shots and I decided to try the bottle service deal they had at....

Cherry - I was so glad I did. The cab ride was about $40 from downtown. We arrived our table was reserved and we went right in. We were seated by the pool. The weather was perfect. We paid no cover, we were escorted in, got a bottle of Sky for $100 including mixers. We bought another bottle for $100 and some Red Bulls. This is only on Fridays it'scalled Bottle Bailout. The outside chairs were very comfortable the staff was very nice. The waitress was friendly but not really attentive as she had about 10 tables to herself. We poured our own drinks and had to request more ice once. The crowd inside was a little ghetto and the DJ played right to that. He wasn't that good. He tried for the quick change style of a DJ Five but he often lost evergy. Overall excellent place though, cool bathrooms not much of a line. A chic feel by the pool. Some chick got wasted and got topless by the pool. Then she pulled her dress up around her waist and got in the pool in her thong. She got tossed out later for almost having sex with her guy on a pool chair. 5 People 2 bottles, a private Table, 10 red bulls + big tip all came to $370. We stayed till closing and headed too....

Seamless After hours - Kenny had stopped over the night before. He met one of the hosts who told him about the after hours and had promised him a free bottle. So they sent a Limo to Red Rock for us. We arrived about 4:30 to find out the bottle was now going to be $200 since we were late. We agreed but as we went inside the vibe was not afterhours at all. It was a strip club. No girls except strippers. They had to move 3 dudes getting lap dances from topless strippers out of our table. We didn't even sit down before our girls said "We're not staying here." So we told the guy nevermind, Kenny tipped him $40 for the limo ride and we walked across the street to our hotel. STAY CLEAR OF SEAMLESS AFTERHOURS. It was an obvious money pit set-up to give strippers a place to sell dances until dawn.

Saturday - We were all hurting badly after 3 straight nights of hitting it hard. Kenny flew back to Cali and Jason and I took the girls to see Blue Man. Great show. Afterwards we flirted with the idea of clubbing but decided to call it a night.

Sunday - We hit up Christian Audigier for the $150 bottle service. I contacted a host by the name of Jonny Thaing. He treated us great. We went right in, got a nice seat and partied with mixers for $150 a bottle. The waitress was on it. I never poured my own drink. The DJ was really good and played a nice mix. The place is struggling a bit. They were letting in folks with hats and sneakers. It was a spring break party that night and they gave away champagne to the best pole dancers. It filled up pretty well though. We cut out about 3 because Jason and Jamie had to get their wasted asses on a plane at 6:30 am. We had a great time and we were treated like Rock Stars. I would highy recommend contacting Jonny Thaing he hooked it up and treated us right. He also hosts at Pure and LAX.

Christina and I spent all of Monday in our room recovering before a late plane ride.

Overall a great trip. We really balled on a budget getting two bottle service nights for under $500 combined. I hit about $600 in bets on the NCAA tournament too.

Wanted to hit XS, Prive and Lavo but there just wasn't time. They'll be on the list for next time.

Alright just got back home and I am completely exhausted. From Sunday-Thursday I only got about a total 20 hours of sleep. But here goes.

Sunday- Got to Vegas in the morning and took a tram to our hotel. I went to Vegas with my brother for his 21st birthday, his girlfriend, and a chick I graduated high school with. We stayed at the Vegas club downtown cuz my brother screwed up and got a crappy package. Pretty much just hung out downtown and walked the casino's the whole day and got drunk since my brothers birthday wasn't until Monday. The hotel was not as bad as I thought it was going to be but their casino sucked.

Monday- We hit a breakfast buffet in the morning and got the 3 day duece pass. I recommend it if your trying to save a few bucks, but just make sure you take it at least an hour early since tons of people get on and off it all the time. We started at the stratosphere and hit all 3 of their rides which were pretty cool. Drank more beer as we walked the strip, but I don't suggest walking the whole thing in one day. Even though I was wearing comfortable sandals I could barley walk once it was all said and done. I ended up losing my phone so I didn't have Mr. Las Vegas to call and hook us up. (sorry about that Michael) Later that night went back to the hotel to get ready to hit up XS. Had to take a cab instead of the duece cuz the duece was taking forever to show up, and we wanted to be there before 11. XS was pretty dead that night for some reason, but other then that it was pretty sick. We got some cards earlier that day for free from some chick, so we didn't have to pay cover. We hung out at XS only for a couple hours because it was dead, so back to the hotel for some more boozing.

Tuesday- Pretty much just gambled and guess what? Drank again. We were going to hit up a pool club but the girls didn't really want to leave the downtown area so we just just hit up the pool at the Golden Nugget. There were quite a few people there including a few hotties. After that we were going to go to moon that night, but I got too drunk and passed out lol.

Wednesday- Woke up and went over to the Venetian to hit up the Tao pool. Again it was pretty dead, but I liked the place. The waitresses were all smoking hot, and they have a killer lime majito there. Hung out there for a couple hours and left. We were going to go to bare since it was across the street but we were all starving so we went to hooters to grab something to eat. Headed to the NY NY to ride their roller coaster, and went back down town cuz the girls wanted to see a show/dinner down there. It was called marriage can be murder, and I really didnt want to see it, but it actually wasnt to bad. It was pretty funny but their food sucked. Then after that, back to the casino's. I was playing a black jack table, but it got shut down cuz some guy turned 100 bucks into 4,000. Got drunk again and hit up another table. Played till I lost 300 bucks and hit up a tram to the Air Port.

Over all it was a fun trip, but just wished it wasn't so dead. So sorry to all you guys that wanted a good review. I would love to go back again, but next time I wont drink so much and I will hit it up on a weekend. Ill post some pics up later when I get them for my brother by the way.

We hung out there till about 1:30 and left. By the way, forgot to put this in my review. There is a strip club downtown (cant remember the name) Its right across from the golden nugget. And it was absolutely horrible. The girls were descent looking but the were all bitches and treated the guys like shit for some reason. They were all focused on the girls in the group. I don't recommend it if your a dude.

As promised, here's a review of recent trip to Vegas for my birthday...

I went with a friend of mine and her boyfriend. We landed in the morning on May 6 (Wedn.). Rented a car (nearly brand new Altima, great car) and drove to Costco. Last year, I did a roadtrip and thought that Costcos in Nevada sold alcohol. Unfortunately, I was wrong :( So I just got some cig's instead. Then we checked into Excalibur (great deal at about $40 per night!). We requested smoking rooms, but they wouldn't have them ready for a few hours, so we settled for two adjoining non-smoking rooms with a great view of the Strip.

While my friend rested/changed/unpacked (whatever it is that girls do :)), me and her boyfriend walked across the street to Tropicana. He won a free show ticket (which we ended up not using) and I got a free deck of cards through their spin the wheel promotion. Later, we saw KA which was very good. After a quick bite, we took a cab to Rio where we had reserved the open bar package. My friend said she was really tired and not in the mood for clubs (!) so we decided to make it quick. I thought I was a good drinker, but after having about 8 drinks in the span of less than an hour, I got drunk :D The last thing I remember is being in the club...

The next morning I woke up with a bruised eye, scratched lip and elbow and a limp in my right knee. Apparently, my friend's boyfriend had to half drag me back to the hotel. Weirdest thing, apart from my physical injuries, I felt totally fine - no hangover whatsoever!

We then headed to Bare, where I made lounge chair reservations (50 pp F&B min). This turned out to be a great choice. We had a great time, and will definitely go back next time. That evening, we saw Le Reve, which I also liked (they thought it was just ok). We had reservations for dinner at Tao restaurant, and the food was quite good. We also made reservations for bottle service at Tao (though Larson, whose name I found on the JC site). He promised us 1 bottle min. in the opium room. When we went to check in, the bouncer said they were preparing a table in the lounge for us. I told him that we were supposed to be in the opium room, but he said that it would be 2 bottles there. I argued for a few minutes, but since my friend was tired (again!) decided to just leave.

On Friday, my actual bday, we went shopping. My friend is a shopaholic and we spent half the day shopping. I myself would have preferred to do something else, but oh well. We had dinner reservation at Alize, which we liked very much. I especially enjoyed it when they tried opening not one, but two bottles of the Italian wine I ordered, and both times it didn't work :D They told me to choose something else, and that apparently Italian wine does not do well in a French restaurant.

That night, we had reserved a Nite Tour and were supposed to go to Christian Audigier, LAX and Pure. My friend was once again tired (shocker) so we only went to C.A.

Finally on Sat., we checked out, spent the day walking around the casinos and finally flew home at 11 pm.

Overall, I can't say I had a bad time, but it could've been better. In the past, when I traveled alone, I was free to make my own choices and do my own thing. If I do go again, I'll either come alone or with someone I know likes to party and have fun.

So sorry guys I wasn't able to drop by and say hi at JC's table at Tao on Thursday. But maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to make it out one more time this summer (before I start med school in the fall and become way too busy/exhausted/poor to fly down) for a re-do of my bday! Anyone here have any upcoming trips, say in June???

I went to vegas for my bday with just my friend. we arrived on thursday and went to mix. we hung out then we went and did our own thing. got pretty buzzzd and rode a taxi home. then lost my phone in the taxi. ha ha (recoverd it the next day).
then we never really hung out that much. just maybe went to a club together and then once inside we both wonder off and do our own thing. it was good tho. dont remember some things and questioning thos nights. lol. but thats vegas.

had a great time. will be back in august to celebrate my friends birthday.

even with two of is it was hard to stay together and do stuff together.

will for sure have to try and stay to gether a little more. ha ha ha.

I am finally home and ready to put up my review of my weekend in Veags. Where to start...

Well our flight got into the airport at 12:20 and we checked out a couple things at the airport, since it was my girl's first time there, we went over to the Budweiser bar and did an honarary first shot in Vegas which was a Kamikazi! After that we went to get our bags and grab a taxi to head to Encore. I had texted Chappstick when we landed and he called me when I was on the taxi, we talked for a bit but decided to talk later to figure something out, he made a recommendation of Strip Burger for awesome burger's. We got to Encore around 1:30ish and since we were there very early we sat at the bar on the left when you walk in and had our first actual casino drinks. She insisted we do a couple of Scooby Snacks, which is one of her favorite drinks, I downed mine as she sipped on hers so I ordered a Redbull Vodka. We then had another Scooby and I ended up having another Red/Vod so since I hadn't eaten at all that day my buzz kicked in fairly quick and a bit strong :D we then went over to check into the hotel around 2:30. The check in process was fairly smooth, the lady gave us a room on the 56th floor with an amazing panoramic view! We went up to the room and I have to say if you've never stayed at the Encore I highly recommend it!!! The room is pretty big yet seems to have a very intimate setting. We unpacked and settled in and then our stomachs told us it was time to eat! We headed to Strip burger which is accross the street, awesome recommendation from Chappstick!!! We got there and were seated and had drinks in our hand fairly quickly. We both had an Acapulco burger which was delicious!!! After that we decided to check out the mall and walk around a bit in there. We were there for about and hour and a half and then decided to go back to the room to chill for a bit. We started that night out at Blush for a little bit, then after getting a call from Mr. Las Vegas (host) we decided Palms was the place to go. He had his contact call me up to meet up with me outside of the club so that he would walk us over to Rain where we were set up to share a table with another forum member. It took us a total of about 10 minutes from meeting up with his host to getting into the club and getting a drink in our hands. Rain was awesome and the table we were at was great! We were upstairs by one of the bars. I had talked to Chappstick earlier and he had mentioned he was going to be at Rain so after texting back and forth a few times he made it up and we met the infamous Chappstick! I had told him about how we got hooked up and that Mr. Las Vegas (host) pulled thru for us and he was very happy that we, forum members, were taken care of! We were there until about three which we had then decided to check out Playboy and Moon. We were given a card that got us into Playboy and it was pretty chill, didnt looked at packed as Rain but it was past 3 in the morning. We then went up to Moon to check out the view and it was awesome! After that we went decided to go back to our room for some more drinks and crashed sometime around 6... I think.

We got up the next day sometime around noon and had some breakfast in bed. We went out and decided to just lounge at the pool there and had a couple Bloody Mary's. We were supposed to meet up with a couple we met the night before for drinks by our pool but they didnt make it there and we ended up meeting up with them at one of the bars at the Wynn. We had a few drinks and the guy's sister met up and had a drink with us and then hooked us up with the Nevada resident deal for the show La Reve later that night. We then went back to the room to change for dinner. We had reservations for Eiffel Tower which had a pretty awesome view of the Fountains at the Bellagio. Dinner there was awesome! The steak we had was pretty much perfect! They were extremely nice and all around incredible customer service. We then made our way back to Wynn to check out the show we had gotten tickets for. We were a bit late but were seated really quickly. That show was quite honestly amazing! I would definately reccomend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. After the show we were going to head back to the room to change but as we walked past XS there was a rather small line and I went ahead and asked about cover and if we would be able to get in the way we were dressed. We were given those comp passes and got in without a problem. I had also been texting back and forth with Mr. Vegas about either going to the Bank or Christian Audigier but we ended up just staying at XS because that's where my girl wanted to stay and party that night at. XS is amazing!!! It wasn't very packed when we got there but it was just right for us that night. We were there until they kicked us out, or as we call it in Cali Last Call!!! We then went over to one of the bars inside of Encore and had a couple more drinks. We ended up crashing around 5ish that night.

The next day we got up earlier since we had to check out by noon and they didnt have late check out unless we paid like 150. We were supposed to get up early and loung at the pool but ended up just packing up our stuff and leaving the room. We checked out and decided to give the Buffet at the Wynn a try. I was told by a girl at one of the shops that supposedly it was better than the buffet at the Rio but I must say.... it was not. The food was good and service was excellent but the variety at Rio is a lot more. They didnt even have crab legs at the Wynn!!! All in all it was good but not great. We decided to spend that afternoon walking around the Palazzo since our flight left at 9:42 that night. We also went over to Mist at TI where we got a couple free drinks. Mist was pretty chill, small and quite and fresh... except for the dude smoking next to me. We wanted to check out the pirate show so we went over to Lavo and sit there for appetizers and a drink while we watched the show. The show was ok, I was told it was way better at night since we checked out the 7:00 show. Lavo was a great place to finish our trip, the appetizers we got were delicious! Service was great! We had one of their specialty drinks and it was awesome as well! Everyone there was very very friendly and the place was awesome too! After that it was time to get back to Encore and get our bags, grab a taxi, and head to the airport.

All in all this was truly one of the best trips out there for me, it was amazing for my girl since it was her first time. She had an awesome time and I think I set the bar very high for her next trip. I also want to give a thanks to Chappstick for his help and a very big thanks to Mr Las Vegas (host) for his help with options and getting us into Rain with minimal problems! I wish we could have used his services more but I am more than grateful for the help he was able to give. I hope this was a good review and that I didn't write too much :D but I guess it was that good of a trip!

ok, im a little late with the recap but i want to give a thumbs up thumbs down review for my trip

Thumbs up: Tryst
once gain this place did not dissapoint. we got there a little early since we had a large group but it got us a great table great crowd great service, patrick frank was on top of it again. table right on top of the dance floor which was awesome. great way to meet people and bring them over to the table easily. the place continues to be my favorite club in all of vegas. everyone says to try new places but i cant imgaine going to LV and not coming here.

thumbs up: jack daniels
i probably drank my weight in JD during the weekend. no better stuff. we ordered three bottles of jack and two bottles of vodka for our table at tryst and the JD was gone in about 30mins and vodka hadnt even been opened it.


Thumbs up: XS
words cant even describe this place. once again the patrick frank hook up was great and we had a nice cabana for the night. it was far away from the dance floor which would be my only gripe. but that place was real packed and alot of fun. we stayed in the cabana most of the time so i feel i could go back and just hang around the dance floor and have a complete different but equally as entertaining night

thumbs waaaaaay down: sapphire pool at rio
i probably should have been more adamant in moving the party to wet republic as i mentioned earlier. Sapphire was bad. the pool was practically empty. the cabana was pretty cheap looking and it was pretty terrible "party" atmosphere. granted i had a great time with my group but if we were at a better pool there would have been much more opportunity to meet some more people and do some good people watching. i hate to be negative about anything in vegas. really, i usually find the positive in everything out there but i am struggling here. maybe it wasnt the right day or the pool season hadnt picked up enough.

thumbs up: morrea
this was more of the pool atmosphere i was looking for. granted the $50 cover was a little steep it was a lot of fun and a had a pretty good crowd. didnt really come close to rehab or palms though in my book. bottom line is that the topless pools are not the way to go. i hear the wynn one is great but you are better off with palms or hard rock in my opinion.

thumbs up: switch steak house in the encore
i liked this place. steak was amazing and they handled our obnoxious swollen group of 13 guys rather well.

thumbs waaaaaay up: rhino limo service
i dont remember who on this board mentioned this but this service is probably the best thing to happen to vegas since well since the rhino itself. no cover, no charge for the ride. i mean thats 50 bucks right there. unbelievable. i was called a hero for the rest of the trip for this piece of knowledge. ive gotten so many phone calls about this number.

thumbs down: my flight home
there is nothing worse than the flight home from vegas. needless to say im going back in august and my countdown has already begun

thumbs up: Jack Colton website
just wanted to give a thanks to this site and the people here for all the tips. this site is the best on web by far and it makes every trip out there that much more enjoyable. thanks and ill be looking for my suggestions for my next trip

My wife and I and another couple were in Vegas May 14th-17th and had a great trip. I’ll hit the highlights for everyone.

We stayed at the Mirage and hit Bare all three days. Thursday was solid, Friday was very good and Saturday was ridiculous. As usual, my wife was a part of the entertainment out at the pool each day, especially on Saturday, but I didn’t mind. We all had a blast out there. Mickey Ward and those guys/girls always take good care of us, and I’m a huge Bare fan, especially when it’s packed like it was Friday and Saturday. Thursday is locals day so it’s always a bit more laid back. I also have to give a shout out to my boy Benito, who made sure nobody messed with our girls while they were entertaining the crowd. We’re going to take him out with us for private security next time the four of us come to town.

Thursday night we hit Stack for dinner and then headed to Tao. We booked a table in the main room overlooking the dance floor through Mike Mancari and it also gave our girls access to the stage area next to the dance floor. It took a bit longer than usual for Tao to fill up considering it was Thursday night, but it eventually was a packed house and a memorable night.

Here's a pic from that night at Tao:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/UniversalGC/Vegas%20-%202009/IMG_0096.jpg

After spending all day Friday at Bare, we grabbed a limo and headed to N9NE at the Palms for dinner, which is always a great choice. The atmosphere was great and dinner was fun, but my steak was a bit disappointing compared to my last meal there. While at the Palms, we hit Ghost Bar for one drink mainly just to check out the view. After dinner we hit XS. This was the first time there for all of us, and I must say it’s overwhelming when you first walk in because of how big and how nice it is. This has to be one of Steve Wynn’s proudest accomplishments in a long line of many to be proud of.

Our table at XS was inside pretty close to the dance floor and right beside one of their “main” stripper poles. We booked it through Steven Tomes, who used to work for Bare. This was exactly what our girls wanted and would have been perfect. However, about 15 minutes after we got there, a group of about 40 guys were seated next to us in a space meant for about 15, so every time our girls hit the pole said guys thought they were their personal entertainment. They would gawk, put their $20 bills in their mouth, etc…, so it ruined that portion of the night. Anyway, we still managed to have a great time, although there is no doubt it would have been a different story if the large group of guys wasn’t there.

Here's a couple of shots from XS: (My wife had extensions put in her hair before this night out)

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After a sick day at Bare on Saturday, we grabbed a limo and headed to the Wynn to see Le Reve, which is a show I highly recommend. Some of the performers are literally superhuman from a strength standpoint, and the whole show was enjoyable. Our seats were in the champagne circle and my wife proceeded to drink a whole bottle by herself, so the rest of the night was phenomenal :cool: . After the show we took a limo to the Bellagio to eat at Fix and were joined by another couple we had met earlier in the day at Bare. Good meal to end the trip. We had initially planned to go The Bank after dinner, but we decided to bail on it since we flew out the next morning. We did see Dirk Nowitzki and his crew walking to The Bank as we were leaving Fix, which was pretty cool.

Anyway, the whole trip was awesome and ranks right up there with my best vacations ever. I’m headed back there next month with a group of guys, so I don’t have to wait too long to get my Vegas fix once again.

Well guys I'm at the airport early.lol. This is going to be a long report cause i have alot to tell. What an amazing weekend. Let me start from the beginning. Some of you know that I was supposed to get to vegas at 8:30am. Well because I missed my flight, we didnt get there until 10pm. Due to 2 missed standby overbooked flights in Charlotte. When we finally got to vegas, we rushed to the hotel. Palms Place is unreal, and my new choice hotel. I had been texting my host all day to let him know what was going on and told him we were running late. He said it was crazy at Rain and we needed to get there asap. We checked in droped off our bags, showered and ran out the door. I met a buddy of mine right outside the club. i texted my host Pasquale who ushered us in very quickly. He took us to our table which was kind of isolated but we made it work. Also through out the day, i kept in touch with forum members Tweak, DC, and Cingra. We got settled in at our table and shortly after, I got a text from both tweak and DC. I met with DC first and he and his buddy (great guys, more on them later) hung out in the early stages. We killed our first bottle in less than a half hour. By that time my friends from college came by we started on the second bottle. Dj AM was heating up the place when i finally met up with Tweak. Oh Tweak (another great guy) he and his crew party to the edge of death!! Tweak and his boys had a skybox and invited us up after we finished our bottles. We got up there and it was some great space. Once we got settled we went on a recruiting mission. When we were done, there is no doubt in my mind that we had the best table in club. We had so many girls, that a security guard came by and told us that we had to ask some of the girls to leave. Imagine that. Being the gentleman that I am, I asked the security guy how much would it cost to have him look away..I threw him $60 and he left us alone for the rest of the night. While still partying I got a text from Cingra (Very sweet girl) who told me she was down stairs. I went down and grabbed her and her girl and brought them to our party. We wrapped up at Rain, but everyone still wanted to party. Since we still had a pretty large group, we hopped in a limo and went over to Drais where the line was sick. Some how we weaseled our way to the front, paid off the front door guy and got in. Tweak and his boys really came alive ripping up the dance floor. My body was starting to shut down so I figured to call it a morning at around 8. While there I got separated from my brother who had my wallet, cell phone, and room key. Made it back to the hotel and my brother wasn't there. After begging for 15 minutes, a security guy escorted me up and i had to describe my belongings before he let me in the room. Got in bed and passed out. 10:30 comes and i get a message from Tweak saying they were already at Wet Republic. Dude do you sleep? lol. I finally got out of bed around 12 and made my way to wet republic where they were at capacity and not letting anyone in. Chilled for the rest of the day. DC called me up and asked if i wanted to cruise the strip in his lambo. yes sir i would. He picked me up and away we went. What a nice car! We stopped by Ceasar's to meet up with Cingra and her friend for a brief moment. After that went back to the room rested for a bit and got ready for Tryst. I had been in touch with Patrick Frank and he made everything go very smoothly (Thanks again nyc). The line at Tryst was about 300 when we got there at 10:15. 3 out of the 5 of my party was there but he took us in anyway. Watching everyone look at us while we were bypassing the line was priceless! The rest of our party finally arrived and we started ordering our bottles. We started out with a party of 5 that quickly quadroupled due to our recruiting efforts. Another sick night with so many women. One of the funniest things that happened, which i dont remember, but my brother told me about happened after Tryst. He and I met some girls and they wanted to go to Drais. He said it was the longest cab line he had ever seen. He said I grabbed the girls and said follow me. As we were walking people from the line started looking at us. A random girl in line asked if she could take our picture! He said no and we kept walking until we got to the front of the line. We cut the entire line and NOBODY, not even the Valet said anything to us. I guess it's all about Swagger folks. Sunday was pretty easy, showed my brother around the strip and did some shopping. Really good sales going on at Ceasars. The D&G store had everything including the new items at 50% off. I lost my mind in there! Sunday night was a monster! Body English ladies and gentlemen is where you want to be. Another crazy line avoided by texting my contact over there. DC beat me there, and Tweak had some problems getting in, but we all met up in the Parlor which is the VIP room. DC and his buddy kept bringing girls in, Tweak and his boys had girls with them, and me and my brother, met up with some sisters and made some other new friends while recruiting them from the main room. I honestly don't remember what happened after body english. Woke up this morning, checked out, ran into the two sisters from Body English, grabbed some lunch, and now I am sitting on the plane with 2 hours before I get home. It was an amazing trip, and I wouldn't believe half the stuff that happened if I didn't live it. Meeting Tweak, DC, and Cingra was really great and the fact that we got to hang out 2 of the 3 nights was even better. This forum made my whole trip happen and made it an amazing experience. Thanks to all you guys and girls who provided great information. Clevelander and Bill I'm sorry we didnt have the opportunity to meet and hang out. I will post the video blog and am happy to share it with you all. If i make it out to LA this weekend, Cingra and DC you know that we are going to have to hang out. I do have my body english tab to post so be on the lookout for that. Rain was about $1500 (2 bottles of grey goose, and a bottle of Absolut). Tryst was about $2500 (3 Grey Goose, and Moet). Ok, I think I am done, and wish you all a great trip and look forward to meeting some of you out there!

Well guys I'm at the airport early.lol. This is going to be a long report cause i have alot to tell. What an amazing weekend. Let me start from the beginning. Some of you know that I was supposed to get to vegas at 8:30am. Well because I missed my flight, we didnt get there until 10pm. Due to 2 missed standby overbooked flights in Charlotte. When we finally got to vegas, we rushed to the hotel. Palms Place is unreal, and my new choice hotel. I had been texting my host all day to let him know what was going on and told him we were running late. He said it was crazy at Rain and we needed to get there asap. We checked in droped off our bags, showered and ran out the door. I met a buddy of mine right outside the club. i texted my host Pasquale who ushered us in very quickly. He took us to our table which was kind of isolated but we made it work. Also through out the day, i kept in touch with forum members Tweak, DC, and Cingra. We got settled in at our table and shortly after, I got a text from both tweak and DC. I met with DC first and he and his buddy (great guys, more on them later) hung out in the early stages. We killed our first bottle in less than a half hour. By that time my friends from college came by we started on the second bottle. Dj AM was heating up the place when i finally met up with Tweak. Oh Tweak (another great guy) he and his crew party to the edge of death!! Tweak and his boys had a skybox and invited us up after we finished our bottles. We got up there and it was some great space. Once we got settled we went on a recruiting mission. When we were done, there is no doubt in my mind that we had the best table in club. We had so many girls, that a security guard came by and told us that we had to ask some of the girls to leave. Imagine that. Being the gentleman that I am, I asked the security guy how much would it cost to have him look away..I threw him $60 and he left us alone for the rest of the night. While still partying I got a text from Cingra (Very sweet girl) who told me she was down stairs. I went down and grabbed her and her girl and brought them to our party. We wrapped up at Rain, but everyone still wanted to party. Since we still had a pretty large group, we hopped in a limo and went over to Drais where the line was sick. Some how we weaseled our way to the front, paid off the front door guy and got in. Tweak and his boys really came alive ripping up the dance floor. My body was starting to shut down so I figured to call it a morning at around 8. While there I got separated from my brother who had my wallet, cell phone, and room key. Made it back to the hotel and my brother wasn't there. After begging for 15 minutes, a security guy escorted me up and i had to describe my belongings before he let me in the room. Got in bed and passed out. 10:30 comes and i get a message from Tweak saying they were already at Wet Republic. Dude do you sleep? lol. I finally got out of bed around 12 and made my way to wet republic where they were at capacity and not letting anyone in. Chilled for the rest of the day. DC called me up and asked if i wanted to cruise the strip in his lambo. yes sir i would. He picked me up and away we went. What a nice car! We stopped by Ceasar's to meet up with Cingra and her friend for a brief moment. After that went back to the room rested for a bit and got ready for Tryst. I had been in touch with Patrick Frank and he made everything go very smoothly (Thanks again nyc). The line at Tryst was about 300 when we got there at 10:15. 3 out of the 5 of my party was there but he took us in anyway. Watching everyone look at us while we were bypassing the line was priceless! The rest of our party finally arrived and we started ordering our bottles. We started out with a party of 5 that quickly quadroupled due to our recruiting efforts. Another sick night with so many women. One of the funniest things that happened, which i dont remember, but my brother told me about happened after Tryst. He and I met some girls and they wanted to go to Drais. He said it was the longest cab line he had ever seen. He said I grabbed the girls and said follow me. As we were walking people from the line started looking at us. A random girl in line asked if she could take our picture! He said no and we kept walking until we got to the front of the line. We cut the entire line and NOBODY, not even the Valet said anything to us. I guess it's all about Swagger folks. Sunday was pretty easy, showed my brother around the strip and did some shopping. Really good sales going on at Ceasars. The D&G store had everything including the new items at 50% off. I lost my mind in there! Sunday night was a monster! Body English ladies and gentlemen is where you want to be. Another crazy line avoided by texting my contact over there. DC beat me there, and Tweak had some problems getting in, but we all met up in the Parlor which is the VIP room. DC and his buddy kept bringing girls in, Tweak and his boys had girls with them, and me and my brother, met up with some sisters and made some other new friends while recruiting them from the main room. I honestly don't remember what happened after body english. Woke up this morning, checked out, ran into the two sisters from Body English, grabbed some lunch, and now I am sitting on the plane with 2 hours before I get home. It was an amazing trip, and I wouldn't believe half the stuff that happened if I didn't live it. Meeting Tweak, DC, and Cingra was really great and the fact that we got to hang out 2 of the 3 nights was even better. This forum made my whole trip happen and made it an amazing experience. Thanks to all you guys and girls who provided great information. Clevelander and Bill I'm sorry we didnt have the opportunity to meet and hang out. I will post the video blog and am happy to share it with you all. If i make it out to LA this weekend, Cingra and DC you know that we are going to have to hang out. I do have my body english tab to post so be on the lookout for that. Rain was about $1500 (2 bottles of grey goose, and a bottle of Absolut). Tryst was about $2500 (3 Grey Goose, and Moet). Ok, I think I am done, and wish you all a great trip and look forward to meeting some of you out there!

What a weekend! flight landed back in cleveland around 7am b/c we were delayed breifly in Vegas as they had to throw some crazy drunk guy off the plane and I made it to work by 830am, its going to be a long day but it will give me time to do a review. Sorry I never got the chance to meet up with you Nassau but theres always next time, this was my first but I think I might be going again in the fall. Anyways this will be a long overview of my trip, not only for everyone to read but to help me remeber it as well haha....

We landed around 5pm on Thursday night and went to the liquor store then to the Mirage to check in, slipped the lady a tip and got a nice sweet on the 13th floor looking out over the strip, best $20 I ever spent. Unfortunately my review has no pictures with it due to my camera lens breaking on the flight out.... We headed to Rick's stripclub for many many hours of drinking and lapdances (great place where they actually will sit and talk instead of solely working the room). That night we intended to meet up with jc.com at the table at TAO so we hit the bottles hard (Patron, 4 bottles of rum from Jamaica, 3 Olives, Absolute Mandarin, etc...) in our room and made our way to TAO. My buddy knew someone that worked there so we got by the line which was insane in both length and level of attractiveness! Once inside we saw how packed it was and got word from Chapp that there was no table that night so we proceeded to drink and such. I ended up getting incredibly trashed, wandering around by myself and ended up leaving at some point.... outside of TAO there was a group of girls with some fantastic looking pizza so I asked them where they got it, we talked for about an hour standing outside, went to Denny's (HORRIBLE IDEA) and ended up parting ways after sunrise. After I walked from the Encore to the Mirage I was parched so I did some drinking and gambling then made my way to the room to crab a quick 2 hours of sleep. I slept briefly until the late-night Dennys trip woke me up and kept me up for a few hours.... I then went down to the mirage pool where me and my friends polished off roughly 7 buckets of beer. We then went down to our sports book to watch the Cavs game, got some dinner and then went to the room to prepare for Dane Cook. We drank a lot b/c the Cavs were losing in the close game, went to the Palms, ran into some UFC fighters, went to the show (guy before Dane was WAAAAAAY funnier). Several bottles polished off in the room later we made our way to Pure and once again our friend knew someone there so we got by the HUGE line and proceeded to have a blast. We LOVED Pure, in our opinions better than TAO b/c even though it was packed it was much easier to get around and dance in. I met up with the Denny's girls from the night prior who were celebrating a birthday and I could tell it was gonna be a rough night for bday girl! A few hours later and many drinks later, the bouncers had to wheel her out in a wheelchair through the casino where she tried to stand up while moving and faceplanted and to the taxi line (which we got to pass up due to her intoxication level). The first taxi driver refused to take her home and got out of his cab, then the next one took us to their place. There was no wheelchair at their hotel so I had to literally carry her to their elevator lobby until they found a wheelchair, helped her get to her room, ate some of their roomservice and left her with her sisters. Then, I met my buddy at the Revolution bar @Mirage which is actually really cool. We were only there briefly then went to the Venetian across the street to meet some girls we met at the Vegas airport on Thurs. Once we got back to our hotel after sunrise again we slept for maybe another 2 hours. I was struggling at this point but we made it to Toby Keiths bar for some food and drinks and met up with some girls we met on here. I then went back and checked into Mandalay Bay and PTFO for a quick 2 hour nap. After that we drank ALOT in the room and went to meet the girls from earlier at Sapphires. Good time had by all there then got a ride to what the driver said was a good karaoke bar (no one was there) so we turned around and left and went back to the room to drink then walk around the strip until sunrise. That morning we decided to drink off the hangover at the ice bar at Mandalay Bay, 5degrees, as we were checking into that hotel later in the day (not a good idea to switch hotels in the middle of a drinking binge). The bar is all made out of ice, cups and all. It was a great time as the drinks were good and the bartenders, Heather and Loni, were very nice and attractive girls. After reinstating our BACs from the night before we grabbed some food at Margaritaville and drank several margaritas before upgrading to a huge tube of margarita for our table, talking to the table of girls next to us and then order yet another tall tube of margarita so they could come over and join us. I am now hammered so we go to the Pallazzo sports book to watch the first half of the Cavs game which is an incredible place to watch a game not too expensive and overall comfy, big and beautiful!!! At halftime we went back to the room to get ready for the reservations we had at Cut, the steakhouse @Palazzo. The dinner was by far the best steak I ever had, not cheap but AMAZING. Highly highly recommend the Japanese Wagu. After dinner we went to Casino Royale for the $1 beers they have, drank about 20 between the 5 of us, I went to a townie bar near UNLV to meet this girl I ran into on the strip and my friends went to Pure. They were having so much fun at Pure again I went and met them so we could party with Larry Johnson (RB for Chiefs), what seemed like ½ the 49ers and the music was sweet. When they literally kicked us out because it was so late/early I went off with these girls I met at the club and got back to the room around 8/9am. Yesterday morning we all woke up early again, checked out from Mandalay (huge pain in the ass) got some of those huge novelty cups with frozen drinks in them, did some shopping and went to “The Border Grille” restraunt at Mandalay Bay and drank some more on their outside deck overlooking the pool, food was REALLY good too btw. I did some gambling and actually won a little then at 9pm we went to the airport and then caught the redeye back to Cleveland and went right to work by 830am.

Overall, really liked the Mirage, not so much for Mandalay as they gave us a shitty room, the tip didn’t work but they gave it back, the room was 10,000 degrees and the location sucks. However, very good food places and other things to entertain you and the pool looked great haha.

Cut @Palazzo is the best steak EVER, Red White and Blue restraunt @ Mandalay Bay has some killer burgers as does Burger Bar, The Border Grille at Mandalay is great Mexican and The Mirage brunch buffet was well worth it.

TAO was ok, Pure was awesome (at least we loved it), Margartiaville was a great time with excellent drinks, cant go wrong with the $1 Michelob at Casino Royale, Pallazzo sports book is SICK and the 5degrees ice bar at Mandalay was a fun novelty.

Thanks to everyone who helped us out on here, couldn’t have done it without this site!! Until next time, hopefully sooner rather than later. And you weren’t kidding about needed antidepressants when coming back from the cherry poppin trip to Vegas

The crew: Me, smoking hot wife, smoking hot sister in law and SIL boyfriend. Seriously, guys were drooling over both of them all weekend long. The wore their hottest outfits for maximum effect. My wife and I have been to vegas 5 times in the past 14 months. The other two are making their second trip to vegas.


Day 1 (Thursday)

Flew out of Detroit metro at about 8pm and arrived at about 915 Vegas time. Flight was smooth. We had an Escalade limo pick us up. We headed to the Vegas sign for pics then on to the liquor store for some alcohol and snacks. We checked into the Venetian without a hitch. My initial plans were for two rooms at the Mirage. My stock market trading as of late has been unbelievable so I decided to upgrade us to the Venetian. Both suites on me. The suites were awesome with great sunken living room. We quickly arranged our clothing and partied for a little in our rooms. Went to grand lux for a quick bite to eat which was good. We had a bunch of appies. I then suggested a strip club. The SIL used to work at a strip club and I have been to many strip clubs with the wifes. I recommended two strip clubs. Choice one: Olympic gardens, hot guys for the girls upstairs and hot chicks for the guys downstairs. Or Spearmint rhino and all female club. They decided on SR. We then decided to call the limo for spearmint rhino. The wait for the limo took longer than expected because somehow they had the wrong call back number. After numerous calls we arrived at spearmint at around two am. Overall the dancers were pretty but not smoking hot. Yes there were some hotties but for the most very average which was a surprise. My wife wanted to get me some dances. I found a hot dancer, Tiffany to get me a few dances. Oh was she hot!! It must have appeared that I was really enjoying my dances because dear wifey was pointing daggers her way. Tiffany whispered that she had to tone it down. So needless to say wifey was making my dances very uncomfortable for me and the dancers, not what I was looking for. So we were drinking having a good time when I spotted a very hot dancer near the hallway to the bathroom. For the life of me I cant remember her name but she was beautiful (we will call her Jodi). I told her about jealous wifey so she pulled me into the private backroom where I think you get 3 dances for 60? At this point I cant remember much. Great dances and conversation (I think she liked me...LOL) I go back to table and my wife is pissed. I told her I got lost in the club trying to get to the restroom. I dont think that she bought it. My SILs BF got a few dances one of which was the worst most akward dance that I had ever seen.
So wifey and SIL go to the restroom and Jodi runs over and wants to take me to an even more exclusive room. I tell her I cant cause my wife will kill me but to hangout in the hallway and I will see what I can do (duh!!). The girls return and I see Jodi in the backround waving at me. So at this point I am thinking oh shit, what am I to do?? Sneak in back and get some more hot dances and risk an ass beating from the wife or do I sit there like a good little boy. I said fuck it and went for the dances. I told her that my circadian rhythm was all screwed up and that I had to take a crap. So I head for the restroom and Jodi mets me in the hallway and pulled me into the private room. I told her my wife might get pissed so she pulled me into a more secure area. Dam the dances were good. Went back my wife was really pissed at that point. So I just told her someone pulled me into the back for a couple of dances, big deal right? Oh no she was pissed so we left. It was about 430-5am. She decided to sleep in her sisters room, fuckkkkk. So here I am first night in vegas all worked up by a hot stripper and all by my lonesome. In all very good night. More to come..........

Day 2 Friday:

Needless to say woke up with a farking woody. Went over to the SIL room where I had to do the usual ass kissing so I could get me some. Worked like a charm:) We got ready and headed off to Bellagio for the buffet. Love the B. Some memorable nights there. The buffet as usual was great. We then headed to the Palms for Ditch Friday. Arrived at about 1230pm and the line was a mile long. Fortunately, I had purchased $25 front of the line tickets on iwant tickets .com. They worked like a charm. Ditch was crazy with hot
babe-age everywhere. We couldnt find any chairs so I found an attendant who then proceeded to purchase 2 chairs from a couple of guys who wanted some chicks by them. I tipped him well. The guys were flirtatious with our women but very respectful. All in good fun. We had plenty of Long Island Ice teas (JC's drink of choice) and got f'ed up. The music was hopping with Terrel Owens as the guest DJ. He was spinning some good shit. As the day went on more chicks were filtering in with hotter and hotter bodies and less fabric on their bikinis. We got some great ass pics which my SILs BF accidentally deleted a few days later. DMFer!!@!$ Had to leave at 4pm for diner ressies at Nine steak house for 630.

Arrived for dinner at Nine Steak, which is one of my favorite restaraunts. As usual the vibe was awesome. Definately has a toned down club atmosphere where beautiful people eat. Unfortuanately this time dinner was average. Great waiter though, that dude was cool. I had the bone in ribeye which was a little tough and slightly over cooked. The wife had a massive veal chop thingy. Which she thought was good. SIL and BF shared a filet and lobster tail. In all a good dinner but I had better last time.

On to the Palms theater for Dane Cook. The show started a little late. His opening acts were hilarious. The first guy had us rolling about f'ed faces made by coke heads. We were talking about this over dinner so it really hit home. The second guy was even funnier. His best shit was about cramps during sex and yelling out cramp, cramp ,cramp. Dane was Dane and was just fantastic. Love how his comedy is so cerebral and flows with so little effort. When the show was over we jumped into a cab and hit up XS. Had a table through Patrick Frank. XS is a stunning night club but we were a little disappointed with the location of the table which was located on the left side of the pool deck secluded from any other tables. We made the best of it early on as we were battling the windstorm from hell. Once the place got filled up the party seemed to flow into and around the table and things got crazy. Pounded down 2 bottles of Goose and got totally f'ed up. We danced like porn stars and shut the place down. Only down side was the poor service by the waitress. Poured one drink and was never to be seen again. We somehow made it back to the Venetian and wifey, SIL and I had a 2 hour long threesome.
Just kidding!! LOL:D

Man am I depressed. Being back home has been hell. Going back to work tomorrow and I am totally exhausted. Well, here goes.....


Day 3 Saturday

This was our best day imo. Originally I had planned/booked a table at Tryst but I had second thoughts because I thought that Tryst was too much like XS. So I booked another table at Tao. Well on thursday at the airport, just prior to departure I talked to the group about this. Last September they loved Moon and really wanted to go there. So I gave my host a call (Anthony Mendoza) who is a tremendous guy. He immediately set me up with a table and we were set for Moon. We also asked for the waitress we had (Kristen) last time as she was great. I cancelled the other ressies.

We arrived at Wet Republic at about 11am for our daybed reservation. Host was Travis Zipper and he was great. Got in without any significant wait. The place was a F'ing zoo. Our daybed was hot as it was right on the stage with the DJ maybe 20 feet away. Plenty of hot babes and farking huge dudes. We ordered two bottles of Goose, tequila shots, fruity drinks and a shit load of food. At one point our entire daybed was covered with bowls seafood (shrimp, lobster, crab), multiple orders of kobe burgers, kobe patti melts, buckets of chicken, salads, chips, salsas, too much fucking shit to list. It was unbelievable and pure vegas xs. At one point we had so much extra food that some old lady who didnt speak english showed up out of nowhere and was standing there starring at our food. My wife being the kind bitch that she is offered this lady some food. She then grabs a bucket of chicken, a bunch of kobe burgers and a salad and splits never to be seen again. As she was walking away the waitresses were like..."WTF was that..." we said it was ok. It was too funny. We then proceeded to have a mini party around our daybed offering food and drink to anyone who wanted to party. It was awesome. One dude, after 3 tequila shots, proceeded to grab a bowl of fruit and went into the pool offering chicks fruit. The bowl was full of pool water. We were laughing so hard we nearly pissed our pants. What a great day and this may have been the best thing that we did. We left at 530 because we had Zumanity tix for 730.

Staggered back to the room to get ready. The women were having a hard time getting ready because they were so fucked up. Well we made it to Zumanity but we were about 20 minutes late. The show was great. Splendid acrobatics, great humor and alot of sexuality. This is now my favorite cirque show and will return at some point to see the entire thing. We stayed at NYNY at ate dinner at Il Fornaio. Good solid italian restaurant.

The taxi line was a mile long and took forever. We finally got to moon at about 11pm. Asked for Anthony and he walked us up to our table. This guy is cool as hell and treated us like the VIPs that we are not. I gave him a hundie tip. He bought us a round of shots as we arrived. We then ordered two more bottles of Goose. Our waitress was awesome as was her helper. Our security guard was phenomenal (Sam). We partied with these guys and gals all night and what a night it was. I have had bottle service at all the clubs and this my friends is heads above the others. In fact, there is NO comparison. We didnt pour a drink for ourselves all night long. Mixers always full, Ice bucket always full, bottles of water always on the table. Sam took care of our women walking them to the restroom, walking us to the dance floor and watching over them from unsuspecting clowns. Anthony came back to the table to see how we were doing but unfortunately I was in the restroom because I was ready to give him another hundie (I think I will mail it to him). This was the f'cking best party night. We shut the place down and Sam walked us to the VIP elevator where some drunk bitch proceeded to vomit on my shoes, BIATCH!!!

Day 4 Sunday

At this point we are fucking exhausted. The plan was to hit rehab but there was no f'ing way. Instead we stumbled down to the venetian pool which was packed. Walked over to Palazzo and found a few chairs after a battle or two. Had a great lunch and finally laid around in the pool just chilling when we get a phone call from my mother in law. Our daughter fell off of her bike and broke her wrist. NOOOOOOOO! What a buzz killer. Thankfully she took care of everything. No show this day. We got ready and walked the strip from Venetian to Bills and into Caesars forum shops. My wife thinks tattos are sexy so I got a fucked up henna tatto on my arm. I had to walk around like a door knob for a couple of hours until the thing dried. My wife accidently grabbed my arm twice smearing the crap out of a portion of the tat. Had dinner at the cheesecake factory which is very good and quite affordable. Went back to the room. We had table ressies for Body English. We were wiped out so i left it up to the ladies. We went back and forth. Do we go, dont we go, yada yada yada. The ladies finally decided to go. I had a table reserved and it was kind of late. I texted my host Justen Crews and he said no problem. Finally arrived and had to bust through the crowd. Got ahold of Justen and he was like "what the F dude" looking at his watch. I looked at my SILs BF and said it was his fault. Justen pointed to the BFs dew and said he must of been working on the hair? This was funny as shit because he was in his room spiking his hair for about an hour, LOL! Justen is a cool dude and I took care of him with a hundie. He brought us to our table which was a little cube just to the right of the entrance. 2 bottles of Goose. Total lack of ventilation and low ceiling resulted in a degree of clausterphobia. The place was a total cluster fuck. Tried to hit the dance floor and it was wall to wall people. Waitress poured one drink and I did not see her the rest of the night. In all shit experience for $1300. We all thought that this was the worst bottle experience of the trip and we will not be back. On to the room and we are dead tired but we managed to stay up and party until 530am. WTF!!!

Day 5 Monday


Decided to skip the pool. Had a taxi drive us to the Tropicana and we decided to walk back up the strip to the venetian. Just walked in and out of various casinos getting some drinks, doing some shopping and to gamble. My henna tatto is looking like a fucking joke a this point. Looks like one of my daughter went to town on my arm with some faint shit marker. Some guy at a different shop offered to touch up my henna for only $25. It looked so bad I had no choice. So I went ahead and had him redo it. So after $90 bucks now I still look like a door knob. In all, dont do the henna thing but I do like this pseudo tatto and will go for the real thing in about 4 weeks. Makes my wife all juicy and shit. I need all the help I can get, LOL! We did alot of shopping. Bought Vinnie Favorito tickets at the half off booth, great deal. Stopped at Ghirardelis for an awesome sundae. Then hit carnival court for free shots. Also bought some awesome grilled corn. Went back to the room and got ready for Vinnie Favorito. We were 15 minutes late thanks to my farking SIL who was constantly late. Was really driving me nuts. Vinnie Favorito is at the Flamingo and is one fucking funny dude. He goes through each and every person in the audience and cuts them up like you would not believe. We were all drunk and hiding like a bunch of pussies afraid that he would call on us. Sure enough he calls on my wife. Says wow you are gorgeous but would you quite flashing your snapper at me. Its looking like the hoover dam. We were rolling. He then said is that your husband, God is he fucking ugly (I thought you fucker!). He screwed with me but I told him some fake shit that he had fun with. Then on to the SIL and asks her why here voice is a F'ed up. She says too much partying, he says youve been sucking too much dick. Again, roflmao!! Her boyfriend lucked out. Just when he was ready to lay down the hammer on him someone shouted something from the other side of the room and this distracted him and he never got back to us. This guy is hillarious and I highly recommend him if you have tough skin. Back to cheesecake factory for dinner. The sisters are exhausted and are at each others throats. Very funny. We decided to call it a night. Watched a porno with the wife followed by hot sex for hours. Ohhh yaaaa!!!

Final Day, Day 6 Tuesday

At this point we are like four fucking noodles. But yet we gather enough energy to hit the venetian pool which is now like a ghost town and drink at least a fifth of vodka. We all had a great buzz going. have some lunch a just chill. Had our final dinner at Bellagio buffet which was great. Back to the Venetian to check out and limo ride to airport all without a hitch. Plane departs at 1015pm and arrive in Detroit at 530 am. Wow what a trip.

Our Vegas anthem is now...
"Drink all day, play all night
Now getting poppin', were in Las Vegas Bitch"


Forgot a story from Sunday. Get on a rowdy elevator at the venetian. Go down one floor and who walks in with two hot bitches on each hip? Ryan Seecrest of American Idol fame. I say hey its RS and he shakes my hand. He then takes a picture with my SIL and BF. What a cool guy. The SILs BF then goes on to accidentally delete the farking picture as well as numerous other ass shots from Ditch and Wet Republic.

Well, thats all I have. Will likely go back in late september for wifes birthday. Will only do a Fri, Sat Sun.

After spending some time and reading through the other reviews, I have to say that this MDW was amazing! Sorry it took so long for me to get a review up. I've decided a brief summary would work best...

Friday: Me and my friend andy drove the lambo from LA to Vegas around 11am. Stopped halfway at burger king and made some calls to finalize club plans. Sincd vegas is week to week, wanted to follow up with people and let them know we were for real.

Arrived at NYNY around 4, checked in and got an upgrade to a larger room, the 20 tip def helped at checkin, even though he tried to hand it back I insisted. Room was comped for the weekend. Had a 20th floor broadway room with 700 sq ft, 2 queens and a living room with sitting area. View of mountains. I'd say only downside was the long hallway and being far from the elevator.

After checkin we hit the tables and slots, where i won over 2 grand in a couple hours and basically that paid for the rest of my trip...an awesome way to start things off!

We had 3 bottles of premium alcohol we brought with us, so we got good and drunk early on. By 8pm we were wasted, between our own drinks plus drinks from gambling, we were gone...

Around 9pm we headed over to the palms, picked up our wristbands and headed to the food court to eat a quick cheap meal. That helped us sober up a bit, then we went to the playboy club and hung out for about an hour. I played some blackjack and we took pix of the view. Very laid back, not much of a crowd at 10pm, but a decent ratio of girls to guys, but not really social.

By 11 we heade down to Rain where we had hosted bar. We started drinking the free vodka, and by midnight we were trashed again. We met up with nassau and tweak and had an awesome time hanging out at their tables. We didnt drink anymore bu nassau bought me a shot and i couldnt refuse :). DJAM was fantastic, and the club was packed with girls. We did some recruiting and had some good action for the night. Nassau and everyone in the crew were really cool and helped make the night! We left around 3 and took a limo back to NYNY, where we apparently drank more, and had fun with some new friends ;)

Saturday we woke up around noon hungover. Pool sounded lame since we were blasted so we just chilled. 3rd in our group flew in and we used his energy to keep us going. Finally by the late afternoon we felt human again. Sat night we put money on the lakers game and my boys started drinking and went to the espn sports zone to watch. I wasnt up for drinking yet, so i went and got the lambo and cruised around. Decided to call Nassau and see if he wanted to cruise the strip with me, and ended up picking him up at the palms. We went to ceasars and met cindy and her friend (forum members) and showed them the car. Nassau and I had a blast and of course getting lots of looks and photos, def worth taking the lambo to vegas!

Sat night, the lakers won, so me and my boys took our winnings and went to the bellagio for dinner at yellowtail. Kobe was awesome and the popping crab roll is great. Food was def worth it but the service was subpar. All in all a great place to get quality sushi though.

Afterwards we headed to the bank, where we had a table with 2 bottle minimum. Our table was in the red room, off to the side, but not a bad spot. We paid 1300 cash for the table plus 100 host tip plus we tipped bouncers etc...it ended up being about 600 each for 3 guys for sat night mdw. We were very happy, tons of girls, awesome atmosphere and dance floor and the service was perfect. We booked everything ourselves, by the way, no 3rd parties.

We ended up getting moved to a 5 bottle minimum table on the main dance floor about halfway through the night. This totally made our night! Big thanks to Jason, the vp manager, for hooking us up! We had so much action at the table we had to turn ladies away...We closed the place down and continued the party with some new friends back at NYNY :)

Sunday: again, hungover, but woke up early and started drinking gatorade. By noon we were feeling good so we hit the strip and played some $$$ and screwed off for a few hours.

Sunday night we ate a light dinner and then headed to hard rock's body english to party it up. Slipped the door guy 50 for 2 guys and walked in past the cover line unnoticed. Once inside, met up with nassau and his bro in the sidw vip lounge. All we had to do for that was slip the doorman some more cash and get a wristband for all night access. Again, awesome time, lots of recruiting and tons of action for all the guys in our group. I got too wasted though, and ended up taking a limo back to my room around 4am and crashed...

Monday: woke up at ten and called down for a late checkout. Packed up and hit the road by noon. Hit heavy traffic about a half hour from vegas, said fuck it, flipped a bitch and headed back to the palazzo. Went into the sportsbook and hung out all day, eating and sobering up. Lost some money on the lakers and then headed out around 10 pm. Traffic was a breeze and was able to cruise at 110 the whole way back. Got back to LA by 2 and in bed by 3, with a smile on my face I dozed off and thought about all the good times we had and all the great people we met :)

Thursday- I went to TAO to meet some friends in town from Chicago who got what I consider to be the best table there which is Table 63 the one right under the Air Conditioning Vent and with ease of access to the balcony for the smokers and bathroom for the pissers. The crew was 4 dudes and 3 chicks and they had 1 bottle of patron, 1 bottle of Jack, 1 big bottle of goose, and a bottle of Champagne. The total bill came out to $2850 which I will post.

Friday- XS Daybed outside at night...AWESOME!! Girls here girls there girls friggin everywhere. The guys I was with were also from Chicago and the owners of Chii Clothing Culture. We had a couple bottles of Ketle one which at XS is still $575 my GF Katie snagged a menu and put that Coach purse I bought her to good use. I also got a reserved sign. The night ended at the Deja Vu love botique off industrial where it usually ends when my GFs in town where we were deciding what was going to keep her company while I was in Afghanistland. A place that I just found out I wont be going! Cheers to that!

Saturday!- WET REPUBLIC WET REPUBLIC WET REPUBLIC!!!!! Rumor has it they cleared half a million dollars in revenue. Fire marshals were there shutting the place down. My GF also snagged me a RESERVED sign from here too which unfortunately was made of thick paper. haha. My friends from the Chii had a day bed in front of the DJ booth and it was pretty friggin packed. Its one thing to brush up someone when your wearing jeans but a bathing suit come friggin on!

Sunday- Since the GF and I were staying at the MGM Grand we decided to just chill in the Wet Republic Reserved pool area which was really just seating outside Wet and wouldnt have been 20 bucks if it wasnt MDW. Well being a guest of the hotel I pretty much got in for free. We grabbed an umbrella and a round table and had a bucket of Ice with Bud Light Limes 2 bottles of coke and my GFs beach bag packed with Disposable flasks. We got absolutely obliterated. I got calls from alot of peeps asking me if I could hook em up and I just say hey get your ass over here. We are making our own table service. haha And with the lazy river right in front of us it was awweeesoomme. I just kept going back and getting more ice and more cups and the food from the Cabanna grill was the shioottt!!!! I had to head over to Palms to get 18 of my friends from Arizona into LOVE FESTIVAL at the Palms Pool. They all bought the Palms Pool/ Paul Van Dyke Tickets for 35 bucks but the line for the ticketed peeps was bad so I just talked to a phenomenal guy named ______ (PM ME FOR MORE INFO HAHA) and We all jumped around and got crazy to the sounds of Steve AOKi amazzzzinngggg!!!!!!! My GF then texted me come back and I said see u all tonight at PVD!!! and headed back to my rediculously tanned GF. haha PVD was amazing that night with all the blacklights and flouresent colors I felt like I was in my favorite movie. WWCF Wily Wonkas Chocolate Factory. That sounded a bit.. haha After that I headed to Drais which 100 dollars a head to go and see CASKADE which was amazing.

Monday- SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP 10pm woke up PRiVE! LIL JOHN whaaatt okayyy!!!!!! what what what!!! there till 3am burrito platter from Robertos then DRAiS for some DJ Chuckie and Lil John Voice over! Which was effin a freaking may zing! Wow.. It was a celebration for how crazy Vegas is on MDW and how much money changed hands. My friend left me a bottle of DOM Perigon at Table and I drank straight from the bottle thinking wowww What a weekend!!! The Music and the Mayham I am happy I survived to experience another one next year.

I can say I partied hard for all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and didn't make it home to join in on the festivities. Let us NEVER FORGET our fellow American Brothers and Sisters who are the reason for this wonderful weekend we have once a year and have made it possible to live in this great country where we have places like LAS Vegas. Never Forget! Never Forgotten!

Review – June 5th – 9th.. pictures to be posted soon (my friends took most of the good pictures)

Friday: Landed – flight was pretty bumpy. Went straight to the hotel and unpacked stuff. Then headed out on the strip. Had our first drink and lunch on the outdoor patio at the market between MGM and Planet Hollywood. We walked all the way down to Fashion Show Mall (beside Treasure Island) first (of course) to check out all the shops. It took us about 3 hours to walk down there with all the stops for booze and ice cream and randoms stopping us and chatting (I put lipstick on some random guy.. I was helping my friend touch up her makeup, and this guy came up to us and said he wanted red lipstick..). Took a cab back from the mall to MGM and had a nap. Got ready, and then had appetizers at the Rainforest Café bar. The bartenders there were awesome!! When we paid our bill, I had about 1/3 of my drink left and the bartender asked me if I wanted a cup for my drink (I was about to just shoot it down), and I told him that would probably be a lot prettier than me trying to slam it back. So he got a HUGE Styrofoam cup (probably about 20oz) and filled it up with vodka and soda for me. “That’s pretty!”.

Took a cab over to Tryst around 10:30. HUGE line up. See a really short petite girl with a bunch of papers in her hands and we just tell her were on the Clubzone guestlist (we are not on her list, but she doesn’t acknowledge that we’re not on the list). She pulls us out of the line, comps our cover and we’re in! I almost have a tumble down the stairs into Tryst in my really high heels (ladies be careful up in Tryst!). We get some drinks and sit on a bench near the dance floor, checking out the scene and the gorgeous waterfall. Crowd there is more to our liking, mix of people our age, older. Everyone is dressed up, all the girls really went out to get ready there. We dance for an hour, have another drink and decide it’s time to move on!

Get out into the Wynn lobby and an older man who works for the hotel dressed in a suit (probably in his late 60’s? Adorable!) opens the rope for us and lets us out. We have the sweetest interaction.. Me: ‘You ready for us, handsome?’ Him: ‘Nobody said it better than Toby Keith; I am more ready not than I’ll ever be.’ Got into the cab, my friend still had her drink in the glass from Tryst (hahaha!).

Take a cab back to MGM. Go back to our room, I grab my Styrofoam drink, she refills her Tryst glass from my drink, and we go walking out to NYNY. Couple of really young guys (I swear they were only like 16? But they said they were 21) beg us to come with them to Rok. Get out front, some kid that’s 16 with crazy long hippy hair is dancing as if he’s in a trance outside, really strange... I laugh and ask the bouncer if we can get in. My friend and I are wearing skate shoes and flip flops but he doesn’t seem to have problem with that. Rok is pretty small, but good if you’re in a “I don’t care where we go” sort of attitude, which we were. And dance away with our little buddies. Leave around 2, and have baked pretzels, and off to bed!

TO BE CONTINUED..!

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I posted some of my pictures here, that's all I have right now.. waiting for my friends to post their pictures so I can snag them.

Saturday: Got up, went to the Harley Davidson Cafe for breakfast out on the patio. My friend almost got in a fight with some older lady who just started randomly swearing at her. Walked down to Caesars Palace. Dreamed in all the shops, and went to Tiffany's. My friend decided she wanted to get something there, and tried on a couple pieces of jewelry. When it came time to pay.. she didn't have her money/cards.. so I bought her jewelry for her.... Hopefully she pays me back!!

Went to the Paris and bought those porcelain dome drinks, went into the Paris. I was winning like crazy on the penny machines (I put in a dollar and left with $20), and got some free drinks from the casino staff. Went back to our hotel room for our daily nap. Got ready and then went out to Grand Wok @ the MGM for some sushi. I was really really good! Finished up there and cabbed down to Rain. Chapp/Colton were going to meet us up there, but I got there at 11 and they weren't going to be there until 1AM. It was a shitshow mad house! I couldn't get anyone's attention, flash enough money or anything to get inside, but I did get a glowstick from sort sort of mime-y alien outside. My friend gave up and went over to the Food Court to get a coffee.

Officially things turned bad for us then. She wrote off going out at night for the rest of the trip and decided that she hates clubs. I was so crabby that she wanted to leave because I was having fun fucking around in the casino and she wanted to go to bed... I couldn't leave her, and I couldn't hang out by myself for 2 hours in my dress, so we went to bed at 12:30 :( :(

Sunday: Got up and put on our bikinis and went down to the MGM pool. We had breakfast in the little cafe just inside the entrance way. Lots of little birds hanging out, trying to steal our crumbs. Went out to the pool area, and found a spot right by the Wet Republic entrance (you can watch the lazy river from here, washroom and bar are close, and you can listen to the same music that's being played inside of Wet).

Ordered ourselves a bucket of Bud Light (5 beers for $25, not too shabby!), and hung out by the pool. We had to hunt down an umbrella for shade, as there are not a whole lot out there at all, you really have to fight for them or come early, and we were lucky. Hung out there all day, made some friends, and just drank and ate until the afternoon. Nap time.

We went over to NYNY for dinner because we had tickets for Zumanity. Ate at the Gonzales Margarita restaurant, which was terrible. My chicken quesadilla tasted like it was filled with canned tuna.. not nice. We had Red Rockets (Red Bull margarita) but all you could taste was red bull and salt, not a lot or any booze in there at all. Saw Zumanity, which was awesome! It was like a drag show/cirque/peep show all in one. It was really awesome, and I was crying laughing through the whole thing.

Afterwards, I am trying once again to get my friend to go out. She's not feeling it and wants to go to bed.. but I try to keep her going by walking laps around the casino, trying to give her a motivational talk about how we're in Vegas and we're missing out on the real fun. No dice. AGAIN, I'm back in bed at 12:30. This time, I'm wearing my dress, full makeup and hair done, ready to roll. I will not give up!

I text my friends (I have about 10 other people who are here in Vegas too, but we are all travelling around seperately, and the girl I'm with doesn't know these people or have any interest in hanging out with them) to see what they're up to, and they're at Body English. They're too drunk and hammered for me to get any sort of indication from them that I can come meet them or where exactly they are so I wait.... I get a text at 6AM from them to come join them but I've already fallen asleep too deep. I was so sad.. broken.. mad..! another night wasted!

Monday: I wake up early. I'm just fuming. I'm being short with my friend and not very talkative. Today I decide, I'm getting drunk this morning. Fuck you! I'm in Vegas! Today was the day where we have reservations at Wet Republic for the day bed. I'm too mad to want to sit with her on a king size-d bed by the pool and spend $150 of my money to feed her drinks. I'm just so bitter and crabby, but I'm still trying to be nice. We are on vacation.

So we go back to the MGM pool, which I did have fun at, and I think I really had a better time that day at MGM pool than I would have at Wet. We catch the same spot as we did the day before with our umbrella. We have Starbucks for breakfast (coffee, muffin, parfait). We get to the pool and I get one of those yard long drinks. I'm on a mission today, so it started early. I get stopped by a girl, and my funky bathing suit is on the cover of Sports Illustrated she tells me! I feel pretty sweet now. Instead of sitting in the sun all day, I hop into the lazy river and start paddling around. Make some friends with some dudes from Chicago. They've all got innertubes and big ass jugs of god knows what in Fat Tuesday containers. They're offering it to everyone. I spin around with them for a couple hours, and they buy me an innertube and we mess around in the pool all day playing bumper cars and being drunk. It was a lot of fun.

Get ready to have dinner again, head over to the Italian restaurant in the MGM. We have pasta and champagne. I start texting my friends to see what they're doing that night, and I tell my friend that I am leaving her tonight and going to go hang out with them. She seems super pissed and she wants to go fuck around on the Strip.. but I've wasted two nights with her, so that's just not an option for me again. I get a hold of their group, and they're headed to the NY NY to ride the roller coaster. So I tell them I'll be there, and I run over. My friend in our room just keeps saying "lame sauce" over and over, but I don't care! I'm freeeeeee! Meet my friends at the rollercoaster. I'm SUPER scared of heights more than anything else, but before I know it, I'm sitting in the ride, strapped in. We come up to the first big hill and I really think this is the end for me.. hahahaha. I had to close my eyes through the whole ride. Everyone thought it was hilarious!

We jump out of NYNY and start walking towards a convience store. The girls have mickeys of vodka and want "chase' for it, so we grab orange juice. Five of us girls pile into a cab to go over to Jet, where they got some sort of pass to get in (I tell them there is no way that's getting us out of the line). But we go there anyways, and our guy friend books it down the strip to meet up at the Mirage. We get to Jet. I swear I see Timberland, or at least someone that looks just like them. The group tosses me infront of them as bouncer bait, and we all get in without waiting in line. We get into Jet and I immediately decide that I don't like it. The dance floor is so small for the amount of people on it, and I don't like the crowd that's there. Two of the girls go off to find guys with tables to feed us drinks. I do not like this idea. I tell the girl I'm closest with in the group that we should go to Prive (Chapp/Colton are there, and I really do not want to be at Jet with those other girls).

So the three of us hop in a cab and go off to Planet Hollywood where Prive is. Chapp is the first to meet us at the top of the elevator. I'm so happy to finally do what I want and not have to worry about someone being tired or having to go to bed early. We go over to their little corner and say hi to Colton, who pours us each a drink! I've pretty much over the moon. They offer us the couch and my feet are killing me, so I was happy to sit :) Tell Colton we really appreciate the drinks.. and my friends and I start dancing away. It starts to die down around 2:30ish, and Chapp hooks us up over at Drais for afterhours because he has to go. We hang out a little longer in the corner table, and leave after they start to shut the place down. We walk out of Prive and some guy starts chasing after us. One of the guys from Drais telling us to come.. and we tell him we're already headed there! Gives me his card just incase we have any troubles (Brandon Wallis).

After hours at Drais. Brandon met us up there and we just walked right in. My two ladyfriends stayed downstairs and danced with some older gentlemen.. I wasn’t feeling it and the guys down there kinda creeped me out. Went up stairs because I wasn’t getting any reception on my phone. I got a foot massage from a bouncer near the entrance. He pulled a bar stool from the bar and I sat with him at the door and he rubbed my feet! I had a lot of fun hanging out with them and they told me I would have no problems next time I came back to Vegas. Their sign outside said that they are open Wednesday – Sunday, but because of XS, they are open when they are to catch the people who want to party after they close. Threw myself into a cab around 5AM. Cabbie gave me a short tour of the strip, since we were able to drive down it because there wasn’t any traffic. Got to my hotel, and realized I didn’t have my room card (I had everything else in my bag… but my room card), so I had to bang on my room door after 5AM for my roomie to let me in.

Tuesday: Hungover. My first hangover in Vegas.. was actually disappointed that on the last night my first and only hangover happened then. Had Eggs Benedict at the Rainforest Café @ MGM (not good). If you’re ever hung over.. do not come here. I wanted to punch out the stuffed tiger that was roaring/moving/meowing inside the restaurant. I just wanted quiet, and this was not the place to get it.

Checked out and settled our bill. Turns out my Dad made some arrangements and all our food/drinks were comped. Kicking myself now for not going to Wet Republic and booking a cabana, ahaha.

Did our last minute shopping. Grabbed the bf a giant Keystone. Went off to the airport and back to Calgary!

Everything is written in the order I went there. Im trying to keep it simple, and alllow anyone to easily skip to the parts they want to read about.

WEDNESDAY:
Checked in at harrahs: The room is really clean, but not luxury, but can't complain since it was free. Flat screen in the room, and bathroom. Balcony overlooks the pool, so that's a plus.

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Carnival Court: Band was good. Lots of beer and shots.

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Wasted space: No Line/No Cover thanks to JC hooking me up. Club was cool. Small, but good vibe. Good dj. Great place if you don't want to get dressed, and are staying at the hrh.

Body English: No Line/No Cover thanks to JC hooking me up. BE was good as usual. Everything IS kind of blurry from that point.

Thursday:
Margaritaville: pissed because they only offer the bloody mary menu before a certain time. I was to late. The regular BM was OK. Food was good.

Roller Coaster at NYNY: Highly suggest it. It was fun.

The Grand Wok (suggested by Brazeneye): Food was excellent. We had edamomy, 4 rolls, 4 cocktails, and the bill was only $70.

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Tao: We walked in with JC, and partied at his table most of the night. Once Chap showed up, we walked around, and partied. Went up to Tao Beach. It was cool, but not where I would want my table. Tao is my all time favorite club.

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The Rhino: We rode with Chap up there, but Chap didnt stay long. My friend and I partied our asses off. Rolled out at 9am. That is all

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Friday
Tao Beach: Chap hooked us with a promoter, and got us spa bed right in the middle of the action. I defiantly recommend this place on a Fri. Great vibe the whole day.

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Used our wrisbands without any problems at all of these clubs.

Ghostbar: Dont waste your time here. Moon has the same view, but a better crowd. Mostly Cougars, if thats what your looking for. View was great though. Music was mainly Hip Hop.

this is a pic of moon from ghostbar
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Moon: I liked this club. Good vibe, dj, and crowd.

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Rain: Pretty big club. You could also access the pool from this club, where there was a bar. If it hadnt been for DJ AM being there, I probably wouldnt have cared for it. There was some hot women there.

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I wasnt in ahhh of any of the Palms clubs. I think my expectations were very high, and so I felt kind of let down.

Also want to add:
TAO:When we were walking through the crowd, Chap started taking every ones picture, like he worked for spyonvegas. Everyone would stop dancing, and pose for him. It was cracking me up, because he was using a disposable camera. At the Rhino, they made us check our cameras, and Chap was like, I dont need this, and THREW IT IN THE TRASH. Ofcourse, I scolded him, cause you all know how I am about the pics.

TAO BEACH; We had the trio sushi rolls, buffalo chicken wings, and about 9 pitchers of Beach Bums. It was ALL REALLY GOOD

Saturday
We finally get some sleep. That afternoon we decide to head to stratosphere, and ride all the rides on top. We never make it.

Monorail: I see absolutely no good reason, not to take the monorail. It was clean, not crowded, and nicely dressed peeps. Even had security guards at the stations. Most of the riders were from the convention center.
1 way was $5
All day was $13

Nascar Cafe at Sahara: If your on a budget, this is the place to drink. The had a tree shot stand, which was 10 shots for $40. I watched 2 girls put them down in about 30mins. Fuck that.

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Theres a reason the girls are not in the pic. I wouldnt do that to my friends.

Margaritas were really good. The food was OK. Big portions, but probably a 5 or 6 out of 10.

Sahara hotel: I cant ever see myself staying at this hotel. NEVER.

We were so full, and still tired, we said screw the rides. We went back to the hotel to rest up for pure that night. When we got up, we decide to just gamble for the night, save our energy for rehab. We knew Sun, was gonna be a long day, with rehav, and the bank that night. What a great decision.

I always thought Sat night the clubs were crawling with all the women, but we found out that is not the case. We gamble at harrahs and IP, and casinos had HOT women EVERYWHERE. I keep asking my friend "were the hell are all these women coming from?" All dressed up, and know where to go I guess.

Sunday
Rehab: I contacted Key (contact on the site) Sat. night, and told him I had 2 people for rehab. He said he would hook me up with 2 vip chairs, and to be there at 10am. We get there about 9:45am, walk around the LONG ass line to the host podium. Key is not there yet. They tell me my name is not on the list, and there over booked for they day. I show them my text from Key, and express to them they are really making me nervous. THEY ASSURE ME, NO MATTER WHAT, IF IM WITH KEY, ILL BE TAKING CARE OF. Key arrives about 10 after, and escorts us to our chairs, around the vip pool.

IF YOU USE KEY, BE SURE AND TELL HIM JACK REFERRED YOU.

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Rock Star Lemonade is really good, BUT goes down really fast.

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Security kept letting me slide, but after the 10th time of me vomiting, they said they were calling the paramedics. I told them hell no. They said you can either walk out of here on your own, or your going to the hospital. We left.

Got back to the hotel around 6pm. Took a quick nap. Head out to meet JC at 10:30pm.

SO DONT BUST MY BALLS TO MUCH, I STILL PARTIED TELL 4 OR 5AM.

CARMEL (Inside Bellagio): It was a small ultra lounge. Nice inside. Good vibe. JC ofcourse, had a table with free booze. I would defiantly pre-drink here if I stayed at the Bellagio.

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THE BANK: this is my new sunday night club. Ive always gone to BE, but I liked the bank alot better. HOT women everywhere. JC as always, had a table with free booze. The DJ was great, and like the layout better than BE. It was still small, and very similiar to BE, but I just enjoyed being there better. Felt like a Sat. night at the club.

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We left the bank around 2am, i guess, and head to BE.

Body English: We pretty much hung out in the vip room the whole time. AKBORDER ended up meeting up with us. We had fun, but the week was really catching up to me. I really had to push myself. AKBORDER was just getting started, and he wasnt taking no for an answer.

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One last pic with JC, AKBORDER, and some random girl.

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And we were OUT. We woke up just in time to check out, and catch a ride home.

Okay, so this isn't going to have pictures or be all that long, but definitely figured I should post one anyway.

So a quick recap:

When I was over in Iraq I bought a new car, an Audi A6, but I bought it at a dealership in Colorado in the town my best friend lives in. So it has been parked at his house since January, waiting for me to come pick it up.

So last Wednesday me and two of my buddies(Jordon and Josh) flew out to Denver, drove down to Boulder, and partied there until Saturday night, when my best friend(Pat).

Boulder is actually a pretty awesome place to party, even when school is out. Definitely a good mix of dive bars, normal bars, Irish bars, and more upscale clubs/lounges. Pretty awesome crowd was out and about, even on like.. Weds/Thurs.

Also managed to hit up the Coors Brewery up in Golden. They don't have tour guides anymore, just audio tours, so you can pretty much skip the tour and go straight to your three free beers. Pretty rad, really.

In the three nights we were there we more or less managed to wreck the Marriott we were in. I actually had to do some major wood working on a bed room that broke when I swan dove on to it. Sad day in the neighborhood. We did go through 3 30-packs of beer and 3 handles though, so it was a good few days.

We also caught a Rise Against concert. Well, the other guys did, but I was laid low in my room because of some food poisoning issues.

OKAY SO SUNDAY JUNE 14TH

We finally pull into Vegas around 10 or so AM, get to the Flamingo, ask if we can check in early and slip them a $20. Guy gives the $20 back, because he can't get us all that great of an upgrade, but we do get an upper floor strip view room, so that's not all that bad. We weren't going to be in the room much anyway, but having a Strip View is always nice for pre-drinking in the room.

Sunday we more or less spent the whole day gambling and stuff, a friend of mine from Louisiana was in town so I spent some time with her, unfortunately she was only 19 so she couldn't come out and party, too bad because she's one of the national Hawaiian Tropics girls.

Anyway, Sunday night finally rolls in and we manage to completely oversleep. I had planned on trying to meet up with JC, Dnix, etc, at Carmel/Bank, but by the time we got up and out of the hotel it was already close to Midnight, and Jack had been pretty clear about timelines, so I didn't want to bother him with having to come get us in or anything.

I had guestlisted as at Moon/Playboy just as a precaution, in case something like this happened, so we went over there, used some free admit passes, so we managed to skip the line and not pay a cover, which was nice.

I pretty much love Moon and PBC, so we had a pretty awesome night. It was some DJ's birthday so they had guest DJ's all night and there were a ton of porn stars there and stuff. They were also filming an episode of MTV's Tru-Life, talked to the producer for a bit, seemed like a really chill guy who was actually kind of annoyed at how much the camera crew and the guys they were following were impacting the guests.

At one point the camera guy more or less tried to hockey check me into a rail(check Dnix's thread for a pic of me, I'm not exactly a tiny little guy) and the producer went off on him about being a dickhead. Pretty rad.

Anyway, a group of girls had a table there, so they invited us to sit down, had a good time with them, pretty fun girls from L.A.

So anyway, around 3AM I'm getting bored at Moon, so I text JC hoping they are still out doing something. YUP, they're rocking out at Body English, so we pop downstairs, grab a Limo, because the cab line is like 45 minutes and head to the HRH.

Jack comes out of the club to let us in because they've actually closed it to new admissions at this point. The bouncers are cool and let us by, although they play like they aren't going to until they saw our Marine ID's and were like "Dude you gotta let 'em in, they're Marines", haha.

Anyway, got downstairs into Body English and Jack and Dnix were, of course, partying it up in the VIP room. Popped in there, bought a round of Long Islands to start things off. At this point things start to get blurry, then I bought a round of Trashcans

Alaskan Trashcan= Gin, Rum, Vodka, Triple Sec, Blue Curacao and Red Bull

And that's when I time traveled to Monday morning.

Jack and Dnix were definitely rad guys, wish I'd have made it out early to hang with Dnix more. We grabbed a couple photos, so that was tight.

MONDAY JUNE 15TH

I wake up Monday morning, having time traveled forward, and me and the guys definitely decide that some Hooters wings are in order. So we manage the stumble down the strip, stopping to get some sort of alcohol slurpee at the Fat Tuesdays in Planet Hollywood, and make it to Hooters.

I eat the absolute worst Hooters of my life, which ruined my day a couple times in the mad dashes to the fucking bathrooms, and really regretted this decision. Horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE, Hooters. Don't go.

I need to go cash in my winning tickets from the Lakers game, took the Lakers and the under, so I won on both counts, so we head back to the 'mingo, and cash in the tickets, hit the pool for a bit, play some Craps, etc.

Jack texts me to make sure we're coming out, etc, which I thought was awesome of him.

The rest of the day is pretty boring so we'll skip to Monday night.

It's about 10:00 and Jack had said to be at HeartBar in PH at 11pm sharp, we we wandered over to PH and grabbed some sandwiches at Earl of Sandwich, which were awesome on every level. Definitely great to pre-game on. Wandered over the Pleasure Pit and played some Roulette until jack showed up.

Jack got there, introduced him to the two of my friends that weren't at Body English the night before(they had found a couple of girls and broke into the Palms pool at like 3am and went hot tubbing in their club clothes, hahaha). Met a bunch of the guys we'd be drinking with that night, definitely a very interesting and chill crowd, mostly HRH employees it seemed. Just a great group of people to be around, good energy, and yeah, I was pretty stoked.

So about 11:20/11:30 Jack throws up the "let's go" sign and we all(like seriously 40-60 people) start walking in this amazing rock star conga line up to the back entrance to Prive and up the escalators. I've never been to Prive before, but it became one of my favorites based purely on the entrance elevators, and "Good Life" was definitely playing while we went up, hahaha.

Anyway, we get to the tables and it's literally right on the dance floor, so we started unhooking ropes and moving around pedestals and stuff to make enough room for our massive group, it was pretty awesome. Me and my friends were down on one table with some Jack and some of the other folks, and that point is when the goose and jack daniels start flowing.

Prive was just a really, really, great time. The table was awesome, the people were awesome, and everyone was just having a good time. Everyone bounced at around 2:30 or so, so we did the same, my friends pretty much all crashed out and I left to play Poker until around 7:30am, when I forced everyone to wake up for the drive back to San Francisco.

Yeah, didn't work out that well, because we ended up stopping and sleeping at an exit because even though I'd taken it easy on drinking, I hadn't slept, hahaha.

But yeah, it was a great trip and I had a blast for a Sunday/Monday. Pretty excited to get back there 4th of July weekend, even if it will be with the fiance.

Hope this was remotely interesting to read!

Well I'm not a hot Canadian girl but I hope you guys like my review anyway and leave some comments :p We just found out my wife is pregnant with our 3rd, so we didn't do much nightlife type stuff. Didn't want to be around the smoke, she gets tired real easy now, so we enjoyed ourselves with restaurants and relaxing and other things (some of which I'm not going to share but feel free to use your imagination :D )

But I'll tell you about the places we went and ate at so it still can be usefull, right?

Full photo album here http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f98/eatapita/Las%20Vegas%202009/

Thursday: Flew in at 8:50am, went to TI for check in

TI is... well, I don't have anything bad to say... but I wish we'd have stayed elsewhere. We were familiar from our stay there last year which brought the choice.

We saved a few hundred bucks over other choices and the rooms are all remodled and nice, but the pool was less than great and we spent most of our time off the property. Which is to be expected, but every place we went was a long walk south so it turned out to be a less than ideal location.

TI restaurants and such: The Coffee Shop has good breakfast, Kahunaville does not. Francesco's Pizzaria is nothing to write home about. Where's my pizza sauce, btw? Didn't eat anywhere else.

Christian Audigier the Nightclub: I read lousy reviews of it on Yelp. And c'mon who thought a nightclub should be named after a fashion designer? Although we swore off nightclubs we planned to stop in just to see, since we're at the hotel already. But we just weren't compelled. Bonus: I saw a tv ad while riding the escelater and found it's pronounced "Audighey". That answers that.

Verdict: friendly staff, recommended for a moderate budget, better than slumming at the Imperial Palace, but we won't stay there again.

The view out our room:
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We could see the Mirage's volcano out the window

OMG short sleeve button down! :D
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Good God those pictures are big lol.

Thurs night we ate at Nine Fine Irishmen at NYNY. Yelpers were right, it did look like Disneyland's version of an Irish pub, but the food was surprisingly good. I had fish and chips while she had a chicken pot pie bigger than her. There was no band playing. The bill was about $60, not bad. Afterwards we listened to the dueling pianos at The Bar At Times Square and walked down the strip.

Oh yeah, earlier I stepped on this young feller's blue suede shoes in front of PH, the least I could do was offer him a picture with us :D
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On Friday we had lunch at the Paris, Mon Ami Gabi on the terrace. It was awesome. I had a tuna burger and she had a seafood crepe. The bun was... meh, and I was expecting a tuna steak as opposed to the ground tuna I got. But the service and the atmosphere were great and her scallops were perfect. Highly recommended if you aren't there with Team Dude.

Imperial Palace - once I walked through decades of cigarette stench to get to the classic car collection in the back, this was the highlight of my trip. I love cars. I wanted to see the 67 Shelby GT500 I knew was there, (I've been obsessing over old Mustangs lately), but my jaw dropped to the floor, along with everything I was holding, when I saw a genuine, pristine 1967 Ford GT40 on display. This is my favorite race car. Holy Shit.

Henry Ford Jr started the Le Mans program in the early 60's to beat up on Enzo Ferrari because of a merger gone sour. Ferrari had been dominating Le Mans, last won overall in '64 with a 250LM, but the GT40 put an end to that - becoming not only the first American car to win the prestigious 24hrs race in '66, but doing it four years in a row. To this day Ferrari has not won Le Mans overall since.

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I know what you're thinking and the answer is yes, I would stick it in there :D
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Can't forget the GT500
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Friday night we got dressed up. I mentioned in one of the "what do guys wear" threads wondering if all the guys even make an effort despite all the girls going to the nines. Lol, nope, most don't. I saw dudes in t-shirts and trainers leading girls in hot dresses everywhere. C'mon.

Ate at Bradley Ogden at Caesars. Very, very good. The chef gets all the food from particular farms, fishermen, etc for quality. At first the waiter was stuffy but he warmed up to us. We sat next to a waterfall which was kind of noisy but still soothing.

We had an organic chicken dish, bleu cheese souffle, artichoke soup, seared yellowfin tuna, and peanut butter pudding for dessert. All that and a coffee for $126 + tip. Oh, and they give you a small butterscotch pudding with your check. Good place to take a girl!

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Next we went to the Mirage to see Jay Leno, one of my all time favorites. I love Leno. What a guy.

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On Saturday we ate at Japonais at the Mirage. The yellowfin sashimi was excellent. The calamari dish was cooked perfect but I thought the sauce was a bit too sticky and sweet. Sarah got the rock, literally a rock heated to 400F on which you cook thin slices of beef for 2 seconds per side.

We also got 4 more rolls - octopus, tuna, she had two cucumber rolls. They were good but not great. The service was very good, though the music was a touch too loud making it hard to talk. The bill was about $100 with tip.

Later on a cool guy our age smoking a stogie offered to take our picture, for no other reason than he was impressed to see someone wearing a tie. And I concur, more of you schluffs should!

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Final thoughts, I think we should stay at Caesar's next time. I like it there. As we left at 4:45am Sunday morning I was pleased to run into lots of people who hadn't gone to bed yet. Not counting a bachelor party 2 weeks ago I can't remember the last time I was up till 5am. Wifekidsjob'll do that to you.

Someone mentioned the ideal trip length... toss up. What do you guys think? On one hand, I can only go so long without cooking my own food. Or sleeping in my own bed. I spent a months grocery money in three days just on food there. And it felt awesome when I fired up my car and heard Van Halen on the radio. Plus 4 days is long enough for my mom to have my kids.

On the other hand I barely started to unwind until Saturday evening. Started wisecracking, swinging my wife around to the music playing in any random place, etc. Took me that long to remember I used to be a lot of fun.

I coulda shoulda done another day or two.

I had this all typed up and realized I had never posted it. Enjoy. It's long but some crazy shit went down.

April 8th
Let me preface this with the players involved. It gets crazy.
Three girls in my room, Sweetie (my nickname for her), Nicole and me. Across the hall are two British men, Chips and Benny - we had met last time Nicole and I went to Vegas. Nicole started dating him right after our last trip in December, and they flew back out from England to go with us to Vegas. Already it was fate to get interesting.

We finally get to the MGM around 4:00 after driving from Bakersfield to Las Vegas. We checked in and got comfortable. Ordered pizza and went to the main street to pick it up. The Brits went to gamble downstairs, ended up hitting 8/10 of their "bet it all on black" rounds. They ended up winning over $5,000 in one roulette session. I waited for my sister and her bestfriend to join us in our room. Five girls, one bathroom. Needless to say, the entire getting ready to go out experience took forever and a day.

We got ourselves properly pre-drunk and headed to Body English. Body English started to get entirely too packed and the open bar closed, so we walked over to Wasted Space. After many rounds of Nicole and I hustling our way to some free drinks (I have no shame, I am broke and we're in a recession.) we were properly smashed and everyone else was as well. Ended up having the Brits making out in front of us, getting egged on to keep going by Sweetie - who got so drunk she vomited on our way in to the taxi line.

Got back to MGM to have chicken and waffles in their 24 hour cafe. Headed up to bed and called it a night.

April 9th

Sister and bestfriend depart as three other girls and a guy, Kate, Lisa, Jaime and Alex arrive and stay at the Excaliber (in one of the worst rooms I have ever seen, yet the bathroom was very nice.) Sweetie has a disgustingly terrible hangover and throws up all night. I get all of us guestlisted for Tryst, but first Sweetie convinces us ( Nicole and I) to go to $1.00 Ladies Night at Stoney's Rockin' Country, since her former boss' son is the owner. We get in and end up having a pretty decent time for about two hours (we got there early). Headed back to MGM to rally the rest of the troops to Tryst.

Head over to the Wynn only to find the guestlist line closed (it was 11:55) and plenty of asshole line attendants who won't let the men use their free entrance coupons. One of the Brits gets into it with the bouncer and we decided to leave the line before things escalated further.

We all have a round at the Wynn bar and come up with a new game plan. I believe I texted Chapp, begging for some assistance. We eventually ended up with some sort of in to JET. Three of the party didn't follow to JET as they were tired from driving all day. The rest of us ended up getting completely shitfaced thanks to a table service of two extending never ending vodka cranberries. Nicole and Sweetie end up jumping on tables and slithering around on the poles as the rest of us are doubled over with laughter.

The group leaves with everyone being completely and utterly drunk, and Nicole dropping her iPhone on the Mirage tile to only have the screen smash in to thousands of glass fragments. We left in a hurry.

April 10th
After another afternoon of recuperating we decide to head down and do some mild gambling, mostly to get some free drinks and chit chat about the night's prior events. After an hour or so, Nicole decides to head back up to the room to get in a nap before we start the get ready to go out routine. Almost as soon as Nicole leaves she calls me. She yells at me frantically to get up to the room, since my name is on the room, as there are two men with clipboards in our room, rummaging through everything. I haul ass up to the room to get in to a bit of an argument with the main clipboard asshole.

Long story short (already posted this part on the MGM board) they had mixed up our room numbers in the computer. Thank god we were at the hotel and not out shopping (as previously planned) because all of our things would have been gone. We spent the rest of the day getting walked in on by four more MGM workers, and after plenty of complaining we get a late checkout for Sunday and a free buffet coupon. Not what I was trying to get out of them, but it was something.

All of us meet up at Studio 54, having been put on the list. Much arguing ensues with the doormen over how many men are in our party as opposed to how many we initially had down (which was the same number, the doormen had confused us with a different group with the same last name). Eventually we get in, and Kate (from the Excaliber group) buys everyone a round of Sambuca. Three rounds to be exact.

Lisa and Jaime, two Excaliber girls, end up getting invited into bottle service with a group of men. Nicole and I tag along for the drinks and to dance. One of the Brits comes looking for us and finds us to tell us that one of our friends isn't feeling well. He sits next to us, in the bottle service explaining the situation. The bottle service host tells us that he needs to leave since the guys do not want another guy in their table. I apologize and say it won't be but a minute since he's explaining a semi-emergency to us. She obliges.

Turns out, Kate cannot handle her liquor, and thirty minutes later is screaming and puking in the ladies room for me. I, being drunk and dancing, refuse to continue staying in the ladies room with her and trade off babysitting duties with Lisa and Jaime. I go back to find them, and they are now dancing with the guys in bottleservice. The Brit and I shuffle our way in to tell the girls they need to go check on Kate. The bottleservice guys become furious that he is back at their section and scream and yell at the hostess to get him out of their section. The hostess tells him to leave, as we are trying to yell out the situation to Jaime and Lisa. As we leave the bottleservice guys scream at him and he flips them and the hostess off and tells them to "fuck themselves."

Jaime and Lisa make their way to the bathroom. As I am walking out of the restroom Alex runs up to me, with Nicole, to tell us that one of the Brits has been kicked out by security for flipping off the hostess. We eventually get Kate out of the restroom and get outside to find the Brit yelling at security over the situation. Kate starts to puke and Lisa and Jaime get her to a trashcan just in time. Chaos officially breaks out.

After diffusing the situation with the Brit, we go back to the room and make sure that Lisa and Jaime have secured Kate in their room.

We end up drinking in the hotel bar the rest of the night and making a semi-early night of it.

April 11th

Nicole and I decided to head off on our own to LAVO, as no one else felt like partying, but preferred to go to Dick's Last Resort. Nicole and I get right in thanks to one of Colton's hostess (Kiki, whom I absolutely recommend! She's wonderful and totally sweet.) It was all bottleservice, and it is a LOT smaller than it looks in promotional pictures. We got a few drinks from the open bar with our wristbands, and took off back to our first love -Wasted Space.

We get to Wasted Space and end up getting approached by a bunch of Canadian men on their stag night. The man of the night is decked out in a ballgag and bondage gear underneath his clothes. They are all incredibly wasted and keep encouraging us to dance with them, though their idea of dancing was just shoving their dicks in the air. Strange.

After a few rounds with the stag party, we headed back to Dick's to meet up with the rest of the group. We grab a taxi and get to Excaliber, only to realize we are a dollar short on our fare. I leave Nicole in the taxi cab to go get money from someone inside the bar. I run in and cannot get anyone's attention. Everyone is completely drunk with blowjob and anal sex balloon animals on their heads laughing at me. I eventually get pissed off, since my bestfriend is stuck in a cab with a less than appealing cabbie, and only need two fucking dollars.

I eventually get the money, run out and secure Nicole's freedom. Nicole then gets in to a fight with Lisa over HER Brit, Chips - and a cat fight almost breaks out. Nicole goes to the ATM, gets money and we head back to MGM. Only to have her pass out on MY bed in drunken fury. Alex, myself and the Brits head back down to the bar and have a few rounds with a bunch of incredibly gay and incredibly hilarious Australians who are waiting for their early flight. The Brits become a hit with their oral sex balloons and everyone gets so drunk we can barely find our way back to the elevators. We actually lost Alex at one point, and had to chase him all the way from the bar to Studio 54 (opposite side of the casino).



Well, that's about it as far as craziness goes. It was fun, but more drama than I could ever imagine. I'll never go with that many girls again. But it was a fun time and I can't wait to go again. Sorry that it's so longwinded. =)

Just to preface this - my definition of "hooking up" does not involve sex. Maybe other...things.... but not sex.


My December trip was absolutely nuts. Nicole (That's N for some of you?) and I went last December for a five night stay. We were seriously fighting men off left and right. It was definitely a good ego booster - regardless if they were drunk as hell or not.

Our third night there we ended up hooking up with two friends at The Hard Rock after meeting them at Wasted Space. It was all very innocent at first, for me anyway. They had a room there, so we ended up spending the whole night and she did much more than I did. The guy and I were so drunk we ended up passing out before anything good could happen.

The next night, back at Wasted Space we met up with a huge group of British men on leave from the British Army. The one I became rather enamored with had Groucho Marx glasses on. We ended up going off with the two to the lounge area of Wasted Space (what it becomes after the main parts shut down). A shit ton of drinks later their friends came and told them they needed to get their stuff from the bell hop but their names were on it.

What was it that they had to check in with the bellhops?
Fucking food costumes. I kid you not - they were all decked out in different food attire. One was a banana, taco, M&m and one was a hot dog. A few other gents decided against the food costumes I suppose.

So Nicole and I left, with an M&M and Taco over to the MGM.

To be continued!

We head over to MGM, and head to Zuri bar. Immediately we get there, with the guys decked out in their food attire, a bartender yells to us, "Hey! A hot dog was just in here looking for you!" So the one dressed as a banana runs in the direction the bartender suggests.

We are already smashed and the drinks keep flowing and cigarette packs keep disappearing. Eventually, M&M takes Nicole up to his room, which he shares with the Taco. The Taco isn't so keen on having to share a room with his friend who is hooking up - so he gets us our own room.

We go back to Zuri bar for another rounds of drinks (at this point the only reason I can remember what happened next is because it was so absurd). We are sitting at the bar and another British man, about mid 40's sits nexts to me and we spend the next hour and half fighting over existentialism and the idea of consciousness.

I will take this time to say that the British man also claimed to be high on ecstasy.

The Taco, meanwhile, is begging me to go upstairs, but I am too engrossed in a battle of wits to give in. As we finally make our way upstairs, the X 40's Brit shouts, "You're better than going to bed with a boy dressed in a fucking Taco suit."

We get up to the room, get in to the bed only to have him pass out at 9:00am. (We hadn't gotten up to the room until then).

I awake later to a gentle nudge on my shoulder. I wake up and ask him what time it was, to discover it is 1:00 in the afternoon. I flipped the fuck out immediately. I had set an alarm on my phone for 10:00 (we had to be out of the timeshare we were staying at by 11:00). I grab my phone to find over twenty missed calls and about ten voicemails from Nicole.

I frantically try to call Nicole, whose phone is now dead.

To be continued once more!

Part Three! (sorry I had to go to campus and submit some papers, blah blah blah)

I listen to all the messages and each one is progressively more frantic from Nicole. I finally break down and call her Aunt (who was staying with us at the Timeshare, and goes out and gambles all night so not a big deal - but she's a bit on the odd side.), who had left two voicemails herself.

No answer. At this point I am becoming a little, the word might be frantic but it doesn't seem to encompass the sheer terror I was experiencing. Meanwhile, Taco is trying to calm me down saying everything will be okay. I try to communicate to him the severity of the situation and get him to call his room where Nicole was previously with the M&M.

After numerous calls, M&M finally picks up, obviously pissed about being awake at 1:30pm. Nicole had left about an hour ago according to him.

Fuck fuck fuck. I have no idea where my friend is, no idea where all my stuff may be since we didn't evacuate the premises on time and I have no idea where everyone is now and my battery is slowly dying. I leave the current room number and continue to slowly slip in to a (still) drunken madness.

I stay in the room as to plant, just in case Nicole goes back to the M&M room. I had no other way of contacting her. And my phone rings, an hour later - Nicole's aunt. But it's Nicole!! Her aunt had packed everything up for us, and we were now over at Hooter's. Hooter's, for those of you who do not know is *literally* a walk across ONE stoplight street.

Nicole and I laugh hysterically over the fact that both of us had been freaking out and she continues on about how her night went with M&M. She then gets off the phone to go to lunch. I leave the room number for her on a text and I spend the next four hours in the room with the Taco doing things you shouldn't do with a Taco.

I eventually gather all my remaining clothing, dignity and self respect off the floor, traded emails and where we were staying with the Taco. I tell him we plan to head to Prive that night and he and his mates should come by.

I do the most short, and epic walk of shame Vegas has ever seen! I walk through all of MGM, one false eyelash hanging off my eye, hair looking of sex, smelling of booze and stale cigarettes, and quite overdressed for 5:30 in the afternoon. I stumble over to Hooter's, getting honked at repeatedly and gawked at by passersby (no one has ever seen a walk of shame apparently, didn't realize the Christian convention was in) and get the most contemptuous look from her aunt.


Nicole at this point tells me about her morning, which completely topped mine and I will share. Nicole awoke to about twelve British soilders bursting through the door of M&M's hotel room, screaming, "GO GO GO GO GO!!! WE'RE GOING TO THE FUCKING GRAND CANYON!!! GO GO GO GO GO!!!". Nicole, was as you would think - completely taken aback considering she was nude and the testosterone in the room had jumped up by eleven men. They were jumping on the bed and even took her heels hostage.

If that isn't a Vegas wake up call...

Chug a ton of water, take a shower to wash away the shame and stench, and begin another routine of getting ready to go out. Nicole and I grab some Hooters Wings (terrible choice for a stomach full of Vodka Redbulls) and we head over to Prive.

With a catch - her aunt wants to go with us. She is pushing 50, but Nicole feels like we owe her for the morning, and I begrudgingly agree, mostly worried that she is not dressed enough for the clubs (She likes moo-moo dresses, if that gives you an inclination of any kind). We get in to Prive escorted by Logan - he is the best, and JC recommended! And enjoy some bottle service with some wealthy Indian men.

The Indian man who fancies me is promising the world by first dance, and is starting to get more friendly than I appreciated (especially so sober), so Nicole and I do our standard - "Running to the ladies BRB PROMISE!" routine. Yes boys, we do that more than likely to get the hell away from you - not always, but usually.

We spend fifteen minutes primping and trying to step over someone who has passed out in the ladies room. We walk out only to find our special Indian friends waiting for us, like stalkers.

At this point, Nicole and I have run out of ideas on how to escape them - almost! Luck would have it a huge group of girls were shuffling out of the restroom and we ducked in with them and out the exit. The music at Prive had declined by a lot so we decided to head back to the MGM bar - Zuri.

Now, were we expecting to run in to the Brits again? Not really. Nicole had flirted with a bartender enough previously to think we could possibly get some discounted, or at very least much stiffer drinks than we could at a club.

Not even fifteen minutes in to sipping on our Vodka Redbulls (My Vegas Mainstay forever), who strolls in? A Taco and a Banana, accompanied by a Hot Dog.

to be continued once more, my fingers hurt!

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Groucho Marx Glasses at Zuri! (Me)

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Nicole with the Groucho's on at Zuri

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Few of the massive group of Brit's at Zuri

Damn it! The ones of them in the costumes are on my other computer, but will post them ASAP.

Alright part four! (The end!)

I go up to Taco, who had not seen us in the corner of the bar. He is very surprised to see me and gives me a hug automatically. We talk and Nicole comes over, her aunt leaves the bar and goes to gamble.

Nicole inquires to where M&M is, who is apparently sick in bed after the previous nights shenaniganry. A few rounds later, Banana, Taco, Nicole and I are having disgustingly loud drunk conversations.

Taco and I decide to go up to the room and Nicole and Banana go gamble. Turns out they had been to Prive, since we were going to be there, but couldn't get in with nine guys so late, so instead they came back to the bar.

Nicole and Banana end up hooking up after many rounds of successful Banana Roulette. We parted ways in the morning, exchanged Facebooks, and we went back home to California.

Nicole had apparently exchanged phone numbers with M&M, and they ended up texting the rest of night and as it turns out - he wasn't sick. Banana had lied to get in her pants (though I don't think M&M actually knows they hooked up) and the Taco had a girlfriend!

Dramarama! Now, Hot Dog is dating Nicole's younger sister and M&M and Nicole are moving in together in October.

Who knew that would be the ending. Guess I'll be on the look out for a burrito next time I'm in Vegas. :)

So there you go guys, a tale of my Vegas hookups. As you can tell, I seem to have a lot of luck at Wasted Space (wonder why it's my favorite...). In fact at my 21st birthday we met a group of Austrian guys and we ended up in limos club hopping all night. Way too many Long Islands. I seem to get lucky with Europeans.

Nice NY got his picture up with his kid.. Very nice brother :)

Ok im back... and i would like to start out the reviews cause i have a feeling mine will be the crappiest... started to feel like i was catching a cold the day of flying out... kind of a downer for me...

Thurs: Got to the airport and started Drinking with my boys, shot and beer and onto the plane... while waiting for boarding we meet a girl sitting next to us... i give her the vegas baby knuckle pound and chit chat for a bit. turns out shes a porn star
we get her number... but remember... my review is probably gonna be the worst out of all the reviews...

http://www.myspace.com/dallaslowe


Be right Back

Thats True Aria :)

OK continue on...

So im pretty buzzed by the time we check in around 1030 and by boys decide that they just want to get trashed and gamble at the mirage... im way f*(@&ed up by 3pm and realized shit i wanted to go to tao >< and go meet up with the crew and also see Jack and Chapp :( so that was a big downer for me...

I think thats one of the main reasons i feel like my review is crappy cause i really wanted to meet JC and Chapp and i missed em... ahh well there is always next time ...

After 3 am a group of us ended up at the Rhino partied it up and left around 6 or 7 in the morning.

Friday: Time to meet up with Nas Dnix Irock Prada Switch and the others... Chillen Lexty

good tip i learned :) : if you plan on trying to party with all the people that will be out there, get all of their phone numbers...

Nas was easy to get ahold of ... had his phone and checked it... Top Notch on All levels this guy... Dnix and Irock... super cool guys and great meeting them... Prada great girl... i was honored to meet them all .... at Ditch Fridays... pool was nice... line was short to get in... 15 minute wait... 25 bucks... Great time Good music... got wasted...


sorry about the breaks... still a bit wasted lol... be back again

no no no, they were hanging with the rapper

haha didnt catch that. Maybe it was Nas Escobar

Lmao ... You guys crack me up... Yeah ive been calling Nassau - Nas on here... so when i met him friday at Ditch i called him Nas... cool cat bought me a round upon meeting him... he was my main contact among the four horseman... and yes he was passed out when it was time to meet at palms for Friday night JC meet up lol... but all good... im just glad he was having a great time.

So back to Friday night : I still havent found any great hookup for the JC member meet up for friday night like i was trying to promise... but last minute one of my friends says, he has a friend thats connected and can always get whatever he wants at discounted prices or minimums... to make a long story short i get a call from some High Roller host guy and i tell him i need a table at Rain tonight for like 12 people... he says "ill only lock it in if you are 100% sure that you are going to make it" i said .."Lock it up!" he said "be here by 11... he got us 12 in with only a 2 bottle minimum and they had to steal the table from a few other hosts lol " ohhh my , i said You got it!!! We'll be there :) I send texts out to JC members and also to boys from the bachelor party...

1030 rolls around Nas is still past out lol ... Irock and his girl, Dnix are on there way to hard rock... switch is still mia (i think he was at ditch but never found him) i dont have the numbers for any of the other jc members... i ask irock for other peoples numbers and hes so drunk he forgets to send them to me... i call him again and ask him where the numbers are and he says ohhhh yeah ill send them right now... and he sends me just a bunch of numbers lol ... no names just random phone numbers ...then on top of that im trying to make things happen, while trying to save the numbers so that i can call them i accidentally erase the message !!!! booooo i call back irock and tell him to send again... and he says "i cant... i can only send them once." omg what kind of technology does he have? flinestone phone imo! ...And my bachelor party group worthless they are just running all over the place talking to girls and arent really motivated to go out... at the moment that we needed too... Failures imo !

i feel bad ... 11:00 the host from rain txts me "you guys ok? you still coming?" i said were running late im sorry.. he says "its ok as long as you make it, High Roller host told me that you guys are real friends and to fight for the table if i have to and im not letting it go as long as you guys are gonna make it... "

1130 boooooooooooooo i txt him back with a huge apology saying that i am sorry for making him fight for us and that we didnt even make it to him.. and that ill make sure that we will take double care of him next time... he said its all good ... but i really felt bad... then i had to txt high roller host next and tell him sorry also... and blah blah blah.... im an idiot for blah blah blah... sigh lol

so lesson learned... dont try plan too much on your own unless you really have everyones number and you have people commited... completely my fault...

so we ended up back at the suite and ate some cannabis bannana nut muffins (of course for medicinal purposes) and drank a bunch more and 3 in the morning when we were feeling really loopy... we ended up at Rhino again where the bachelor passout while we were trying to feed him more dances... i think he ate three muffins lol

i gotta go to work now... ill be back

Thurs Tao. Friday wasted space the rain then moon, sat tryst , sun bank.

Hands down the bank had the best dj, IMHO.

Sorry DE about the text, when your on about 10 vodka redbulls and requesting the #'s for 5 forum members, it was a little tough putting that together it took about 5 minutes and then u deleted it? I tried to somehow forward the contact info in a text with my iPhone, couldn't do it. It was 10 numbers for 5 people seperated by commas. They don't come up hilighted for you to just tap and text?

Ouch........think I had too much to drink????? :cool:

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Nassau, Irock.....who are these girls? I dont remember them at all

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Heres the JC table at the bank

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Heres Nassau, Addicted, and Player at our table at Tryst

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heres tswchit with some random girl

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partyinvegas and I think tswicht's friend

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I see some JC members in this pic. Wheres waldo?

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JC table at TAO

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TR Thursday- pp add details as you see fit!

Okay so here's the TR for Thursday....

Addicted (Val) and me (Liz) met at the airport at 10am. Got our bags and a cab and headed to Palms. We were only here one night, but I was all ready to talk to the front desk clerk and be like, "it's my first time here, if there's anything you can do..." normally I tip, but for one night, I wasn't going to. So, she is like totally rude and doesn't give us our spa or rest credit until we ask...but the room was fine, clean space for crashing. So, after that we head to gold coast to stock up on red bull, vodka, and juice. Head back to the room, make a couple of drinks and chat planning the night. By 2 oclock, I'm pretty buzzed b/c I've been mixing strong drinks. We go and split a sandwich at the 24 hour cafe and talk to the waitress about all the nba players there for summer league. Most of them are rookies and pp trying to make it, although we did see Shawn Marion late Friday!

So we head to the pool, find a spot, and get drinks. Pretty much just chill there, it wasn't busy very relaxing. Of course, we have the freaks that come up to us, two guys-one wearing long jean shorts with a BELT in the pool and another with khaki shorts...they were nice, but drunk and kind of weird, but what's vegas without interesting people!

So around 5 we head up to the room to rest, get ready, and drink. We head to Venetian-me with a red bull can filled with vodka in hand for the cab ride-and go to the grand lux cafe to split apps and drinks for dinner. Service was good and fast! After that we met everyone for the first time and headed to V Bar which was cool. I was feeling pretty buzzed and it was awesome to meet everyone...Jack, Irock (wally), nassau, and Dnix (david). Prada (Thalia) and her friend Julia were there, Hilly and Manda met us in line, as did Chapp and his girlfriend (Katie?). It's kind of hazy as Nassau or someone got a round of vodka lime, which was very strong. So, we head to the VIP line and get right in. Things are confusing, Dnix is helping us find our way, Jack couldn't find his table, but eventually does. It was nice, in a smaller room with a bar which was perfect. We were chilling, drinks were flowing. I remember dancing with Nassau, falling, and then getting separated from Addicted til 3 am....finally she found me and we headed to the craps table with irock...I normally love craps, but I was so drunk and tired, that I was like we need to go now! So we headed home, I don't remember anything else until the next morning.....

the confusion was because that wasnt Coltons normal table. when he told them he had 45 people with him, they told him there was no way his table could accommodate that many peeps.

i've been in bed all day. how is everyone else? julia and i have about 600 photos that we'll post..there are a million of david and nassau (photo whores.) and of course a lot of others.. they're so fun to look at...it actually took about 40 mins to go through all of them when me and julia were waiting for our flight. speaking of which..they left our luggage in dallas on our connection. so our photo cords are in there. apparently we'll be getting those delivered to our house today so stay tuned for photo madness.

I found this photo on one of those vegas sites!

I'm so glad you have pics!!

What site is that other one from I don't remember that one...came out good!

Okay here's Friday:
Friday:

Woke up at 730 in my dress, makeup, and jewelry from the night before...took 4 advil, went to sleep til 830 when Addicted kept nudging me to get up and get ready for Ditch. I felt like death...showered, falling around, and shaving was a scary experience! We headed to breakfast at the cafe where I promptly ordered a bloody mary which took a godforsaken amount of time. I drank that and felt better, and ate some toast and eggs to try to soak up the alcohol. We got into Ditch at 1030. All of the really good seats on the party side of the pool were claimed, but we did find two loungers. Set up there and ordered drinks. Twitch and his friend Alan got there at 1230, offered us beer-which I accepted-thanks guys! Hung out in the pool with Alan mostly chit chatting. He's a really nice guy. We all did some shots, again, thank you guys! (We will make it up to all you guys next time!) Basically, just hung out talking, TS kept disappearing to play Blackjack. I was really buzzed the whole day. That day I fell on my way back to the bathroom with Addicted, slammed my head on the concrete, so then I spent the rest of the week freaking out that I was going to have some terrible injury. Honestly, I didn't even have a bump, but still. Okay, so that was embarrassing, but then I just continued on. We were there about six hours...word of warning, do not just drink alcohol all day in the sun, I was so sick the next day b/c of not drinking water. It was a shitty saturday, you have to drink water! :)

We left, grabbed our bags and headed to Mandalay to meet my cousin. We had a kick ass 1050 sq ft suite there on the 60th floor. It was pretty awesome (and free!!!). We hung out there, drank, and drunkenly got ready to go out. My cousin Jess infused me with the energy I needed after a day in the sun. So, we kept trying to get in touch with the JC members, but that didn't happen. On thursday, Addicted called the host of Rain (Reza?) and asked to get on the guest list with no cover or line. He texted and said it was all set. Well, we got to Palms, had a drink and headed over at 11. Huge lineup, walked up to the girl and said, "we're on Reza's list" she didn't even look at it and just flashed that thing open and we were in! So easy! No line, no cover, no wait!

Walked into Rain and kinda walked all around scoping things out. Really nice, big club. The skyboxes are awesome. I walked in one and tried to get a redbull out of the fridge but it was locked. I also sat down and got yelled at! LOL. We headed down to the main floor and I grabbed this cool looking guy to dance with. I'm only 5 7, but with heels 5 10 and he was like 5 7, but a great dancer. He was wearing a vest, kind of looked like he'd come from a wedding, but it was cool-guys should stand out! Don't all look the same! So anyway, we dance, he gets me a drink that I share with the crew and we are off all dancing. There was a guy with sunglasses that I wore-I actually saw a pic of him on spyonvegas. It was a lot of fun dancing. So, now we were trying to get somewhere to sit. So, we start talking to these guys off the dancefloor and they invite us in. I was a little confused so I grabbed the patron and had some with OJ. GROSS!!!!! One guy I was talking to was laughing his ass off at me for doing that. He was like, what the hell is she doing? Don't do it, I totally didn't see all the vodka they had. Anyway, they were great guys, we hung out with them for awhile. We aren't bottle vultures, just had a drink and danced. They were a lot of fun. One of the friends was so drunk though he was scaring my cousin. Really all over her, kinda gross....so we left, back to the dancefloor.
We finally see Dnix with two girls, they said hi and went to get a drink. We get invited to another table on the other side with these nice guys. My cousin starts dancing with this short Asian guy (she's 5 11, with heels 6 3!!) and he's picking her up and doing all sorts of funny shit. I started drinking water and dancing with this guy. I showed him my ring-I'm married- and he kinda freaked out, but still didn't mind dancing lol! We sat down for a little bit, but then I took off outside cause I was getting tired-from all the sun. There was still a line to get in. I walked through the pool area which was very nice, cause they had it all set up for the night. I wished I had felt better and been able to check it out longer. So, I told Addicted and Jess to stay but they were tired. They came out and we took our shoes off-feet hurt so bad- and walked out to the cabs. This Palms guy starts screaming, "PUT YOUR SHOES ON!!!!!" I start yelling and running, we are leaving! He was literally chasing us. I'm like if I can just get to the cabs. So we run out and of course there's a huge freaking line and the guy followed us outside! I was like so annoyed saying, I can't put my shoes back on my feet are like swollen from being in tight heels all night!
LOL...finally get a cab, honestly only took like 10 mins and we headed back. We were gonna go back out, well not me, but Jess and Addicted, but Jess passed out at like 220. It was an early night!
I barely slept all night, kept waking up every few mins cause I felt so sick...was so dehydrated it is an awful feeling. I kept drinking water, but I was like sweating and I seriously thought I was going to have to go to Urgent Care.
To be continued.....

Ok, here we go. For being a writer, I’m really bad at writing right now but I’ll give it a try.

Friday:
Up nice and early (4 a.m.) to catch my first flight. No drinks on the plane like I planned as I thought I was going to save it for Ditch. We get to Denver about 7:30am, and it’s time to start. Myself and my friend Alan go to the bar and I have a nice big bloody mary. We almost missed our next flight because of this, but we didn’t and finally showed up in Vegas.

Cab it straight to Bally’s to check our bags, and then it was a toss up. We were going to meet Addicted and Party to try to get in Ditch, but apparently technology isn’t my strong suit and while I saved the name in my phone, there was no number to be found. We (I) decide it’s time to play blackjack. 15 minutes later I was up $200 and walked away. Sat down at video poker with my friend and proceeded to drink about 9 vodka redbulls in another span of 15 minutes. Straight back to blackjack. More vodka redbulls, less winning. Finally I get a text from Addicted and we decide to head to Ditch.

Start with a few beers and it’s a good chill time. Then come the shots. I was disappearing more and more to play blackjack at the poolside tables. I started at $25 a hand and am pretty sure at one point I was going $100 a hand. Met all the forum members but I was ridiculously drunk by then. I remember buying a lot of shots and Nassau doing something hilarious with the bartender.

Here is where it gets real weird. I don’t remember leaving the Palms Pool or why I left. I vaguely remember dropping the amount I dropped at the tables inside the Palms. The next thing I know its dark out, and my friend shows up with his friend from home who is local. We get in her car and start driving back to Bally’s so we can check in. Apparently her car was breaking down, so we stopped at some gas station. They were trying to figure out what was wrong, but I’m very impatient, so apparently I just left my friend there with her and hopped a cab. Not sure if I actually told them I was doing that or not. Went to Ballys and checked in, the story on that is in my Ballys review thread.

They show up at the room right away and there is a small party in there. We order a couple bottles of vodka and mixers from room service, and I think that did me in. We went on some adventure in the desert for what reason I don’t know, and ended up at some house party no where near the strip. Came back, and that group wanted to go to Penthouse. They finally talked me into it, but again I made them just stop the car and jumped out for no reason. Went to meet my friends at Pure, got denied. Blackjack again, and plenty more money down the drain. I then proceeded to hit about 3 more places on the strip to gamble, and you can imagine how that turned out. I’m quite the nomad. Went back to the room and drank more, passed out who knows when. To be continued..

Saturday:
I wake up and think it’s about 5pm. I’ve slept forever. Oh wait, it’s about 9 am. I’ve slept none. Ok, time to drink. A couple friends called me up and they decided to meet me at Ballys pool. We shared some stories about our nights, my friends made fun of me a lot (pretty normal), and of course we drank a lot (again pretty normal).

The worst part of this was I had absolutely nothing to offer in the way of intelligent conversation. In fact, at one point I couldn’t even put sentences together correctly. This is in the afternoon by the way. On about 3 separate occasions groups of girls came right up to myself and my friend, pretty much begging to be talked to. After about 5 minutes of me not talking to them (again pretty normal, some will understand this more than others) they would walk away. Of course more ridicule from my friends because of the shape I was in and the amount of money lost. At some point after this I believe I ate my first (one of very few) meals of this trip.

I was back and forth with some forum members all day but didn’t get a chance to meet up. Finally IRock sends out a text saying to meet up at PH. Done. Get there, and there are bottles and a little shindig going. Here is where dnix was out on the bed, although he did manage to squeeze in a “what’s up” when I walked in. A few drinks and some funny conversation, and it’s off to Tryst. As others said, we were trying Patrick Frank but that didn’t work out, so we used Jared Garcia and he came through. I don’t know details the other guys did the talking. I can still hear Nassau saying over and over “I don’t do lines”, hilarious and true. I’d have to say walking past a huge line like that is probably one of the best feelings in the world.

We get in, and have a great spot. Just as I start feeling a little less drunk, it hits me again. It started to get hazy, met some girl from Chicago who actually knows the editor of the magazine I used to (and sometimes still do) write for. Small world. She’s actually the girl in the picture of me in this thread. Chapp shows up, and by this time I’m a goner. So is our alcohol. Luckily Chapp saves the day with what I called the “never ending death flask” although I’m not sure why. At one point I was just drinking Vodka, not on the rocks. I hit it too hard, and it was time to leave. A friend invited us out to Red Rocks, but my other friend didn’t want to make the drive so we just went back to the room. Had a drink or two, and got a text from a friend. Invited her and a friend over, and had an awesome time hanging out. They left, I think I drank a little more and went to bed around 7 or 8. Great night. Continued again...

ok so here are a few pics from Tao on Thursday night. ENJOY!

I dont remember taking half......

more, more, more

:) good times indeed.

Well friends I'm on the plane once again writing this review. I thought MDW was fun, well this trip was bigger and better! Let's see...Got to the hotel a little after 7 and met with Irock and Dnix. The three of us immediately hit it off. Talk about great guys..Irock was kind enough to have some really nice dog tags made for us with AOD on it. Dnix being the first one there had already set up base camp complete with drinks and snacks. One more thing about Dnix, the kid brought so much clothes that he could have opened up a boutique in our room. We started pregaming around 9 and invited some forum members to join us . It was great meeting Hillya, Amanda, Pradagirl, Julia, PIV (Party,) Addicted (Who kept a smile on her face the whole time, she was very pleasant). The girls were great! I couldn't ask for cooler girls to hang out with. We all left the room and headed to the Venetian for more pregame. It was at the bar that I finally got to meet JC and Chap. Those two were the most welcoming, gracious, hosts. They made sure everyone got in and was taken care of. VBar was fun for a bit and then we moved on to the headliner; Tao. It was still fairly early but the line was monstrous. It's a good thing we were with JC because we did past go and went to the special line and breezed in. Tao was amazing and we partied super hard. After Tao we drifted over to Drais for more good times..

We started friday with breakfast at Planet Dailies. Good food that put us right back to sleep. That afternoon we headed over to Ditch. At Ditch we met up with DE and one of his boys. Real nice guys. The guy DE is so funny. He was smiling and having the time of his life! He is a super happy person just running around speaking to everyone and sharing his positive energy. Met up with Lexty the cool Aussie. Grabbed some drinks with him. Ditch was pretty much a blur for me but i do remember the ground was so hot that it burned the skin on the bottom of my feet..I heard that Dnix RAN from the palms back to Planet Hollywood. The whole time he ran with my flip flops in his hand. We met up for lunch and he gave them to me, and i threw across the restaurant. I wish I could tell you why. I was so tired that i went back to the room to crash. When i woke up at 1, and i dont why i just woke up, there was no one around. So quiet you could hear a mouse pissing on cotton. Really strange because when the 3 of us were together it was just loud. So i hit up Dnix and met him at Moon with some of the crew. Now I purchased the Ditch All Access Pass, but when I went to the stuff store they were closed. No worries, I went to the vip desk, where one of the girls from Real World Paris was working the desk and told her what was going on. She asked me where I wanted to start and I told her I was headed to Moon. At that time I saw Chap and Katie where were also heading up. He asked me to wait but my feet kept moving and I found myself on the elevator. That damn alcohol I tell you. Met up with everyone and got some drinks. Chap bought a round of Absinthe, which was my first time with the green fairy and that pretty much put me over the top. We bounced around the Palms for most of that night. I cant remember where else we went.

Saturday was fun times at wet republic. Dnix had a great contact who took care of us properly. I have nothing to say about well I'm not a name dropper so I wont say his name lol.. Got some great video of Pradagirl being sexy at the pool and Dnix and his 3 foot long tounge on her face. Just wait to see it..Irock blessed us with his company which helped to energize me to keep myself going. There was actually a time when they had to empty the pool because the threat of a storm. When the dj told everybody to get back in the pool, the crowd went nuts. i wish i had gotten that on tape. We closed wet down. It was just that good. Saturday night we got the stripper pole table at Tryst which was insane. I got to say Twitch is a pretty mellow, funny dude. Your boy Alan and a coolguy as well. After leaving Tryst, Chap, and girlfriend and a great wingwoman Katie, myself and others went back to party at Rain. I stayed about 10-20 minutes and tapped out.

On Sunday, Dnix, Pradagirl, Julia and myself hit the shops at Ceasars. It's pretty much safe to say that we hung out with pradagirl and julia like the way Ernie and Bert use to hang out on sesame street. They were great company. I had to replace my iphone making this one #4 and the second one lost in Vegas. Walking home from Ceasars, we weighed the pros and cons of wet or rehab. Dnix sent "J" a text message after we didn't see a down side to it. Once again he welcomed us back. Great decision as wet was sick! We met up with Addicted, PIV and Jessica (aka scene stealer lol). J hooked us up with a nice seating area and that's where we pretty much chilled. We did laps around the pool area to meet hotties. IMO there were more hot women at wet republic then in my past visits to Rehab. Shut down wet and then Rock wanted to check out the carnival court so we obliged. Stopped in a few bars met more random cool women and kept it moving back to the room to get ready for. Dnix had 9 wardrobe changes in a half an hour causing us to miss the dinner reservations that Rock hooked up. j/k more like 5. Met the whole crew at the Caramel for pre-game. Yeah guys i would say hit Caramel if you are looking for fly girls. JC came in rallied the troops, the line at Bank was redonk and im so glad we had a pass. As a matter of fact i think some people were getting mad at me filming them as we bypassed the line and going in. JC's table was in a dope location, and the girls had fun dancing on furniture. We left Bank toying with the idea of hitting BE. We all met outside the club where twich promised us an acrobatic show in the lobby, but he passed at the suggestion of Addicted. Once we got outside PIV, myself and Addicted decided that breakfast was a better move. Over breakfast we recounted the events of the weekend and just had good conversation. We wrapped up breakfast and i hoped i walked the girls to the door and went back upstairs where there were 3 girls sitting in the hallway. the funny thing is one girl was laying down on her stomach fully exposing the fact that she "forgot to wear underwear" so as im walking by i greet them and saw once i pass that "oh you are aware that you have no panties on" and kept walking...it was just something you had to see. the rest of the night was fun and i made it back to my room to crash. Me and the boys woke up packed and all left for the airport at the same time. Overall, fantastic weekend, great company. Everyone of you I met I would love to party with you again. To my rat pack, thanks for getting me out there. I am so glad you guys talked me into it. To those going out there, I hope you enjoy and you find yourself in the same company of JCer's that I had the pleasure of surrounding myself with and partying with. Oh yeah, I don't do lines!!!

First time in Vegas; was there on the weeked of the 17th/18th/19th...my review =)

Hey everyone,

So I'm new to this site, definitely new to posting on this forum, and was a total newcomer to the Vegas nightlife. My name is Julia (...and I'm the infamous paparazzi woman with all the pictures that I have NO clue how to load because they're all 1MB+ in size and the limitation is about 100kb per image...so if anyone's got any tips, I'm all ears).

My friend (Prada/Thalia) and I decided to go to Vegas; it was a trip that we'd been planning for quite some time. She found this website and made friends with quite a few people from here (if I knew all of your screen names, I'd mention them, but being a complete newbie, I have no idea so please forgive me)... we all wound up meeting up and I have to say that I had the absolute time of my life with you all!

I'd like to first say thank you from the bottom of my heart to Jack Colton...I'm sure you all now know him personally if you've partied with him before. Jack, I got a chance to speak to you briefly at Tao and at the Bank although I'm not quite sure if you remember me, but I know I didn't get a chance to thank you in person...so I'll do it here. This trip was absolutely phenomenal...thank you thank you thank you for EVERYTHING.

So we met the guys we spent the majority of our time with partying (Wallace/David/Nassau) on the first night in Vegas...we stayed at Planet Hollywood.

Side note: YOU GUYS ARE F****ING AMAZING!

We started off our night by going to V Bar (The set up of V bar was really pretty inside) where we grabbed drinks, mingled a little bit and quickly wandered off to Tao. Apparently V bar (and the rest of the bars/clubs in Vegas) don't adhere to the 1oz shot/per drink. NO NO...they FREE POUR. Um....that's UNHEARD OF in Toronto...so you can imagine my amazement when I asked for a Vodka Lime and got a GLASS FULL of Grey Goose with a lime wedge in it. I laughed...and got immediately tipsy lol ... I knew right then and there that my time in Vegas would be EPIC. And that turned out to be an understatement =)

Thursday night. Tao: The line up was INSANITY. However, thanks to JC, JC's crew, we got in like a hot knife through butter. The looks on people's faces outside the club can be captured with one word: JEALOUSY. (Again, thank you JC!)
So we get in to Tao...this place was ASTOUNDING. I've NEVER seen such a set up in my life! The interior design was absolutely amazing...rose petals in (clay?) bathtubs...psychotic beading on the walls, crazy lights everywhere...an INSANE dance floor that had multiple levels...it was clean, it looked AMAZING on the inside. The people that worked there (servers/bartenders) were exceptionally friendly...DAMN good looking and really accommodating.

The crowd at Tao was BOMB! Everyone was there to have a good time, the atmosphere screamed of a ridiculously lavish party, the music was phenomenal, the DJ they had knew what they were doing, the go-go dancers are HOTTT, the dancing was like no other, people were dressed really well (although some got away with more casual attire (ahem....lol you know who you are, I've read the threads :D ), we kept the drinks flowing all night long, got ridiculously drunk (somehow it didn't end up sloppy though), had the most amazing time and called it a night at around way past a reasonable bed time...then again, we're in Vegas...and as far as I noticed, time did not exist. It stood still but I felt like I was flying.

We left Tao (my girl friend and dnix)…wound up at Planet Dailies…grabbed some grub, randomly found Nassau annihilated at some table and I decided to be superswoman and carry his behind to his room to make sure he was in one piece. On the way there, I got vomit all over my legs (thanks, D; you’re right, I’ll never forget that). Took that in stride, literally, got Nassau upstairs on my shoulders (my ankles still haven’t recovered by the way lol) wound up chilling for a cigarette and called it a night.

Did I mention I have yet to sleep at this point since we left Toronto? Yea we’d been awake for 2 days straight. Barely slept. Went to Ditch at the Palms on the Friday, …swam, drank, got slightly burnt, died of the heat, met a BUNCH of awesome people, called it a day.

Friday night we partied local at a place called the Cadillac Ranch. Um, they had a mechanical bull. Helllloooo rodeo lol. Yea, Julia + a few bottles of liquor + a mechanical bull and the free spirit I brought with me to Vegas wound up in my riding that thing and getting thrown the hell off. Bad news bears…although everyone we partied with found it pretty hysterical to see my large ass get LAUNCHED the hell off that thing. That’s all I have to say about that one lol.

Saturday afternoon we hit up Wet Republic at the MGM…met some people, drank, didn’t swim, died of the heat, drank some more, called it a day.

Saturday night we went to Tryst. Um. OFF THE HOOK! The place was BEAUTIFUL…they have a waterfall! WHAT?! Who does that inside a club?...Tryst does. The music was insane there…the crowd was also insane..and I think I was as insane as it gets. I wound up on some little ledge between the connecting portions of the booths dancing my ass off like this was the last day I’d be alive. Sweat up a storm, made the ladies laugh their asses off (you ladies know who you are…sorry I don’t know your screen names on here but I’ll never forget you guys  ), almost fell off a bunch of times, got hit on by random men (some hot, some resembling the troll that lives under the bridge in fables. Ah Vegas lol.
Um…also, they had a stripper pole. I didn’t even attempt that one and I’m sure people were grateful for that lol…but other people did. Some failed miserably in their struggle to appear “sexy,”..other ladies got the job DONE! Hats off to whoever managed to climb that thing, stay up there, make it look sexy, make it look easy, and didn’t fall on her face in the process. I wonder if men threw money lol…I guess I’ll have to go back next time I’m in Vegas just to check that out. Yep, I’m going back to Vegas…Lord be with me cuz I don’t even want to go into how physically DAMAGED I still am.

Afer Tryst, Prada and I wound up chilling with these 2 guys we met there…who by the way were pretty damn awesome. ;) Got some more drinks…exchanged life stories, went back to our hotel to attempt a semi-recovery for the upcoming last night in Vegas that we’ll probably NEVER forget. I know I won’t, that’s for sure.

Sunday came. The thought of Rehab crossed our minds…we looked at each other, laughed and decided to go shopping instead. After 5 hours + at the Fashion Show Mall, damaged knee caps from all the walking, we went back to the hotel to get ready for the Bank. Again, this night would not have happened had it not been for JC. God I could kiss you. We started off the night by predrinking at Caramel. This is a bar, people. People don’t dance at bars. I did :D. Of course, right? It wouldn’t be me if I didn’t bust some sort of move when everyone else was mingling, socializing and getting their drink on. Well I got my drink on, my mingle on, and clearly my dance on because it’s what I do.

The bank…RIDICULOUS line ups. Apparently you’re not getting in there unless you have a table. Clubs aren’t like this in Toronto, none that I’ve EVER been to, actually and that includes Venezuela, Greece, Romania, Germany, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican…it goes on. We stepped inside this place and my jaw dropped. If you’ve never been to the Bank, your trip to Vegas isn’t complete without going. I only say this because I went, lost my damn mind and want to recommend it to everyone who reads this (if you’re not tired as hell and your eyes haven’t crossed from this ridiculously long review). Back to it…
JC’s crew was huge…they got a table and the party started. We met some more people, hit the middle of the dancefloor, did our thing and I literally thought I was in a dream when I saw the bubbles. Maybe it’s a girl thing…but they had millions and millions of tiny bubbles being blown everywhere in this club, it was PHENOMENAL. If I figure out how to upload a photo of this, you’ll see what I’m talking about. The DJ was out of his mind he was so good and clearly that jump-started my heart and I was just COMPELLED to get up on some side counter behind our booth and dance up a storm like it was going out of style. I have pictures of that too lol. They had crystal drooping chandeliers in this place…lights flashing (straight up out of a Kanye song), the dancers were beautiful, the servers/bartenders were exceptionally liberal with drinks at the bar, we got destroyed. I don’t think my system will recover from the ridiculous amount of partying we did in that city for the next month. At least.

We called it a night at about 4:30am, drank a couple at the casino, went back to the hotel, packed up our things, said goodbye to the guys (Nassau, David and Wallace) booked it to the airport, sleepless, exhilarated, charged, physically drained, got severely delayed by the plane, barely made it to the connecting flight in Dallas, got back to Toronto, and now all we can talk about….my friends, is Vegas.

Thank you again to all the people we met for making this trip the most amazing experience of my life thus far.

Sunday:
This day was actually two days for me. As I said, went to bed about 7 or 8 the night before. Again, felt like I slept for years, but oh wait, 9am again and I’m off to the races. Funny thing about that morning, I felt more compelled to drink than ever. Imagine that. I wake up my buddy, who I don’t think really wanted to get up, and start jumping around the room. I had crazy energy that would come in spurts and then I’d die down. I know, this is probably TMI. I decide to start mixing drinks. I pour really strong drinks normally. This day was no exception. The funny part about this is my friend was mixing half and half vodka in the Gatorades we bought before but I was unaware of this. Basically my drinks were all vodka. I didn’t realize this at all, but apparently he did when he started screaming at me for “You just made eliminators with premade eliminators!” After a few of these and myself nice and out of it again at 10am, we decide to make our way to the pool.

So we’re back at Bally’s pool, but it’s not the same as days past. The crowd has gone way down, and there isn’t much of a party atmosphere. That’s ok though. I’m a one man party if I need to be. I’m pretty sure this was the day I actually started freestyle rapping in the pool, and if you know me you can imagine how absolutely hilarious this was. I'm so glad Nassau wasn't there with the video camera. Drank some mojitos, and got a call from some friends to meet up with them at Flamingo pool.

Flamingo pool is where my body started to hate me again. At one point in the pool I half passed out and regained myself. It was like a flash knockout in boxing. My friends started asking me if I’d eaten, and the reality was in 3 days of binging and no sleep, I had literally eaten about 2 meals. I strolled over to get some food, and it helped a little. Back to blackjack poolside, where I lost and than came back even. Here I lost everyone, and my shirt literally. I found my friend in the casino, and decided to sit down and try my luck. This is somehow the only time I was kicked out of anywhere or anything in Vegas. The pit boss was NOT happy I was sitting there with no shirt and asked me to leave. Oh well. I stumbled down the strip back to the hotel shirtless, had a few more drinks, and passed out. End of First Sunday. It’s getting drawn out, so I’ll do Second Sunday in a separate post.

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Second Sunday:
I really thought I was done after that day. I’ve had my share of partying, and I never go easy. I’ve been known to be “that guy”, the one you wonder how he’s standing right now and it’s 3 in the afternoon but somehow makes it till 7 the next morning. With that said, I can honestly say I’ve never went as hard as I did this weekend. 24 hour binges, no food, no sleep, no sense of reality. I had one more thing I definitely had to do that night though, and that of course was to meet Jack, the man that brought me together with a lot of cool people and hooked it up also.

So I wake up to my phone beeping with Chapp asking me an ETA on Caramel. Jump in the shower, wake up my friend, and start to get ready. He gets ready, and wants to go grab something from the store downstairs so I wait. He gets back, and now wants no part of going anywhere, so out the door I go. Get to Bellagio and Caramel, and the whole JC Crew is already in action. I really like that place. Small and puts out a great vibe, perfect for pregaming (the type you do before you hit a nice club, not my usual fratastic binge pregaming). A couple drinks there, and an entourage forms. We all head outside to get IDs checked, and it’s off to the Bank.

Again, that whole line thing. Nothing feels better than walking past a huge line like that. I think at this point Nassau was videoing people’s reactions as we walked past them, which was both inhumane and funny at the same time. Into the Bank we go. What a club. Seems a little smaller than a lot of places, and I dig that. Everything was laid out nicely. I really liked how you have to pass security and down the stairs to the middle of the club to get to your tables. Everyone was having a great time and I got to meet a few more people with JC’s crew who were real cool as well. I was going to just drink a little, but my body started accepting drinks again and so of course things were going to get hazy at one point. The kicker was when SOMEONE here was feeding me crown and coke, then decided I should just slam one like a shot. The thing with crown and coke is, it’s so good that once I start drinking it I don’t want to stop until a.) the crown is out or b.) my body won’t allow it anymore. A few more of those and everyone starts clearing out.

Somehow it just ends up being myself, Nassau, and the girls from the forums. We were all going to go to Hardrock. I had to meet up with my friends real quick. They were playing video poker right by the Bank at the bar. For some reason they just weren’t down to go out, so we start to walk outside. I believe this was the point in the night that I was going to attempt a backflip. There’s no logic to this, I don’t know why, in fact I don’t think I could do a complete backflip, but these things happen. Someone advised me not to do it, and while I think Nassau was laughing his ass off I saw some horrified looks from the girls so I decided against it. We make it outside, and this is where mass confusion hits. Some people want to eat, some people want to drink. Oh, and this is also where the possibly dead guy is rolled out on the stretcher.

We kind of split off, and I choose drink. Some crazy guy who “didn’t like me” starts trying to get us to go to Hard Rock because he’s the man there apparently. He starts spouting off about jiu-jitsu, we get to talking about my coach and he was really surprised. My coach was actually in Lesnar’s corner 2 weeks ago against Frank Mir. Now this guy is my best friend (in his mind). I thought he was an absolute bag of d. Anyway, we go back inside, I try grabbing a friend or two again, no go. Start walking the strip trying to find something to do. I ended up hanging out with a friend from the other night, and honestly it was the perfect ending to my trip. I couldn’t have asked for anything else.

I have to thank pretty much everyone here on these boards both on the trip and not. If you weren’t there, you probably gave me advice, or just got me hype by reading your writing. Thanks to all the girls for being cool people to party with. Special thanks to dnix, Nassau, and IRock for setting up Saturday night at Tryst, and of course to Jack for his hospitality and making this site great. I’m setting the wheels in motion on that article in the next few weeks, I’ll keep you updated. And last but not least, I can’t forget my man from the homeland, Chii Town Chapp. I’m going to think of that saying yet! When you get home, bottles on me in the city for sure, and i'll get that shirt out to you. To all, thanks again for helping me have a memorable trip.

Oh, and before I forget. Demon spawn.

Ok, I guess I might as well write this while I still have the energy, let me apologize in advance for how bad the grammar and paragraph construction is going to be in this. I'll try and make it as legible as possible but can't make any guarantees.

Thanks to everyone who provided advice and input, it was all very helpful and provided for a very sick weekend. I kind of feel like I've opened a Pandora's box though, on all my previous trips to Vegas and even when I've lived out there I've made a conscious decision to not drink or go out so as not to lose focus. Little did I know what I was missing, should make future trips quite interesting. Btw, let me apologize in advance because this will probably be like the longest and needlessly detailed TR by far.

My friends, I'll call them J and M for short, arrived Thursday night a bit after midnight and came to meet me at the Bellagio. They were already 14 and 11 drinks deep from the flight and airport bars so getting them amped for Vegas wasn't an issue at all and I had to play catch up. We posted up in the bar in front of the Sportsbook and started with a round of beers and Irish carbombs. J and M wanted to spend the first night on poker so I took them over to the Wynn since the wait at Bellagio was kinda long.

Now J and M are both from the south and have the whole southern charm and accent thing down and it being their first time ever in Vegas they definitely took full advantage. Almost every girl or group of girls we came across J stopped us so we could talk to them. In fact, if you are a female member of this board and were anywhere we were this weekend, there is an 85% chance that J chatted you up or hit on you. The walk to the Wynn took well over an hour due to all the stops. At a certain point J approached a random girl who was talking to her sister on the cell phone, and proceeded to have a solid 20 minute conversation with the sister on the phone detailing how beautiful the girl was and how he wanted to take her out on a date.

When we finally arrived at the Wynn, more shots and drinks were consumed and we began to gamble. While at the Wynn I noticed that J had been getting/exchanging numbers quite a bit, some of which were clearly hookers (which I'd warned him about). It was not until later that I realized that he'd been giving these hookers my number, along with some fairly raunchy and explicit directives. For the rest of the weekend until I lost my phone I received a bunch of random "hey baby, you still in town? wanna come play?" texts along with some that included much more colorful language and suggestions. We were pretty blitzed at the wynn, and the f-bomb was inadvertently dropped quite a few times (which they frown upon in the poker rooms), so after about our 7th warning we were politely asked to leave the poker room. We then went to the Venetian and continued there for the rest of the night.

At about noon we'd had enough of gambling/drinking at the Venetian and went upstairs to the palazzo so I could purchase some sunglasses for ditch. Long story short but we ended up getting kicked out of the sunglasses store as well. The extremely aggressive Spanish/Italian saleswoman tried to sell me a $500 pair of shades and I was so out of it that I got out the money and was handing it to her before J and M stepped in to the rescue and grabbed the money mid-exchange. This prompted a rather harsh response from the saleswoman and she got into a heated argument with J and M in which they proceeded to imitate her Spanish/Italian accent and a ton of f-bombs were dropped and insults exchanged before we got booted. We then went to the mall to pick up shades there and got some food at Panda Express (I only mention this because this was the last time in the next 36 hours or so that'd we'd actually remember to eat something). While waiting at the cabstand to get a ride back to the strip we fell asleep (M lying on the concrete ground in the 100+ degree midday vegas heat) and didn't come to for a couple hours. We finally caught a cab and went back to the Bellagio to shower and clean up before heading to Palms.

By the time we got to the Palms Ditch was already wrapping up so it was at this point that I decided to text tswitch to see what the other JC members were up to and to find out where to pick up the bracelets. I didn't get a response (sick burn :o ) so we spent the next hour or so trying to find the place to pick up bracelets. We were still very faded at this point, so having people tell us to go to stuff to pick up the bracelets was extremely confusing considering I had no clue they were telling me to go to the store which is called "Stuff". While doing this I had probably one of my most feel good moments of the weekend. A bunch of NBA players were there for summer league and we passed by shawn marion who I'd played poker with a few times at the wynn (that's right, I'm dropping names :D ). In passing I just asked him how the games were going for him and to my shock he recognized me and we spent a few minutes chatting. I literally felt like a Greek god standing there in the middle of Palms just chatting it up with Shawn Marion while people were walking by and taking glances.

Went back to Bellagio to gamble a bit while J and M napped in my room then got ready for the night and headed back to Palms. Arrived at the palms around 11:30 and was stone sober at this point and went through about 7 rounds of beer, alabama slammers, soco and lime shots, and royal flushes in the next half hour to get in a good frame of mind. First club we did was Rain, breezing right past the line with no wait was awesome (thanks guys). Very glad we decided to do bracelets instead of table service as me and J are much more likely to be out on the dancefloor and making rounds than isolated at a table or certain area. I guess some people here say they didn't like the music but I enjoyed it and it was very much my speed, although Gaga was played quite a bit. But yea, Rain is an ill club; we made the rounds going up through the levels taking shots at every bar along the way and even crashed a few skyboxes and booths to hang out and have more drinks. By the time we made it back down to the main floor Billie Jean had just come on. I should take a moment here to point out that I was all about MJ back in the day and even learned the Billie jean dance in like 6th or 7th grade for a talent show performance, and apparently it stuck with me. Knowing this, J cleared out a small space in one of the elevated levels and I launched into the routine, full on with the thrusts and glides and everything. I even grabbed a fedora from some girl who was off on the side watching and did the hat sequence and capped it off by tossing it into the crowd (she was not too pleased by this). There were quite a few photos being taken and videos and I'm just dreading the day when one of my friends sends me a link to a pic of me grabbing my crotch or doing the moonwalk.

After Rain we hit up Ghostbar. The view from ghostbar is of course the sickest thing ever, but the best things about the club were probably Natalie, the girl at the front desk entrance downstairs, and the fact that they played calabria 2007, which is one of my favorite club songs. There wasn't too much going on at Ghostbar so we left soon after and headed over to Moon. Now while at ghostbar before going in I had this strong urge to hurdle over one of those black rope things that they open and close to let people in, but natalie stopped me, citing it probably wouldn't be a good idea. Well once we got to Moon there was no Natalie there to deny me, so after taking a good stance and getting a bit of a running start I hurdled over one of the barriers (just one along the side near the back, not near the front or right before the club entrance or anything, so not so bad in my opinion). Needless to say the guys manning the line didn't appreciate this at all and we were promptly asked to leave before even getting in. Still well worth it though, I needed to hurdle one of those barriers that night, it's just something that needed to be done regardless of the consequences.

There was a bit of a delay getting into the Playboy club because the guy at the line couldn't ID me from my driver's license I guess, so I had to pull out my college ID, debit cards, credit card, player's cards from like every casino in vegas in order to prove who I was and that I was over 21 (I'm 23 and 6'3" and not really a babyface or anything so this was rather confusing). Eventually a manager came out and glanced at my license for 1 second and let us right in. Playboy was pretty mundane compared to Rain so after posing in a bunch of pics with random people around the club we headed back to Rain.

While on our way to rain, J and M met a couple cute girls and invited them to join us at rain. Unfortunate for me, I had been lagging behind and once I caught up the two cute ones had already been snagged and all was left was their friend who looked like she played linebacker for the '83 Raiders. As difficult as it was, I knew that man law dictated that I step up and play the wing position for the benefit of my boys, so I took her by the hand and led her in...

I gotta grab dinner now so I'll continue this later.

Part 1 and 2 are up and running kids. I will post all 3 parts separately. here is part 1
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=J2M9O1BH

here is part 2
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=RT5PFOQT

it's not ready yet but check back throughout the day

Oh yeah, Part 3 kids. Enjoy:

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=VQZ62PYY

Figured I owe you guys a trip report.

Thursday - Arrived at Las Vegas around 10am, took a limo to the Wynn, had the driver stop at the liquor store on the way to the Wynn. On arrival, one of the three rooms wasn't ready yet, so they upgraded that room to a salon suite, score! So we had two resort rooms and a salon suite for the six of us. We spent most of the day at the pool, pretty good crowd at their European pool, nothing crazy but fun times none the less. That night we dined at SW, saw La Reve, and then all 6 of us played craps until our golf reservations in the early morning.

Friday we play the Wynn golf course super early before the heat got unbearable, then we did indoor skydiving and a gun range during the day. We played some more craps, then dined at Switch, then went to Tryst that night. To make a reservation we just called the button on one of the room phones that said nightclubs/dining and then asked to be put through to Tryst, and then made table service reservations from there. We made the reservation for six guys, however, as we were walking to the club we met some girls from Alabama and just added them into our group, so we arrived with ten people. The host we were set up with did not mind at all and the whole process went very smooth. We tipped the host $400, tipped the waitress $250 (cash upfront, on top of the automatic gratuity, becuase we were going to make her job tough that night), and then took care of the security as well. Amazing night, we went through a few bottles of vodka, couple bottle of tequila, and two small bottles of champagne. Final bill was expensive. We saw a few NBA players a the club as well. We then probably pulled about 10-15 people from the club for an after party up in the suite we got upgraded too.

Saturday - 10am, most of us still haven't gone to bed, my friend and I walk these two girls back to Venetian. Decide to do a little gambling back at the Wynn and grab a bite to eat at the Sugar and Ice place by some of the shops. Great and cheap food. We call again from the room phone and get connected to XS to make reservations for a table that night. XS was a great club and an awesome time, however, we didn't arrive until almost midnight and it was kind of a hassle to get them to honor our table service reservation. Once everything got worked out though, it was an awesome night and the club is just insane. Again we had people to the suite after wards for some fun til around 8-9am, then when that dies down, most of my group and I finally get our first sleep of the trip.

Sunday - We wake up around 5pm, grab some Wynn buffet, and then contact a host at The Bank. We see O, then make our way over to Bank. The club was fun, however, it just doesn't seem to compare to Friday or Saturday at XS and Tryst. Probably because most of the tourists are gone. Call it an early night and head back to the Wynn around 2:30am. However, its Vegas and adventure just seems to find you, we run into these 3 girls from Canada while walking from Bellagio back to the Wynn somewhere near the Mirage, myself and three of my buddies end up going with these girls to Spearmint Rhino while the others went back to the Wynn to gamble. Man did they miss out. Strip club was a great time, a little to expensive but whatever, get back to the Wynn around 7ish?

Monday - We wake up at 4pm for a 530 flight. Got banged slightly for oversleeping checkout for all 3 rooms haha, so we had to pay for three rooms for one more day, but whatever, all of us were up for the trip pretty big from craps. Haul ass to the airport and barely make our flight out of town.

thanks for finally signing up. how about some TRs????????

haha i'll see what i can do--since the beginning we've instituted a no-phones no-cameras policy so no physical evidence exists. here's what i remember of the bachelor party, mid-july 2005:

i knew my best man and another good friend were planning a party for me, they told me what weekend to keep open but no other details. that morning when they picked me up all they said was "dude, we're going to vegas" and i still remember the feeling of excitement/anticipation. i had been to vegas once or twice before, but i knew that this trip would be different.

we drove from LA to vegas in what was probably 110 degree heat and i remember the a/c could barely keep up. we checked into the bellagio and one of the guys said "how much is a suite?" we ended up with a standard room and a bellagio suite. to put things into context, we were 23, recent college grads (some still in school), and even the standard room was probably breaking the bank for us. still, for this trip it was clear that nobody was worried about the budget, so you can imagine our awe and wonderment when we went up the secure elevator and walked into a 1020 sq ft party suite with 3 bathrooms, steam shower, jacuzzi tub, and 4 tvs.

the drinking started right after that, and my memory gets a little hazy. i remember i bought the guys dinner at sensi since they made it clear they weren't letting me pay for anything else that trip. don't remember what we all ate but there was a short ribs dish braised in curry sauce and served with roti bread that definitely sticks out in my mind. to this day, i haven't had anything like it.

went to a strip club, don't remember which one or much about it, but i remember it was fun. when we got back to the hotel we realized we had left a man behind! we thought he would be pissed off that we lost him, but when he arrived in a separate cab 30 mins later he was all smiles. he explained that it was taking too long to find a cab to take us home, so he wandered back inside while we were waiting! we saw james woods getting into a cab with what were most likely two prosties. he gave a sort of knowing, creepy smile-and-nod as he closed the door. talk about random!

i lost a lot of money at the tables, realized i'm probably the worst blackjack player in the world, but refused to stop playing. lost another guy, found him hours later chatting up the elevator operator/security guard and waiting for us to come back with the key. he had been waiting there alone for probably two hours and seemed to be having the time of his life! we went to pure which i wasn't all that excited about initially (i'm usually much more of a dive bar guy than a big club guy). they explained to me clubbing was non-negotiable and pure was probably THE top club at the time. waited in line for about 30 mins before a friend decided to tip the bouncer and get all 10-12 of us in. i have no idea what he paid the guy, previous to that i had no idea that tipping the doorman was even possible! had a truly mind-blowing time there. one friend was so trashed and feeling the music he gathered all of us around and yelled out "who cares about girls tonight? fuck girls! i just wanna DANCE man!" and he proceeded to do so the entire night, inventing no less than four or five signature dance moves--two of which we still remember. we give him shit about it to this day and use his quote "i just wanna DANCE man" on a regular basis. my brother and i cut out early (maybe 3AM) and had probably the best tuna melt ever at the cafe at harrahs--to our disappointment it's no longer there.

our suite was a mess--just littered with cigarette butts, cigar ash, spilled whiskey, dirty clothes, people passed out in corners, and who knows what else. we made it worthwhile for the cleaning crew though (on accident!), one of the dudes decided to order 24 hours of porn, and threw down the cash on the coffee table to pay for it. nobody ever remembered to pick it up, and we figured out much later the maids must have understood it to be a tip. at some point i made some grand speech that all the guys remember, but i have zero recollection of. i'm sure it was something along the lines of what great friends they are and i'm the luckiest guy in the world. nobody remembers exactly what was said but they tell me it brought almost everyone to tears.

sunday we woke up figuring we'd had all the fun that could possibly be had. we'd hit the champagne buffet, rest/sober up, and head home. maybe the best part of the trip was that we were oh so wrong. i remember the waitress at the buffet HATED us, but for some reason still kept leaving bottle after bottle of champagne even after the buffet had closed. we stopped in a brewpub type place (at monte carlo maybe?) and somebody said the words "bachelor party" to two old dudes. before i even knew what was happening they had me laid out on the table guzzling beer from the tap. we left there figuring there's no way it could get any better--headed to the forum shops because one guy needed to buy an apology gift for his then-gf (possibly due to the no-phone policy all weekend). while there, another friend (not a small guy, maybe 250 lbs) was body-slammed to the pavement for no reason by a guy wearing a pink feather boa. we all stood there stunned asking ourselves "did that just happen?" but the two guys got up laughing, and hugged it out like they were old friends. the guy bought us all jager bombs and we hung out with him and his wife the rest of the day. we sat out in the heat drinking some slushy frozen lemonade vodka thing and reveled in the glory that is vegas. watched the sun go down, drove home, and slept for about two days. what a trip--i guess i remember more than i thought!

After reading all of the wonderful TRs for everyone I figured I owe a synoposis of my few days in Vegas.

JUL/30 - Arrive in Vegas at 2pm, excited and ready to go! First things first, we checked into the Mirage hotel with a successful $50 sandwich (2 rooms upgraded to suites plus spa passes). We get up to our "suites"... and realize they're the old and unrenovated rooms with a bunk tube tv, non-working radio/alarm and old unattractive furnishings. I immediately went down to complain and was "downgraded" to a much much nicer newly renovated room that we should have had originally. We then proceeded to drive over to the Gold Coast to pick up our liquor for the room. After having some dinner, we drove back and started drinking. We decided that we would just stick around the hotel for the night so made our way into revolution and jet. Revolution was quiet but we had a couple drinks there anyways. Afterwards we walked into Jet.... it was also a quiet disappointment. We split up after jet and after playing some blackjack I headed up to bed at 2:30am......

3:30am: I find myself rudely awoken by a strange woman shaking me violently!!!!!! I had no idea what the hell was going on other than piles and piles of drunken laughter. She's shaking me, pulling at my boxers, and screaming in my ear. Her friend is jumping around, pouring and spilling drinks all over the room. At this point in time I was tired, confused and my hangover had already set in from drinking earlier. I fled to the bathroom, locked the door and attempted to resume my slumber.... 10 minutes later... the lock on the door was picked and I was awoken yet again by the shower that was turned on!! I finally had enough and sent them all out of the room. Needless to say.. I was berrated for how I handled this for the rest of the trip by everyone including my father.

JUL/31: Woke up Friday morning, feeling a bit sideways but good enough to hit the gym & spa. The combination of freshly served tomato juice in the steam room was a blessing and I felt great afterwards. We decided that today would be our Tao Beach day after having such a good time last year. We arrived around 11am and grabbed ourselves a daybed. The pool was fairly quiet until about 3pm when it really picked up. We spent most of the day drinking and roasting in sunshine. Other than the disappointment with the lack of toplessness it was a pretty good party! Two of us were up for going out and got on the guest list at Tao earlier in the day. I was wearing a t-shirt & blazer and figured it was fine. Lining up outside in a blazer was extremely hot and uncomfortable but I thought it would be easy to shed the jacket once we got in. Sure enough, we get up to the front of the line and the guy tells us that we're not dressed to code and we get bounced. By this time, we were all feeling fairly sick from excessive heat and thought it might be better in the long run to take it easy for the night and resume debauchery on Saturday. Watched some Ghostbusters on the TV and went to bed around 11:15pm.

AUG/1: After another gym & Spa combo we made our way over to the pool at MGM. We brought my father with us so there was no interest in hitting WR. I've had a good time in the lazy river previously so we thought it would be fun. Overall we had a really good time but one of the guys we were with decided that his pina colada would be better served if spiked with multiple shots of 151 (the bartender only charged an additional $3 for this service). After two of those he disappeared... not to be seen or heard from until 2pm the next day! My cousin and I were wandering around Encore and thought we might try our luck getting into XS while we were there. I was unprepared in a tshirt again but we figured we would try anyways and if it came down to it, grease the guy $100 to ignore it. The line up for table service was huge and there was no guest list line up for the night. Surprisingly, we were practically ushered in to the club without any problems. We spent most of the night dancing and had a pretty good time.

AUG/2: We planned on going to Rehab for Sunday but since the third musketeer was still missing we thought it to be more responsible to stick around the hotel and wait for him to return. We went to Bare and grabbed a couple loungers for the day... neither of us felt like drinking and our $50 f&b minimum each was mostly food and water (at the end we were only at $65 the waitress was kind enough not to enforce the f&b minimum for a $25 tip). The third musketeer finally returned at around 3:30pm after his wild and random night that he can barely recall. After dinner at the M resort & spa (off strip, great meal and it included all you can drink beer and wine - which no one took advantage of!), we went back to the hotel and figured a 30min nap was in order to recharge. It was 9pm and we had guest list at LAVO. I fell asleep within 5 minutes... and woke up the next morning! Another wasted night!

AUG/3: Time to head home! Picked up our liquor at the South Point hotel (had the best prices we could find) and made our way to the airport.

What a fu--ing trip! I am so screwed up here at home today that it is not funny. Typing this out is making my brain actually hurt. I will do a day by day rundown of what we did. We met some fantastic people from Toronto, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and of course California.

I will include a flickr link for each day. The players are me (guy with the goatie), my lovely wife (blonde), sister in law (dark hair), boyfriend/fiancee (dark spiked hair).

7/30

Arrived at the airport about an hour and a half early so we decided to have a bite and a few drinks. We went to TGIF at Detroit Metro which was very good. We had a nice quick dinner and about 2 long islands each. We head to our gate and our flight is delayed by one hour :eek: I knew this would screw things up and I was right. So we then head on down to Champps bar and grille and proceed to consume 4 lemon drop shots each. At this point we are feeling more than good. A great way to start the trip off. Our flight takes off at 930 and we arrive in Vegas at 1030. I had a table at tryst through Patrick Frank. I texted him at let him know the situation he said if we could make it there by 1130 I would be ok.

We pick up our bags and head off to the limo. Check in to our 2 bedroom penthouse suite at the mirage which I thought was very nice. The room did need some updating and so did the furniture but overall a great suite for partying. By this time its past 1130 and Patrick texts me and says that the club is saturated and all the table are gone. He said to come by and that he would try to hook me up. By the time my sister in law gets ready it is now 1230. She was driving me nuts. Our buddy David came by the suite and off we went to Tryst.

The line is a total cluster fuc-. I text Patrick and he promtly calls me back. He apologizes that the tables are gone but I told him that I understand. I give him a hundie and he lets us all in including 2 more of Davids friends. He says that if a table opens up that he would give me a text. We hang out in the club for about 45 minutes. NO where to move, no where to hang. Honestly, not having a table sucks. So we proceed to walk by some of the tables and it was like a miracle from God some guys looks at us and says hey do u want to bye my table for $40. I said hell ya! He wanted the money right away but I told him that I would have to clear it with the waitress. The waitress says it was ok and the transaction was consumated. The best $40 that I spent. We were having an awesome time dancing mingling etc... Met some people from New Zealand, our table was next to Floyd Merriweather and met some crazy dancing girl from Cali. We also had a birthday cake for my birthday and my SILs. We shut the place down and go back to the suite. The plan is to go to Drais.

We get back to the suite to have a couple more drinks. The crazy dancing girl was with us???? My wife is totally inebriated at this point and wants to go to drais but physically is not capable. So we leave my wife in bed and we head out to drais. It must be about 6am at this point. I get a table with a bottle. Unfortunately the place is absolutely dead. A total bummer because I had wanted to got here for some time. Buying the bottle was a total waste. I had one or two drinks and I tell my SILs BF that I am leaving in order to take advantage of my wifes drunken stupor. I walk back to the Mirage at about 730am. Talk about feeling like a looser. In all a great start to the trip.:D

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Friday 7/31

woke up at about 10:30am hungover as hell and hungry as hell. The wife is still out. I walk over to the other bedroom and I see 3 heads. Crazy dancer chick is sleeping inbetween the SIL and her BF. I think to myself WTF! I look out the window and see Mcdonalds. So I suit up and go down to the strip to catch something to eat because I am starving. I prefer burger king so I walked up and down the strip (Bills to Venetian) looking for a BK. I knew there was one somewhere but I just couldnt find it. So i walked back to Mcds and had a big mac and fries. I then walk to the new walgrrens at the venetian/palazzo and grab a large case of water and walk back to the Mirage. At this point I am thinking am I farking stupid. Im exhausted, dehydrated, hungover and I am walking all over the farking place in 107 degree weather.

I finally head back and everyone is up including crazy dancer chick (CDC). I guess they got a little wild in the other bedroom. My wife leaves the room and CDC shows me her ass and legs, Im like WTF! Not my kind of chick. Anyways everyone is draggin Ass. We were supposed to go to Ditch at the Palms and then to Moon but I called my host and switched my MOOn night to Saturday. We hit the Mirage buffet at about 330. It was just ok.

We decide that we are just going to have a casual night and walk the strip and bar hop. CDC keeps calling us and harrasing us about going out again. We are all nice ppl but come on. This chick just wont leave us alone. We get ready and head off to cheesecake factory. One of our favorite spots for huge portions and reasonable prices. She calls again and my SILs bf tells her to meet outside of Pure. We walk over an sure enough there she is. So we walk the strip from Bills to the Venetian going in and out of bars. It was ok but nothing too exciting. I need the energy of the music to get me going. We then walked over to the Mirage and hit Revolution. It was actually a nice little club. We shut the place down again. We meet a group of nice girls who are there for an Ohio state reunion and talk to them for a while. Of course crazy dancer girl is there and she walks up to our room with us. She keeps saying that she wants a threesome or a fivesome. The wives get a little pissed and tell her to buzz off.:eek: We then hit the sack

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Aight here it is due to popular demand

My 2 week trip started in LA landing at 930am and picking up a jeep convertible and driving straight to the angels v yankees game. This was a hot day, full house and my first time in America.

We got there in the 2nd innings and sat down for about 2 minutes before buying some hot dogs, peanuts and beers. I bought a cool angels hat, sat down for about 20 minutes and left in the 6th innings. I didnt see much baseball but it was a good experience anyway. We stayed in hollywood and the next 3 days in LA were filled with alot of alchohol at saddle ranch, universal studios, farmers market, wallmart in crenshaw lol and shopping at beverly centre.

I managed to miss out on the hollywood sign, didnt see a beach and never drove through the ghetto.

Day 4 we woke up and took off for vegas. Expecting hot weather we spent an hour putting the roof back on the jeep so we didnt die in the heat. The drive was good we took a shortcut and after a few wrong turns were on the highway to vegas. Im not sure how many routes are on the way to vegas but we didnt see the mirage waterslide, route66 or the xxyyzz street sign.. oh well.

Half way down we stopped to get petrol and ate at karls jnr.. Yum.. I had a burger with onion rings and fried zucchini which was pretty nice..

Anyway back on the road which was pretty smooth going we ended up in vegas about 11am. Before stopping off at the hotel we decided to cruise up the strip and take some photos. It was such a nice day so we made it all the way up to circus circus and decided to go check out hard rock.

Once we finally found hard rock it was really nice although shocked at the small size of the casino. We checked in, checked out our rooms, relaxed and went to check out the place.

The first thing i did was to put a dollar in wheel of fortune (started small) and lost. bummer. Next machine was deal or no deal and stuck 20 in and got 5 of something on max bet and won the 868 dollar link woo! I decided to take a break and check out the pool after that win.

The pool is really nice and it was so hot. We gambled a bit outsie next to the bar with the bikini dealers and went for a swim, had a drink and hung out.

Now I have no recollection on what days i did what as they all merged into one but the first 3 days we did not leave the hard rock. Majority of our time was drinkiing, gambling and swimming. The 800 i won turned into 1200 and within 16 hours of non stop gambling (blakjack and texas holdem table game) was back to even lol.

The gambling thing 12 hours a day kind of didnt stop the whole holiday so i wont bore you guys too much with it same with the drinking.

Day 2 we met some people in the pool and were meeting them at new york new york that night.. Well that happened to be the day I got so drunk i couldnt walk. All I rememeber is hopping into a cab, being at nyny, eating one mutha of a pizza and then waking up the next morning.

On the friday day 3 we went to ditch and met up with nassau and dnix and the rest of the guys which was pretty cool. We went back to hard rock, got changed and went back to palms for the night stuff. We ended up in rain, at playboy club, moon and ghost bar which were all pretty cool.

Sunday morning we were checking out of hard rock and got our wrist bands for rehab. Not really in any state for pool partys i checked it out and sold the wrist bands for 50 each to someone dying to get in.

The rooms were nice at hard rock with a nice big open door, modern carpet, modern bathrooms and a plasma. I loved the hotel so much. The food was nice although i didnt like having to wait 15 minutes for food when i just finished a massive gambling session.

Next stop was a week at the MGM. After waiting 2 hours to check in, we finally got into our "bungalow suite" which was old, small tvs, windows which didnt open and poor air conditioning but it was ok. the deal came with unlimited buffet so that made up for it.

The mgm is huge and i wouldnt styay there again. It is just too big and too easy to get lost and to walk from the elevator to the studio walk is 10 minutes or so however my best favourtie food was at the pizza shop next to mcdonalds. omg i ate there everyday 2 times a day.

A slice of pepperoni pizza and a servings of hot wings and ranch. I had so many wings and so much pizza I ended up with an extra 12 pounds on me after 2 weeks lol.

Theres not much else to say about MGM except I played alot of blakjack and was no9t impressed with the high table limits although i ended up playing 50 a hand for the week i was there.

I checked out most casinos except for mandalay and mirage and never made it to grand canyon, to any shows or off strip.

However I did check out the mall south of manadalay with all those factory outlets which was ok. I walked all the way from MGM to circus circus and spent most my time at PH, MGM, NYNY.

I noticed that the majority of women have boob jobs and every girl i spoke to seemed to be a hooker but thats another story for another time.

I did check out the top of the eiffel tower at paris which was nice, I played games at circus circus and excalibur, drank and huge ass drink from the markets in the middle of the strip which had 18 shots in it and ate alot of food.

My best meal would have been the xxxl fat burger with xtra cheese and a side of chilli cheese fries and onion rings and a banana shake to go with it. Man that was filling. My second best meal was the hot dog I had at rio. Damn half pound foot long hot dog with melted cheese was amazing.

I also had a mcgriddle which was pretty crazy too.

All in all it was a fun trip. It cost me 3000 to book and pay for car, hotels etc and i had a 3000us budget. I blew through that and blew through another 5000us on top lol but that was all in my contingency anyway so its all good.

Theres probably alot more but check out the pics here. There is a few random work pics but theres some good ones too. Please note this is the edited photo album

thanks for eveyone who answered my questions before its a great community and the meetup was pretty cool.

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The only thing I forgot to mention was the comp dollars we earnt. Between me and friend we had about 500 worth of comp money and we had prepaid our hotel so we couldnt do that, we had free buffet so couldnt pay that and didnt want to see any shows so couldnt use it there either.

We ended up with several huge room service meals with the last one being at 6am on our last day we ordered some 8oz steaks and lobster tails, burritos, choc sundaes, milkshakes and chips and sodas which came out at around 180us.. Even when we checked out we ended up with 200 left over I guess I can use it next time!

Saturday August 1st

Woke up at around 9am. Ordered a very nice room service breakfast. The plan was to be at Wet Republic at around 1130 for our large daybed ($750 f and b min). Of course we had texts all morning long from CDC. We did not respond and the harrassing finally stopped. We go downstairs and grab a cab. We get in the cab and I tell the driver that we are going to Wet at MGM. I ask if he can drop us off right at the Wet entrance. He says in a very rude tone that he doesnt know where that is so he is going to drop us off at the front of MGM. Recalling that MGM is huge and the walk would be about a mile I said if you cant drop us off at the correct entrance then let us out. The a-hole slams on the brakes and yells “then get out”. So we promtly get out and he squeels his breaks out of the Mirage. It was hilarious. Fortunately he had only moved 50 yards or so. The next cabbie was cool and brought us right to the Wet entrance.

Meet my hostess Rebecca Gannon and we are taken to our large daybed which was very nice. I make sure to get my wife an umbrella because she gets hives all over her body when exposed to heavy sun for extended periods of time. We order our bottle of Goose and have some pro pics taken. We promtly go in the pool to cool off. We are looking at our daybed from the pool and someone pulls the umbrella over to the daybed next to ours. I get out of the pool and explain in a nice tone that my wife needs the umbrella because of here potential hive situation. They were a really cool couple (him from Toronto and her from Israel) and we hit it off. We met all kinds of fun ppl in our area and the party was on. We also met this smoking hot blonde and her boyfriend. The party was definitely on. We ordered another bottle of Goose and seafood buckets for about 10 ppl. It was awesome and had a great time at Wet. I think I spent about $1700.

I invite our newly found friendsfrom Toronto to Moon and they agree. They also convinced us to go split a cabana with them at Rehab on Sunday. We said "hell ya" and the party was on. Left Wet at about 6pm and had a fabulous time.

Our new friends picked us up at around 1030pm at the mirage in his limo and off we went to Moon. Still without question our favorite club. Had an awesome both right on the terrace overlooking the strip. Had our favorite party assistant, Kristin, who made sure the liquor flowed. We had 2 bottles of Goose and a bottle of champagne. All on me. I tipped my host $250 and I think I tipped Kristin about $500-600 by the time the night was done. Had a great day... Some of the pics are us just acting goofy.

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Saturday August 1st

Woke up at around 9am. Ordered a very nice room service breakfast. The plan was to be at Wet Republic at around 1130 for our large daybed ($750 f and b min). Of course we had texts all morning long from CDC. We did not respond and the harrassing finally stopped. We go downstairs and grab a cab. We get in the cab and I tell the driver that we are going to Wet at MGM. I ask if he can drop us off right at the Wet entrance. He says in a very rude tone that he doesnt know where that is so he is going to drop us off at the front of MGM. Recalling that MGM is huge and the walk would be about a mile I said if you cant drop us off at the correct entrance then let us out. The a-hole slams on the brakes and yells “then get out”. So we promtly get out and he squeels his breaks out of the Mirage. It was hilarious. Fortunately he had only moved 50 yards or so. The next cabbie was cool and brought us right to the Wet entrance.

Meet my hostess Rebecca Gannon and we are taken to our large daybed which was very nice. I make sure to get my wife an umbrella because she gets hives all over her body when exposed to heavy sun for extended periods of time. We order our bottle of Goose and have some pro pics taken. We promtly go in the pool to cool off. We are looking at our daybed from the pool and someone pulls the umbrella over to the daybed next to ours. I get out of the pool and explain in a nice tone that my wife needs the umbrella because of here potential hive situation. They were a really cool couple (him from Toronto and her from Israel) and we hit it off. We met all kinds of fun ppl in our area. We also met this smoking hot blonde and her boyfriend. We ordered another bottle of Goose and seafood buckets for about 10 ppl. It was awesome and had a great time at Wet. I think I spent about $1700.

I invite our newly found friendsfrom Toronto to Moon and they agree. They also convinced us to go split a cabana with them at Rehab on Sunday. We said "hell ya" and the party was on. Left Wet at about 6pm and had a fabulous time.

Our new friends picked us up at around 1030pm at the mirage in his limo and off we went to Moon. Still without question our favorite club. Had an awesome both right on the terrace overlooking the strip. Had our favorite party assistant, Kristin, who made sure the liquor flowed. We had 2 bottles of Goose and a bottle of champagne. All on me. I tipped my host $250 and I think I tipped Kristin about $500-600 by the time the night was done. Had a great day... Some of the pics are us just acting goofy.

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Final installement

8/2

Woke up at at about 930am. Had to be a rehab at 1030 to checkin to our cabana. It was very difficult to say the least to get everyone up at that time. We made it but a few minutes late and it was no big deal. Hooked up with our host DC at the Hard Rock. He got us checked in and off we went to our cabana. I think it was cabana #45. It was off a little canal and was nicely secluded from all the craziness at the main pool. There was a great deal of partying in our area just not craziness. Had a great time and would do it all over again. Left at about 6pm.

Had a table for the Bank reserved for one bottle. My SIL had had enough and just crashed at the room. So it was Me, wifey and BIL. Got to the Bank and they told us that they only have 3 one bottle tables and that we would have to purchase 2 bottles. I passed given the fact that we had to leave for the airport at 9am the next day and that it was only 3 ppl. They let us in and said they would give me a ring when a table became available. Fortunately, the bank has several areas where you can rest your drink and just dance and thats what we did. We met 2 friends from our cabana day. Didnt stay late and left the club at about 1am then headed on over to cafe bellagio where we got some grub. Went back to the room and my wife and I had some birthday sex:D .
The picks are in reverse order.
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8/3

Well its my birthday and its time to leave. That sucks!! Who planned this trip? Oh it was me, dam!!! Had our birthday cake (my SIL bday is on 8/4) so we both celebrated. Hit the airport without a glitch and arrived to our front door at about 8pm. It was probably our best trip yet. Each one seems to get better and better. I am contemplating a trip for my wifes bday in early october but that is just too soon. Otherwise we will be back in the spring. Hope u all enjoyed the trip report.

Ill try to break it down into sections so you can skip certain parts if you dont want to read about it.

Monday:

At the airport at 4:00 a.m east coast time and landed in vegas at 10:30 west coast time. Everything went smooth here and was at MGM Grand by 11:15.

Check in: We had two rooms, ours being a celebrity spa suite and my sister and her friend just a standard room. The line was about 10 deep but moved quickly. I did the $20 trick just hoping to get rooms close to each other and hoping not have to wait for a room. Others in front of us said they had to wait until 3 to check in. It worked and we got connecting rooms and were able to check in right away.

Room: The celebrity spa suite was a great deal, for $80 a night I could not ask for a nicer room for the price. The bathroom is huge with a jacuzzi and his and her sinks. The bed and living room area is separated by a dresser that has a rotating TV (although the TV is still the old tube kind). There is plenty of room to party and the room also comes with a fridge and wet bar.

Day: After checking in, I put $100 on black at the first roulette table we saw and won. GREAT START! We then grabbed something to eat then went to check out the strip. I wanted to get some alcohol for the room so we walked down to Planet Hollywood and went to the ABC store. Picked up a bottle of GG and Captain, hit a beer store on the way back for a case of miller lite and dropped it all off at the room.

We then went to check out the pool and got a spot at the main pool. There were tons of kids in the pool and this would be the last day we spent any significant time at the main pool. My wife and sister went to check out Wet Republic and said there were not many people in there. Went back to the room to take a quick nap and get ready around 6.

Night: We had a table set up through Patrick Frank at XS and he happened to be on vacation. He put me in contact with his secretary and she put me in contact with another host. We were there a little early so played some black jack at encore and lost $200 quick. We then went over to XS and got in the table reservation line. Met up with our host and got us right in to our table. XS is the nicest club,bar,lounge whatever you want to call them I have ever been in. The music was great as it was a mix of house and hip hop and we had a great time. Our table was right below a pole and that was great entertainment. I let the girls drink the bottle and I started drinking beers which turned into Long islands to AMFers. After 1:00 I don’t remember much besides the video I saw of myself bouncing off doors in the hallway of our MGM rooms. (sorry if you were there and I woke anyone up) I guess it was around 4 a.m when we finally got to bed.

Tuesday:

Day: Woke up around 10:00 with a nice hangover and got dressed to go to the pool. The girls wanted to get to Wet Republic early so they could get the chairs that are in the pool. I could barely eat so i pretty much just ordered food and threw it out. Got to WR around 11:30 and there wasnt much of a crowd. No one had to pay cover, we just walkded right in. Had my first drink at noon and it was on again. We had a good time there as the crowd picked up a little but still not crowded. I talked to a host at WR and reserved a party cabana for thursday. They are only $250 food and beverage min which we spent tuesday anyway. I left WR around 4 to go in and play BJ and won around 4 hundred. My wife and sister found me at the tables around 6 and were fired up. They were yelling at the dealers and telling me what to do and how much to bet and were always right. People at the table werent happy when we left but had to get up to the room to get ready.

Night: The girls wanted to do some sight seeing stuff so we went down to freemont street which was pretty cool. Drinks are a lot cheaper down here than on the strip! Like less than half, but anyway probably only spend an hour here then took a cab to the Belagio to see the fountains. I gotta say i wasnt too impressed with them and they look better on TV and movies that i have seen. After this it was around 11 and i think the east coast time was finally catching up to us. We were planning on going to the palms but decided to just go back to MGM. We were in bed by 1:00.

Wednesday:

Day: The girls spent the day shopping and i spent the day gambling. I had some decent luck and stayed around even for the day but still up a few hundred for the trip. (down alot if you count my wifes shopping bill)I was feeling pretty good from all the free drinks and went up to the room around 4 to get ready.

Night: We had show tickets for KA at 9:30 and a table set up at Wasted Space with Chad Dallas. We grabbed something to eat at Wolfgang Pucks bar and Grill at MGM which was probably my favorite meal of the trip. I had the Prime burger which was great. We then went to KA which was entertaining but took a little too long.

I texted Chad before the show letting him know our plans and again right after the show. We got to Wasted Space just before 12 and met up with CD. He got us right in and into our table. Chad Dallas is a really good guy and i appreciate that he was able to keep our table that late. Wasted Space was a great time, the music was incredible as it was a mix of rock, hip hop, and old school stuff. Just a really good energy in the place. They also had a guy drumming the whole time who was really good. The place is really small so a table is a must in there. The dance floor and the bar are kind of in the same space so getting drinks without a table would be difficult. In my opinion, the CO-ED bathroom thing has to go. Having to wait in line to take a piss sucks and you had to do this just about everytime. Although it does make for some interesting conversations. I also feel bad for the attendent guy who i saw having to break up guy/girl couples twice from going into the same stall. Also, the staff at wasted space were a good group of people. They all seemed to love what they were doing and had fun with the crowd dancing and all that. Final note: our tab was just over $400 after tip which was less than half what we spend at XS.

Left WS when they closed around 3 or so and went to Hooters for their .25 cent wing deals. I knew when i first saw that sign we would be there because my wife loves their wings. You cant beat 40 wings for 10 bucks but i was dissapointed that there were no hooters girls, just waiters in Dan Marino jerseys. Back to MGM after that and in bed between 4-5.

Thursday:

Day: Woke up early again to get to Wet Republic early so the girls could get their lounge chairs in the pool . Also had the party cabana set up. WR opened their doors around 11:30 and by 12:30 they had a good crowd there. They dont have a DJ there during the week just a mix tape playing but the music is still pretty good. I just wished they played a different tape as it was identical to what they played Tuesday. We stayed there until around 5 or so and were pretty wasted by the time we left. Final bill came out to just over $400 before tip so we easily had the $250 f+b min covered.

Night: We headed over to the Venetian as the plan was to go to Tao. The girls wanted to eat something so we went to a Italian place in there which proved to be a mistake. There was nothing wrong with the food, it was actually pretty good but just took our buzz away and made us really tired again. I wanted to check out Tao so we went up there and they had pretty big line already. It was only 10 so i dont even think they opened yet but the girls didnt want to wait in line so we left and ended up not doing much for the night.

Friday:

Day: We asked about the cababa again at Wet for friday but the min was now $1k. A little out of our price range so we declined. My sister and her friend went out shopping again so it was just me and the wife. We got into WR around 12:30 and crowd was easily double what it was thursday. On Friday they have their house DJ playing and the crowd was crazy. During the week it is pretty chill and relaxing in there but Friday it was a party. So some pretty crazy stuff had a great time and met some fun people. Figures the day we are leaving but thats the way it goes. We stayed there until they kicked us out and went and got our bags together. Finished off what alcohol we had left in the room and went over to excalibur to get something to eat. We went to Dicks Last Resort as a buddy told me to go there and we had fun there. They mess with everyone in the place and the waiters are "dicks" to everyone. Finally it was off to the airport and home we had to go. Flight left at 12:50 am west coast time and we got home at 11:30 east coast time. Man that was a rough flight!

Overall we had a blast in Vegas and next time i will be going during the weekend. I am glad we did it this way first though because now i know what to expect. Already made a deal with the wife so as soon as the CC are paid off we will be back. Thank you to everyone on this board who helped me out with my trip. You guys really gave good advice and without out it i would of spent more money and not have had so much fun.

Wednesday:
We arrive in Vegas around 2:30ish. When we arrive at the Flamingo, they tell us that it'll take about an hour and a half to go thru. They let us check our bags, go explore and come back to check in. We end up walking up to the Venetian and Palazzo to look around and stop at Walgreens to load up on snacks and drinks. At this point it's about to be 5pm and we need to get ready to make it to the SpyonVegas open bar at 6

Since we need to eat quickly to allow us to make it to the open bar, we grab some McDonalds and head back to the hotel. Yeah, first night in Vegas and we choose McDonalds. It's not ideal but we were in a hurry. By the time we're done getting ready, it's after 7. We make it over to Heart Bar at Planet Hollywood and have their complementary Tyku and Ultimat cocktails.

9pm rolls around and the open bar at Heart Bar is wrapping up but ladies drink free at Mist starting at 9 so we go over there for a couple of drinks. By the time we're done at Mist, we're feeling beyond good. I can't recall exactly where we went after this. I do remember running into a wedding party and being invited by the bride to go to Cleopatra's Barge with them. They were hilarious so we walked to Ceasar's with them. For some reason, we ended up losing the wedding party and never finding Cleopatra's. I had no interest in going there anyways so that was quite alright. Next thing I remember is getting wings and hot dogs at O'Shea's and joking around with the cashier. Can't remember what time we went to bed but I remember waking up around 4ish and getting sick. I was good when I was done, no hangover.

Thursday:
We head to the pool at the Flamingo which was packed, no chairs left whatsoever since people show up at opening to claim a chair and then leave. We left to check out the Go pool which was a far better experience. I sent Larson a text who confirmed we were on the guestlist for Tao that night. Around 10:30, we arrive at Tao. The line wasn't bad but it was starting to accumulate. Walked right up to a bouncer who let us right in without checking the list.

Tao was decent, I liked it a lot. Unfortunately, my friend broke both of her ankles last month and they still we're fully healed. She forgot to take her pain meds right before we left and wearing heals, she couldn't handle the pain anymore. We left just before midnight when it was starting to pick up.

Walked back to the hotel to grab her flipflops and we just ended up gambling the rest of the night. Got to bed around 1:30-2.

Friday:
Once again, spent the day at the Go pool. We didn't care about going to any pool parties since we decided we were just going to take it easy during the day and not drink any alcohol till nighttime.

Since it was my birthday, I opted to go to Batista's behind the hotel. I loved this place. It had a nice ambiance and the unlimited wine made the experience so much better. The old accordian player sang to us which was hilarious. Food wasn't the best italian but it was good. For the price, I highly recommend this place.

I sent a text to Chad Dallas and confirmed our table would be ready for us at Wasted Space. I told him that I would also like to check out Body English for a little bit before hand and he told us he'd put us on the list.

We get to the Hard Rock and gamble a little before going to Body English. Walked up to a bouncer and told him that Chad put us on the list. He couldn't find my name anywhere but he let us go in with free passes. Since we had a bottle at Wasted Space, I didn't want to stay long at BE. We had one drink and left. Next time I go to Vegas, I'd def like to check it out again.

Walk over to Wasted Space and Chad let's us right in. Everyone was so nice to us and our server Becky was the sweetest. She was so excited when we started dancing on the couches against the glass. Met a lot of cool people and got a birthday shout out from the DJ whom I loved. Best DJ I've ever heard who knew how to read the crowd and do mashups properly. I loved Wasted Space and it had to be the highlight of my trip.

We ended up closing the place and when we made it back to the hotel, I ended up losing my friend. About an hour later, she stumbles into the room and tells me she met a group of guys who invited her to Drais. She ordered some dinner but left before it arrived. I told her that was a dick move and went back to sleep.

Saturday:
It's my friend's birthday and she wants to see a show. The choice is between Peepshow and Chippendales. She wants to see half naked men for her birthday so she buys us tickets to Chippendales.

Before taking the shuttle over to the Rio for the show, my friend wants crab legs for dinner. Luckily for us, we get a 10% off coupon on the street for the Spice Market Buffet at Planet Hollywood which happens to have crab legs. Spice Market was great, a lot of good options and variety. They had a seafood station, salad and soup, italian, american, mid eastern, mexican, and of course dessert. Everything was delicious.

Chippendales was chippendales. The ultimate girls night out. That's all I'll say about that.

Next up, the Palms. We walk over from the Rio since my friend wanted to see the Playboy club. I had signed us up on their guestlist via their website which worked out really well. We arrived at 10:30 to a line that was just starting. They let us in no charge and give us an all access pass to all the clubs for that night.

We hang out at the Playboy Club until Moon opens. At the bar, we meet a couple of Mexicans, one who's birthday is also that night. He insists on buying us shots of Patron. I thank him but turn him down since I know we don't want to hang out with them that night. He refuses to take no for an answer so I take the shot. We go over to Moon with our new friends and check out the view. They want to go to the dance floor but since I'm in no mood to have their hands all over me, we tell them we're going to stay outside and proceed to ignore them. They finally get the hint and walk away.

We weren't feeling Moon that much so we decide to check out Rain. Rain was interesting to see but we hate House music so we quickly left. We go over to the pool area to get some pictures and my friend spots the Mexicans. We leave for Ghostbar promptly. I go up to the bouncer for Ghostbar and ask where the all access pass line is. He points to this long line which we had no interest in waiting in so we leave.

My friend is still a little hung over from our night at Wasted Space so we call it a night at this point.

Sunday:
We check out at 11am and go over to Casino Royale where we had $100 in free slots play. From there, we took the Deuce over to Downtown Vegas. We went to each casino and signed up for their players club where we got free slots play and a deck of cards for our birthdays. What better gift from Vegas to give our friends then a free deck of cards? We accumulated several decks. After my friend won $200 at the Downtown casinos and I lost my money, we go back to the hotel for dinner before flying out.

We get back to the strip and sign up for more players cards. Since we had yet to go to Ceasars, we checked that out and stopped at Fat Tuesdays finally. When I asked the guy if I could try the Hurricane, he asked me in all seriousness, "you wanna try my thing?" Thank god I wasn't drunk yet, I politely corrected him and averted embarrassment.

Margaritaville was our dinner choice for our final night. What I remember from Margaritaville was my friend asking the guy on stilts for a balloon hat with a penis and her age on it. So, he makes it for her and makes me a "26" balloon hat minus the penis but with a heart. A few yummy margaritas later, we grab our bags and hop on the shuttle to the airport.

When we arrive, we find out that our flight is delayed by 2 hours and there's no other flights available for us. I'm pissed at myself at this point for not checking up on the flight before we left the strip but in fairness, I was too drunk to know what was going on. The lady does bump us to first class though so we could get off the plane quicker so as to not miss our connection. Too bad it was 1:30am and we were too tired to enjoy the upgrade. We manage to catch our connection by the skin of our teeth and arrived in Baltimore at 9:30am. Made it home to Harrisburg by noon and passed out for the night at 8:30pm.

A successful trip overall and already planning the next one.

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Day 1 Tuesday

Vegas Lights and Vomit on the side of a BMW

The trip really started off before I even flew over to Vegas. Went and got my hair and nails done, and did some last minute research (printing out important info). At the airport I decided to be good and not have a drink, but as you guys know once I touched down in Vegas that was about to change. The flight was easy and only took an hour so I barely had time to listen to some jams to get me in the mood for partying that night.

When I arrived I met up with my friend K. and checked into the hotel. I did not do the $20 trick and was able to get a strip view because it was my birthday. Plus the lady was super nice.

We began to drink in our room, get ready and catch up. I was drinking Malibu and Diet and she was having a blast with Jack and Coke. I called up one of my local friends to see what he was up to for the night and he suggested that we meet with him and his friends at Blush because they had a table and it was a good place to start out the night.

Blush: It is a small and pretty little place. There is a small dancefloor and a little outdoor area. Our friends table was in the middle of the outside area and we joined them and caught up. There were very pretty bottle girls and I would say the patrons are a bit on the more mature side. It is located in Wynn, and I would recommend it for couples or groups of friends who want some dancing and nightlife but still be able to have a conversation.

My friend and I ended up getting pulled over to an older gentleman table for some champagne. It was actually pretty awkward because the guy was nice but he kept talking to me like I was an idiot. I decided that champagne wasn't really worth the trouble so I excused myself. I would recommend that if you get an outside table to skip the champagne as it does heat up fast.

Then the whole group decided to go to Lavo.

Lavo: I thought it was pretty garish and over decorated. It did have some interesting features like the faucets everywhere. But the whole Bathhouse concept was kinda lost of me. It is small but it did have some character. I would not say it is a must see, but I also would not say it was a must pass. The crowd was pretty fun and everyone was having a great time. Oh, and yeah there were a ton of hot chicks. Industry night means a lot of the dancers from XS and other clubs show up. Dancers are fit!

We ended up getting a lot of drink tickets because of our local friends. By this time I was super drunk and dancing everywhere. K. ended up making out with some guy during a song and he looked like he was about possibly the worst kisser ever. We hightailed it out of there quick!

We decided we didn't want to stop partying and hoped in the car with everyone (and a sober driver) and made our way over to Seamless afterhours... Before we made it there my friend K. leans over and says:

“Umm, I'm not feeling well”
“Your not?”
“Yeah, I'm going to be sick” (as she is rolling down the window)
“Like now?!?”
“Yeah now.........”
Then she daintily leaned her head our and puked out of the window. It wasn't too bad actually and she got most of it out of the window.

My friend turned around and dropped her off. I didn't want to miss out on my night so after asking her if she was going to be cool a hundred times I left her to go to Afterhours.

Seamless Afterhours: A smallish strip club with women who run the gamut from being atrocious to being very sexy. The club isn't intimidating and I think it is good to bring your girlfriend or whatever if you are with someone because its pretty chick friendly. (like it doesn't feel weird to be in there)

Right when we get in we sit down on some couches and have a drink. A guy we were with had a little bit on money sticking out of his front pocket and a stripper ran up, jumped on him, grabbed the money, and then ran off. That is so shady!!!! So he was a bit angry. The night gets a little blurry from there but I can tell you I got in trouble for jumping on stage and doing pole dancing.

When I got back it was daylight and my friend was passed out. She looked like a little angel, and if she did throw up anymore she kept it in the toilet.... which is the best one can get hope for in a roommate!!!!!!!

Day 2 Wednesday

Koalas, Stripper Leavings, and Somewhat Walk of Shame

When I woke up in the morning I was so sick, but my friend K. was feeling alright. Probably because she got to puke some of the drinks up she drank. We decided to use my Stripburger Restaurant.com coupon. So we headed down the strip. It was SO hot. We felt like we were going to die. When we finally got the stripburger we were starving.

Stripburger: Name is misleading haha. No strippers, but burgers on the strip at the fashionshow mall. They had yummy friend and fried pickle with I love and are not very popular in CA as they are in other states. Anyway it is all outdoors and therefore. A bit hot. The service was good and they played some great music.

We are vegetarians so we are probably the worst restaurant reviews on the planet. It was pretty good and reasonably priced.

After that we decided to go gamble a little. I don't really gamble very much so I just sat down a slot machine and started to push buttons. First of all, either I was drunk (ok I was) or they are making some very confusing slots these days! All of the sudden stuff started to flash and I won like $70, which is great for me because I figured it would buy me dinner.

We hobbled down the strip for some more people watching. I always thought I was one of the best people watchers on the planet but I such compared to K. She was pointing out all sorts of things that I did not see. Like a few women decided that camel toe was a fashion statement. I so wish I had a camera, but I wouldn't want to get kicked off the site for posting such gross pictures!
When we got back I decided that we should have a “Quiet night” and not go to crazy. So we opted to get on the list for Ghostbar and Playboy Club. Have a few drinks and chat.

To get on the list for those clubs I used
Chris Hornak
He got us on the list no problem and is very professional. I would give him the highest recommendation. I am not sure if I can post his contact info, as I don't want to offend anyone on the we site, but I would be happy to give it out. And no he never asked me for a dime nor expected anything. Very very professional.

Ghostbar: What can I say? Nice view and nice space. The crowd is decidedly NOT that hot. I'm not going to lie there were some total big game hunting!!! But everyone is there to have a good time and it wasn't pretentious in the slightest way. They have a cool see through floor on the balcony. When I stood over it this gross guy leaned over me and said “wish I was on the bottom looking up!” Ick.....

There was a big cop convention in town, so the crowd started out a bit square. One guy came up to us and started to hit on my friend. We turned down is offer of a drink and tried to politely excuse ourselves from the conversation. When he said that he had two Asian friends that “”loved tall blonde chicks” Like he was trying to pimp us out. Wow... we walked away.

Then a group of about 5 or 6 Aussies showed up and struck up a conversation with us. They were really fun and didn't seem to mind my sassy attitude. I call Aussies Koalas for obvious reasons and they did not mind. They did talk about cocaine a bit, which is not my deal, but whatever.

One of the Koalas was going crazy having a good time. We called him the Manamal. He even bite me. He ended up getting thrown out and it was beyond hilarious.. (wait so my friend bite me Nick at the strip club I'll post pics)

They had a few suites and the Belagio (however you spell it stupid spell check) and they invited us to go and have a few drinks with them. They seemed cute and nice, and frankly I havent seen a Suite at that hotel so I figured why not?

We hopped in a limo and went and had a few drinks with them. The suites there are SO nice. How many bathrooms does one place need? After we drank a bit and laughed a lot we all decided to go to a strip club. Plus K. didn't get to go to one with me the night before and so I didn't want her to miss out....

We got into another limo and went to Spearmint Rhino.

Spearmint Rhino: Its a lot bigger than Seamless and much more of a stripclub. It has much hotter girls too. I told one of the Koalas that he promised me boobs on my face so he better deliver. So I went with him for a private dance in a more private room. He picked a way hot chick with great fakes and a nice butt so I was like SCORE! When she was given me a dance she was trying to talk with me, but its like less talk more dancing. Dude is not paying anyone to talk to me. So in those rooms you can totally touch boobs have them in your face and even...... wait for it.......MOTERBOAT! I did it! I also got to grab her but which was great because it was nice and walking the strip, I saw way too many fat ass's and so I needed to get them out of my mind.
Went back and got one of the cuter aussies a lap dance and bought another one a drink. They were being so kind by taking us girls out and I wish I could have done more.

When K. came back from her private dance, and started to chat a little with me. While she was getting her lapdance she took her money and phone out of her bra and out it on the table. When she came out she relized that she had left a $100 bill on the table.

“OMG, I lost $100, I just put it on a table and the table knocked down and I don't have it”
“Ohhh, dude your money is SOO Lost, like sooooooo fucking gone, just kiss it goodbye”

As I was saying that the stripper appears and asks her is she forgot something and give her BACK her $100. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!?

We took a limo back, with them and drank. I feel passed out for like half and hour and woke up to my friend trying to wake me up. I kept telling her to let me sleep just a little longer but like the good friend she is, she made me get up before anyone got too many ideas.

When we got into the cab it was daylight and we were dressed in our clubbing clothes. People with families were looking at us like we were 'tutes. I guess I dont blame them.

When we got to our hotel, I noticed that K. had some weird stuff on her dress. I was like

“K! What the hell is that stuff of your dress?!? OMG!”
“Hey, I think this is from the stripper”
“What?!?”
“Yeah she kept trying to stuff her face in my cooch and she was all about rubbing her 'tang on my lap”
“OMG, its so true”
“What” (she has these inoccent blue eyes)
“Its stripper leaving dude, They put powder DOWN THERE for obvious reasons and so that's what's all over your dress”

Then we thought about it, and decided that we must have looked quite a sight stumbling around in the morning with white on her dress and clubbing clothes on!

Total spent:
1 meal: $20
Drinks: $55
Tranportation:$20
1 lapdance: $20

Stripper leavings on my otherwise upstanding friend: Priceless.

Here my TR starts. Hope you enjoy it.

Thursday Aug. 13th

So as you might might have seen in my play by play report we flew into LA, than did all the touristy stuff and ended up driving to San Francisco and on the way visiting Sequoia NP and Yosemite NP.

Than the day began. The day that should be the first of an eye-opening experience. 4 days, that will never let me look at the party-life the same.

We flew in and as soon as I saw the strip out of the window I got little goosebumps on my arms.
We drove up to Palms Place and I was preparing my Drivers license, and CC with 50$ in between.
We were staying 4 nights and the smallest upgrade would be the 1br suite so I thought I'd try it with 50.

The girl at the front desk immediately took the money placed it right before her screen and before I could ask for a complimentary upgrade she started typing and said. Let me see what I can do for you guys.

She said she can give us the 1BR Suite and than right after that: "Let me get you something with a nice view"

As she was typing and searching for our room, she asked us of our trip.

I told her that we going to do TAO on thursday, Palms Clubs and Ditch at Friday, XS on Saturday and The Bank on Sunday. She was pretty impressed and said that we're hitting the nicest top spots in Vegas and where I got all the information, because she knew from our conversation that we were from germany.

I told her about the jackcolton site and she immediately put out paper and pen and wrote it down.
After that she gave us our keys and we were on the Elevator to the 20th floor, Room 20.322.

We got inside and wow the room was perfect. Huge living room with fireplace. bedroom with a huge bathtub nice rainforest shower and a perfect view of the Las Vegas Strip.

We started unpacking our suitcase and went directly to Gold Coast. I got a players Card (Thanks JC forums) and we bought a bottle of Belveder, a bottle hypnotic, a huge bottle of smirnoff with a handle and beer and some mixers. So back to the hotel room and than we were picked up by a friend who was also staying in Vegas at the Encore Hotel and he drove us to the Golden Nugget for dinner at Vic & Anthonys.

I got the filet mignon and the crab cake as appetizer. It was really amazing. After dinner back to the hotel room where we showered grabbed our party clothes and started pregaming with vodka redbull and beer.

At 9:45 our friend drove us to the Venetian where we met Darryl, Ankit, Aaron, Warren and their friends.
While Darryl grabbed some girls to get a better ratio I met elle and her friend K. We got some drinks at the main bar and than we took the escelator to the first floor. And wow, there it was the hugest line I saw at any club I've ever been to.

I think it was between 10:15 to 10:30. (well today its not the biggest line I ever saw because XS on saturday was way longer..... but thats another story). We had to wait about 3 mins until Darryls hook came out and than we're directly walked
into the club. I was shocked. And the other people didn't look so happy at all because I was doing it like Nassau and filmed their faces while I skipped the line. We didn't have to pay cover which was great. Thanks again to Darryl he really knows the right people.

Once inside things get blurry. I went to the bar opposite to the main room and tipped the bartender 8$. Ordered two Vodka Redbull and two shots of Patron. (First Patron of my life) The bill came and I was like wow I didnt order the whole bottle :-) BUt I actually was aware of the Vegas prices.

Than we went to the dance floor and had sooo much fun. Danced, jumped around and drank. I went back to the bartender I tipped and gave him about 5 Dollars with the next order. he appreciated it and the Vodka Redbull was only consisting of Vodka and a little bit of redbull. I drank a bit and
asked if I could have a bit more of redbull and got it immediately.

The next thing I remember is stepping out to the balcony and boom I got so excited. Seeing the Vegas Hotels, drinking on the balcony. I had to take a video for jackcolton.com (Video Report will follow after I am am back in germany).

Back to the front bar. Didn't have any cash with me at that time. The Bar Keeper saw me and was there within a sec.
I ordered another Vodka Redbull and he gave me a Vodka Redbull and a Shot of Patron.

I asked him if he ever was to europe, he said yes and that he plans on going to Spain at the end of the year or next year.
So i tipped him another 5 EUR which is about 8 Dollars that I found in my purse.

He thanked me alot and said if there is anything he can help me with he will do that.

after that shot things get blurry. I danced and had to call lots of people in germany because I was so excited. I thought I knew some good clubs in Europe.

Have already been partying in Berlin, Barcelona, London and Tokyo but have never experienced something like that.

OK now I don't know how I got home and when. But when I woke up both my ID and my Phone were gone. I had no money with me so I told the taxidriver to wait for me I would get something from my CC.

Problem was I had no ID so Cashier wouldnt give me anything. And I forgot the pin of the CC. So I wanted to walk to the hotel room to get my Passport.

The next thing I notice is me being grabbed by a security and being pulled back to the taxi. Somehow I paid the cab got to my room and passed out on the couch.

Pics:

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second pic of our room

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pic of fridge

Day 3 Thursday
The Tao of JC forum members, a secret Tryst, and Angry Girls on Poles

HAPPY BITHDAY TO ME!!!
So on the third day our hero awakens to the smell of stripper all over her, and the angry throbbng of two feet put through hell. Our hero is also VERY VERY hung over.

So me and K. decided to grab food somewhere (I totally forgot where we ate, but I'm sure it wasn't that great) and get our drink on. We were told by my local friend that Bare would be fun today and so we figured we would give it a try.

I text Peter Kolizeras, who was professional and very nice. I asked him if it was too late to put us on the list and he said to get my butt over there.

Bare: Bare at the Mirage is a very intimate topless pool. Because it was my birthday K. kept buying me drinks and by drink three I was feeling more than good. We floated in the water and I got to check her out in her bikini. I tried to get her to take her top off, but I couldn't get her to show her tata's off! At first it seemed less friendly then other pool parties I have been too. With people looking at you like a piece of meat and not smiling or having fun. That changed after more people showed up and then the party was in full swing.

I met a local girl who was SOOO nice, but I had a hard time talking with her because her nipple was poking out over the top of her suit and she did not know it. K. kept trying to catch my eye and I knew if I looked at her I would show that I was seeing nipple.

There were some french guys that came by and hit on us. They were polite but totally hard to understand. I think foreign guys can be cute but its a huge chore to have small talk with them when they don't speak English well. One said:

“I REALLY like your Poosing”
“My What?!?”
“Poosing! Poosing!” pointing at my lower body
“WHATTTTTTTTT”

Then I realized he was trying to say PIERCING not the OTHER word I thought he was saying. I was almost going to slap his face! Ha! Either that or see if I was showing more than I meant too. (its happens...)

Met some business guys too who were nice and invited us to meet them at Tryst. It was nice to be invited but I already had super hot plans to meet up with JC forum members and that beats hanging out with suits any day!

When I got back to the room I checked my phone and I got a txt from Patrick telling me he arrived and that he got a suite! I was so happy for him. We decided to meet at a hotel bar and then move on to Tao. My friend and I got there early so we decided to have a drink and gamble a little bit. We were laughing and having a good time when all these HOT forum members started to trickle in ha ha. My friend K. was super cool about meeting with everyone given that she does not go on this site.

So I got to meet Patrick (ladies he is tall and a fresh faced cutie), his friend (great skin, and the cutest nose), Warren (dressed so nice, and tall, and rich in flasks), mrankimonki (I wanted to put him in my pocket!) I was so glad that no one was crazy or whatever because I have never met anyone via the internet and I was nervous.

Darryl met up with us and went about finding more ladies as we were very much out numbered. We picked up some girls who were nice enough and made our way to Tao. Darryl got us is so quick! It was awesome, and Patrick is right, the look on peoples faces was hilarious. I am so glad I did not have to wait because part of the line is outside and it was still really hot, and my feet were sore from the previous nights of partying.

Tao: When you enter Tao you will find a restaurant with a huge bar on the first floor. With you stamp you make your way up the stairs to the second floor where you will find yourself in a dark, very asian inspired, labyrinth of cool. My friend and I grabbed some drinks with the guys and took it all in. 'We were there early and it was already starting to fill up, but it was great to go a bit early because we were able to really see the club!

I love when people sing Happy birthday to me, so THANKS PATRICK for singing happy birthday in German to me! It was super cool!

Warren totally owes me a liquid cocain shot ;)

Me and K. walked around the club and hit the dance floor with Patrick and his friend for a little bit. Patrick was going insane drinking and talking with everyone. It was great to see. He kept buying me birthday drinks it was crazy. At one point I was SUPER drunk and I didn't want to drink anymore, I turned around after not seeing Patrick for awhile and he had his hands full of drinks. I was like no way!!! I can't drink anymore, but I did anyway.

The outside balcony is really cool to look at the strip and the people looking up at the party. The girls in the bathtubs where cool too. But the ones pretending to make out were very awkward. Just being honest. We danced and danced and drank and drank.

Then I have no idea why but I decided I wanted to get out of Tao and go to Tryst “Right Away” My momory is really fuzzy at this point....

We were on the list for Tryst using the contact from this site which was again very professional and nice. There was a huge line but I just walked right past them all and got in for free for nothing.

Tryst: Very pretty club. Has a pole, which is great and a nice outside area. I love the waterfall and it feels like a nice environment to meet people.

Apparently I was so drunk, I kicked the girls off the pole (they werent doing tricks anyway) and did my spins and twirls. Those girls got SOOOO mad at being shown up, but I showed them some easy spins and it the competitive spirit made them get even crazier. I totally didn't care about guys watching I just wanted to show K. that I could do some tricks and I was drunk. I can't understand why some people can let the drunk girl be drunk for a second! ;)

We went on the dancefloor and danced. I was the biggest pimp because I had the prettiest girl dancing with me ha! She kept shoeing away people. We were wasted.

Note to Tall guy with the face: Screeming “YOU GUYS ARE HOT” over and over stops being a compliment and becomes scary.

One of the girls from the pole incident came over and offered to buy me a drink. I turned her down because I was more than wasted, and she got super pissed at me!!!

I can't comment this time on what people looked like as a whole because it's all a haze. So sorry guys!!!

I don't remember much after that. I can tell you that if K. wasn't there to usher me out I probably would have gotten kicked out for being to drunk.

Drinks $50 (thanks to everyone who hooked it up for my bday)
Cabs $30
Everything else comp

Let me start this post with two pics from thursday night.

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Elle and myself on the Balcony of TAO on thursday.......

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.....and inside of TAO, getting crazy

Day 2 Part 1

Friday Aug. 14th part 1

So I somehow woke up on the couch in the living room because the alarm rang. It was 9AM and I was feeling pretty bad. Had a hangover from hell. First thing I did was to open a bottle of Gatorade and take two pills of Aspirin. And I don't know how wasted I had to be but the next thing that came into my mind was going to JC.com and post
Oh my god. Im so drunk. Alarm woke me up. Im feeling like a piece of shit. but got to go o the plams pool to reserve some chairs.

after that sleep again.


I don't know what kept me walking, but even though my brain told me "lay down, get some sleep, you are tired" I ignored it and went to the Pool.
The bouncers wanted to see my ID but I didn't have one with me, so I had to walk all the way back to the skywalk and up to my room. Grabbed the ID and got back to the Pool. I got in and reserved 3 great chairs by the pool.

After that I jumped into the water and felt so refreshed by it that I was ready to start the day.

I went back to the hotel room to wake up Dustin and he said he was getting ready. So I went to JackColton.com, grabbed a beer and posted the following at around 11AM:
reserved great chairs at the main pool.
jumped into the pool. got back to the room.
having my first beer, because eating is overrated. Now back to the pool. Sleep is overrated too.
Oh and I lost my phone and ID yesterday at Tao.

Hangover Style...

So we went to the Pool at around 11:30 got in without waiting (VIP Wristbands and also being a hotel guest helps). Oh and when we got in I met BJ Penns Nutritionist (UFC lightweight Champion).
When we arrived only one of the three chairs I reserved was still reserved but who cares.

Went straight to the bar and grabbed a frozen margherita. And from that moment things got a bit out of control. We met elle and K again and me and Dustin got sooo wasted. Danced on our chairs, danced in the pool and partied it up.
DJ Jazzy Jeff was on the turntables and the music was off the hook.

talked to sooo many people. Was getting drink after drink from dustin and was having the time of my life.
I actually believed that I somewhere jumped out the balcony on thursday and arrived in heaven on friday. So many beautful girls. Just the music I love, such a great vibe and energy. everybody was enjoying themselves.

Elle than said that she's going to take some sunblocker and I answered that I dont need sun blocker. I never get burnt. Well I'm so glad that I somehow for the blink of an eye heard an inner voice telling me: "Patrick, get that sunblocker on, it won't hurt you".

So we kept on going dancing, jumping, having fun and suddenly Dustin was gone. But I kept on with the same thing I did before and was now getting drink after drink from elle and some other people that I can't remember.

Elle talked to somebody because I told her how much I would have loved a picture with Jazzy Jeff. It was all set but I got so drunk that I forgot to take it.

The Party had to stop at some point and so we were told to leave because they were shutting the place down.

I than got back to my hotel and realized that I have to be the happiest person on the planet right now. I was having the time of my life.

Back in the hotel I found Dustin passed out in the bed. He was really suffering from all the drinking in the sun. All without sunblocker.

I posted the following on the forums.
back from ditch
sooo drunk
paid like nothing
everybody was passing me drinks.
OHH MY GOOOOOOD


After that I fell asleep.....

Day 2 Part 2 coming tomorrow or maybe later that night

Some pics from ditch.

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me at ditch looking wasted from thursday night.

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at ditch, having fun

Day 4 Friday
Germans in Heaven, Game Changers, and Bad Decisions Adverted For Some

Set my alarm at 830 am to call Patrick to wake him up so he could hook it up with a chair at Ditch. His phone did not pick up so I figured it was a lost cause and we would see him at Ditch.
I wake up to find that I had thrown my bra in the bathtub and was still wearing my going out clothes. Me and K. laughed because my make up still looked alright. Even though she probably felt as bad as me she still looked so fresh faced and I wonder if her bed is secretly more comfy than mine, or maybe she is just super human.

By this time I am super super feeling the three nights of all out drinking and partying. What I honestly want to do is curl up with a book and or sleep the day away. I don't want to go out and I don't want to go out to a pool party in the hot vegas sun.

I did anyway.

As I pull myself to bed, I tell myself I am doing this because JC.com forum members want me to. They need me to party because we are all soldiers of fun, and sometimes you have to get down low in the trenches and dig deep. So I implore all of you who post on this site, who really try to help people with there questions, remember that we are an army of fun, and you must stand in the face of even the most dastardly hangover. You must fly forward in the face of a lame friend who tries to ruin your fun (thankfully my friend K. is crazy fun), and most of all remember that when you are older you will not remember your hangover, you will remember the fun you had!!!

So we cab over and have a gross lunch at the palms. They have a cafe there and it looks all nice but its SO bad. My friends Pizza looked like the ones you get in those “make a meal” little kids lunches.

We checked in again on Chris Horlacks list. For women you get in free AND you get a free drink ticket. It was easy and I would again give Chris the highest recommendation.

Ditch: Its a big party that had several pools and a dance area. DJ Jazzy Jeff was there and the music was fun. Me and K. walked around to get our bearing and the first thing we did was grab our free drink. Then we looked over and saw two crazy Germans having the time of their lives. I was surprised to see Patrick and his friend out given the night before I spoke to them and they were so far gone. His friend ran up and showed us to the chair they were able to save and helped me situate our things. Also kept apologizing for the night before which was weird because they were nothing but a good time!

I got in my red bikini and jumped in the water. We all caught up and floated. Patrick was everywhere, talking to everyone. He was making a huge number of friends. After a few more drinks, Patrick kept saying

“I am in like Heaven” (more than five times)
and
“I have never seen so many fake boobs!!!”

It was so great to hang out with him because he was having such a good time I could not help but have a good time!

So when you walk by the pool there are chairs and a little walkway. There were a group of Europeans who grouped in the walkway and would harass any girl that walked by. It was hilarious! I walked by and a very little french guy looked up to me and started yelling “Tall Blonde, tall blonde” and then tried to touch my tummy. I was like get the hell away from me. I almost kicked him. I probably should have got them kicked out for being gross. BUT there technique did end up working on some fat chick, so men if you are desperate...........

Patricks friend may or may not have had a cougar attack him.......

As it turns out Patrick loves DJ Jazzy Jeff and wanted to get a picture. So he asked me to go up there and see what I could do. I talked with the security guy and he said that we could take the picture after the party. But I couldn't find Patrick so it didn't happen. (Sorry dude!)

On the way back from my Jazzy Jeff mission I met a group of Filipino (or is it spelled with a “P”?) anyway we talked and took pictures and it ended up that one of them was a local. He kept giving me free drinks tickets. I was like no way, your going to have to carry me out of the pool. Then he handed me like 4 and I went and got the drinks and gave them to Patrick and the rest.

I danced with my new friends and took pictures. We had a great time and they were so much fun! So I was drinking and dancing around the pool. I went to join everyone else (Patrick, and our friends) and I found my friend K. talking to this guy. I was like who the hell is this guy, and figured they would stop talking soon. But they kept hanging out for so long. I had no idea why they would be talking for so long because she was WAY....WAYYYYY.......WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY cuter than him. But whatever she didn't want to be saved.

After awhile I felt someone kind of hit my but and I turned around with my hands ready to attack when some guy was like “Hey you!, how is your trip so far”

Who is this guy.................wait.......................... .waiiiiiiiiitttt...............I hung out with this guy! It turned out to be one of the Koalas we hung out with on Wed night and went to the strip club with! I did not really remember them at all, in fact, as it turns out, K. was talking with one of them the whole time and I just did not remember him. I felt a bit like an ass but I am a drunk girl partying in Vegas so whatever.

We caught up and I invited him to go to a wine tasting later with me, since they were so much fun before. And it seemed that K. wanted to hang out with her talkative friend a bit more.

The party was over so I said goodbye to everyone (after trying to find Patrick) and rushed back to the hotel to get ready for the Rock and Roll Wine tasting at the Foundation room. We had already bought our tickets and so we wanted to make the most of the tasting.

As we were getting ready I talked to K. and asked her if she would mind after the wine tasting if we call it a night as we had been partying all day and for four days straight. She agreed and we left to pick up those Koalas.

Rock and Roll Wine at the Foundation Room: It was SO pretty the view is amazing, They had all different wines to try and the pours were super generous. They also had cheese, fruit and all the other stuff that people like to gobble when boozing on wine. I wish that I did not drink so much before hang because I had to take it a little easier on the wine than is my custom. We tried all different types of wines and the Koalas were good company.

After the event we decided (against previous plans) to go meet the other Aussies at Pure as they had arranged for a table. It was very nice for them to invite us along, given that they knew I wasn't going to be putting out (Told them so) and that I was out to have a fun time.

Pure: Very, very pretty club. By this time I was wasted but I do remember liking the layout. The Aussies table was on the terrace outdoor area, which gets my vote for most awesome table. The view was stunning and we had plenty of space to party without being crowded like everyone else. So many people come up to see the view and hang over the “VIP” (I use that loosely as I am not a VIP nor do I pretend to be) area. It does give you a feeling on exclusivity.

Our security guy “T” was so charming and well, huge! He gets my vote and second cutest guy in the whole club. Speaking of hotness, I think there were a lot of hotties at the club and there were a lot of cougars by the end of the night. Whatever, I think its great if everyone has a good time right.

During our night the Aussie “Manamal” (who before got kicked out of ghostbar) got kicked out of Pure, because him and some girls decided it would be a GREAT time to light a joint and start smoking it at the table. They are lucky they just got kicked out, and I bet they ended up having even more fun together......

That night I ended up slapping one of the Aussies in the face for being inappropriate. It was all in good fun but you should have seen him run! I caught up to him and gave him one of the best slaps I have ever landed in my life.

We decided to go to Drai's afterhours but it was way too crazy so we hung out. The night gets super blurry from there but I can say that the Aussie I hung out with all night decided he wanted to get married to me and was trying to buy a ring off of people... It was hilarious. He wanted to call my family to ask them (how proper?!?). He was like a hilarious mad man. But so insistent! It was crazy and funny. Thank goodness we weren't serious because I would be sitting here a divorcee!
As for the Gamechanger... K. had one, and all I can say is that I found it funny the WHOLE rest of the trip. Some people always get the best stories.

Cost:
$60 in drinks
Cab $20
Wine tasting: $35

my favorite gems of the night:
“I know you REALLY well when I am drunk, but I don't know you at all when I'm sober”
“But my family would hate you! Your a koala for Christsakes!”
“THIS IS GOING IN THE REPORT” (meaning my TR)

Day 2 Part 2

Friday Aug. 14th part 2

So after ditch I went to our room and after posting a drunk update on JC.com I fell asleep immediately.
I woke up at around 10PM and again thought :"Let's sleep until tomorrow and pass on the Palms Clubs". I asked Dustin what he'd think of this idea but the only thing that I heard was this scary noise that I translated into: "Please let me die, leave me alone"

So I drank some water to rehydrate my body and decided since I already paid for the VIP Wristband I could just walk into the clubs, have a look at them and after that can go to sleep.

So I jumped into the shower put my clothes on and went to the store next to the rain entrance to pick up my VIP Wristband. I even got Dustin to get up, so he was coming with me, got his wristband and immediately after that went back to the hotel room to grab some more sleep.

I at that moment had some drinks in the hotel room and was slowly getting into party mood. The first stop was Rain Nightclub where once again DJ Jazzy Jeff was spinning.

The club was already pretty crowded. So I decided to grab a drink and walk around the club to get afeeling for the Vibe and Atmosphere. I walked upstairs and enjoyed the view of the club.

The crowd was in my opinion younger than the night before at Tao and and less chic but all the people I talked to were having a great time and the vibe was positive.

I was just walking down when someone screamed my name. It was Ankit who was on his own (did you lose the rest of your crew?) He was searching Darryl and we said to meet at moon in about 15 minutes. So I walked over to the food court, had a BigMac and than went to the elevators for moon and playboy club. Once again I was able to skip the line and was on the next elevator upstairs. So everybody who plans on hitting the Palms Clubs one time on their trip to Vegas should get the VIP Wristband from wanttickets.com. They are JC.com approved and work like a charm.

So as soon as I was out the Elevator I saw Darryl who told me that Ankit was looking for me on the balcony. I walked over to said balcony on the left side and as I was watching out the windows I realized that I'm on the same level as the Palms Sign. Wow that was crazy. there's a pretty small dancefloor in the middle which was packed and people dancing like crazy. I would say the people were inbetween Rain and Tao but way less hot girls than in TAO.

As soon as I entered the balcony and saw the Las Vegas Strip I was once again and for sure not for the last time of this trip thinking that I have to be in a dream. Was that really happening??? was this real life???

I couldn't find Ankit so I walked down and asked the bouncer in front of the elevator how I could go to the Playboy Club. He told me to just take the escalators. I couldn't find them and a lady that was whitnessing this came over and asked if she could help me.
I said "Sure, just show me where the escalators to Playboy Club are"
to which she answers "Do you want me tom come with you and show you the Playboy Club"
I looked at her and said "Shure Why not, by the way where you from?"
She: "I'm local" --> my alarm bells should have rang right there but they didn't.

On the escalators she asked me:"So do you want some company tonight?"
I was so shocked because I realized she was a hooker so I said: "Oh damm, you are a profesional??, Sorry not interested!!!"

She was gone in a second, apparently I was saying that pretty loud. So Playboy is much darker and more chilled than Moon. I would call it a lounge either than a club. Hot chicks dealing Casino Games. Was nice to watch them.

But since I really love the music Jazzy Jeff was playing I decided to head back to Rain. First I went back to the hotel room because I wanted to make sure that Dustin was still alive. I pushed the button for the elevator, the doors open and there he was standing dressed up with a drink mixed in a plastic bottle of Orange Juice, ready to party.

I rushed to the room, ironed my shirt and put on my suitejacket (or how do you call it???) because Dustin was wearing one and I didn't want to be outshined by him ^^

Had another drink in the room and off to rain again. We danced like crazy, had a blast and especially the music and Jazzy Jeff made this night so special. We kept on drinking and suddenly I think it started to rain inside the club...... what happened????

There was foam coming off the ceiling. How crazy is that. I was so stunned and suddenly was ffeling really warm. Was I getting a serious cold? Fever? Do I have to go to the hospital???

No, none of the above. There were falmes coming out right above our head. How crazy was that? Bubbles, than flames. Insanity.

I decided that Dustin had to see the view from moon so we went over there at 3PM, danced a little bit more and went back to Rain. We were dancing and having a great time when a girl grabbed me and started dancingwith me.. Whoooo only in Vegas. So I danced and had fun with her until they put on the light at like 4:30 PM. I invited her to our room for pregaming the next day and went back to the hotel room to search for Dustin who I lost and ask him if he wanted to go to Drays.

As I open the door I hear laughter and chatter coming out of the main room. I enter and two beautiful Indian ladies where sitting on the couch and having drinks. There was also another guy who happened to be raised in germany. It was all laid back, chilling, talking, drinking. At this moment I thought: "You know Patrick what would make this night perfect?? Getting something to smoke and relax. Thats when the guy from germany might or might not have said that he has some weed in his room and if anybody wants. The girls might have want some too so maybe he went to his room and got everything.

So there I was in Vegas 7AM standing on the balcony with two beautiful Indian girls and maybe also smoking a joint with them while the sun rose while we were watching the Strip.

After that everybody left and I slept like a baby.

What a night.

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Me and Dustin @ Rain

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The Party continues in our room.

Saturday was pretty lame, so this day was hard to write, Sunday will be better!

Day 5 Saturday

Striking out!!!!!!!!!

By this time I have given up all pretence of healthy living. I laugh at my vitamins and wake up feeling like I am going to die. I wonder if after long nights of drinking Bukowski felt the same way. I keep trying to get up and go through the motions of getting up but all I can do is stare blankly out the window in my underwear while my roommate asks me if I'm ok.

I understand quickly that I need to eat and drink or else I'm a goner. But I take a little nap to try to dull the pain before venturing out when my phone starts ringing........and ringing............and I look down and I have 40 text messages and 17 missed calls from people I dont know!!!

wait............... I think back to Friday and apparently I was giving out my number to all sorts of people. Girls, guys, whoever! I don't remember doing it but there were people calling me from meeting from Ditch, from The Rock in Wine thing (which is odd because I was with that Aussie guy... how did I manage to give out my number so many times? From Pure, from meeting me at a casino etc.) It was insane! I felt in the pit of my stomach a sense of remorse for being so number easy. But I was excited when one of the girls I remembered called me because she was such a sweetie.

So I figure that I need to reach Patrick and I text in the forum to find him. I give him a call and find out all the guys are meeting up. I end up not wanting to take advantage of something they were paying for and figured me and K. would just get to XS on our own and meet up with everyone there.
After pre drinks we were off!

XS: large beautiful club. But the people were not as multi cultural. Very asian. It reminded me when I was clubbing in China and Bangkok. I'm from the Bay Area and everything so it's not like I'm not used to it, but it was just too much for me. I felt like I was a fucking giant! No one was being friendly as the other clubs and me and my friend just stood out. I prefer more of a mix of people to be honest. Everywhere else there were all races, my experience here was not that way. Just being honest!

We left to go to Tao because we were taking advantage of a deal from Kiki, so for $25 we got two drinks and walked in the club. Not a bad deal. If you sign up on there list you also get an extra drink ticket that you can use for any drink worth $20. So its sweet.

Our time at Tao was kinda dreadful. I was happy to dance with K. and to see her shake her stuff. But I kept getting my feet stepped on. Right around drink three we were invited by what I can only claim as THE MOST sleeazy character ever to his table on Tao Beach. My pride said no, but my feet said yes. Guess who won?

We go up to the table and the smell of vomit at that place was incredible. It was like partying in a bedpan. Me and K. danced a little more and talked.

I think it was just an off night for us. But we got a lot of girl time in and we where able to dance a lot which was nice. We got home at 4am and went straight to bed!

Upps too long have to make it into 2 partys

Day 3

Saturday Aug. 15th

Here we go Day 3 is coming. I just realized how much I experienced within this trip.

I have to add one thing to TAO on thursday.
I was once again walking from "my bar" to the main room when I see these beautiful ladies in lingerie lying on beds and dancing between me. I had to ask the bouncer if they were real women because they just looked sooo nice.
I was sure to see some angels.

But enough of that back to saturday. So I went to bed at around 7:30 AM and got up at around 3PM. I had the baddest hangover of my life and was so sure that I will never be able to recover. I took some aspirin drank a hell lot of water and immediately passed out again. Woke up at 5PM and realized that I totally forgot about Wet Republic. But to be honest even if I hadn't forgotten I didn't think I would have been able to make it.

I looked in the mirror and the face that looked back at me had no resemblance with myself. Vegas was killing me. I was just about to grab some Burger to eat when I remembered the complimentary spa passes for drift spa. So I put on my swimshorts, went to McDonalds and grabbed the only meal of the day. As I once said in one of my drunken posts "eating is overrated in Vegas".

After that Burger I felt a bit better and went to Drift Spa. Wow that place was perfect for a half dead man like me. First of all I went into the hottub, the hot water was making me dizzy and I immediately put a small towel that was laying in icewater on my head and chilled there for about 5 minutes. A spa attendant asked me if I wanted something to drink and i answered:"water Sir, I only need water."

He brought me a bottle of water and I immediately went into the steam room to sweat out all the alcohol that I was still feeling in my body because I really wanted to get into good party shape for XS. So I sat there in the steam room, it was hot, really hot and I once again was thinking that this trip was one for the ages. I was so glad I had all the pictures and videos on my cam because I knew otherwise nobody in germany would believe me a word. Sure the people on JC.com would believe me, because they know Vegas, but if you've never been to Vegas (NYC, I am not thinking of you ;-) ) who could blame them if they wouldn't believe me??

Than I realized that everything began to spin so I left the steam room immediately and jumped into the small pool with the ice cold water (nothing I would recommend but it worked perfect). On the one hand I wanted to sleep but on the other I thought If I'm already here I can also see what they have to offer. So I went to the Hamam, layd down, listened to the chillout music and looked onto the ceiling with all the lights that look like stars. I promise if you lay down there in the state I was in you will actually believe they put some real stars onto the ceiling.

I fell asleep for about 20 mins and after that had a shower and went back upstairs.

It was now 8PM and I was calling Ankit to set everything up for the night. He told me that most of the people that wanted to do bottle service didn't want to anymore because they lost too much money in Vegas. But that he can put us all on the guestlist and bring us in immediately if we wanted to. I really wanted to do bottle service so I searched for some replacements but didn't find any so I called Ankit and said we'll go with him and asked if he wanted to come over to our place and pregame. He said that he was staying at Wynn so it wouldn't make much sense for him to drive all the waya to Palms Place just for an hour of pregaming and asked if we wanted to come to his room instead.

I said get the mixers and I'll bring the alcohol. At 9PM we were finally ready and hopped into a cab to Wynn. Ankit picked us up at the elevators and we went straight into their room (which had a perfect view of encore, the golf course and the encore pool) where we drank even more. Vodka Hypnotic, Pure Vodka and other stuff. That was also the first time I saw Warrens famous flask.

After that we walked to the encore where I suddenly saw this huge line. I was sure the line couldn't be for XS as it was only 10:30 I think and I couldn't see the club entrance. So we kept on walking, and walking and the line didn't end. Once we were at the front Ankit couldn't get in touch with his contact and I was getting a bit worried because I was sure that I would go crazy in that insane line. But on the other hand that means that this place has to be hot if everybody is willing to stand in that insane line. But after maximum 5 minutes Ankit came to us and said let's go guys we're in. Wow I immediately put the cam on record and recorded how we just went past the line.

"CRAZY, DREAM, CRAZY, BIG HUGE SMILE" <-- that was me.

I had to think of Nassau and his famous catch-phrase "I don't do lines". Same goes for me. We got some bad staredowns from people in the line, but I actually can understand this, when a group of only guys just skips the lines, skips the GuestList and TableService Lines and are first to get in. Wow even the people in front of the guestlist line looked at us and seemed to be jeaolous. Big thanks to Ankit who made that possible, I still can't imagine how he did it.

Once inside, the first thing I notice is that XS is a huge club. Wow I see beautiful dancers, lots of tables and the pool outside with even more tables. We started drinking, had some shots of patron and after me ordering my first Vodka Redbull this girl next to me says "Ough you're getting awfully close" to which I respond "Ough (imitating her) that's because I'm awfully drunk". She immediately starts smiling and we keep on chatting for a while until she gets her drink..... something blue.
Me: "What is that"
She: "Adios"
Me: "Adios????"
She: "Adios Motherfucker"
Me looking disturbed
She: "No, noo the drink is called adios motherfucker"
I start laughing and ask her if I can try it.
She: "you really don't know that drink"
Me: "I'm from germany I never heard of that before"
And she really lets me drink from her adios
(I cannot guarantee that the dialogue is 100% the words she and I used but it's pretty accurate)

So for the rest of the night I was drinking Adios Motherfuckers.

And now things are getting blurry. The next thing I know is me dancing on the main dance floor and talking to a thousand different people. I was just saying that I'm from germany I'm having the best time of my life, I love Vegas etc. and somehow I ended on this bad ass table right in the centre of the club, talking with a man that apparently was the one spending for the bottles. They had Grey Goose, Moet & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot and they or better he had a lot of beautiful women with him. As soon as he noticed that my glass was empty he insisted that I should take something from his table. After the second glass he wanted me to make another drink for him and myself. I was feeling cheap ond offered him to pay something. But he was like "no way you pay anything, just enjoy your time in Vegas" So I asked if I might take something from the Moet & Chandon because it has less Alcohol and he just said: "Don't ask, just grab a glass and have fun". He saif he has his own construction business somewhere in california (he did tell me the exact name but I forgot it).

A funny thing was when a bouncer saw me coming from the dancefloor to this talked about table and mixing me anoter drink. He grabbed me and the second he did that the owner of the table said that this was ok and the bouncer apologized, he didn't knew I was with the table etc. I just said I don't mind, he was just doing his job. The real funny thing is that maybe a few seconds later or a minute a really beautiful girl with fake breasts comes to the table and also starts mixing herself a drink. The bouncer sees this but does nothing and only looks at the Construction Guy who gives him a sign and the lady is escorted away from the table.

Next Thing I know is seeing the german guy from friday night (see last trip report from the afterparty at our room) who says they have a table just outside. So I sit with him and met Dustin again. The table actually was from a cool guy who has something to do with porn industry. Couldn't remember what he was doing exactly but he said he was some kind of producer. After the bottles were empty I decided I would buy another one together with Dustin, because I wanted to thank everyone for the night. So I got the table a bottle and wanted to go to the first table of e construction guy to thank him for the night but was pulled to the dance floor from the great beats that made me dance.

So I have to say that everybody who said that there were a lot of asian people there was right. But as I'm totally into asian girls this was like heaven on earth. I was going crazy dancing with asians and asking every asian I saw if they knew a friend of mine who is planning and hosting all the big asian partys in our area of germany. His girlfriend is asian and he knows tons of asian people but of course nobody knew him. But that was a great opener as I told them what he does and that I'm always partying on the "White Lotus" etc. Partys in germany and that I feel like in heaven being surrounded by so many beautiful asian ladies. They liked to hear that so I was partying with my new asian friends for the rest of the night with some breaks to go to our table and mix a new Vodka Cranberry.

At some point of the night I met an african american guy who invited me to his table upstairs by the pool, so I decided to take the stairs and search him. Didn't find him until the end of the night. He was passed out and either lost his table or didn't have one in the first place.

I don't know why but I just can get along very good with club bouncers. I'm never rude, always polite even if Im too drunk to walk on a straight line. So I got these two huge bouncers to "Fake Throw me Out" for a picture. Maybe they liked me because I told them how much I love America and especially Vegas and that there's no way anybody will believe me this in germany.

So we closed the cub down but as I was heading out dustin was gone. The only person I found was the porn producer. The next thing I know is waking up in front of my hotel room in my clothes, money on the floor and a Palazzo Key in my hand.

Dustin somehow invited some girls over and gave them our room key. But he was feeling so bad that he passed out. He was freaking out because he didn't want the ladies to see him lying on the floor like a dead man and he was also afraid that they would possibly robb him. So he locked the door and I was unable to get in. I screamed and hammered on the door but he was deep in the land of dreams and didn't hear anything.
What's the story with the Palazzo key. I honestly don't remeber anything from the moment I left XS to the moment I woke up in front of our door. But it seems as if I had been invited to a private after party in the Palazzo. I swear the only thing I see is a flash and boobs showering in a suite bathroom.

Crazy night. The Craziest Night of my life.

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Pregaming at Ankits room

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Dustin and Me going crazy after walking around the whole club (Adios in my hand)

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The Gentleman that made my night. Does anybody know him? I really want to thank him for making this unbelievable night even better.

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I love Asian girls.

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Getting "Fake thrown out" of XS. Damm that drunk dude I gave my cam should have taken this one better. They were actually holding me and my feet were in the air.

Hope you enjoyed it!

TR 8/8 - 8/14: 7 Day Party (on the cheap)

Trying to add some value to this TR. I like to take advantage of deals wherever possible. I'm not the guy who's going to drop $5k at Wet Republic (although I met that guy at Centrifuge bar).

The forums provided so much useful information for our trip, I thought I'd provide some helpful tips in return, both confirmations of things discussed here and things we discovered on our own. Hope its helpful.

DAY ONE

Arrived at McCarran around 10am. Wife was expecting us to grab a cab, but George from Presidential Limo was waiting for us at baggage claim (Forum Thank you #1). This was SUCH a good move! For $63 (+ $10 tip) he met us there, took our bags, gave her a rose, had a bottle of champagne (plus bottled water - bonus) waiting, gave us a nice ride in the stretch, and let us arrive at MGM Grand in style. Well worth it!

Backtracking a bit - We did use the airport checkin for MGM right next to baggage claim (Forum Thank you #2). Good move as there was no line there and a HUGE one at the hotel. Had noted in the reservation we were celebrating our anniversary. I was set to try the $20 trick, but she started off checking for upgrades without being asked. She told us she had no suites available, but would give us a high room with a strip view. Thought about tipping her anyway, but it seemed like she was just giving us the room we were supposed to get so I held back.

Got to the hotel and headed for the champagne brunch. We got the package with the daily buffet. (Forum Thank you #3 for pointing out the package on smartervegas.com) Many others here apparently have used this as well so I'll just share a little on the buffet. The food was very good, and although the options didn't change much, there was enough variety for us to enjoy it. We stayed at MGM four days, and by the end we were pretty sick of the buffet, just because it seemed like we spent so much time there. Lines were mixed - couldnt seem to really predict when they'd be the busiest, but the longest we waited was about 20 minutes. In fact, one morning the lady remembered us from the previous day and stamped our receipt with Line Pass, so we could skip the wait. Woohoo! Buffet VIPs Baby! Highlights of the buffet: Sunday night they had grilled NY Strip steaks. Surprisingly they were seasoned and cooked perfectly and very tender. I went back and complimented the cook and he seemed genuinely surprised and grateful for the compliment. Also the sushi was also a nice surprise. The assortment of mexican food was tasty as well. Thought the weekend buffet was supposed to include champagne but it did not. However, you can order an endless glass for $2.50. Um, yes please.

Wife enjoyed a mani/pedi at the spa while I explored MGM. It is quite large, but honestly not quite as big as I expected from other reviews.

Had tix for Judas Priest and Whitesnake Saturday night at Thomas and Mack. Forgot them at home like a big dummy, but the arena left a new pair for me at WillCall with a $10 reprint charge. Taxi to T&M was $13 plus tip. ($3 was spent waiting at one light) The show was pretty awesome but it would have been nice to be on the floor. Had a few drinks there - $13 for a beer and a vodka cranberry is a lot better than you can get on the strip, lol. Taxi back to MGM was $10.

We had visited the podium for Studio 54 earlier in the day and got on the guestlist for that night. Rashad Lewis of the Orlando Magic was going to be there for a surprise bday party. Unfortunately, either the dehydration or the 5 glasses of champagne had given me a BRUTAL headache by the middle of the concert, so we called it an early night.

Best Tip of Day One: Presidential Limo and the Airport Check-in Kiosk for MGM

Next up: Body English, Cathouse, Wet Republic, and more deals

DAY TWO

Quick breakfast at the buffet then hit the pools. Headed to the Director's Pool since it is adults only (Forum Thank you #4). It was nice, and peaceful....this is gonna sound bad but let's just say you didn't have to worry too much at this pool about being outshined by "The Beautiful People", lol. It was pretty much just average folks.

Took a nice little afternoon nap since we had a big night planned.

Blew some money on the penny slots, enjoyed some comp cocktails and then back to the buffet for dinner.

Ok, here's my contribution for a deal: Text the word "offers" to 50435. MGM will text you back various deals including BOGO cocktails at the hotel bars (Centrifuge is the best by far) and also Free admission and free cocktail at Wet Repbulic. This saved us a ton!

My buddy Chris from freevegasclubpasses.com got us on the guestlist for Body English at the Hard Rock Sunday Night for "Sunday School". Ladies dressed in schoolgirl outfits get free champagne all night. I call this a "Win-Win". :-D

Cab from MGM to Hard Rock was $10. Thanks to Chris we bypassed the line to get in, wife was free and I had to pay only $20 cover. BE was slamming - unfortunately too much so. After a couple hours there we couldnt take the crowd and bailed. Earlier we had met a promoter in Luxor who offered to get us in free to Cathouse (one place we wanted to check out anyway), so after leaving BE we decided to take him up on it. Cab from Hard Rock to Luxor = $13.

OK - here's my next lesson: If you don't know already, ALWAYS ask what's going on at a club before you go. My new promoter friend (not Chris) failed to mention that it was "Closet Night" at Cathouse. Yeeaaaahh. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it would have been nice to be more prepared. On the plus side, my wife didn't get hit on all night, lol. But the music was awesome so we stuck around for a while. Walked back from Luxor to MGM.

Best Tips of Day Two: Text "offers" to 50435, and contact Chris at freevegasclubpasses.com

Next up: Wet Republic, cheap beers, Blondies, Tabu


DAY THREE (Monday):

Decided to try Wet Republic. We were getting really confused as there were promoters handing out passes for reduced admission, plus a WR host near the pools offering to put us both on the guestlist, but all that would do is get my wife in free, plus them saying that hotel guests get in free. Lots of conflicting information, but I was determined not to pay cover. (Normally I think its $20 for ladies and $50 for guys) All I can say is WR is one of the highlights of MGM. It was spectacular. The pool was beautiful, the people were beautiful, they had a DJ playing awesome music, the drinks were nice (but pricey of course), it was just a fantastic way to start the day. I used the text offer mentioned earlier to get my free cocktail. We just lounged around and enjoyed the atmosphere for a few hours. It started to get pretty busy after 1pm.

Decided to walk up the strip as we had debated about seeing Wayne Brady and wanted to check on tickets at the Venetian box office. They were pretty pricey at the MGM concierge and the 1/2 off ticket place was out of them. It was pretty hot but we'd duck inside somewhere from time to time to cool off.

Stopped outside Casino Royale to try their promo Free Slot Pull thing. Wife won $100 slot play and I won $50. Ok - don't get too excited here. You go inside to get your coupon. There's only a certain bank of machines you can use it on. They're $1 machines, and it's jackpot or nothing. You must get all 7s and you only get cash for the maximum payout. Kind of a waste of time. But, we got a couple cocktails while doing it, and the bonus was this place had $1 Michelobs. Slapped the bartender a five ($1 tip) and walked out a happy two-fisted couple.

Went in to the Venetian and the line for the box office was huge. In the end, we just couldnt stomach the price for the Wayne Brady tickets, so we decided to pass. Probably would have really enjoyed the show, but as the title says, we were doing this "On the cheap".

On the way back stopped into the Miracle Mile shops at PH for dinner. Had heard good things about Blondies sports bar in there. They had some really tasty sweet habanero wings and some pretty good beer as well. Get the MM Shops coupon book first though for $10 off a $20 purchase.

Back at MGM, put our names on the guestlist for Tabu (hotel guests free cover) and went to try out our free slotplay that came with our package. I hate slot machines.

Anyway, Tabu was alright - pretty small, more of a lounge. Danced for a few hours then called it a night.

Best Tip of day three: Wet Republic (Worth staying at MGM just to get in free), $1 Micks at Casino Royale

Next UP: Ellis Island, Hilton Tempo Lounge, Downtown (Beauty Bar, 99 cent shrimp, $1 beer), Studio 54

DAY FOUR (Tuesday)

Skipped Wet Republic because there was some industry volleyball tourney and we figured they'd be packed. Had the buffet lunch then headed out. This was my day to try some gamblin. I'm not a big gambler at all, but wanted to try a little blackjack if I could find some $5 tables. We had some really good coupons from Ellis Island so we walked over there.

We signed up for their players' cards, then waited for some BJ seats to open up. One table cleared out completely, and I plunked down my $50. Yeah - I had five hands in a row where I was dealt 12-14, and the dealer had a ten up. I think overall I won one hand. I had asked earlier if MGM offered free lessons but they did not. Got free lessons later at PH - a little too late.

But Ellis Island still paid off. They have fantastic onsite microbrew. I had the amber and my wife had the hefeweis. (They also had a light and a stout) Great beer and $1.50 for a 20 oz draft! We also had American Casino Guide coupons for four free drinks from them, plus BOGO menu items, so we had dinner there. Got their mozzarella sticks (fantastic) and shared a king cut prime rib which came with salad, veg, potato, and another beer. Total for dinner = $19 including tip!

After that we wanted to go to the LV Hilton. We debated about taking the Duece but decided to walk. People ask a lot about distances and walking. Let me just say unless you have health problems there's no realistic reason why you can't walk to just about anywhere on the strip. We walked from MGM to Ellis Island, and from there to LV Hilton, in 100 degree heat. Now if we were dressed up fancy or something or in a hurry we might have chosen differently, but just know that it can be done.

Anyway, on Tuesday nights ladies drink free at the Hilton's Tempo lounge so we went there to get the wifey liquored up and enjoy the live entertainment. It was a classic cheesy Vegas lounge act, but it was really fun. They had a dude on a guitar and a lady (zebra-striped cowboy hat and all) singing everything from Tina Turner to Led Zeppelin to Gloria Estefan. We danced a little and had some fun there, then caught a cab to Fremont Street.

It was sorta dead there, but there was a live band playing. We strolled around a bit then journeyed a little past the canopy. We stopped into a local dive called the Beauty Bar and had a beer. Cool little place that gives you a feel for how the locals hang out. Went back down under the canopy and stopped to use our BOGO coupons for shrimp cocktail. Shoot I can't remember who had it, but we had the best 99 cent shrimp cocktails I've ever had, lol. Then we stopped at another casino and grabbed a few $1 Coronas, strolled around Fremont a little more, and took the cab back to MGM.

Stopped at Centrifuge bar to enjoy another BOGO cocktail. This bar really is a lot of fun. The servers are very energetic and get up and dance on the bar every once in a while. We were on the guestlist for Studio 54 that night, so we changed and headed down to the club. Once again, MGM guests can get on the guestlist and skip the line and cover. Pretty cool club but once again it just got way too crowded for us. Danced there for a couple hours then called it a night.

Best Tips of Day Four: Don't be afraid to walk a little bit and save on cab fare. Check out Ellis Island for $5 blackjack, a good cheap meal and GREAT cheap beer - but be sure to bring your ACG coupons!

Next Up: More Wet Republic (partying with new friends), A Planet Hollywood hookup (did the $20 trick work?), Celebs on the Red Carpet, and Voodoo lounge

DAY FIVE (Wednesday):

One last breakfast buffet (love those omelets), then check-out, drop our bags at bellstand, and one last visit to Wet Republic. Kept my roomkey so I could show it for free entry, then also showed the text for our free drink tickets. Did I mention I love Wet Republic? No DJ today but still playing decent music and a good crowd. We hopped in the pool to join some people who were playing volleyball, and soon after we met our new best friends. Turns out Bubba Gump Shrimp Company (yes, from Forrest Gump) in Santa Monica has a group of like 30 employees who make an annual pigrimage to Vegas, and they were there partying at Wet Republic. After getting schooled at pool volleyball, we just hung out, laughed, had some drinks, and got to know these guys for the next four hours or so. Scottie, Griff, Steven, Lindsey (dead ringer for Drew Barrymore), Natalie, Marci and Mike - what a great group and a lot of fun. They invited us to join them later at Lavo, but we had other plans and werent sure we could make it.

After probably too much sun and fun, we left and grabbed our bags to head over to Planet Hollywood. We were originally going to walk, but navigating the sidewalk and then the MM shops and PH Casino with our bags just didnt sound like fun, so we cabbed it.

As soon as we got there, I was once again thankful for MGM's airport check-in. Even with five reps working, the check-in line was ridiculous! Eventually we got to a rep, and I had determined ahead of time to try the $20 trick there. I was very polite and handed her my cards (with the $20) and told her we were celebrating our anniversary. We chatted for a bit while she looked up our res. She first checked to see if she could get us a better view - got us the 26th floor with a view of Bellagio fountains, the Eiffel Tower, and the PH pools. Not too shabby. Then she talked about the "Drinks on us" promo they have. We had booked under a 2nd night 1/2 off offer, so they wouldnt let her do the drinks promo also. But she said "Luckily I know the codes so I can put it in manually". So she handed us our coupons and drink tickets - One free bottle of liquor for each night's stay. We didn't exactly need more liquor, lol, but we were very grateful and she earned her $20.

The room was pretty nice - a little smaller than our Grand Tower room at MGM, but more updated and definitely a much nicer bathroom. We rested a bit, then cleaned up and headed out for dinner and our evening plans.

When we got downstairs, we realized they were just starting a Red Carpet celebrity event for the movie premiere of "The Goods". We're not big autograph chasers, but figured what the heck, we're here - let's see some stars. Had to wait nearly an hour for them to come out, and the crowds made it pretty hard to see, but there was Will Farrell, Alan Thicke, Dane Cook, Kid Rock, Holly Madison, Rob Riggle, Jeremy Piven (star of The Goods), and a few others. Funniest was the short Asian guy from The Hangover and The Goods. He was wearing a sportcoat with no shirt underneath it, and on his chest had written "The Goods" - with an arrow pointing down, lol. Quite a character.

After that we went back to Blondies for a pizza, then walked down to Paris to catch the shuttle to Rio for Voodoo Lounge. The free shuttle is nice, but there's no organized line. We got there about ten minutes before the shuttle, and when it arrived, two couples who had not been waiting jumped into the group and got on the shuttle in front of us. The people right in front of us were the last ones to make it on that shuttle. We were a little peeved but it could be easily remedied if they'd just make some kind of organized line.

We had been to Voodoo last trip, and it was a mixed experience. My wife had a Witch Doctor with dinner, and I swear it was virgin. She drank the whole thing and felt/tasted nothing. (Plus they were out of dry ice so it wasnt even smoking) After dinner that time, we went up to the lounge and Renee the bartender made her a second one which was much better, but drinking all that sweet stuff messed up her stomach. This time we were pleasantly surprised to find Renee still working there. I reminded him of our last visit and he said "Well let's get Dani good and drunk this time then, shall we?". He makes a serious drink and is great with the flair as well.
We only stayed at Voodoo a little while after that, and decided to call it an early night. Took the free shuttle back, and walked the strip a little bit before turning in.

Best Tips for Day Five: Try the $20 trick at PH! Or at the very least, just be very friendly and polite and it certainly helps if you're celebrating something special. Talk to new people! Vegas is a great place to meet new and interesting people from all over the world. Wet Republic! Wet Republic! WET REPUBLIC!!!

Next Up: (Over)indulgence on our final day. A SuperSexy Dinner and an even Sexier club to end the trip

DAY SIX (Thursday):

Time to go out with a bang! Had breakfast at Planet Dailies, then sat through the free blackjack lessons (Wish I had them two days earlier). Lunch at Earl of Sandwich, then a little shopping to pick up stuff for the kiddies. Then it was time to get ready for our big night.

Made dinner reservations online for 6:00 at Striphouse, and told them it was our anniversary. Apparently that's a little early for the dinner crowd, as we had the place all to ourselves. Ordered a nice bottle of Penfold's cab-shiraz, and shared a wonderful bone-in ribeye for dinner. The restaurant is very sleek and sexy, and the food was fantastic. After the meal, the waiter asked us if we would like to hear the dessert choices. I responded "Oh, you know what we want!" "Ah" he replied, "the 24-layer chocolate cake it is". That's right people. 24. Layer. Chocolate. Cake. (Saw it on Travel channel or something) They brought it out on a plate with "Happy Anniversary" written on the edge in frosting. They also brought us two complimentary glasses of champagne. Fabulous meal. We left there feeling a little tipsy and with about two hours to kill before our big night out at Tryst.

So we went back to our room to, ahem, "pre-game". I had packed a bottle of my favorite vodka from home and picked up some mixers. When we were ready to walk down to the Wynn, I mixed up for my wife a nice cranberry champagne and myself a little vodka/cran for our walk. We had a nice leisurely stroll enjoying the fountains and other sights on the strip.

We got to Tryst a little after ten, my friend Chris from freevegasclubpasses.com once again having put us on the guestlist. I was a little freaked out cuz there was a huge line already, and the guys with the clipboards said it was the guestlist line. Crap!

So we stood in line smiling patiently, waiting to get the attention of the clipboard guy. Word of advice - if you want to get into one of the hotter clubs like Tryst, dress to impress. I think that really did it for us. Most guys were in the usual jeans and striped button down shirt. I had kicked it up with a classy pair of slacks, a nice, tailored shirt, and a sharp vest. My wife looked stellar as always. Well we only had to wait about five minutes when clipboard guy comes over, takes our names, and escorts us past the line into the club. I happily took our free passes, smiled at the cashier, and made our way inside.

Tryst is da bomb. Place is huge and beautiful, and while it did get crowded, it wasn't as mad as Studio 54 and Body English. We were dancing by the waterfall and having a glorious time. Then we met some more new friends. Kind of a quirky story but these two guys from Phoenix were planning to travel to Sydney, but went to Rome instead - where they happened to meet two sisters from Sydney. Now just a few weeks later, they were all in Vegas together staying at the Palms. One of them bought us all a round of shots ($12 each - yikes!), we danced for a while, and they invited us into their VIP booth. Yeeaaahhh. I shoulda stopped there. Someone kept handing me drinks, and well things started to get pretty fuzzy from then on. I texted my friend Chris about getting us all into an afterhours club and next thing I know, well it was Game Over for Gonzo. God Bless my wife for getting us back to our room and getting me into bed. I've never been that messed up in all my life. Like I said - we went out with a bang.

Best Tip for Day Six: If you like clubs, definitely try Tryst - and Dress to Impress! Know when to say "When".

Next Up: "And on the seventh day...."


DAY SEVEN (Friday): Ok, so the title says 7 day party. But in reality - well hey even The Big Guy rested on the 7th day, right? Yeah, I destroyed our seventh day. It was all I could do to drag my sorry butt and our suitcases down to the mezzanine level and crash in a chair while my wife got a bite to eat and did some last minute shopping. Our flight left at 5pm and it wasnt until about that time that I finally started to feel human again. I think my buzz finally wore off about the time we got to church on Sunday, lol.

All in all it was one helluva trip!
Oh - one more word about MGM: Here in Ohio, state law makes all public establishments smoke-free. We're really spoiled by that but hadn't found places in Vegas to bother us too much with the smoke. But each morning at MGM, we woke up very congested and having lots of breathing trouble - I think the smoke really got to us there, although maybe it was just cause we spent so much time on hotel property? Either way, we didnt have that problem at all at Planet Hollywood.

Patrick and I exchanged texts and facebook messages hoping to meet up on Thursday. But evidently his crew ended up at Tao instead of Tryst, so we never managed to connect. That was a shame.

Thanks so much to everyone who offered tips here on the forums! They helped us so much!

Day 6 Sunday'

Boobies! Shots! Vegas Lights!

The morning was difficult but not as bad as the others. Likely because of my shitty night the night before. I felt really bad that I had an off night and that I owed it to my friend to make sure we had the best day and night possible. So upon waking I was like a tiger, ready to pounce on any fun that moved.

We had lunch at Tamba the Indian restaurant. It wasn't that bad and if you are a non meat eater than its one of the best options I've found. They also have a restaurant.com coupon, so yay for saying $10! I did burn my finger a little bit on one of the buffet warmers. I think it was because my mind was slow from the marathon partying I had been doing.

I text the host listed on this site to get on the guestlist for Wet Republic and he was BEYOND nice. The Kardashians were having an event and the place was a madhouse. He let me call him and he walked us through the line. He was VERY VERY professional and I can say that next time I book a bed or cabanna I am only going to use him. I seriously was impressed.

Wet Republic: A larger pool party. I really like the layout and size It is big without being too big. They have fun DJ's and people are there to party. Make sure you get there early and you can grab a chair and party the day away!
So after passing even groups of even hotter girls then me in line I was ready to drink and party. My Vegas friend (and his friends) were there and so we had some shots and drinks and I hung out on the couches and danced. I went to the pool and I could not believe the number of hot guys that were there. I am serious. This is where they have all been hiding. I mean the bodies on these guys were for real.

Now I know how guys feel when talking to a chick with a nice body. Its so hard to look them in the eyes! I just wanted to look at abs!!! I totally thought I was seeing hot bodied guys before, but seriously ladies they are totally at Wet Republic. Ok, that's enough of me being a sleaze.

They also had a sparkling sake tasting which was fun. I don't see myself actually buying the stuff because I prefer a more traditional sake, but it was fun to taste and talk about it with the people around.

My friend was starting to hate small talk with people and was being a bit anti social. She is very soulful and deep. I am a big sloppy drunk. So I told her to go sit in the pool and I went “Patrick” crazy and was going around meeting people and having a good time.

So my friends decided they wanted to take us to Moorea Beach. By the time I get into the car (again sober driver) that incidentally STILL had the my friends puke on the side of it from the first night we were there. I looked down at it and looked up about to say “dude you didn't clean the puke off the car” when I was told to shut up and get in the car.

So I take out my phone and start posting drunk things on the forum and to friends. I am at this point out of control drunk. Even on the way there I know I am going to get crazy. After all I reason, Vegas owes me for last nights bomb!

We get to the Mandalay Bay and enter Moorea Beach. Because we were with the local group we did not have to pay which is good because as a girl it wasn't worth paying too much for.

Moorea Beach: Easily the most laid back pool party I have been too. Even more laid back then Bare. I thought the people were nice looking and they were the classy sort who, upon reflection, probably didn't pee in the pool. It was not very crowded you could actually snatch a chair.

There were girls everywhere without tops. So I got into it the spirit too. I was again all over the place talking with people and just having a good time. I may or may not have been grabbing boobies. I was laughing so hard about it that I HAD to drunk post on here and tell you all about it. I especially like to grab fake ones because they feel so weird. Plus girls with fake ones are all about getting a good grab, after all they PAID for them! Why not get your $$ worth? Anyway if you know someone who was complaining about a topless blonde running feeling up their girlfriends you MIGHT know who that was! ;)

So after awhile my friends friend got totally wasted. He said he wanted to go back to Wet Republic. So we were like ok lets go. On the way to the parking lot, the guy was so drunk here are some gems:
“where are we going?” one minute passes “Where are we going”
“I'm going to drive” (no your too drunk) “Fuck you, I'm going to drive!”
“Fuck this fucking shit” (sir there are children present) “Fuck your fucking kids!”

The list goes on.

So when we get to the car he starts grabbing for the keys and I'm like no your wasted. And he turns on me! He starts saying shit that made no sense. But I got the feeling that he was going to get even worse, so I grabbed my friend and left.
(Side note: My friend ended up trying to take him home to sober him up. On the way he stopped at a stoplight and the drunk guy jumps out of the car and takes his shirt off... throws it into the road and starts running away. My friend had to pull over and get out of the car. Wrestle him down and drag him to the car. They are both very buff so it must have been a sight! But he finally got his drunk friend in the car.... Then the guy puked on THE OTHER SIDE OF HIS CAR! Ha ha. The next morning drunk guy thought that the DJ put a roofy in his drink... yeah right Mr. I cant hold my drinks)

So we make our way back to the hotel. I call Patrick and we make vague plans to hang out. We figure on Carmel and then the Bank. As you may know I was not a fan of the Bank, but its supposed to be good on Sunday and I figure why the hell not.

I rest up and then start getting ready for the night ahead. My feet hurt so bad, I do the UNTHINKABLE. I wear a cute dress with gold sandles rather than heels. I seriously would not make it out of the hotel let alone to the club in heels at that point. On the way I feel awesome because I can move with ease.

We get to the club early, and decide to gamble a bit. I lose like $20 all said and done. My friend wins like $50. And we decide that we should get our hands stamped and then go to the bar. When we arrive Fred the door guy (who also does some hosting so I can give you contact if your looking for someone nice) says he will take care of us and sends us to Caramel with another guy to get free shots.

Caramel: Caramel is a nice little bar! It was full of an older more mature crowd but not too many grayhairs. On the inside it kind of reminds me of a nicer bar in the SF where I am from. Except cleaner (bay area folks know what I mean) and there is nice music.

For the ladies they get two for one drinks with pass. It makes AMF's like $14 for TWO. I gobble free shots with my friend when we look at each other and make the silent agreement that we are going to move on to drinks! A few drinks later an older lady about mid – 30s comes up to us to and asks if we are with the travel agent conference. We say no, and then she runs over to her friends and starts wispering.

With the drinks working in our system we decide to start dancing even though no one else is and it is clearly not time to dance. After a few songs a group of nice looking cougars starts “wooting” and I shit you not “Raising the roof” and starts dancing with us. They starting to try to dance dirty and I knew it was time to make our way to The Bank.

We show up to a pretty large line, but I yell at Fred and he takes us in. Thank goodness for the kindness of strangers! We thank him him for the drinks and the nice treatment and make our way up the escalator.

The Bank: Ever been to Light and wondered, what if they paint everything black and make a giant pit in the ground to dance in? That is the Bank. You walk into a black rectangle. The middle of that is a dance floor that is sunken. Then there are levels with tables and at the top, bars.

K. and I are all about dancing that night so we hit the floor. The only problem is my dress keeps coming down! WHY?!? Its so annoying to dance and look down and have an errant boobage or ass cheek. Whatever I'm drunk and so I just try to keep a good dress watch.

Right away some college boys join ask to dance and proceed to start to bore the living shit out of me. I can tell you that when I dance I don't really want to talk anyway, but my dance partner kept talking and talking and talking. He ranged from such exciting topics as:

Arena Football
Ft. Worth Texas
Socks to wear with clubbing shoes
His flight
Buffets

I wanted to get away SO bad. I felt like I was trapped. I look over to K. and she seems to be having a VERY good time with the guy she is talking too. So I know its going to be a long night. I mean I'm not going to break up her fun night because I was with literally the most boring person on the planet. Just when I felt I was going to go crazy who should come walking down the stairs but............... Patrick!

Poor Patrick, I pounced on him like crazy wombat!

I held on to him like a drowning man to a lifeline!

The guy left and I was saved! I was FREE! I WAS ALIVE!!!!!!! I nearly cried for being so grateful that the vegas gods should throw me a bone and get me out of that situation.

Of course this meant that I had to buy Patrick a drink! We grabbed some drinks. The night gets blurry...

I remember dancing with Patrick and all these people and spilling a drink ALL OVER this girls head. I felt SO bad. SOO BAD. I mean it was not a little, it was a lot. AND SHE WAS NICE. I still feel really really bad about it. I am usually the one who gets spilled on, so it sucked to spill on someone else who was nice and pretty and a lot of fun to dance with.

Hey chick I spilled a drink on: I am totally sorry, I know I said that I was but I really am. I owe you like 10 drinks and a lapdance!

I also remember my friend telling me we were going home, and me asking if she had cab fare:
“Yeah Elle I have cabfare”
“Well you should have no problem getting home!”

I was wasted and didn't want my night to end because I was having a good time.

In all I got in while the sun was in the sky and I had a very fun night!

Drinks: $100
Cab:$30
Food $19

Next up..... Monday and my Liver calls the Police

Day -1: Travel UCK!

Get up finish packing – Finally hit the road at about 10am, six hours straight driving we hit our friends place in the bay area. Hang out and go to bed.

Day 1: Bunnies, Strawberries and Security Escorts

We hit SFO at about noon, after a short trip on the BART. Go check in with Virgin America. I completely forgot that they charge per bag so for Leia and I’s bags cost $60 ($30 each way) out of my drinking budget arrghh. You know how much I hate baggage fees! I still haven’t gotten use to them.

The flight took off on time, and I started to get my party mood on, almost there…

We hit LAS around 3pm headed down and collected our baggage then walked to the shortest taxi queue ever, meaning we walk straight to the taxi spot and then in the next cab ☺ We head straight for Palms place and check in. Didn’t try the sandwich trick, since I am figuring the Palms Place is nice enough, but the girl on the front desk notices that it is my Birthday the next day and tells me she will get me a strip view room on a high floor. Woo Hoo.

So happily with that we head for the 39th floor to our room, when we get there we start to unpack and I crack a beer from the mini bar and check out the room. About 10 minutes later there is a knock at the door, and room service is standing there with a bottle of champagne and chocolate covered strawberries for my birthday from the hotel manager (I read front desk clerk ). Talk about a shock, it was that bad that we forgot to tip (my bad).

So after the bottle of champagne and another beer unpacking is finished we think about heading to the pool but it is 4.45pm and the pool shuts at 5pm. What is that about I would be happy to be pool side until 6 or 7pm should have went there straight after unpacking.

So we head off to 24/7 Dinner Café for dinner, and I remember why I don’t eat before getting ready to go out… Part of my dinner ends up on my shirt. So we head back to the room to get ready and some pre-game action and a quick battle nap.

About 9.45 we head out of our room and head for the playboy club. As we are getting near their I text our host (the JC contact) who tells us to check in at the podium. We are just checking in as he comes out to meet us. Grabs my ID and credit card and off we go.
When he get us up to PB he takes us to our table, the one he is about to give us has shared seating with another table. Some one says something to him and he looks around and moves us to another table by itself. The table is in prime position right on the dance floor. He introduces us to our server for the night who in turn introduces another bunny who will be helping out and another guy who would be making sure the mixers and ice would be topped up.

We order a bottle of Ketel One and sit down to enjoy the night. Both Leia and I are great people watchers and the location we had for that in PB was excellent. I seem to start off slow on the drink with leia drinking 2 for my 1 (oh the shame), but that situation is soon cleared up but we still don’t seem to be putting a dent in the bottle.

In think one of the killers is that once we got a sitting position and we were drinking and chatting to each other we never really had the need to talk to another one else. So we just hung around the table chatted to the servers as they came by to check in on us, so not really a good night for socializing. It was a really good way to get into my birthday.

By three in the morning they start closing up shop and we get the remaining quarter bottle sealed up and security escorts us from the PB club down the elevator, through the casino across the skytube and up our room at Palms Place, really nice service I do have to say.

One note I do have it was 2 days later when I took the vodka out of the fridge that we notice it was a 1L not 75cl bottle of vodka as I had thought… no wonder we were having a harder job that expected getting through it especially with the pregaming.

-- More to follow. Gotta go to sleep before work in the morning. Uck!

Day 4

Sunday Aug. 16th

First of all sorry for the delay of my last TR. But as soon as I was in NYC there was so much to see and do that I couldn't find time for writing. On saturday I received a message on facebook from Nassau that he wasn't able to fly to Miami and was coming to NYC instead so we met up and had a JC Meet & Greet in NYC.
But now lets start with my TR for sunday.

Wow, Saturday was the night of the nights. So much crazyness. Will I be able to recover in time from this night?? I was sure I wouldn't be able to and was saying to myself: "This was it. Your Vegas Trip has ended!" I woke up around 2PM totally wasted and my head was spinning. That was when I remembered that we still had 25$ comped on roomservice (that was included in our rate). So I ordered a nice burger and waited for it lying in bed and watching TV. I was still so tired that I woke up when the bell was ringing and my burger arrived. Let me tell you, this was the first real Meal I had in Vegas (I don't count McDonalds and Fast Food Pizza as a real meal) and I really enjoyed it and it gave me back some energy for the rest of the day.

After I finished the Burger I decided to once again recover at drift spa. (for more details on drift spa see the previous TRs).

As soon as I left drift and went up to my room I remembered that we already bought the "unforgettable night" pack from bellagio and that we had a table at Yellowtail at 5. So I talked to Dustin and we decided to go to Yellowtail, than see "O" and after that decide whether we'll keep on partying at the bank or just sleep until monday. After all we had to get up at 7AM on monday to catch our flight to Washington DC.

We arrived at Yellowtail at around 5:30 PM and were the only guests at that time. We gave the server the vouchers and picked our appetizer, second appetizer, entree and dessert. (on each course you could choose between two alternatives). The moment we finished the first appetizer the fountains started and we went to the balcony to watch the show which gave me some extra energy. (Although at this moment my energy level was still very low and I felt every minute of partying my body went thorugh the last few days). When we were finished and there were no leftovers (The dessert, some sort of chocolate cake with warm liquid chocolate inside, banana foam and green tea ice was mind blowing) we headed over to the "O"-Theater.

I had heard so much positive things about "O" that I was really excited and looking forward to the Show. And what can I say. It was so crazy and mind blowing. The best show I've ever seen (maybe tied on the first rank with Siegfried & Roy).I was still standing a bit next to me because of all the partying the days before but that made the whole experience even more surreal. So I can recommend this show to everone. If you want to see a show in Vegas go to "O". Definately worth the money.

I'm not sure if I was hyped up after "O" or if it even took some energy out of my body because watching the show was pretty intense. We decided to first head to our hotel room and pack our suitcases because I knew once I started to celebrate and go crazy I wouldn't be able to pack my stuff or would leave half of everything in the room. So that's what we did.

Even though we were pretty much dead we decided to at least grab the complimentary cocktails at Caramel (also included in the "unforgettable night" package). So once again into the cab and off to Bellagio. We arrived at Caramel (around 10:15 PM) and Once we entered, people were already dancing and having a good time. Caramel is what I would call a lounge. People there are older than in the clubs but also having fun and some were actually going crazy. First stop: The bar. Since the Vouchers said "enjoy a complimentary cocktail" I ordered two white russians. I of course wanted to pay them with the vouchers but the barkeeper explained to me that the vouchers were only for drinks like Vodka Tonic and not for actual cocktails. He saw the confusion on our face and quickly handed me a two for one voucher. So we only paid one white russian and used the vouchers for two Vodka Cranberries. The moment he gave us the two vodka crans, he took the vouchers, and a second later handed them back to me. So we finished the drinks and ordered two new ones. At this point Dustin told me that he's not feeling well and that he's not going to finish his drink. I was unsure of what to do. The reasonable thing would be to go to the hotel room and grab some sleep.

So I told Dustin let's just walk over to the bank and if we like it we stay, otherwise we go back to the hotel room. I finished my drink and wasn't able to leave his vodka-cran behind. It seemed like it was talking to me: "Patrick, this is your last night in Vegas, drink me and I promise you this will be a night you won't forget. And what would all the people on JC.com say if they knew you would let me stand here, all alone....".

So the glass won. I drank it, left a nice tip for the barkeeper and we headed over to the bank.

Have I already told you that I think the lines are insane in Vegas. Once again I was seeing this big big line. I went to the guy with the clipboard and asked where I would get in with the "VIP complimentary Vouchers" from the unforgettable night pack. He said I would just have to wait in line and that the vouchers are only free admission. (Damm that was also what the woman told me that sold me the pack). It was now around 11 PM maybe a bit later and Dustin told me that he was going back to the hotel room. Once again the reasonable thing would've been to go with him. But I'm in Vegas and the talking glass from caramel was now taking over and so I just said:"Ok, I'll stay here and check out the venue. If it sucks I'll be back in about an hour. If it's great I'll be back late in the night".

So there I was standing in line to get into the bank..... But wait, wasn't there someone saying "I don't do lines????". Yes there was. I was once again saying stuff to myself: "I got into TAO on Thursday without waiting, the Palms Clubs on Friday and even XS on saturday. So I will not start standing in line on a sunday at the bank".

I walked to the guy with the clipboard handed him 30$ and asked if he could take care of me and that I'm on my own. He took the bills and asked how much we are talking about. I said 30$ and I don't want to wait another minute. He answered that it would be another 20 once he brings me inside to which I responded: "I know the amounts to grease from the JC.com so if he doesn't want my money I'll just talk to one of his colleagues. The next thing I notice is the rope opens and I'm send to the escalator and into "the bank". WOW once again thank you JC.com otherwise I might have paid 50 to get in.

I handed the two vouchers to someone standing in line so that at least if he had to wait for hours his entry fee would be comped.

Once inside I walked to the bar, bought a Vodka Redbull and started walking around. Once I took the first steps down, I see Elle and I'm going crazy that I met her. Because I thought I wouldn't know anyone inside the club. She insisted on buying me drinks because I bought most of the drinks on Thursday at TAO. So I got drunk and we danced and partied like Rockstars. From this point once again on this trip everything gets a bit blurry. I remember going crazy and jumping around when some of my fav. songs where played. And the next thing I rememer is Dustin who spills water onto my face because we have to leave in 10 minutes. I somehow passed out on the couch and he wasn't able to wake me up. I jumped under the shower took everything (besided my ipod which I forgot was still in the iHome) and we left to the airport. The second we entered the airplane I fell asleep and I got up when we touched down in Washington DC. The first thing that comes into my mind is: "Did this really happen??" The next thing is checking my camera. I see all the pics and videos from Vegas so it seems that I wasn't dreaming but instead was having the time of my life.

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After "O"

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complimentary drinks at Caramel.

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In front of "the bank"

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Inside of "the bank"



Now that I'm finished I have to thank a few people (in no special order):

First of all Dustin: for making this whole trip with me and especially Vegas. Thanks for waking me up on monday or I would have missed my flight.

Elle: It was a pleasure to meet you and your friend K. It was crazy with you two.

Aaron: You're awesome and know how to party.

Warren: It was great to meet you and I'm still jealous for your flask.

Ankit: Wow dude, you're the man. know how to party and the entrance to XS. Crazy. The same goes to everyone from your crew. Ranjit and all the guys, it was an honour to party with you.

Darryl: Thanks for everything. The way you walked us into TAO was crazy. This was actually my first Vegas Party experience and you made sure that I had a blast.

And last but not least:
Everone from this forum that helped me experience this. Without you this trip would've only been half as good or maybe less than half as good.

I hope I could transfer some of the feelings and moments I enjoyed while I was in Vegas to everyone who has a Vegas Trip coming to get them pumped up and for everyone that has a long time until he or she will be back to Vegas to shorten the waiting time.

Special Thanks to the man himself:
Jack Colton: Wasn't able to meet you (hope you're cold is over) but thank you for putting this side up hand giving us "tourists" all the inside information that we otherwise wouldn't have"

I hope I didn't miss anyone.

Patrick

Day 2 : Cabana’s, food and early nights ☹

About 6am I wake up, the pain I think is still sleeping. I muster out of bed potter around the room for a bit before heading back to sleep. 8am the pain wakes up before me, ouch! I stumble out of bed knock some water and vitamins back and head back to bed. 8.30am I struggle back out of bed… I knew I shouldn’t have went back to sleep even if it is only for a half hour I now feel 100% worse than I started. Leia started to get out of bed and was feeling worse than me. It was at this stage that I got the feeling that tonights actives were not going to happen. A quick e-mail off to our host to cancel the table for that night, then cleaned up and headed for the pool.

We picked up our cabana at the palms place pool at about 9.30 got a pitcher of water in and fell to sleep for about an hour and half. The pool was amazingly quiet very chilled out. Service was good, but with the number of people there I would expect it ☺ By about 11 I was starting to feel that good bit better. Got some food from the restaurant and switched the water for beer. By mid afternoon it was time to move off the beer and to my usual so-co and ginger (my first for this trip), made the afternoon more all that more quickly. About 4pm two girls turned up to the pool that proceed to harash every group of men that were around the pool. It was really quite fun to watch. I think Leia managed one alcoholic drink all day.

4.30 came last calls for the pool bar were made, I was ready to take on the world setup for another night. We packed up headed back to the room, to shower and change. I had a small battle nap, which was not a good thing woke up half sober and really groggy.

We head down for our dinner at Little Buddha for my birthday, which was a good as always except for the strobe lights that were going off due to the alarms. Our bill including tip came out under $90 which is a miracle for me since it normally hits around $150 for two when I go there. The $25 dollar gift cert from Restaurants.com helped out a bit.

After dinner the two of us were stuffed and Leia was not up for much else so we ended up at the cinema watching GI Joe, which she promptly fell asleep in. So a early relaxed night for us.

So here are the pics,

I also included them in the last part of my TR.

dnix feel free to copy all the party into the TR Thread.
EDIT: I wanted to write parts instead of party but that must have been a freudian slip!

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After "O"

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complimentary drinks at Caramel.

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In front of "the bank"

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Inside of "the bank"

Ok ladies & gentleman,

I don't know why I do it, but here's the pic of how I looked on the plane from Vegas to Washington DC.

I know it's disgusting, and I still wear the same shirt. The thing is, I already packed everything into my suitcase before I went to the bank and when I was woken up the next morning with a cold glass of water in my face, we had to rush t the airport, otherwise we would have missed our flight.

But be sure, the first thing I did in Washington was taking a shower and after that taking a bath :D .

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5813/cimg3596w.jpg

Now you all know the truth.

That's what Vegas did to me.

But would I do it again,......... absolutely!

Here's a link for mine
http://kc2vegas.posterous.com/im-in-las-vegas-bitch

Here's a link to my account where I will be posting pics For pictures click here (http://cisco419.posterous.com/vegas-ldw-weekend)

Hi all, been reading the site for some time but never posted. It's helped me out loads and read some great advise. I've got my second trip to Vegas coming up in a few weeks and been reading some trip reports to get in the mood and really enjoying them. Thought i'd post my trip report from May as best I can remember incase anyone enjoys it half as much as I have been enjoying reading others.

My first Vegas trip was arranged for 6 nights in May, during the Hatton V Pacquiao fight which we had tickets for. Traveling was myself, my brother and a friend. We stayed at the Imperial Palace, for the price we paid it was fine but dont think i'd stay there again.

Traveling from London, UK with Continental, happy with the airline but could have done with a direct flight instead of having to connect. Connected at Houston, and during that 3 hour flight to Vegas we wasted no time getting on the jack and cokes. Arrived feeling surprisingly good considering the 15 hours traveling, probably because I was half smashed and finally in Vegas!!

Got to the hotel and got us all upgraded, unpacked, and within half hour we were exploring the strip at about 9pm. We stopped off in several bars, drinking quite a bit and trying to take it all in. At about 2am the long travelling had taken its toll on the other two so we headed back to the hotel to sleep. Once there I got in my room and was buzzing with excitment, and no way wanted to sleep! So decided to go back out to play some poker, the other two dont play so thought it'd be the ideal time to play a few hands while they were being lightweight! I went to O'Sheas and sat at a 2-4 cash game, taking advantage of the free drinks. I was down about $400 at one point but found myself even at about 6am so called it a night and cashed out and hit the sack.

Thursday-
Woke up about 11am and went off to find the other two. Didn't need to call as I bumped into them at the bar downstairs. Grabbed a coffee and went off to MGM to pick up our fight tickets. Got something to eat and carried on exploring the strip drinking along the way. The day was just spent wandering about getting smashed and enjoying every second. Early evening we went back to sort ourselves out as me and my bruv had a reservation at Okada, then we were off to Tao and bottle service. My bruv loves sushi and I hadn't really tried it much before, the restaurant was class but decided sushi wasn't really my thing, I was looking forward to SteakCraft the next night. Met up with Ad who was topping up at a nearby bar, had a drink then headed off to Tao at about 10.30pm. Met Larson outside, got straight in and was given a table in the walkway outside the main club part. Wasn't overly pleased but he apparently couldn't do any better even after I put $100 his way. He said he'd see what he could do later if we still wanted to move so I left it as that. We ordered a bottle of Goose and some mixers and proceeded to get fcuked! During the night we'd done the vodka and ordered a second bottle. We had fun and Ad danced about like a loon! Out of the few clubs we visited though this was my least favourite, just too damn dark and didn't rate the way it was set out much. I cant remember how I got back to the hotel, one minute I was in the club, next I woke up at the hotel the next day.

I'll carry on in a bit on a new post.

Friday-
When I woke up lunchtime I walked next door to my bruvs room to find out what the fcuk happened last night. He said I was there at about 3am but just disappeared, uh well probably will never know whether I just left or got thrown out lol. He then proceeded to tell me the events after I done a disappearing act. Apparently some clown come out of knowwhere and dived head first into our table knocking the drinks all over the gaff, then Ad spent half hour trying to persuade the staff to give another bottle even though there was sod all left and he could hardly stand! The friendly staff ended up sorting them out a few drinks. By the time they left the club my bruv had to literally carry Ad back to the hotel, having to stop at every person they passed so Ad could tell 'em he loved 'em, every time he let go Ad fell flat on his face. At this point im pissing myself laughing! Jay got him to the door and let Ad inside, he then proceeded to fall several times nutting the drawers, bedside cabernet etc until Jay picked his sorry ass up and lobbed him on the bed!!

After I finished pissing myself I went and knocked on Ad's room, after several minutes he answered wearing all his clothes from the night before including jacket and shoes, and a nice couple of bumps on his bonce! After sorting ourselves out we headed to MGM for the weigh-in. Atmosphere was great and really enjoyed it. After that we grabbed something to eat and went back to the pool to chill for a bit and enjoyed a few mojito's.

Evening came so we tarted ourselves up and headed to SteakCraft for a quality steak, meal was great. That evening was spent moving around the bars and ended up at carnival square for quite a while which was cool. We hit the sack in the early hours.

Thanks everyone :)

Saturday -
Got up mid-morning and went to wake Jay up. We both went and knocked on Ad's door but no answer. I gave him a buzz and he was out and about with a couple of guys smashed out his face. Turns out he didn't go to bed last night and carried on through. Arranged to meet them downstairs at the bar. We arrived to find them totally fcuked. The two guys Ad was with were Chris who was a local and Mark from the UK, both cool guys. After about 15 minutes of chatting and us taking the piss we arranged to meet them at the pool while me and Jay had a walk around and got some food at the Peppermill. Back at the pool we had an entertaining afternoon drinking and meeting and chatting to cool people.

Late afternoon we freshened up and headed to the MGM for the big fight! Just before going in I bought a massive margarita, which I was sick of by the time I got near the end. The atmosphere was electric and I was buzzing! Was gutted with the result but what an awesome punch that finished Hatton! I have always liked Pacquiao but the way he finished Hatton there proved to me he is superb at any weight and will definately go down as a legend. Wasn't going to let that ruin the trip even though it was a bit of a downer.

Heading out of the arena it was obviously rammed, and as Ad was in a different part of the arena for the fight we arranged to meet him at the hotel as we were going to the rooms to change before going to Palms and ultimately Perfecto at Rain. We knocked on Ad's door and tried to call but no answer. Later found out the toll of being up since Friday morning drinking like a fish had caught up with him and he was comatosed in bed.

Me and Jay went to Palms and as we had all access passes we paid a visit to Ghost bar for a drink first which was cool, supping a drink looking out over Vegas. We then got straight into Rain and what can I say, we thought it was awesome! My kind of music and thought the whole "show" was great. Think it was about 4am when Jay wanted to leave but I was having none of it and told him not to worry and go back, I was staying a while longer. Next thing I know i'm back in my room with a tart....then slept.

Sunday -
Woke up mid-morning and we all went to the Peppermill for Brunch. Today we were supposed to all go on a Grand Canyon trip, but me and Jay felt too rough to go so Ad ended up going on his own while we went back to sleep for a few hours.

When Ad got back we all went to the pool and for a change got smashed! We met up with Chris and Mark and had a quality afternoon drinking cocktails and having fun with everyone round the pool. That evening Mark shifted off as he was going home. Me, Jay, Ad and Chris went to change, grab some food and hit the bars. I remember being in Nine Fine Irishmen, Coyote Ugly, V Bar and Carnival Court. At Carnival Court Ad was in a bad way and lost the power to speak so I walked him back to his room and went back to meet the others where I left them.

We moved on because next thing I know we were in a casino chatting to some people from CA. I could smell the herb and mentioned it, one of them pulled out a smoke, I had a few drags then proceeded to have a white out for a couple of hours! Was really struggling for a while as we were walking about the strip. Once I came round we went to the Palms and spent the rest of the night at Playboy and Moon clubs.

Behave NYC! Tart doesn't mean little boys!! lol

Monday-
Bit of a boring day really. We were due to fly home early the following morning and the trip had caught up with us somewhat. Spent the day, wandering about taking some pictures and chilling by the pool. In the evening I just ordered room service and laid in the room watching the box and being lazy.

Tuesday-
Got up, packed, went to Peppermill yet again for food (liked this place lol), walked back to hotel, grabbed luggage and caught cab to airport.:(


I'll be in Vegas in 18 days!! Going for 6 nights and staying at the Mirage. Going with just Ad this trip and he's adamant he's taking it easier this trip as he cant remember fcuk all of the last one! lol

Got plans to definately go Ditch Friday, Perfecto and Rehab. Then leave the rest to chance. Maybe see some of you peeps there. :D

FYI: Cisco has more pictures up.

http://cisco419.posterous.com/vegas-ldw-weekend

Ok I have tried this 2 times now and I still can't get it to work so here are the links instead.

Dnix at Rain

http://www.spyonvegas.com/index.php?query=galleries/recent/view/photo/384676/4395#viewphoto

Ok I have tried this 2 times now and I still can't get it to work so here are the links instead.

Dnix at Rain

http://www.spyonvegas.com/index.php?query=galleries/recent/view/photo/384676/4395#viewphoto

Here you go... not sure who that is with dnix?

http://www.spyonvegas.com/uploaded/53810/4395/631525360932996600e48d92bb4a9ec8b34c64b69.jpg

http://www.spyonvegas.com/uploaded/53810/4395/1286015118628e103ad0de640145f824a2945ad7ba.jpg

dnix & Nassau at Wet Republic on Sat:

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Day 3 – Pool Crazyness, Phantoms

So after an early night before we both wake up refreshed and ready to go. We head for the palms place pool figuring that we can grab some breakie there and then head over to the palms pool once both of our heads actually wake up enough to handle and crazyness that might be going on.

We hit the pool at about 9.30 and people are already there pounding shots down. I grab one of the best breakfast burritos I have had in a while and beer to wash it down. So a the day of many drinks started, and the pool just kept getting more and more manic. For a pool that has a reputation of being chilled out, this day was not. At one point while sitting at the bar the barman said “ I don’t know what happened today every arrived in drunk”

All in in all it became one of the best days at a pool I have had, good people, good drink and great bar staff!

Went to Simon for dinner which was good ☺ Really good. The double dip was excellent.

We had tickets for Phantom that night; we freshened up and jumped in a joe maxi to the Ventian. The show was great, but it was two hours without drink… Not a good thing for me after a day worth of drinking. Headed out thought about hitting up TAO early but we had programs from the show and leia had not brought a bag. So back in the Taxi to Palms Place – proably not a good choice in reflection. At this point, I hadn’t been drinking in a while my buzz is gone and bed is looking good. You know ditch is tomorrow that’s going to be a big one….. but lets go down to rojo and have a couple of drinks and see if we get some life back into us.

Rojo, to me it was a lobby bar with very little atmosphere a couple of drinks there and I was ready to head to bed…. Tomorrow, tomorrow is going to be a better day.

Ok so I'll go ahead and post the first part of my trip.....

Day 1 Thurs Sept 3rd

My crew meets up with me at my work and start putting all their stuff in the van were taking out. I finally get off at about a quarter to 7 and we hit the road at exactly 659. We swing by Carls to grab some burgers, kill about 20 mins then back on the road. We drive into Vegas at about 1130 and I check in pretty much right at midnight when I predicted! I walk up to a younger female figuring she'd be my best shot at a sandwich, which was $30, she instantly saw it and said oh I can give you a room on a higher floor with a strip view that we normally give our Platinum players so I said cool! Ill take it! We get up and the room is a nice size, we changed clothes, got the alcohol out and took some swigs and were out to Drais!




I just realized the time it is and the fact that I just spent the last 9 hours on the road.... sorry but to be continued cause Im going to bed!!!

Alright im gonna get right to it. It's Tuesday and i still feel like shit, haha. Vegas was a hell of a time. It was especially good because all the guys who i went with (who had never been before) had an absolutely amazing time. They were wide-eyed the entire time with all the clubs and the hotels. I got a chance to meet up with a bunch of the guys out there but due to some conflicting reservations i couldnt make it out to everything. But more on all that below.

Thursday 9/3 - I worked all day and went straight to the airport at 2 PM. My flight was scheduled to leave at 3:55. Meet up with my buddy Ernesto and slammed 2 beers in the airport then boarded the plane. The plane pulls out of the gate and then we hear on the loud speaker that theres lightening in the area and were gonna have to wait on the ground. Now if im delayed thats one thing, but i hate being stuck on the runway more than anything. We were sitting there for an hour and a half before we finally took off. Once we took off we were all smiles on the way to Vegas. A few drinks more on the plane and a trip that felt like FOREVER, we finally touched down at Macarren at around 7 PM Vegas time. We head straight to the hotel and as we walk in we see the rest of the bachelor party (who had gotten to Vegas at 11 AM) sitting at the blackjack tables. This one guy Will (who i hadnt met before) was trashed out of his mind by the time we get there and introduced himself to me about 20 times. We rounded everyone up and i headed to the desk to check in. slipped the $20 sandwich and got put on the 31st floor in the 2 bedroom grand suite with a direct view of the strip. It was a great room and surprisingly slept 9 people very easily. We made some more drinks and decided we would try to go to Tryst that night. I text Patrick Frank and he told me, no problem, text me when you get here and ill slide you guys past the line.

As we were getting ready i get a call from my wife who is at home with my 3 month old son. Basically to make a long story short my son was having some stomach issues and had been screaming at the top of his lungs for the past 3 or 4 days as he was trying to get through it. Since my wife was the only one home she was at her wits end and was losing it after being with him all day alone. So we ended up in a big fight which pretty much put a damper on everything. I was more worried about my son for the remainder of the night and i knew i couldnt be in a place where i wouldnt be able to hear my phone if something happened. So we all decided to stick around the Palms center bar and gamble for the night. The guys were fine with that and i knew its what i had to do. Had a good time and i ended up going to bed about 2 AM just cause i was exhausted from everything and the time difference. Got a bunch of text messages from Cisco that he was at Drais and wanted me to come meet up but i was already passed out.

Friday 9/4 - Friday we woke up and hit up the breakfast buffet. Down a bunch of water and serious amounts of pancakes and then went upstairs and got changed for the pool. Headed down to Ditch at about 10:30 and rounded up 8 chairs. Things were already packed but we held them down and the rest of the guys came down. Get a call about 11 from Cisco who is waiting outside so i take a room key out to him so he can get in. He get banded, has a drink, then goes to get some food before the all day drinking. At about 11:30 Nas and DNix get to the front and i go out to meet them. We all get into Ditch and show them the chairs so eveyrone can park all their stuff. Everyone heads to the bar and proceeds to just order tons of drinks. Had a great time hanging with Cisco, Nassau, and DNix as we pretty much just drank all day. Met some girls from London, met some Hawaiian Tropic girls who wanted to come out with us on Saturday night. All in all had a good drunken time.

At about 4 PM We told them all we would see them later because we were all starving. We hopped in a limo to in-n-out burger. I have been craving it for so long and it was finally here! All the guys have never had it anymore so they all ordered double double animal style's and were in heaven. I had some animal style fries and that just topped it off. Headed back to the Palms, made another liquor run (by the way the 10% at gold coast worked great) and went up to the room. Made drinks and partied until the entertainment came at 9. Fast forward to 11 PM and we were drunk and ready to head out. We went down stairs, had a few more drinks at the center bar and then headed up to Moon. I was so drunk by this point i honestly dont remember where we meet up with Nassau, DNix, Cisco, and KC, but we did somewhere and hung out with them most of the night. Good music in Moon. We were partyin and taking shots. Chillin outside and catching the view of the strip then went down to Rain. Rain was crazy that night. Tons of people and everyone just having a great time. It was sad DJ AM wasnt there, but they replaced him with DJ Jazzy Jeff for that night which i loved. I always like him back from the Fresh Prince days. Music was great and apparently i was dancing my ass off. I dont remember any of that. I have faint memories of DNix at the bar outside by the pool, some small memory of a limo afterwards, and then a 5 second memory of my buddy force feeding me McDonalds double cheeseburgers at like 6 AM. I dont remember going to sleep.

Saturday 9/5 - Woke up and felt like i got hit by a truck. There was only 1 thing that was going to make me feel better... The spa.

***Side note. Big cheers to Patrick. When he stayed in Palms Place a few weeks ago he had 2 comp passes to Drift the spa in Palms Place. He sent them to me air mail from Germany, but they didnt get there in time so he faxed me all the info and his bill and everything and i was able to have the Palms reissue them to me. Thanks so much man, it was great***

So I have 2 free passes to Drift so i go with my buddy Chris (the bachelor) and we both head over there. Sit in the steam room for 20 mins. Then hit up the ice bath for 20 mins. Then the jacuzzi for 20 mins. Then back to the ice bath for another 20. Then the sauna for 20 mins. It worked great. I felt so much better. Afterward we hit up the coed Turkish Bath and chilled in there for a bit, then went and sat in the lounge and had some fruit and water and juice while watching some college football. Then took showers and headed out. I would not have survived on Saturday without the spa, but i felt like a million bucks. Well, maybe not a million, but like 900,000. Went and got some breakfast and got a text from Nassau saying they were at Wet Republic and to come on out and meet them. I tried to rally the troops but since it was their first time in Vegas they wanted to do the touristy BS and see all the hotels, so i kinda had to go with them and do that. Sorry Nas, i really wish i could have met up with you guys. So we headed to the hotels and checked them out and did some shopping in the forum shops and Venetian. Rode the NY/NY roller coaster, watched the Bellagio Fountains and took soem pictures, all that BS.

After we went back to the hotel and watched some more football and got ready for dinner. We rounded everyone up and headed to the Mirage where we were eating at Samba, which is Brazilian steakhouse. Got some drinks and it was very good. We had some time to kill before our table reservation at Wasted Space so i walked over to JET and texted Dave Roberts. We initially had a table reservation with him for Thursday night but we had to cancel it, so i wanted to at least apologize to him in person. Met up with him and he couldnt have been a nicer and more accommodating guy. He asked us if we wanted buy 2 get 1 free bottles that night and i told him we had prior plans, but he said if you need anywhere to go after to call him. Great guy. We head over to the Hard Rock and the place was INSANE. Ive never seen so many people packed into that hotel, just hot girls EVERYWHERE. We head to the bar and get some drinks and then i go play some blackjack to kill some time. After a while of all of us having fun i texted Cory at Wasted Space.

Now i was a little hesitant because i had set up everything with Chad Dallas, but since he left he said Cory would take good care of me. I met up with Cory and he couldnt have been a nicer guy. Had us set up at a great table right next to the girls from Sunset Tan who were coming in that night. We got our bottles of Goose and Jack and partied away. Wasted Space was a great change of pace. The music was AWESOME, but i love the rock mash up stuff so it really was nice to hear some different music, the DJ was just great. Met a lot of people, and people from our group ended up grinding up on one of the Sunset Tan girls moms. They all loved it and were laughing their ass off. Took some video but it was so dark in there you really couldnt see anything. At about 3:30 I had to leave because i had a flight at 6:30. Everyone else decided to close out and come with us back to the Palms. The taxi line was insane and as we were waiting my buddy Matt was so tanked that he decided to try and pee on the side of the wall right by the taxi line. We were all freaking out trying to stop him because we didnt want him to get arrested. He finally stopped and we got in a cab and were on our way. Our buddy in the front seat was spilling beer all over the cab and the driver was getting pissed, then when we got to the light to turn into the Palms my buddy Matt started to do the dry heaving. We were like "Oh hell no". We looked at the crosswalk count down and said "you have 10 seconds to get the hell out of this car" So he opened the door and stumbled across 5 lanes of traffic on Flamingo and fell in the buses on the side of the street throwing up everywhere. He walked back to the Palms and we were all laughing our ass off at him. We get back to the room, i pack and get ready, and the drunk ass Matt decides he wants to wrestle everyone shirtless. This ended up being freaking hilarious and i got it all on video.

After all of that me and Ernesto get in the cab and head for the airport. It was sad to leave when everyone was still partying that night, but we had to get there. I needed to be back in Miami to get my son. The airport was a breeze and my upgrades went through for first (thank god). I got some breakfast so i could have something in my stomach. Got on the plane and Jermaine Dupri comes strolling on with 3 guys carrying his bags. He sits in the row across from me and passes out. Then this girl sits down next to me and we were talking for a bit. Turns out she was a playboy playmate, who was also afraid of flying. She tells me she needs to hold my hand on take off because if she doesnt she will freak out. We take off, get in the air, i calm her down and then pass out for about an hour at a time. I finally landed and went and got my son and went home. It was a great weekend.

Im just glad i at least got to see the guys from JC. Im sortry i couldnt make it out on Saturday, but Friday was a great day and all my guys had fun with all of you. Im sure theres tons of funny things i forgot to put in this report but ill post them as they come back to me. Ill try and post some pictures and video soon.

Now the wait for May begins....

Nassau at Ditch:

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Cisco at Ditch:

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Ok so I'll go ahead and post the first part of my trip.....

Day 1 Thurs Sept 3rd

My crew meets up with me at my work and start putting all their stuff in the van were taking out. I finally get off at about a quarter to 7 and we hit the road at exactly 659. We swing by Carls to grab some burgers, kill about 20 mins then back on the road. We drive into Vegas at about 1130 and I check in pretty much right at midnight when I predicted! I walk up to a younger female figuring she'd be my best shot at a sandwich, which was $30, she instantly saw it and said oh I can give you a room on a higher floor with a strip view that we normally give our Platinum players so I said cool! Ill take it! We get up and the room is a nice size, we changed clothes, got the alcohol out and took some swigs and were out to Drais!




I just realized the time it is and the fact that I just spent the last 9 hours on the road.... sorry but to be continued cause Im going to bed!!!

So here's a bit more....

So after changing, taking a few swigs of Patron and making a few mixed drinks we head out to Drais around 2ish. When we get to Drais our newest banned member Darryl was working the door and I talked to him for a bit and he got the girls in my crew for free with some passes he had. It looked like he was an actual employee of Drais too. We went downstairs and went into the hip hop room where we found a spot by the bar in the back to chill and post up. I went and asked the bartender is she could make us "Alaskan Trashcans" and she made them without a doubt! We chilled and drank for a while, dance a bit and just took it all in. I had sent a mass text to everyone that was supposed to be in Vegas to see what was going on and got a couple replies, sorry Dnix for waking you up again, I had also been texting misspriss back and forth and she was supposed to make her way to Drais but I guess she lost her phone and who knows what else but her friend was texting me about it all. The last text I had gotten was "I'm outside, I'm the one wearing a purple dress" but never saw anyone that matched so I proceeded to hit some craps and see if I could make some money and of course it was a cold table so that sucked but I was drunk so I was having a blast! I texted my crew and they had all bailed and were back at the room so I figured ok I guess its time to go back and crash since I had to try and make it to Palms somewhat early. On my way back I realized it was 5something and I had made a threat to my buddy at work, who starts at 5, that I was going to call him drunk and by the time the thought finished processing my phone was at my ear and I was talking to him. I got shit about it today here at work lol. So I make it back to my room, got the inflatable mattress out and passed out sometime after 6..... All in all not a bad first few hours in Vegas!!!


To be continued... :D:D:D

So I woke up around 10 hurting a bit, I look around the room and everyone is passed out. I get up and all of a sudden I realize my buzz is back. I grab some clothes and jump in a cold shower and my buzz is gone. I get out and my crew is awake but just relaxing and still in bed. I ask if anyone wants to roll with me but they decide against it so I take off on my own. On my way out I hit up Nas and I guess him and Dnix are chillin in the room cause they had just got in. They told me they were gonna hit me up when they were at Palms. I take a taxi over to Palms and go straight over to Ditch, I had texted Keebler earlier and he said to call him when I was there, I called and he met me outside and we got in around 11 or so. They had 4 chairs set up and picked up 4 more, I told him I was going to get some food and I'd be back. I hit up the Palms Cafe and nothing really looked appealing but the fried rice so I ordered a combination fried rice. That tasted so good but I was only able to finish a little over half. So at this point I have food in my stomach and I'm ready to party so as I'm paying for my bill I get a text from Nas who also got done eating and I tell him to meet me in front of Ditch. I make my way over there and Keebler is there and we all just walk right in like we own the place! We head over to the chairs that Keeb had picked up, Nas and D dropped their stuff of and we go get drinks! We then go back and chill out for a bit while Nas pops out his camera and begins recording. I get a text from NCVegas who's on his way their.... a little later he shows up and joins us. From here it kinda starts to blur a bit. I get a text from my crew who finally got there, not sure around what time that was. I go out and meet them, we all walk in and they drop their stuff off where Keeb and everyone else was at. I remember my crew showing me a bunch of flasks and redbulls inside of my bro's backpack and me thinking this is going to get messy!!! I was back and forth hanging with my crew and Nas, D, NC and keebs. We were at the bar for the most part. I dont remember when but KC showed up with his crew and then things started getting really hazy. I remember throwin down some shots with them and KC with his flip recording all of us. At some point we all get in the water that's when the time traveling begins... I remember closing out my tab and then next thing I know I'm walking thru Bally's heading towards the elevators to go to my room. At this point I just remember waking up on one of the chairs in the room thinking I feel like shit then running to the bathroom to puke a bit. I think it was around 830 because I was thinking, "I dont think I'm gonna make it tonight." I lay back down and fall back to sleep to what I thought was hours but I guess it was like 10-15 minutes, I get up and tell my friends let's get ready cause we gotta get going!!! Blank out again then I'm changed and wearing what I was going to wear that night. I then text D and Nas and turns out they were in the same tower a few floors up so I tell them I'm gonna go up there and chill while the girls get ready. When I make it up there D opens the door and begins to tell me how Nas fell asleep next to his bed using a sandal as a pillow lol They get ready and I head back down to check on the girls who are ready when I get there..... This is where I'm going to leave it off for now because I'm about to get off work..... To be continued!!!

Ive never been a big fan of House music. We have a lot of it down here so ive been exposed to it, just was never a fan. I grew up on booty music here on the beach, like Uncle Luke, 95 South, and Tag Team. But honestly after 4 or 5 drinks the music doesnt really matter anymore, we just had fun where ever we went. Ill post my videos when i get home later today. I gotta figure out how to do it all. I cant wait to see everyone elses videos from Friday. I have no idea whats on there, haha.

By the way, is this considered a wangfest? lol

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Sunday night at Jet.

Ok so let me clarify a few things that have happened so far in my TR. The end of Ditch was a blur as well as the beginning of hitting the Palms clubs. I was told by my crew that I made it back to the room and was so drunk that they had no idea wtf I was saying. They said I went straight for the chair and passed out cold! I guess my bro was trying to wake me up at one point and was shaking me and slapping my face and I didnt budge! I was really wrecked! Also my bro and one of the girls were pretty wrecked and were hurting pretty good so they didnt end up going out that night even though my bro had his own wristband. What a waste :(

Day 2 continued

So after visiting Dnix and Nas I head back downstairs to check on the only 2 girls that were down to roll and they were ready so we head out! He take a taxi over and walk into Palms and instantly we get an awesome vibe. I head over to the stuff store and pick up my wristband, I had texted KC earlier who told me he was at Ghostbar so we head that way. Side note: one guy with a wristband and 2 girls without works as far as not having to wait in line!!! So as soon as we get into Ghost we get some drinks then head outside to the balcony to check out the view and the girls wanted to check out the see thru dance floor. I find KC and his crew chillin so I hang with them for a bit. My girls find me and remember everyone from KC's crew and we all hang for a bit. About 5 minutes later D and Nas walk in and head straight towards us and the party starts getting crazy here! We have a few drinks then decide its time to hit a different bar cause Nas wants to do Absinthe. I guess I heard them wrong cause my girls and me went to Moon and I guess they went to Rain. Were at moon, get a few more drinks, dance around a bit. We scope out the scene and I all of a sudden I see Keebler and his wang crew. We chill for a bit and then they all go somewhere and my crew and me also head to Rain cause my last text from KC was that they were at Rain. We pretty much walk right in, no lines and the girls were loving it! We get inside Rain and of course go for more drinks and this is where it starts getting a bit blurry. We walk around a bit, dance a bit, scope out the scene when I get another text and at this point I dont remember who the text was from because I was texting back and forth between D, Nas, KC and Keeb. We were in Rain for a bit then the girls wanted to go back and chill with the view from Moon so of course we head back over that way. Once again no lines, walk past everyone waitin with a huge smile on our faces. We get up there and I get a text from D saying their at the back bar. So we make our way towards the back bar when the girls decided they wanted to go up on stage and dance so I stand their with my drink and watch for a bit but then decide ok I gotta find these guys and see whats up with after hours! So I tell the girls Im going to the bar and start lookin for the crew. I finally found them and their all ready to roll to Rain I guess so I look for my girls and couldnt find them and send them a text to meet me at the base of the elevator. We head down and thats where I find them and they tell me their feet hurt and their going to head back to the room to change and try and rally the other 2 to go out to crazy horse. So they roll and I head to Rain with the crew and we go outside by the pool. Drinks are ordered, shots are taken, good times! We hang out here for a while and finally D, Nas and me decided lets hit up Ghostbar one more time! So we go up there and hit the bar first. I order Nas and D a drink and get myself a water and I remember D giving me shit about getting a water. Something like your gonna buy us a drink but only get yourself a water?!? WTF?!? I laughed and we decide to walk to the balcony, first Nas goes then Dnix follows and as I'm behind D I see him get hit up by security before he gets outside. I go over to see what the problem is and the one guy is telling me that this guy is way too drunk and they have to check him out to see if he can stay or go so they take him into the kitchen. I follow cause I wanna make sure he's cool and the security starts asking questions and asks for his ID but he didnt have it on him because for some reason Nas had it. They ask me for mine but since I had my tab open I told them I'd be back with it. When I get back they tell me their kicking him out and he has to leave the premises so they take him to the elevator and escort him out. At this point I go to find Nas and tell him what happen. We decide ok lets roll and we head out front to find a huge taxi line. Nas looks like he wants to head to Gold Coast to take one from their when a limo driver tells up he'll do it for some random amount. I also tell them that Mr. Vegas wants to meet up at Palazzo and the limo driver tells me its fine he'll take us to Ballys and then Palazzo. So we roll out, I text the girls telling them that I'm going to pick em up in a limo and they better be ready. We get to Bally's and Nas disappears, my girls come out and get in the limo and I go really quickly up the stairs to try and find Nas and D but their both passed out and wont answer so I head back to the limo and to Palazzo we go!!! We get their and I have trouble getting ahold of Mr. Vegas and we finally decided fuk it lets walk around a bit and head back to our room. So the girls and I walk around, take random pictures and get back to the room at a time I dont remember. and now to be continued.....

DITCH FRIDAY:

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TRYST:

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Woke up at about 5:30 am in the morning, and I felt f'd up because all that Vegas adrenaline had me only sleeping a few hours. But fortunately it was enough for me to get ready and toss everything in the car. GF was about to make a big breakfast, and I was like F' it.. just pour some cereal. Dont even bother washing the dishes. LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO. Its Vegas baby!

The drive with 6:30am LA traffic was surprisingly smooth. The GPS projected that we were going to arrive at the Venetian at 10:15am and we were very close to that mark. We all held back on drinking the water. Also we planned on driving in our bathing suits because as soon as we hit the grounds of Vegas we needed to be prepared to party at Tao Beach.

Just as projected, we arrived at Venetian at about 10:20 or so. We quickly load up everything we need in the pool bag and make our way to the Tao Beach check in inside the Venetian. The guy was a little bit confused when we mentioned we mentioned we are on Marklen Anthony (JC contact)'s guestlist. He asked us to go to some Kiosk to get stamped. We went to the Kiosk and they told us that we need to talk to him to get stamped. At that point gf was running out of patience and the guy didn't want to deal with it. He just stamped us and let us get in the elevator to get into the pools.

This is my second time at Tao Beach, and this time around I would say this place has redeemed itself. The first trip I was just so shocked that this place was no Rehab or Wet Republic, that I didn't know how to react but leave and use the Venetian pools. This time we were more calculated and patient. We checked in early at about 10:30.

Before I got in the water, I thought it would be a good idea to give Dnix a call. I ring him up and he didn't answer figuring he was probably asleep. I left him a message to get back to me.
I also put in a good effort of looking for MRJBOND. He was suppose to be the other indian guy there. I did see one indian couple, but I know MRJBOND was with a bunch of indian guys so it wasn't him. Damn I wish I got his # so I could've ringed him up too.

We found a nice empty spot in back of Tao Beach where the smaller second pool is. It was nice because the jets gave you a back massage if you sat down and leaned up against it. There was complete douche bag control in that area because the security guard was watching everyone and drinks were not permitted. He was chasing pretty much everyone down. Its tough if you are there to let loose with some horse play, but great if you there just to relax and unwind.

The music definitely is a step below places like Wet or Rehab. Simply because that DJ Eric Deluxe was just there to fill in before LMFAO. The drinks ran about $12 / cup and bottle service would've started at $1000 per grey goose and the tables would've required an additional service charge. Thats why it wasn't surprising that no one occupied them throughout the entire event. The least they can do is open them up and let the public use it. We met some cool peeps that were ready to go in on a bottle with us, but for a $1000 at out of all places like Tao Beach, it simply was not worth it.

LMFAO came on stage at about 2:30 and did their signature hit SHOTS. It was an awesome song. At some point they asked the girls to whip the boobs out, but they were quickly discouraged by the Venetian management. I was a bit discouraged, but the gf was glad and thought it was the right thing to do. LMFAO were a crazy bunch of guys and did the rest of their songs as they were chugging on a bottle of grey goose. Atleast we know they were serious when they sang about the shots.

I went back to my pool bag and checked my phone. Looks like Dnix called me and did leave a message. Sounds like one of those drunk dialing experiences where he called and just left the phone running. It sounded like he was having some conversation with a group of people and music was blasting in the background. (later on I found out that I missed my Wet Republic invitation!)

We left Tao Beach at around 3:30 and thought we had enough. As we were walking through the Venetian pools, we saw all these pissed off parents with angry looks as LMFAO were singing "I am not a whore". I thought this was hilarious. They should've moved their asses if they didn't want to deal with the party people.

Either ways I had a great time at Tao Beach unlike my previous visit. Best way to describe my experience was organized chaos. It was getting close to 4 and we still haven't checked in yet. We are were hungry dirty.. and more hungry. (... to be continued..)

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First thing is just wow amazing time. Ok now I just want to thank everyone from this site I had an amazing time. Everybody that I met was cool great people Dnix Cisco, Live4vegas,Keebler, Nassau , Ncvegas, Royal. Thanks for a great time. Cant wait for the next trip.

DAY 1

Where to start well we got in went straight to caesars and tried the 40 dollar trick. There was a line of people and you just wait for the next available person so I didn't get to pick who I wanted. Well finally I got up and a older gentleman calls me over and I had stuffed the money between the dl and cc, first thing he separates it and before I can even say anything he says sir do you need some change I was like wtf. I say no I wanted to see about a upgrade and he says oh hold on let me check. After about 5 min of nothing he says the only room is a handicap room with a king side bed. So I keep my basic room, get ready and hit ditch.

Ditch was crazy when I got there I recognized cisco and nassau (btw nassau flip's me off. It was pretty funny.) They tell me I need to catch up so after about 2 redbull and vodka's I order 10 shots of patron and about six corona's we down them and( look at cisco's face wow.) continue drinking and having a great time. I was on a empty stomach and got drunk not a buzz drunk(check the vid.)

In-n-out well of course we had to go there 4x4 animal style with animal style fries.(btw I went there 3 times in 5 days eating just a meal a day. Yes its that good)So check the vid its pretty funny and Im beyond wasted.

Getting ready I was so drunk I took a bath not a shower. I couldnt figure how to change from bath to shower. I was so fu*ked it was like 9pm.

Here is a couple of pics
(yes im the guy with the ed hardy gear)
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Alright as promised here are the pics from Tao Beach and I also just finished uploading the Youtube vid that shows how crazy it got up in there when LMFAO was performing.

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My Gf and I after taking a dip...

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This guy David also from cali was real cool. He had brought his gf as well, so we kind of hung out most of the day.


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LMFAO - At Tao Beach (high quality) I managed to catch I m in Las Vegas Bitch as their first song, and also Shots, lastly La La La. It was a wild time there as you can see.

So I'll start off with the few day activities since we were all hurting so bad that we took it easy.

We get up around 11ish or so and decide were hungry and its time to eat! Originally everyone wanted to go to Rio for their buffet but I talked them out of it and into Paris since they wanted to do a buffet. By the time everyone showered and changed it was like 1something so we head down to the buffet. The line was fairly big and of course their ok with waiting for it so we wait... about 20-30 mins later we pay and were inside. We do a decent job tearing it up along with the endless champagne. Food was good just like Royale said, I was all about the crab legs though! We get out of there around 3 or so and everyone just wants to chill. At this point I get an invite from Nas to do Wet, I run it by my crew and they said they were down so we head up to the room to change and by the time they all change it was after 4 so we decided to just hit the pool at Bally's since I had to be at Caramel by 6. (more on that in a bit) We head over to the pool at Bally's and there was a DJ spinning and he was getting down pretty decent. He was giving away free buckets of beer too and this group that was in front of him kept doing outrages things to get them and they probly got like 3-4 buckets in the 1-2 hours I was there. First they would all do like line dancing then they would do some sort of excersizes and the last one I saw was the guys doing some dancing on each other, it was totally wrong too!!! So after chillin a while and all that I realized its 5:40 and I have to make my way to Caramel so I head back early and take a shower and start gettign ready. I send out a text to everyone saying to be there at 6! Sure enough I get there around 610-615 and nobodies around. I'm like this is great! I get a call from one of my friends who was at Caesers and I tell her to head over to keep me company. She shows up and we start drinking. I get a text from livelifeas1 who shows up about 5-10 mins later. We hang out and throw down a few drinks and then one of his freinds shows up and she brings out drink tickets and hands us one each. Their for b1g1 so my friend had just ordered on and ordered another one and ended up with 3 drinks in front of her, after already downing 2! So she drinks em down like a champ! A bit later I get a text from KC who's on his way over. He shows up and its about 730 and I think to myself I gotta get back to my group to get them in the mood of going out again. We chill till about 8 and livelifeas1 buys my friend a shot of Patron, since we were talking about it. So I go ahead and get his friend a shot of Patron... they take it (I have pics) and that shot takes my friend over the edge!!! lol We said our goodbyes and went on our ways, I told KC to text me later that night if he wanted to roll.

I'm off work now so I'll finish it up when I get home tonight.... just a heads up, this night wasn't a huge night due to friend being wasted. KC knows what I'm talking about!

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This place was perfect after a day of debauchery at Tao Beach. The only downside is finding this place. The Venetian is designed all funky, so the buildings aren't in your standard square blocks. They could be around nooks and crannies. I m glad we finally found Entoeca, because its exactly the carbs we needed to fill up on.

I came across this place via http://Restaurants.com's 80% coupon discount and thought it would be a decent spot to check out. We got here around 4pm, which was the perfect time to find a seat being that its neither lunch or dinner. The server was very friendly, and she even took her sweet time explaining the menu items. It was written in Italian and hard to figure out. So we ended up ordering a Monte Cresto, a full sized Margaretta Pizza, Risotto and a dish of spaghetti. Believe it or not, we did not have any left overs.

Enoteca isn't your typical Italian restaurant, it features food from the Mediterranean. So from what I can tell it did have a unique taste in all their ingredients. I love the atmosphere of sitting out in the courtyard areas of the Venetian. It made me feel like we were actually on the streets of Italy... but not really. The food here was good, and I definitely recommend it. For Vegas, its definitely considered a good price even if you do not have a coupon. I recommend the Enoteca.

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View of the Signatures walking out of Wet Republic

I now officially have a new favorite hotel. Can you guys believe that this place actually put the Wynn to shame? I think so. I simply wish I can buy one of these high rise condos. I m very excited to compare them to the Vdara's when they are raised.

Driving to this hotel was a breeze. There is no need to find parking, because it is strictly valet only. At first I was a bit skeptical about tipping someone to get my car out everytime, but then I thought it was completely worth it and I wasn't tipping these guys enough. Valets are super friendly, fast and not to mention hand you a bottle of water while you wait. I saved so much $ just in buying water by taking my car out.

Checking into the hotel wasn't too bad either. Since there are 3 towers, no casino crowd, they don't need those super long conveyor belt lines up in here. You just walk to up which ever counter thats open. I didn't want to try any sandwiching tricks, I just want to get the full natural experience. Just put me in a room. And boy did I get a room! Either ways when I first walked into this room. There was no word to really describe it. I just made a video about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8-DONZ3m44

The best part of this room was simply it puts you a certain mood. Infact the entire hotel does with its theme music playing in each tower. The amenities I found myself using the most in the room was probably the kitchen. We always had left overs when we dined out, so found ourselves using the microwave and fridge a lot. They even refill your coffee and water supply each morning.

We stayed in Tower 3 which was farthest away from Wet Republic, but has the most modern theme. Tower 2 features Deli. We spent $24 of resort credits in a gourmet breakfast. Trust me, those eggs were worth it. Tower 1 features a Starbucks. The towers all connected all the way to MGM and the outside walkways lead you to the MGM pool and Wet Republic.

This was the best stay in Vegas..... ever. Did I mention there are jetted tubs that help you recover from a hard day of partying? I pretty much took advantage of everything this place to offer. I m looking forward to coming back and staying here again and again. It is worth every penny to spoil yourself at the Signatures.

Heres another look from my cell phone's panoramic mode (sorry I eff'd the pic up a bit)

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Let me start by saying what days things happened are very confusing, and my memory as a whole is very shaky. I NEVER drink liquor. LDW I didnt have 1 single beer. I was literally sweating out grey goose everyday up in til this morning.

Fri morning I arrive at Ballys, and $20 sandwich works without any issues. In fact, the guy didnt even notice the $20 in between the CC and DL until after he was handing it back to me. We had the basic room in the south tower, and he upgraded us to a suite in the north tower. Personally, I didnt really consider it a suite, but for Ballys, Im sure it was.

Nassau gets there and we head to Ditch. We get there early, and Keebler is nice enough to offer his room keys, but we didnt them. The list worked fine at 1130am. At this point we started slamming drinks, and thats all remember. I know we were trashed when we left ditch, because we were screwing with everyone heading back to the hotel. The bums, locals, the cars, and anyone we ran into.

I pass out in the room. I wake up later and Nassau is passed out on the floor next to his bed using his flip flop as a pillow. I wake him up and we get ready for the Palms clubs. Again, I barely remember this night. I remember being in the kitchen with Cisco, and security asking for my ID. I told them I couldnt find it, but really, we both know your kicking me out, so lets just get on with it. They escorted me to a cab, and have know idea how I made it to the room.

Sat. morning we decide to head to Wet. NCVEGAS and his girls rolled with us. Im pretty sure I started with goose and switched real quick to water. I know it was a good time. But thats all remember. Wet also claimed my flip flops.

Sat. night we head to Tryst. My boy really hooked it up. We had an awesome table at the stripper pole with a 1 bottle min, and I ended up bringing in a bunch of peeps in with comped cover. I think at one point we had over 10 people at the table. Of course, I got hammered. At one point Im standing at the table, and some how lost my balance, and fell flat on my ass. If I hadnt been so drunk, it would have been embarrassing, but I was, so oh well. The bouncer was really looking out for me, so I dont think he kicked me out. I think I asked to leave. He put me in the cab. I barely remember being in a wheel chair on the way to the room. All I know is I made it to bed. :D

Sun afternoon we decide to go to wet. Royale and his girl meet us out front, and we walked in. Again, I know it was good times, but my memory is so faded. I know at some point a security guard gave me some sunglasses. I know I was caught dancing on video. (thanks Nassau :mad: ). But thats about it.

Sunday night we head to XS. Cisco and his friends meet us. I was still drunk from Wet. I had my boy on the phone, but couldnt find him, and was obviously unable to follow directions. I know now what the deal was. I kept telling him we were out front, and he kept telling me go to back of line. Im sure I was drunk thinking hes not really telling me to get to back of the line. I finally lesson and get in the back of line. Cisco decides to leave. Im sure his friends were frustrated. Turned out my contact was at the back of the line the whole time, and let us right in. Sorry Cisco for being such a dumbass. Nassau and I walking around and check it out. Im must of had that song by Kris Kross in my head, because I was literally using Nassau's shoulders to boost me and jumping over and over again. And NO, we were not on the dance, and NO, that song was not playing. We decided to get a table. Again a 1 bottle min. Lots of peeps show up. At some point, I walk up and there is a whole crowd of peeps I dont know at the table, and Nassau is missing. I start to regulate, only to discover it wasnt my table. The club is a mirror image, and damn it, I was on the opposite side of the club. Eventually, I ended up in the back room with the manager of XS. Yep, another escort to the cab. :(

Mon. Nassau decided to catch a plane. I eventually dragged myself out of bed and went to RA. The food was really salty. Not at all like the food here in Houston. I get back to the room, and Nassau is back in bed. 5hrs at the airport and never had a chance at getting on a flight. We literally never got out of bed until 6am the next morning. We packed up and headed out.

It was an great group of JCers on the trip, but I really wasnt surprised. Everyone Ive meet through this website has been fun to party with. It was one for the books.

After stepping foot into this plush Signatures room, there was no other option but to just crash onto the soft comfy bed and just sleep a couple of hours. Except couple of hours turned into more like 5 hours. We woke up at about 10pm, and I was like OOPS, the line at Tabu is going to be crazy. I called concierge and basically they gave me the telephone middle finger. They said I will need bottle service to even have a shot at entering Tabu, which could be BS.

But we decided to try our luck anyway. We proceeded to get ready. I took about 30 mins, and GF took about 1 hour and 30 minutes. At 12, we were both ready to step out of the door and I got a call back from Dnix

D: "Hey man, what are you guys up to?"
R: "nothing much...just going to try our luck at the Tabu..."
D: "Dude.. Tabu sucks, come down to Tryst, I can get you in!"
R: "Be right there!!" *click*

D didn't have to sell me on coming to Tryst. Its Tryst, its LDW and he can get us in. Thats all I needed to hear! I just went straight to the valet and asked them to bring me my chariots of fire.. cause we are heading to the Wynn.

Getting to the Wynn at a midnight can be hectic. Who would've thought that at 12:45 at night, there would be a traffic jam that goes for 4 blocks on the strip. Damn that city center construction!! (its going to be worth it though when its all done..) I quickly diverted back to the side streets to up to the Wynn. We quickly parked in the first available spot in the garage and I gave Dnix a call,

R: "Hey buddy.. we are here!"
D: "Just meet me out front!"

We marched up to Tryst quickly since we didn't want to keep him waiting. For the first time we actually got into a club confidently knowing we are going to get in without being hassled around. Thats a good feeling to have.

I got up to the Tryst line, and it was running a good 40-50 people deep. Normally weekend lines run up to 200 people deep, so I m guessing most of the people are already in. At the corner of my eye I see guy wear a stylish red t-shirt and jeans. I knew it had to be Dnix since he was the only guy in the crowd wearing a T-shirt, and I m sure Tryst won't give him sh*t for wearing one because D is just cool like that.

I greeted Dnix with my standard fist bump, and introduced him to my gf. At the sametime KC was waiting in line for D as well. I also gave KC a fist bump as well and at that time I thought he was Cisco until he told me he was from Kansas City. In the back of my mind I was completely surprised that he was not a white guy haha Oh well, thats what he gets for not putting up a profile pic.

D got a hold of Patrick Frank. He came out to the line and shook each one of our hands. We told him that we heard about him on JC's website. He told us that we can contact him whenever we need anything in Vegas. I liked the guy's swagger and he was real cool. I will def. contact Patrick Frank from now on. He wrote us up our comp'd admissions paper and we had to clear check point #1 (id check). I looked back at KC and told him, "Dude.. this piece of paper I m holding is worth $500"

At check point #2, I handed the gal the paper and said it was for all 3 of us. She quickly pointed us to the guy that was giving the stamps out. Then on to the stairs for check point #3 where the music started to get bumping. The security checked our $500 stamps and let us keep strolling.

Reality finally set in when we saw the plush red carpet inside Tryst. We were safe and sound, and in Tryst on LDW. "Hell f*cking yea, lets party!" I followed D through a crowd, and it seemed like he knew everyone at that place. We crashed through the dance floor following him and he fist bumped almost every one there. Then he hugged a couple of ladies by the stripper poles, and sure enough the JC table was right at the stripper pole. GF gave me the look that this is as good as it can get.

KC bought us all drinks, and we quickly killed it. By the time we got there D and his crew already killed 2 goose bottles. He asked if we wanted to go in on a 3rd one. I was like hell yea, its LDW.. I m willing to do whatever to contribute to the cause. I emptied my wallet of all my cash to Dnix, and KC did the same. Couple minutes later a girl in a lingerie halter top rolled out another goose for the slaying.

I made myself a drink, but it was more for the GF. Since I m driving I m sticking hard to the 1 drink limit. Soon enough I saw a row of girls, I m thinking maybe 3-4 girls coming over to us with a guy that looked like LL Cool J. He was like "Royale ... whats up buddy!!" I was like "Nassau.. its really you man.. what up!" We gave each other fist bumps and half hugs. Behind the row of ladies came NC " Whats going on Royale.." I was like... "you must be..." "NC man.. John!"" Nice to meet you man!" NC I can clearly tell he was tossed. He had a red cheeks and he was stumbling around. But it was definitely a sign of good times at the JC table.

GF got a drink and was wondering wtf nobody is using that empty pole. There were a bunch of ladies pushing each other , but none of them wanted to get on. I told her.. "hey its your chance." She got up on the pole in a hurry and started work to the song of " back dat azz up". Very appropriate song to start off the dance. A group of guys surrounded the stripper pole area as she put on show and I continued to socialize with the JC crew. Knowing the gf has mma training, shes more then capable of handling herself lol

I was talking to Nassau and KC..and at the corner of my eye I saw cups flying and ice all over the place. I was like WTF.. Dnix is laying flat on his back. I rush over there and help him get up. I was like, "did you slip man?" dnix, "no.. just fell"
I thought he was serious, so I let him go do his thing. A couple mins later I saw him stumbling around the couch. I handed him a fiji and told him he needed to hydrate. Then I asked if he needed a ride back to the hotel, and he said "no need.. its all taken care of." I m not too sure what exactly that meant. I continue to socialize with Nassau, KC and NC..and we were having a good ol time. About 30 mins later D was no where to be found.

The big bouncer guy walks over to us and tells me, "I put your boy in a cab and he is taken care of..." I m like "thanks bro.. I really appreciate it" The next day we found out that Dnix had to be wheel chaired back to his room!!

The rest of us continued to party. I saw KC with 6 latina girls at one point. He asked me to snap a few pics which I did with the girls camera. I wish I gotten a shot of him with my own camera. KC you are like the Enrique Igelsias for the ladies haha

Nassau and I were talking about the forums a bit on the couch and I could tell hes had a long day. He was drinking Fiji and shutting it down. You can really tell whos throwing in the towel once the Fiji comes out. Thats a rule to live by. At about 3:30 the club was dying down, but there were still enough people there to fill up Tryst at a normal capacity during a week day. We had our fun and thought it was a good idea to take off. I said bye to everyone at the table. KC was no where to be found.. I m assuming he took off with the girls.. who knows. But it was one crazy LDW night with the boys of JC. I can proudly say , "We tore that sh*t up!"

Pictures:

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Dnix and I, with the red Tryst ambiance

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KC and Dnix

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Both very drunk NC and Nassau

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The gf eyeing the pole

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KC took this one for us, thanks buddy!

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3 killed gooses, the carnage at the end of the night

NIGHT 1

Ok got ready heading out of caesars and the cab line was crazy. So I see a lexus thats available so I do the nassau and say Dont do lines and get in. Got to the palms and nobody is ready head up to the ghost bar and then everyone started showing up. I think cisco got there first then dnix and nassau I dont rember when I met ncvegas. So we start drinking and having a great time. I think we went to rain first or outside by ditch, so we are walking around every where moon playboy rain the little bar by ditch. Having drinks and shots and drinks and shots. Finally keebler tags along and where walking around, everyone is just trashed I think we over did it the first night. From here I dont rember what time I left I dont rember what happened to the strip club. I think we were going to the strip club early like at 2:00 am but then we got separated. I dont even rember what time I went to sleep. It was pretty wild

DAY 2


I remember getting up early and thinking wtf happened last night. I txt everyone just woke up drunk as fu*k anyone awake. I dont think anyone replied so I started messing with some cabinet I broke in our room. Finally fix it and got ready and we went to in and out again. The day was spent just walking around and sight seeing pretty boring I know I wanted to go to wet.

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So I get back to the room and give the crew choices... We could hit up XS, Tryst, Pure or Prive and they chose Prive because last time we were there they were being anal and didnt let us in. So I send a few text messages and it looks like I'm set for Prive. We do a few more pre-game drinks, my friend that went with me to the meet up did a ton more drinks! We walk over to Prive and she's hammered!!! We go to where we were supposed to meet up with a guy who was gonna get us all in and then KC shows up. We talk a bit and finally roll to where were meeting dude up at. We get some bracelets and wait to get in... which the wait takes a while!!! We finally get in and first thing I do is say lets go get drinks! We get a round and then KC says lets do some Patron shots!!! About 20 mins before he said he'd never touch Patron again... classic!!! So we do a round! We head to the dance floor... dance around start having a good time when we realize my friend is way hammered.... like really bad so my bro says he'll call it an early night and take her back to the room. I figure cool and chill and dance around. I talked to some chics that were there for a bachlorette party and turns out they were from San Francisco and I made a comment about how my Chargers wooped on their Niners and they get butt hurt and just walk away.... fuk em! There's more chics here anyway!!! I then get a text from my bro saying he has no room key and cant get into the room. So I'm thinkin FUCK!!! Now I have to go back to Ballys and give them my room key... total BS. So I head out and ask the guy at the exit if I could get back in, he was in dick mode or something because he said NO! and wasnt pleasant at all. So i figure screw it, I'll figure it out when I get back. I walk over there as quick as I can, get their and open up the room. She barely made it and her night went downhill from there. I get a text from KC saying he's heading to Tryst to meet me there and at this point I realize I left my tab open inside of Prive. So I tell him I'll most likely meet him there. I try and get to Prive as fast as I can and on the way the other 2 girls in my crew text me that their heading back to the room and I run into them on my way back. They say their gonna call it a night so I figure cool, I'm not! I get back to Prive and kinda get hassled by the first chic about getting in, then the bouncer starts asking me for my ID when I tell him its inside with my open tab and I show him my stamp from being there earlier. He lets me in... I get inside and take one mroe shot before closing out my tab. Then I start pondering what to do... Should I head straight to Tryst or should I try and rally up some of my crew?!? I decide on crew... so I head back yet again. By the time I make it back I'm feeling tired... I get in the room and everyone is just chillin drinkin watchin TV getting ready to pass out. I try and rally them but their not going any where so I sit down to chill before I roll. The problem is I had been up since 11 and was walkin around and in the pool and didnt take a nap so once I sat down I didnt move.... I fell asleep for like 40 mins and when I got up I was like eff this I'm going to bed already!!! Lame end, I wish I would have gone cause I checked out the texts from KC saying it was a blast and they had a stripper pole. I'm pissed at myself for not going with them but I was tired and oh well!

Also I realized the next morning that I had put my brother on the room so he could have gotten a new room key!!!

More to come later... I'm off work and looks like my drunk friend that ruined Saturday night is making it up to me by taking me to Dave n Buster's tonight!!!

I was rolling around in bed after a loong night, but I didn't drink too much so I wasn't in a state of drunkeness. Infact I was all hyped up. I got up again and went "Vegas Vegas Vegas.. LETS GO!!" Then I looked around, wait its not my room..and I m not home. I m already here. It was one of those WTF moments where you forgot you are sleeping somewhere else. I checked my phone and it was 8:05AM, I slept a total of 3 1/2 hours after getting back at 3:30am. I was ready to partaaaai again.

I looked over and the GF was passed the F out. She practically drank all my drinks since I was the DD. I turned the TV on and watched ESPN, and that was loud enough to wake her. She said that she didn't feel too well and her kidneys were hurting. So we decided it was a good idea to stay hydrated and to get some breakfast. We hit up the Deli at the Signatures tower 2. If there was a thing called gourmet breakfast, this place sure served them up. $24 of hotel credit sure went like it was $2. But I have to say, everything we ordered from the all american breakfast platter to the french toast sandwich was supremely tasty, and just what we needed to refuel.

We got about back around 10:30 or 11, I decided to take a mini nap and get up at 12 to get ready for the pool. I get a call at about 12:30 from Nassau's phone saying they are getting ready to head to the Wet and to get ready. I knew it was game time. GF was excited to go back to the Wet. We always have a great time there.

At around 1:30, I slow stroll down from Tower 3 walk around the flower beds and found this hidden tunnel that led to Wet Republic. I was carrying my red Silo cup full of Belvy + Cran. I saw Nassau when I opened the secret gate from the Signatures infront of the line at Wet. He said, "That drink sure looks delish..." The music at this point was loud enough and bumping. Wet Republic probably has the best out doors speakers in the world where it really feels like you are indoors in a club while you are in a huge open area.

I gave both of them fist bumps and our crew was ready to be marched into Wet. Dnix went up to the guy in front at check point #1 holding the clipboard. He said a few things, and the conversation lasted about 30 seconds. We by passed a line running about 100 people in bathing suits deep. We then got to the VIP id checking line at check point #2. A nice friendly guy asked us to pull up our shades so he can confirm it was really us. I looked over and saw a bunch of pissed people standing in the heat in the non-VIP id checking line waiting for days to get their IDs checked. We then were directed to a path that ran along the back wall. We got to check point #3 where people were dishing out $100 bills for the cover charges and D waved someone down that looked like a higher up at the Wet and he gave the gals a hand signal that everyone in our group is comped. He told the stamp guy to stamp us, and soon enough we were all carrying $100 stamps which gave us access to LDW 09 the whole day Sunday. Check point #4 was this retarded one where they checked your bags, and made you throw out water bottles. GF had some kidney pain so I brought some extra water bottles which we had to toss straight into the trash can. We both took chugs from them and wasted the rest.

We stepped in the Wet and 2 to 3 girls in straight up thongs walk by with towels looking for a spot. I looked at the DJ and sure enough it was SHARAM. Sharam is one off the hook DJ.. if you guys don't know, just watch this vid right now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCt4V_0IUfM

And I was ready to party all the time with my JC crew. Dnix walked us over to his favorite bartender and within seconds, drinks with an expected amount of goose was ready for consumption. We found this sweet spot in the main party pool right when you walk in , the first corner. I drop our stuff down and hop into the pool with Dnix. GF was feeling a little Iffy, so she decided to just lay out and tan. Nassau was wearing cargo shorts at a pool party LOL but he was pimping and styling at the sametime, I cant blame him.

I chilled in the pool a little bit kind of reflecting on the forum and some of the members with D, while Sharam was playing these bumping ass tunes. These tunes were seriously bumping.. like the bass would thump so hard from those Wet speakers that it rattles your brain and makes a pleasurable sensation that makes you then dance in the pool and knod your head. I was sipping on my double sized Wet Rep Cran +Goose. Gotta keep things the same to be on the safe side. Chugged it all down.

Dnix was talking to some towel boy at Wet Rep, it seemed like he knew everyone where we went. I would say maybe ten minutes later, the towel boy brought him back some shades. I walk over to him with a WTF? look. Hes like, "yea I needed some shades and they hooked it up" These arent your shades you pick up at the $10 gift shop on the strip. Its looked like a nice pair of Dolce and Gabanna from the gift shop. Simply styling. I was like ,"Sh*t.. they need to get Nassau some board shorts.. "

GF came back from the restroom and her kidneys were hurting some more. Nassau ran off got me another goose cran and got the GF a Fiji. (Thanks Nassau.. she appreciates it alot!) She was sipping on some Fiji until she couldn't take it anymore. She needed go back to the room and rest. I was cool with that, I told her to call me if she feels worst. So it was just the 3 of us.. its time for the boys to hang.

I was chilling in our little corner where we would meet random people with Dnix. This girl swims up to me and says hi. I introduce myself and she cracks up.. I noticed a mouth full of braces. I found out she was from Texas..so I introduced her to Dnix right away. Dnix said HI, and when the girl looked away I asked him what he thinks.. hes like , "oh helll naw..." We swim a few feet away to distance ourselves...

This has to be an hour of us just relaxing, listening to Sharam bumping his tunes and Dnix suggested its a good idea to call and check up on my girl. I agreed.. I called her and she was happy I did check up on her shes fine for now. I came back and told Dnix thats a player move, I never even thought about that LOL Meanwhile Nassau rolls back with about 3 girls after he went and did his thing. The 3 girls were kind of stashed away at our corner of the pool, then he asked me if I wanted to be his "Shade". "hell yea man.. lets roll"

A shade is basically a wingman, its always good to roll around with a crew to look somewhat organized and I was ready to contribute to cause. We went to the bar and got another super sized Cran Goose. We stroll around with our drinks, and it seemed like every corner we turned.. the girls Nassau passed they always did a double take. So I tipped Nassau off which ones seem interested. We turned one more corner and this little midgety girl jumps on Nassau's shoulders and knocks over his drink. She was all excited to see him.. I m guessing its someone he knows from the night before. She then looked down and realized that she knocked over Nassau's drink. We were both like umm... thats kind of lame, but whatever. The girl then slowly started to form tears around her eyes. Then it got to the point where she sat down to sob, "i didnt mean too! I m such an idiot!!" We were like its all good yo.. its just a drink. But the girl just wouldnt stop wheeping. Nassau started to walk away and I followed him.. the girl grabbed on to my hands. I was like WTF. Imagine two guys over 6 feet with this tiny girl thats no taller then 5 foot and I m holding her hand. It looked like a kid getting pulled out of the amusement park by her daddy. As we were walking her friend came back from the restroom. I handed her over to her friend and both Nassau and I thought this was an opportune moment to bail the F out.

We found our way back into our corner and the girls Nassau brought over were still hanging out. I guess thats like our recruiting station for the rest of the day lol I got in the pool with everyone, and Nassau went for another run. I got another Goose cran coming my way. I forgot that I should probably go to the rest room if I m going to work on my 5th double sized drink. My drink comes and I gather everyone around me and have their full undivided attention. "No matter what you guys do, please protect this drink.. Im going to set it right here..and when I get back, please make sure its in one piece."

I go to the restroom and it had to be no longer then 5 minutes. I come back and sure enough my drink was half empty. I looked at it and everyone was cracking a smile.. I was like ok WTF happened. They fessed up, " Some drunk just kicked it and we didn't have a chance to save it.. " This is a time for another Vegas lesson. Never set your drink down at a pool party. It never fails that a drunk mofo will kick it or it will some how magically knock itself down. I told them its alright..its bound to happen. One of the girls was nice enough to let me share her drink.

Its been a good few hours at Wet, we were all having fun. I thought it was a good idea to check my phone again. Looks like GF called and left a message. I quickly called her back and she said her kidneys were hurting real bad. I told her just hang tight.. I will run back to the tower. I politely excuse myself from the crowd and told Nassau what was going on. I couldn't find Dnix so I called him and left a drunken message. I hope it saved... its probably one of those classics.

I drunk walk my way back into the room. I didn't realized how many drinks I have had..but after Sharam's music stopped I could barely stand up. Everything became a blur, and the room started to spin. GF mumbled something like, "I called the Dr. and they said I should go to the hospital..." I was like WTF.. I cant drive you, can you take a cab? She was ok with this. My last moments that I remember was going to my walet and leaning over to hand her a $20 like someone trying to score a goaline touchdown. I laid face first in the bed and couldn't move. GF said, "If you need to throw up the trash can is right next to you.. " She takes off from the room..and battle in my stomach began.

(to be continued...)

So the battle between me and my stomach was fought and lost. I found myself rinsing out the trash can. The pimped out room at Signatures even had dish detergent available, so I got the trash can all squeeky clean. Hah.. looked like nothing happened. But I on the other hand was a bit woozy.

I got a call back from the GF telling me that shes going to be ok, and she will need to take meds for her kidneys. So she will have get to walgreens. I told her to make sure its somewhat close to our hotel and we hung up. I forgot what really happened after that, I just sat still in one position and rolled my head to the side and fell asleep.

An hour or two go by and the phone rings again.. I checked and its 8:05pm and it was the gf calling again. She said shes at the walgreens, got her meds but these guys on the strip handing out porn cards are trying to grab her. "WTF.. why are they trying to grab you?" " I dont know, but this is really scary.. come get me... " I hung up and felt like I was somewhat coherent, but in not quiet driving shape yet. Fortunately she was close enough to the hotel where I can get there on foot in about twenty minutes.

I hop in the shower, and feel completely better. So instead of wearing some shorts, I might as well put on some clothes for Tao. I actually have a shot at using these Wantickets I bought, and certainly didn't want to waste them. I call the GF to let her know I m coming, and to stay close to the Walgreens so the "porn handlers" won't grab her. I called KC and let him know that I up-chucked a few times after Wet and I m planning on getting there at 11pm and to wait up for me.

I started walking from Tower#3 at the Signatures all the way through the walkways for each tower. The best part of the Signatures and MGM are the towers being connected. I was still in recovery stages, so this walk definitely helped me cool off a bit for my activities later in the evening. I got to a manual door where you had to hold open, and these girls were coming up.. I wasn't quite all there so my judgment was off. I think I let the door go and almost hit the girl.. "Thanks for nothing asshole!" Whatever.. I gotta keep on moving and rescue the GF.

I got to the Walgreens and she was standing outside all scared looking. I asked her if everything was ok and she said she was fine, and just had to take her meds. There was a panda express next to the walgreens, so we decided to make a pit stop there on the way back. Having some food in my stomach definitely helped a lot. I started drinking water the rest of night... Infact the thought of goose, or seeing a pack of geeses would make me want to upchuck. I m going to cool it for the rest of the day.

We get back to the hotel, and it was about 10:15pm. The GF was completely cool with me going to Morillo by myself, and she needed to take meds and rest. So I tucked her in and turned off the lights. I left the room and it was Morillo time!

I got the car out of the valet, and they handed me an extra water bottle to bring with me. What a nice bunch of guys! They even left my AC on high and blasting. I knew the back ways so it didn't take me more then 10 minutes to get to the Venetian.
I roll up to Venetian at about 11 and give KC a call...
R: Yo man, I m here!
K: Alright, meet me at Tao Beach...
R: OH the Tao Beach sign?
K: Yea...
R: Be right there..

I go up to Tao at 11 and noticed the line wasn't that bad. I asked one of the guys in suits and he directed me to go outside of the hotel for the guest list line. I walked outside and then my jaw dropped.. WTF. The guestlist line is huge! Then I talked to one of the clipboard guys outside and told them I was a Wantickets customer. Hes directed me to the VIP guestlists line. I was the only one in the line and first one in the line. I got into Tao a few minutes later.. Look back at the guestlisters "hahah suckahs!"

I call up KC and tell him that I m at the Tao Beach sign.. where the F is he! Hes like I m at Tao Beach yo.. Ok I didn't know Tao Beach opened up during Tao club hours. This is neat. I make my way upstairs and to Tao Beach where I manage to find KC and his crew in the middle of the dance floor. KC gave me the fist bump as he was double fisting two drinks. His crew was already drinking up as well. He had two guys, one was older, one younger..both were great partiers. He asked me if I wanted anything.. I politely just asked for water eventhough my mind wanted something else.

We BS'd for about a good 30 minutes. We bragged about how good of a time we had Tryst and his boys missed out. His boys were asking me pointers on how to get Vegas and Socal women. I gave them a few select pointers. One of the boys decided to try it out, and was quickly pushed away. The older one in the crew was like "let me know show you how its done". He comes up on the girl and starts dancing behind her.. as hes doing that, hes whispering a few things and the girl knods and they dance for like 10 minutes. I told KC's friend, "do what that guy is doing."

Now it was approaching midnight, and we knew Morillo was going to come up on stage. Its time to dispatch downstairs to Tao. This is probably my best video work on this trip. I can describe this scene probably like soldiers landing on the beaches to fight a war. KC and our crew just landed, and we are about go to battle at Tao:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6n6-wO-Xdk

We were just immersed into the bass. The DJ was just spinning off the hook. Its not even Eric Morillo, but we were feeling that music. We cruised around Tao to find a good chill spot. On the way there we spotted the infamous naked "Tub Girls"..
Heres a vid of them setting up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=druZwvhC1Ds

We finally found a sweet spot inside the opium room to chill. Too bad I didn't even know that MrVegas was probably a few tables a way. We were that close, and I didn't think to call him. See folks.. this is why you gotta fill out your signatures with your itinerary BEFORE you leave.

At about 1:30am or so Eric Morillo came on stage and just about blew the roof off. We got as close to the stage as possible. I had to fight off a few short dudes, but managed to get a very good spot to film the action. If you guys don't love house, I think you will start loving house. Eric Morillo just puts the club in a mood to party. His mixes will make your ear ring with pleasurable sensations for the entire night. Heres a hi-def vid of his performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOrFOrcYzg

Being able to see Eric Morillo definitely made a good day even better. I got KC into loving house music. He kept telling me how hes never liked it until I introduced it to him haha Welcome to Vegas. They got the best of the best, and you gotta love house to love all the clubs in Vegas.

I ended up taking off at about 2:30. I left early because I wanted to make sure the GF was alright, and also maybe squeeze in another day at Wet.. if I can make it that is!

Pictures:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/royale11/vegas09-laborday/CIMG2790.jpg

Me and KC having a blast at Tao

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/royale11/vegas09-laborday/CIMG2801.jpg

The man himself, Eric Morillo

NIGHT 2


So I was dragging ass all day, just so tired from the crazy night before and I get a txt from Cisco that says jc forum meet 6:00 pm dont be late. So I look at the time and its like 5:30 I start to get ready and txt him back Im going to go but going to be a little late. I talk to my crew and they did not want to go, im not going to lie I didnt want to go out neither I was beat. Finally get ready leave caesars walk to belliago call cisco and he meets me at the door of carmel. I was like what's up who's all here and he says well livelifeas1 and me I was like wtf where's everyone at ? He says no one answers their phone so go in and make the best of it even though I was not drinking. Were there having a good time and cisco says he's going to get ready he says he's going to prive he invites me to go so I say yeah lets go I figured Ill hang out with cisco's crew tonight. Finally I have my first drink and start getting in too the mood to drink livelifeas1 is there were just chit chatting there for a while and we split up and say our goodbyes and I start heading to Prive to meet up with cisco crew. We finally meet up and wait for ciscos contact he gets there and puts some bracelets on our wrist. We wait a little longer and then line up at the door. Wait a little more and were going up the escalator we get inside get some drinks and some patron shots (even though I said no more patron). Were walking around checking it out then ciscos friend was already trashed and cisco brother took her back to the room cause she was wrecked. Then cisco has to let them into the room cause his brother didnt have a key so cisco leaves and then his crews decides they want to leave. I was like well Im not going to hang out by myself at Prive, so I text everyone and Dnix is the only one that replied back. He says at tryst I can get you in hurry up im like okay on my way so Im almost running to find a taxi at planet hollywood and I cant even find the vallet section so I run to Paris and see this huge line and im look fu*kkkk. So I start thinking and Nassau comes mind with his I dont do lines so this gives me an idea I go right upfront to the taxi line and say anyone going to the wynn ? luckily an asian couple that was second inline says yeah were going to the wynn so I tell them If I can ride with you I pay for your cab and they look at each other for a second and say ok. (keep in mind im drunk im probably sweating and I ran to the taxi line) So we get in the cab and head to the wynn while dnix is txting me saying hurry up I tell him on my way. Cisco txts me and says hey I forgot to close my tab I have to go back to close it. I tell that im heading to the wynn, finally arrive and pay the driver thank the nice couple and run inside the wynn sending dnix some txt. Im in line all the way to the back and I see a couple and the guy looks like he might be royal im like hmm I wonder if thats him ? Dnix show up like he owns the place points at royal gets him past the ropes then comes back to me gets me past the ropes. I was in shock to say the least he goes and finds Patrick Frank and he introduces him to us we shake hands nice guy too. So I start talking to royal as we walk along the long hallway get downstairs and dnix is holding some piece of paper royal keeps telling me its worth $500 royal gives the paper to the cashier we get stamped and soon as I look up the waterfall wow (I have never been to tryst) That place is nice we get to the back to dnix's table and there is a stripper pole right in front of his table. I could not believe my eyes when I seen so many girls get on there, I get dnix and myself a drink cause royal wasnt drinking I get two vodka sours (these are pretty good btw first time having one of these.) Everybody shells out some cash and we get a bottle of goose where there having a great time so its Dnix, Nassau, Ncvegas, Royale. Everybody is having a great time and all of sudden I didnt see Dnix and the bouncer tells us that he put him in a cab he was done. So there we are having a blast and I spot some girls I start talking to them and boy I needed a wingman theres was a group of 6 of them so Im sitting there bs with them royal snapped a couple pics with there camera of all of us together I wish he would of took some pics with his camera so I can remember what they look like.(Dammit Royale j/k) So the waitress comes up and she ask if we want to do shots Im like yeah lets get a round. We do the shots and I pull out my debit card and the waitress says oh im sorry only cash. I was fu*k I told her can I just pay the bar and shes says no cash only so i look through my wallet and try to find some cash. I ask royal and he says he dosent have any so I tell the waitress can I start a tab at the bar and you can charge me there and she says no. She starts to tell me where the atm is and tells a bouncer to take me up he does so we go up there I get some money out go back downstairs and I tip the bouncer pay the waitress tip her for all the trouble and go back to the table and no one is there I was like that sucks. I dont know if royal thought I get kicked out or what ? The girls left too I guess It didnt look good when I walk away from them with a bouncer and dont tell no one nothing . So I get the flip out and get some footage of the waterfall and have a look around finally leave and go back upstairs as I look at the taxi line everyone was sitting down I guess taxi's dont go to the wynn . Some guy gets up and says Im not waiting Im getting a limo so Ill till him where you going ? and he says mgm so I tell him I give you half just drop me off at caesars he's like cool so we get in the limo and I get flip out and start yelling out the window at people it was pretty funny the video will be posted. So I get there head to my room and I cant get in I thought I was at the wrong room and I keep putting the key in and finally the door opens. Wait till you see the vid its funny.

Okay here it is the first of many videos. First thing first

DUE TO THE HIGH LEVEL OF ALCHOL IN TAKE WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING THIS TRIP VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=JRB1Y0YZ

look at cisco's face after he takes his shot

After getting back from the Morillo concert early and at a decent time, I was able to wake up early and get myself back to a fresh start. I think this was the first time on my trip where I did sleep more then 5 hours. I slept 5 and half hours.

I got up early with the GF and thought it would be a great idea if we check in to our second hotel the MGM a bit early. I heard great things about the all-day buffet and we got a special on it. We ended up doing our 20 minute trek through the hallways of MGM again, but this time around it wasn't as painful because we were both very sober and well rested. I checked in with some smoothness, and there was no sandwiching attempt what so ever. Its my last night.. who really cares if my view is of some Stucco.

We took advantage of our deals immediately by going to the buffet. This was really our first meal since..... breakfast the day before! So this breakfast we are going to try to make the most of it. GF still had a few side effects from the meds, so she hit up the salad bar. I went straight for the omelets and these cheese square things that melted in your mouth. I grabed a few more plates of eggs, roast beef and brownies. Whata complete breakfast.

After getting our stomach filled with food instead of alcoholic beverages, we made our walk back to the Signatures for the pack and check out. Ideally I was planning on leaving this morning, but I extended my vacation the last minute when I saw this deal on Wet Republic. I kind of assumed that I was going to get hook ups, and it would be a shame to not go to Wet since thats our favorite place.

<Fast Forward to 1pm>
We are checked in at MGM and have our room all setup. I call KC and he doesn't answer. He calls me back about 20 minutes later and says hes way too trashed. He went to after hours with Nassau after Tao, and it was just off the hook. I told him to rest up and if he changes his mind to let us know. I called Dnix to see how hes been... he picks up the phone and I can barely recognize his voice. He sounded all tired.. I asked him if I called at a bad time. Hes like, "No man.. just waking up..." I asked if he was down for Wet and he told me he first needed to have a meal. Hes been exhausted from a rough night at XS. Come to think of I did miss a call from Dnix the night before and there was some loud music in the background..that must of been from XS.. .oops! So I tell Dnix to rest up and call me if he makes it down to the MGM pool.

2pm finally rolls around and the GF and I thought it was time to get some fun in the sun. We make our walk down through the MGM casinos and out to the MGM pool. We look around and it was moms, kids running around and screaming and more moms chasing after them. At the back of my mind, I thought I heard some bumping bass coming out of the backside of the MGM pool. I look at GF direction and we both agree that we need a change of scenery and we are going back to Wet.

Checkin into Wet today wasn't VIP styles like it was the day before. We actually had to stand in line. But the good news is that after 3 lines, it didn't take longer then 20 minutes which was very reasonable. I also charged the $150 cover back to my room, and it was completely comped by the hotel. Atleast I can say I got into Wet free by myself.. Dnix u gotta give me that haha

So we got in and today it was obvious that most of the wild and crazy LDW partiers have gone home. There were still people left, but it was just not as packed as the day before. We find a spot in the 2nd pool which we chilled at last time, and had a great time.

I set our stuff down and the GF needed to go to the restroom. I was sitting by the pool side waiting for her and within a minute, 2 drunk ladies swooped in and introduced themselves to me. I introduced myself and they smiled.. I noticed that one of them had some serious freckles while the other... lets say should've kept the shades on. They asked, "Why aren't you getting in the pool? Are you afraid of getting Wet? he he he he" I thought this was a great opportune moment to drop the bomb and end all this. " Oh I m waiting for my girlfriend to get back from the rest room. We will get in later.. " Finally for the next minute there was a nice silence for me to listen to music that was bumping at Wet.

GF gets back and the 2 drunken girls shake her hand. One of them whispered something into the GFs ear. BTW my gf never told me what they said.. but she had a smile on her face. I can guess it was something close to this " You have a P-whipped BF, but he seems to be a keeper" Either ways.. whatever, its LDW and all.. I m just there to have a great time. Now it was my turn to head to the restroom and bring back a drink.

I go to the bar and I managed to track down Dnix's boy and bought a drink from him. GF didn't want any so I ordered one drink with ice water. But I made sure it was a 100% tip on top of the drink because he really took care of us. Heres time for another Vegas tip. When you are tipping in Vegas.. make sure you take care of the source thats actually taking care of you! It leaves a more lasting impression. There are too many middle men out there that are just going to hussle the other person's tips.

I grab the drinks and I head back to the pool and found the GF. She had a disturbed look on her face.. I asked what was wrong. "That guy over there wanted to throw me in the pool..so I slapped him.." Wow.. these things happen, but I m glad she can defend herself. I looked over and it was a group of hispanic males.. none of them seem to be speaking english, so they might not be from around here. Or they could be just from East-LA. So I thought it would be good idea if we scoot over to the corner of the pool and just be out of these douchebags way.

We get into the water and the gf wanted to take a pics of me. She took the camera out and was about to take the picture and then she turned around quickly. *splash* The big tubby one in the douche bag group did a cannon ball. I look over and he was tipsy as f*ck. He was bringing his bottle of Kettle one into the pool and just pouring it in the water. I was like WTF.. this is getting lame. Lets just leave this area completely.

We gathered our stuff and migrated to the other side of the pool. We feel much safer on this side just being out of the way of the douche bags. It was getting to be about 6pm and the air was getting cooler. Vegas as a whole was cooling down. Its a sign that the end of pool parties are coming soon.
This was about the sametime Deadmau5 took the stage and took control of the crowd with his music.

Heres some footage and a pic of Deadmau5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwytvLmWzrs

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/royale11/vegas09-laborday/CIMG2816.jpg

As we were enjoying the music, there was some other drama going on. On the douchebag's side of the pool, one of the guys decided it was a good idea to dump some random girl at the chair next to them in the pool. They both go into the water. The girl gets up and punches him square in the fore head. The guy gets back up and gets very irritated and I guess he started mouthing off to the girl. They both get out of the water and a shouting match ensued. The soaked girl's bf steps in and starts talking to the tubby guy (who did a cannon ball next to us earlier) whos a friend of the douche that dumped the girl into the water.

They both get in each other's faces and both were in a stare down. The kicker is that the boyfriend was a big yoked guy and the other dude was a short tubby douche. I would love to see him get worked in this fight. No punches were thrown, the Wet Republic security guys step in to seperate the two. The drama only starts to get better.

The security was able to restrain the tubby one, but for some reason he just wouldn't stop yelling. I m not sure in what language if the guards don't understand spanish. He was trying to defend his friend that he was playing around by dumping some random girl into the water. I don't really call that playing around myself. The tubby guy and his friend both side by side were yelling at the security and his friend got accidently pushed into the pool and he falls in. This draws a cheer from the entire section of our pool.

The tubby guy just wouldn't quit talking and the security guards were ready to escort him out of the place. As he was getting walked out he grabs an innocent bystanders top and pulls it off. Boobs just come flying out and the girl is totally embarassed. At that point he went out of line. The police came in quickly and tackled him to the daybed. As they were cuffing him up, the tubby guy's gf started to hit the police on the back, and she gets tackled to the day bed as well. We can only expect this to get better. The friend that started the entire fight jumps in and tries to rescue his friends, but gets pushed aside by a bigger pool boy working at Wet. He then tries to kick the pool boy, and just as he was kicking, the pool boy made this sweet move where he dodged the kick, and took other the dudes other leg out at the sametime. The guy falls down and he was able pin both his arms and legs down and restraint him.

All in all, there were 3 arrests made! We didn't get to see Deadmau5 like we wanted to, but we sure made up for all the fights we missed in Vegas. Dammmmn I should've put a bet that we this coming. Whenever you guys see douches at the pool, stay cool and just walk away. Its never worth it to ruin your vacation or your permanent record over :D

(more to come at XS later..)

Pictures

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/royale11/vegas09-laborday/CIMG2813.jpg
A shot w/ my gf.. going to be the only one. Dont want to bore you guys :)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/royale11/vegas09-laborday/Photo0012.jpg
Panoramic picture of Wet Republic

Also heres a panoramic view of our room in MGM (no comparison to the Signatures)
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/royale11/vegas09-laborday/Photo0011.jpg
yea thats a bottle of Belvy with a paper towel sticking out. We lost to the top somewhere :/

here we go round 2 this is palms at night 1 week ago
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=D9J0EIV0

So we wake up sometime around 10 because my really drunk friend needed to fly back today. So instead of the buffet again we decided to hit up Margaritaville, which was my suggestion. We get ready and head that way, I think I got a text from KC asking what was up, told him we were gonna chill and eat and just relax today. So we get to Margaritaville and get a buzzer and in about 10-15 minutes our table is ready. We order drinks and I get one of their fruity banana coconut milk one which was fuken awesome!!! I get some sort of steak and I have to admit it was really good, one of my friends got some nachos which was a huge fukin plate!!! I mean when she got it she was like WTF?!? It was that much. We scarf that down and then I realize its time for my friend to leave so I decide I'll walk her back to the room to get her stuff and try and get her a shuttle. She get's her stuff, no shuttle fuck it she takes a taxi. She says her goodbyes and is on her way. The rest of my crew decide they wanna head back and lounge at the pool so I tell them I'll meet up with them and I go try my luck at craps. I find a table that looked dead cause I wanted to try doing the whole Dont pass bet. I make a few bucks off of it but then it starts to heat up a bit so I switch it up and as soon as I put money down dude craps out and I'm broke. Only bought in for $50 though so no biggy! I roll over to the pool and find my friends chillin with a bucket of beers and a backpack full of my flasks, redbulls and more beers. I'm stoked so I start doing some drinkin! We chill till it starts dying down and head back to the room where everyone showers and we ponder what we wanna do that night. They all wanted to do Pure but I wanted to roll with Dnix and Nas to XS. So I get ahold of Nas who tells me to meet him at around 10, cool enough time to get a nap in. We get a nap and everyone wakes up kinda groggy, nap wasnt that good of an idea. Nobody really wanted to go out, I had to rally them up to finally go out. We meet up with Nas and Dnix and take 2 cabs over to Wynn/Encore. The girls get in the first one and Nas, Dnix, my bro and me all get in another one.... we beat them there! Our taxi driver was a maniac!!! Dnix starts kinda talkin shit to the driver when the driver responds, "You want to fucking get there or not!!!" It was hilarious!!! Dnix was put in his place... kinda! lol So we get there and him and Nas and my bro roll to find his connect and I try and find the girls. I finally find them and one of the girls bf was in a really pissy mood and ruined everyones mood on the way there. This guy was a fuken downer!!! It was his gf's trip for her b-day and he was just ignoring her all weekend and gambling alone. She had to beg him to go out which she had done this night but he was in jeans originally and the girls yelled at him to put some fukin dress pants on.... but when he say Dnix in jeans he got way butthurt and was bitching the whole taxi ride. Anyway back to the TR... Dnix comes to find out what was up, so I tell my crew the specifics as far as cover and all that. The girls bf goes, "Fuck that! I'm not paying that cover for us!" To which I respond, "Well fuck you then, go find your own fucken place to party!" The girl and him roll, the other girls were upset and ended up wanting to go somewhere else and asked me to take them to Pure. So I tell D and Nas that I had to roll and we roll back to Bally's. On the way there Dnix texts me, come back I'm in and I can get you guys in. But we were already in a taxi and almost at Bally's When we get there one of the girls decides she's gonna try and do her own thing so I figure fuck this, lets just hit up Carnival court or something. I talk my bro and the other girl to roll. We head out and walk the strip a bit, we stop by Rokhouse and I get my bro a giant drink, the one with the neckband to hold it. We walk some more and I insist we check out Casino Royale because they can get a free $50 to gamble with. We roll there and they cant do it because its past midnight so they decide their going to leave. I tell them to roll cause I was gonna stay there and gamble then cause I'm in Vegas and going to my room at 1 is bullshit!!! I gamble for a few hours where I go up and down and text KC back and forth a bit till I get a crazy ass phone call from Nas as I'm cashing out and walking out of casino royale. its somethins along these lines:
D: Where the fuck you at?
C: At casino royale
D: get your fucken ass to the venetian!!! I'm in a party bus with all kinds of chics, you better get the fuck over here!!!
C: I'm walking that way!!!

Since I was right next door I get there early where I meet a couple of the people he was partying with including a chic who was a playboy model.. or so I was told :D so we head over to Seamless in a fukin partybus and thats where I text KC to get his ass over here. We get to seamless. get in like nothing and get walked to where I guess we got bottles on the stage!!! That's right we were on the stage at Seamless!!! KC shows up a bit later and joins us, we start drinkin and having an awesome time. KC was lookin like he was hurting too! After a bit Nas says we need to get over to the Palms to do some more partying so we take off to the Palms. When we get outside a limo driver hits us up and KC talks to him for a bit and then says, "We taking a fucking limo to Palms!!!" It was awesome!!! We take an escalade limo over to the Palms and chill out for a bit. At this point I realize its almost 6 am and I gotta drive back at some point!!! At the same time one of the guys we were rolling with decides its time for some Patron and gets 8 shots. Were all walking around Palms with a shot of Patron in our hand at 6AM and nobody wanted to take the damn shot. They decide lets go to Drais!!! So on our way out some people randomly take the shots some dont. The guy who bought the round tells me to take the shot with him so I do and it hurts at first but then I'm fine! KC hits up the limo driver again and he picks us up and were on our way over to Drais at 6 AM in an escalade limo bumpin the tunes... it was fukin epic!!!!!! So when we get there I say my goodbyes cause I have to drive at some point the day and I head back to the room to find a group of passed out fuckers. I try and make as much noise without making too much noise if that makes any sense. I was trying to make sure they knew I was back and what time it was because I wasnt there to sleep!!! It was fukin sick!!! I then passed out.....

So I wake up around 10 hurting pretty good. Everyone calls me a madman for what I did and I reply, "I'm here to party not sleep!" lol They all start packing and getting ready and finally after failed attempts and getting another 30 mins I get up dragging my ass and start packing my stuff. We get the bellman to pick everything up and they decide lets hit Paris buffet one more time... I'm hungry so it sounded good. I go check out and meet them at the buffet line. We get in there and I was thinkin it was going to be as good as Sat but it wasnt :( but I still grubbed like no other. At this point I figure its still early I wanna gamble before we get back on the road so I head over to the craps tables yet again!!! lol I only buy in for $30 cause that's what I had in my pocket and didnt wanna hit up the ATM. I had my friend roll for me a few times and everyone made money off of her, I ended up making like $50 so I figure that pays for my breakfast lets roll! We get in the van and drive the strip one last time and then take off. We hit some bad traffic before hitting Prim so I decide to hit Prim and grab some drinks and snacks. We get back on the road and a few miles up my car starts acting up and it ends up dying on me as we start to go up the hill. At this point I'm thinking I'm fucked bad!!! I'm not making work tomorrow WTF?!?!?!?!?! After letting it sit for a bit it's fine to drive... then it dies again... then its good to drive. We get to a gas station and I get some fuel cleaner because it felt like a fuel problem (I was a mechanic for about 4 years) We then slowly... very slowly make our way back home. I left Vegas at about a quarter to 3 and got home at about 5 mins to midnight. All on 3 hours of sleep!!!!! The way there I left work at 7 and got into Bally's at midnight. I was hurting after this trip bad! I was a zombie at work the next day.

So that is my Vegas experience for LDW... it was a blast to party with all those that I partied with. You guys definatly made my weekend unforgetable (at least the parts I remember or see on video)

I want to specifically thank the following in order of appearance:

Keebler for hookin it up with those chairs, your awesome bro and sorry for my crew coming up and taking some of them without me telling you. You were one fun guy to party with!

Nas and Dnix you guys are fucking cool as fuck and I would party with you guys any time! It's partially because of you guys that I dont remember much of Friday

KC you were one cool cat! You guys got there a bit late and made a valiant attempt at catching up! It was fun partying with you the entire weekend and thank you for video taping my drunkenness... my bro saw that and was kinda of in awe and bummed because he missed out on a good time

livelifeas1 you were the first to meet me at Caramel (no one but KC and him showed up) that shot you bought my friend is what sent her over the top that night! Too bad we werent able to party that night but then again you were there since Monday right?!?

I think I met slick at one point at Ditch but that was a blur, sorry bro!


I cant wait till May!!! Also it looks like I will be going for New Years... I'll keep everyone updated!

Panda Express

Categories: Fast Food, Chinese
2 star rating
9/12/2009
Going to Vegas, the last place I would be expecting to dine at would be the Panda Express in some random shopping center off the strip. I hardly ever walk to anywhere, but since I had to walk this instance after doing a lot of drinking, I had to get a bite to eat at this Panda Express.

You can walk to this Panda from MGM, and it would take you no more then 15 minutes. The things I would probably look out for on the way there are the porn handlers, and drunk dudes that like to get frisky.

Once you get to this location, its almost impossible to find seating. Since there are multiple fast food joints at this food court, all of the tables are almost always taken. An indian family was nice enough to let us take a corner of their table to dine.

As far as service goes.. there is no service at this Panda. Imagine having to deal with strip traffic day and night. All of the people working there resort to being your high school lunch lady. Rice or Chow Mein? *slaps one scoop on your plate and keep on moving*

They won't even let you pay ahead of someone that was dining in. I ordered my order to go and about 99% of the time at other Panda Expresses, they would let me pay right away. Nope, not at this one. They need to make sure you get the full high school cafeteria experience.

Come here if you don't have a car, hurting for food..and this is a last resort. Otherwise there are plenty of better Pandas, or other options out there.

MGM Grand Buffet

Category: Buffets
2 star rating
9/12/2009
My last memories of the MGM Buffet was maybe 2 or 3 years ago before they started doing this "all-day buffet" thing. I love the concept of paying a flat rate of $33.60 (more on the weekends) and getting 3 turns at the buffet from Breakfast, Lunch to Dinner. They hand you this card where they will punch a hole in everytime you eat. Kind of like your high school lunch card.

I came here for breakfast, and there was nothing breakfast wise that really impressed me. I would say the best item during breakfast was having roast beef with au jus which is really a lunch or dinner item.

Lunch time, they expanded the trays a bit. I remember them used to have some type of fish or salmon. They had shrimp in the open bar, but nothing spectacular. The high light item was the desert plate of tiramasu. Still this is not as good as the buffet at the Paris.

Lastly at dinner, the gf found the california rolls to be a high light and I m not much of a sushi fan. So I got stuck with roast beef au jux again for dinner.

Overall I wasn't impressed and I notice that the quality has degraded since the old days of MGM. If you want great buffet food go elsewhere. If you want a good bang for your buck, then come here. If you are getting a special with MGM where you get 2 for 1 buffet, then definitely take advantage of it. Otherwise, there are plenty of better buffet options out there.

MGM Grand

Categories: Hotels, Casinos
4 star rating
Update - 9/12/2009 3 photos
Staying at the MGM this time around on my trip wasn't so much about getting a quality room, but more about the perks and bonuses that came with booking your room. You pretty much have a city built inside the hotel, and you will have everything at your disposal. The night before we stayed at the Signatures, and we knew the move wouldn't be that big of deal. Its about a 10-15 min walk from the towers of Signatures to MGM.

The room itself definitely lived up to the name. Beds were very comfortable, showers were large enough and had good source of hot water and there was even a desk and a couch for you spend time away from the beds. I hate hotels where the only thing you get is just a bed, it reminds me of motel 6. The only gripe I have is that the room's TV is still the old school tube. Most hotels now days atleast come with a flat screen. I m sure the West Wing has it hooked up like that. Other then that, the room was great!

As far as amenities and perks, I will start off by saying I saved about $150 off the cover at Wet Republic. I got a special which gave us free access, and we were able to use it towards LDW 09 Monday. Next we saved an additional $40 off the all day buffet. We got a 2 for 1 deal, so I only had to pay for one person. We could've saved more if we went to Tabu, but we got hook ups at XS.. so we weren't going to mess around. All in all, we got almost $200 worth of perks, and I paid about $58 after tax for my room. I think it was a great deal.

Im definitely going to come back to the MGM if they run deals like this again. Would I pay $199 a night here? Nope. $52 a night with all the perks.. hell yes.

here we go this was last saturday at prive and tryst

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Day 4 – Blood, oh the blood. JC meetup and lines

We both wake up refreshed from the relatively early night and head for Ditch. We flash our room cars and head on into the pool. I am quite amazed at the level of activity already by this time. We get two bed loungers beside a set of speakers, order up a couple of drinks from the server and settle in for what should be a manic day (ha! Little did I know!).

We spend the next couple of hours drinking and heading into the pool to cool over sitting under the center bar misters and grabbing a bite to eat. The sunscreen leia brought down turns out not to be sweat/waterproof so it starts wiping off me.

We head back to beds to get the other sunscreen, I am sitting on the edge of the bed when I feel a drip, the a second drip. I look down (at the same time as I get a feeling of liquid coming out of my nose) to see a stream of blood, I manage to get my hand up to catch the most of the blood. The next part becomes a blur, security come running give me tissues and ask me what happened – think they were expecting a fight. One of them points me to the nearest bathroom. Once I get there I see myself in the mirror. Catching the blood wasn’t true, it was all over the white shirt I had on to protect my sun burnt shoulders. In the toilet the blood seems to have stopped so I get washed up, and it suddenly starts again. You know I have had nose bleeds as kid but this was one the worse I have seen, this was a fast flowing river! Security comes in to check on me and takes me to the first aid point were they throw cold packs on me (not the issue since I was just out of the pool and cooled down), for the next 30 minutes I sit in Rain waiting for the nose bleed to stop. They recommend strongly that I head for my room and rest up for bit, which I think is a good idea. They give me a pile of first aid supplies and a free t-shirt so I don’t need to walk thought the casino in the blood splattered shirt.

Leia and I head back to the room, which I sit around have a cold shower and bitch about missing ditch. It’s about 3pm when I feel like getting up and moving again and since ditch is closing at 4.30pm that day I didn’t feel like the walk to the palms. So for the next couple of hours we head down and knock back a couple at the pool bar at palms place, a good couple.

The bar closes up at about 5.30, as it turns out there are benefits to talking to the bar guy, like not getting cut off a last orders like most other people in the pool. I got an entire extra 30 minutes of drinking time as I was sitting at the bar.

We head back up to the room and get changed for the member meet, which we are late for. We head in and see a bunch of people and I am think that’s got to be them. I decide we should grab a drink and go introduce ourselves, but as our drinks arrive NYC speaks up and asks if I am Audrieu. All I can say is very one we met at the meetup was great. Done a shot or Jaeger with Cashrules since was his stag and birthday, and got drinking with one of his party, who I now owe many many drinks.

Time sort of goes weird here, and of a sudden people start heading out, 2GirlsOneVegas head out to TAO, NYC has disappeared (which it turns he was outside making calls) and everything seems to finishing up so Leia and I head over to the palms to pick up our wristbands.

There is no problem picking them up but the first security guys tells us that we have to go stand with a pile of people to get into rain, but not to worry it is only going to take 20minutes! Well the “we don’t do lines” floats through my mind and we head for playboy where we go straight up no issues, we hang there for bit and then to moon were we bounce for a bit before heading back to down and going to rain. This time we find a different security guy who lets us straight through (the line we were told to go is just as big!) and into rain we go.

After a while leia starts to get hungry and we head out to meet up with cashrule’s crew going to ghostbar. We all try to talk leia into going up but she needs food. My problem is if I drink and then eat that is me done. Put food in my stomach and I am done. So we head back to room I have no idea what time it is and collapse.

Day 5- planes and good food

We get up head out to the airport and head back to San Francisco. We take the bart back to a friends house. Don’t really do much but we do go out for Ethiopian food, for the first time ever which is now on top of my favorite foods!

ok so here we go

DAY 3

Day 3 was already set since I bought tickets to tao through wantickets.com. I had listen to erick morillo a couple of days before but didnt know what to expect. So we get to tao about 10:30 show them my receipt and they tell us where to wait in line. We might have been waiting for about 10 min and then got in. (pretty smooth) I had never been to tao, just seen pics we get inside and im lost I didnt know where to go up to tao beach the bar or opium room dance floor. This place is pretty big so I hit up the bar and start drinking my new favorite drink vodka sour. So start walking around and we end up at tao beach were there hanging out enjoying the scene. I most say there was lots and lots of hot chicks I dont know if it was cause of erick morillo or thats just tao. I get a call from royal and he says im on the way we meet up at tao beach.(even though he thought tao beach sign ) (i think he was wasted lol ) So finally we meet up and walk around scoping the scene get some drinks even though he was drinking water. He said he had a ruff time at wet and had thrown up 5 times so I didnt give him any shit. I order another round of drinks and he tells me to get a cup of water on the side. I was thinking wtf why not just a water he explains to me that they dont charge you for a cup of water but if you say water then they charge you for a bottled water. (Pretty slick I have to admit.) Ok so royal starts giving us advice on how to get chicks after one of my buddys got turned down. Basically he says Just say your from laguna beach since every girl there was from cali. So I was going to try it at the bar when I was getting a drink when a girl and her friend (a guy) where there and we started talking I dont know why I guess I dont know how to lie when they ask me where you from I tell them kc the girl which was pretty cute tells me what are you doing here are you lost. I say no are you and she starts laughing and says im sorry let me get you a drink so I say ok and she gets me a vodka collins(my new favorite drink lol) this thing is like a lemonade with vodka. So we chit chat and she leaves I go back to the guys and we go downstairs by this time morillo is already playing we go to the main room and watch him. He really puts on a good show royal and me get the cameras out and record part of the show then go to the opium room and watch from a flat screen cause it was packed. We enjoy the show and royal decides to leave so he can rest up for wet the next day I tell him give me a call i might go. So after a while I think one of my buddies left and the other was talking to some fat chick I was not going to have any part of this nonsense so I went back up to the dance floor and pushed my way in I was almost in front of erick morillo so I was there recording.


After a while I get a text from cisco and he says seamless I was like well lets go since we blew it on friday haha. I told him I meet you there I kept recording and tried to get a hold of the guy that was talking to the fat girl but no answer so I go outside and get in a cab head to seamless. I get there and text cisco and him and nassau get me in no questions asked we get inside and head to their table which is on stage. I was like wtf if a girl comes out she might trip on our feet oh well so were there having a good time getting a couple of drinks. Then nassau says lets head to rain at the palms and im thinking man this guy is trashed. Its like 4:30 im sure its closed but im like lets go so we get outside and theres some guy out side that said you guys need a limo and I turned around and realize that there is 6 of us so I tell him yeah how much and he says 30 anywhere just tip and I was like hell yeah lets go we get in a escalde limo and head to the palms we get there and the guy gives me his card. We go inside try to go to rain and its closed so then one of the australian guys that went with us decide to hit some black jack he starts playing and he starts winning. (He made it look easy)So nassau went to play roulette he kept yelling out I got 100 on black cisco goes with him. The other australian guy is talking to two girls and im talking to a playboy model that was with the australian guys. So we are there and then the guy that was playing black jack goes and buys shots of patron by this time its like 5 in the morning and they say lets go to Drais so I call the limo guy and he says on my way. Were outside the palms waiting and we see a beautiful ferrari which I record but not just any ferrari a f430 which happens to be my favorite car so im star struck haha anyways the limo guy gets there and we get in and head to Drais cisco says later cause he had to drive that day.



Drais... we start to head in and there was line to get in we bypass the line and try to talk to a bouncer and he says he cant do anything. We tried to take care of him but nothing funny thing was we didnt take care of him but his dumb ass lifts the rope lets us in after we agree to pay full cover. I turn around and people are in line pissed off. We get in go downstairs and the place is bumping i have never been there so I thought the place was going to be some chill spot were you can have some drinks. Um no far from it the place was packed and music was banging nice looking chics everywhere so where there hanging out for a while I switch up to water and try to sober up for god sakes its like 6:30 in the morning I had been drinking since 9:00pm. After about an hr nassau says he's leaving and I leave with him we say are goodbyes to the australians and head out. We get outside and say our goodbyes and nassau heads to ballys and I head to caesars I get to my room and just sit on one of the chairs I make a post a 7:02 in the morning. Im like man im not going to sleep im going to shower so I can hit up wet with royale and I try to get up but I cant I was done I dont know if it was the last meal that I had was 24 hrs ago or I was drunk and it was 7:02 in the morning or the lack of sleep through weekend but I was out I didnt even have enough energy to sleep if that makes sense.
After a while I decided I wasn't going to do anything today I was done.




All in all I had the best weekend in vegas I have ever had. I met some cool ass people and the best part I know this is only the beginning of good times with the people from this site. Im glad I meet you all and I will see you in vegas in may.



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So here’s my trip review of this past weekend:

Friday: On Friday, the plan was to leave work at 2pm, go get an oil change, pick up my girl and head off right after that. While I was at work, I get a text from her stating that she’s going to sneak out of work at 12 (YES!!!), so I just told my boss to do me a solid and let me leave at 12, she said yes of course and off I go. Went straight to Jiffy Lube to get and oil change, stopped by target to pick up a shirt, picked up some ice for the cooler (which had a bottle of UV cherry vodka, 1800 silver, 1.75 of pre-mixed margaritas, a bottle of Svedka vodka, and Bacardi rum), topped of the gas tank and we were on our way. We got on the freeway around 1:30pm, way ahead of schedule, and did 70-85 the entire way. We only made one stop in Barstow to grab a drink and top off the gas tank. We got to the Grandview Resort around 5:30pm. 4 hours, not bad at all. Walked up to her pops room, grabbed the keys and went right across the hall to our room. And wow! The rooms are really nice!

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Everything clubbing wise in Vegas now days always starts and ends with XS. Everyone pretty much has to stop by this modern miracle of a club, and we were no different. It was 9'ish and I got a call from Dnix that he was too toasted from the activities of the weekend that he was just calling it a night. Infact he said he could'nt even drive out to get food, he had to get room service all day. I don't blame him.. he partied way harder then any JC member on this trip. Gotta give him credit for that. I also spoke with KC and he said he was toasted too. He wanted to make Wet, he couldn't..and XS now is out of the question as well. I respect that, he went to after hours and spent his mornings clubbing. Thats HARD to the core right there.

So we get ready and head over to the XS. Getting our car out of MGM parking lot without valet is definitely not as stylish as leaving the signatures with Valet service. GF also had to walk a hundred miles in heels, but she was ok with it. Both of us were driven by pure adrenaline because its our last day..and its freaking XS for crying out loud.

We got to the parking lots of Wynn at around 10:45 PM. We were a bit worried because we were running slightly late.
I came on a Labor Day Monday to avoid all the hassles. Plus it was easier for my gf's hook up to get us on the guest list. She knows the bartender at XS, so all it took was a text message to get us into this place. At first we were a bit a worried about showing up here at 11pm, because we have seen the "around the block" lines form at this place many times when we stayed at the Wynn, but this was not the case at all.

We found the guest list line to be on the farthest outside, within minutes we were able to track down the clipboard holding guy to get past check point #1. He lifted the ropes and pretty much all was smooth as gravy. We got to the pre-stamp ID check guy at checkpoint #2. Check point #3 was where we handed our comp'ed cover sheet. $200 cover .. I think not. I can proudly say I have never paid to get into XS. If I didn't I wouldn't go there. We got our final stamp on the inside of our arms and we were into this palace of a club.

Everytime we walk in, it never ceases to amaze us. Besides the fact that its bigger then Tryst, but the elaborate decorations definitely makes you feel like you are in a place from a story book. The music system is banging here, so all the top 40 mashups sound way better then you would normally hear them at an average Vegas club.

I managed to get a quick glance video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhBdDgoS08Q

I will also attach couple of panoramic shots of this place as well.

This was our last day in LV, and we were pretty much on our last leg. GF had some energy to dance, but not enough to battle chubby girls for the pole this time. We spent most our evening in the courtyards just chilling. I manage to track down Aleesha (gf's hook up), and bought a drink from her. I ended up giving her a 100% tip on top of my drink because she took care of us getting in. Shes a friendly girl, make sure you guys say hi to either Aleesha or Susan that work in the courtyard as bartenders. That's our girls! I can't wait to be back again at XS.

PS. Ladies you don't ever want to be caught doing this:
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Yikeees! I had one of those WTF moments. GF was like you gotta record this for the JC members to prove that this is possible. I thought it wouldn't be possible..actually the bouncers let that happen. I blame them..

All in all this was a great trip. We ended up leaving XS at about 1:30'ish. A very early night to our standards, but we were definitely very satisfied with everything we had accomplished on this trip. I completed 6 parties in 3 days, and GF did 5 after going to the hospital. She was a trooper for hanging with me.

I honestly can't wait until the next JC members party. Those guys are a blast to hang with. Lets try to top my record next time... sound good guys? :D

- The End -

Pictures:

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GF and I taking a pics in the courtyard of XS..too tired to stand up :/

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Inside XS

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Outside XS

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Looking up from XS

We head down to the Bellagio to watch the Fountain show, now I’m still feeling good and happy. We watch the show and I’m ready to go play a little black jack. Nope! Pops wants to watch the next show too…. That’s cool I guess. It’s his pre-wedding day. Whatever I guess. That show finishes. I tell Ash lets go play Black jack. Nope! Pops wants to watch the next one too!!! I’m starting to get pissed and to make matters worse, I thought about the Palms and thought to myself, Shit! What time is it!?! It was around 11… I’m thinking to myself we can still make it if we leave right now… Nope… “Let’s go see the flower garden in the Bellagio”. We’re fucked, I said. We head inside, walk around, I’m pissed off and want to try and relax, so I go play the Star Wars slot machine. Didn’t win crap! Walked to the garden thing, meet up with them, and I tell ash that we have to go. So she, in a polite way, tells her dad to go out dancing with us. Which surprisingly he says lets go, pick somewhere to go in here….. We both laugh, which thinking now is cold because we pretty much laughed in his face, and told him we can’t go anywhere dressed like we were. Especially him! Dude was wearing swim trunks with a yellow t shirt, sox up to his knees and some crocks! So we continue to walk around and slowly I start herding everyone towards the exit. We get back to the car; I drive back to the hotel get up stairs, check the clock… 1 am… Too late to buy wristbands. I said screw it. Let’s try and make it tomorrow (Sat.), plus we’ll get to see Dj Z-Trip. We fill up the Jacuzzi tub and just relax and drink in the room the rest of the night. TBC...

So Saturday morning we wake up around 11. We get dressed and are about to head of to the palms to buy the wristbands, when her pops calls and wants us all to go to breakfast. Damn! So we head next door to South Point and eat at the buffet. It was ok. Better than other places I’ve ate at. After breakfast, I once again forget about the Palms and we start to gamble a bit. I personally prefer playing slots, they just seem more exciting. But I sat down at a machine and first pull, Bonus! $20.00. Next pull, Bonus! 50 free spins. About 2 minutes went by with winning and not, and then Bonus! $10.00. I don’t know what it is, but about 90% of the time, I pick the right machine. So I check the clock and it’s about 2:30 pm. We head back to the room and start getting things ready for the wedding. I iron my clothes and then play the waiting game. I decide to head out and hit up Lee’s Discount Liquor, which was greater because it was right down the street, to go buy a flask. Go in and ask for them and they had ran out. At this point I get a text from Cisco that we had a lurker and I had to take a shot. Told him I was on it. I Drive back towards the hotel and find another store. I picked up a plastic flask and a bottle of 1800. Get back to the room and change. Hook up the flask. Take a shot, though I forgot to take a picture, and we head on out.
We show up to the chapel and the ceremony was about 8 min. and that’s giving it a little extra. But it literally felt like I sat down and go right back up to walk out.
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Funny. We drive down the strip in the limo and pick up appetizers at cozymels. Drive around some more and then head off to Fukudas for dinner.Had a couple of shots of Saki. Kind of nasty, yet not. Food was really good there. We then head off to the Haufbraus and that’s where things start to get really fun. People ordering shots.
Drinks, beer. Just none stop. Besides her pops and “step-mom”, everyone’s hand had a drink at all times. 2 rum cokes, 2 apple schnapps shots, 4 jager shots and a paddle to the ass later, I was feeling good! It was really fun.

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(This one was for the lurker!)
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(This was for my boy Chapp and everyone else on the boards, AOD! (and yes I actually said that out loud))
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We leave the Haufbraus around 11:30pm and I start getting a little excited because we actually have a chance to make it to the palms to get the wristbands. So we get to the hotel and Ashley starts talking to her cousins about going clubbing. I’m elbowing and pinching her discreetly telling her fuck them, let’s go. So we get up to the room because she wanted to change dresses. She changes, touches up her make up and we head on out. At this point it’s about 12:30 am. I’m driving as fast as I can. Tom Tom is taking forever to pick up a signal, so we wing it. I hit a dead end road. Turn around go down a few more blocks and make it to the palms. All I had to do was turn left onto Flamingo and go up a block. I was in such a rush that I didn’t bother looking ahead. So when I made the turn, traffic was backed up pretty bad. I look up at the Palms marquee, “Mariah Carey Live Tonight” Fuck! I said screw it. It was already 1:00 pm. And I was majorly disappointed. We headed down to Paris and Bally to gamble a bit. Got to love the Star Trek slot machine. We stayed out till about 5 am. Headed back to the room and knocked out. Next morning gathered our things and headed out around noon. Stopped by the M resort. It’s really nice. Didn’t win anything, at all. We stopped by primm for a bit. Doubled my money there. And the last stop was at Mad Greek.
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That place is crazy good. Took off and got home around 7pm.
Not the best trip I had, but it was better than I thought it was going to be.

In it's ENTIRETY, I present to you, LDW 2009.
Enjoy:

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LDW Trip Report

You've seen the video, so here is the tale. I flew in friday morning and got to vegas shortly after 9am. I met Dnix at Bally's where he was able to get us an up grade on the room. We decided that we were hungry and wanted to get somthing to eat before hitting up Ditch. We caught the free shuttle that stops right in front of Drais which took us to Orleans. Jump off and made our way to the food court in the Palms. I texted Cisco who was also getting some food a few steps away at another restaurant. After our meal, we linked up with Cisco and walked to the front of Ditch. A small line was starting to form, but no worries, we had the bracelets for the evening. While waiting Keebler came down and made himself known to us. We all walked in and he showed us our lounge area for the day. After quickly getting settled and shooting some footage, we made our way to the bar. It just so happened that the bartender who I had taken care of last time was working. He didn't recognized me at first, so i went in my phone and showed him the $100 forehead stamp gave him the last time I was there. After that me and the boys went to work. By now NC, had joined the crew and everybody was getting familiar and taking in the pool scene. I couldn't tell you when KC arrived but he blended in very nicely with the group.. that afternoon it was about SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS. Everybody!! It was another classic day at Ditch. At some point Dnix and I left the Palms and went back to Bally's got something to eat that fell asleep.

Later that evening, we headed out the door to meet NC, Keebler, Cisco at the Palms. We pretty much ran around like kids in a candy store bouncing back and forth to the different venues. NC and I made friendly with a bachelorette party at ghost bar. I got to say the guy can lead and also run the wingman position as well. Around midnight I rallied the troops up to Moon. I told everybody that we had to do a shot of absinthe in honor of Chapp's who put me on to them the last time I was there. So "Cheers to the Chapp". At some point Dnix disappeared. I don't know when and I don't know how. I think he sent either Cisco or NC a text about his ID and that's how i got ahold of it. At some point I made my way back to Bally's, got something to eat then crashed..

Day 2

After a day of heavy boozing, we woke up and thought it's time to get at it again. Dnix was ready to roll after his early exit and so was I. Wet republic was the day's destination. Enroute we gave NC a shout and told him to get him and his party there pronto. It was just about perfect timing as we were pulling up to the entrance when NC and his southern belles arrived. Dnix worked his magic and poof we were all pool side looking for a place to set up camp. Wet Republic was strong on Saturday. Unfortunately, my mino died and charging so I did not get any footage. We had a good time. The day was filled with drinks, making new friends and good conversation. After we wrapped up Wet, we headed back to the hotel to power down before our evening at Tryst. Ah Tryst, what can I say. You saw the video and saw the line. Insane!!! Were we worried? No. Dnix had been in touch with our host who took immediate care of us. For me, there is a feeling of excitement when you pass the velvet ropes and start walking down the steps towards the doors. Once the doors open, I think "Game Time". We were escorted to my favorite table and placed our order. Slowly the JC troops reported for duty. My wingman NC was there and we made our way around the club admiring the beautiful women. We made some new t and invited them to crash our party. Always a good time. I linked up with the guys from Australia who had a table outside. We thought about combining, but decided to use that as our satellite location. It's always nice to have options. At somepoint the cool guy Royale and "the GF" come in and join the festivities. KC the Corona Can guzzler makes a guest appearance and they decided that it's time for a fresh bottle..Here we go again...Time passes, JC's are smiling and just Hav'n it. Wait where's my Ace. No where to be seen. But he leaves his blazer behind. I decided I was done for the night and bail. Get back to the room and this guy is out cold. Good times (shot) had by all.

Day 3
I wake up and Dnix tells me how he got the wheelchair escort, not only out of the club, but to our room. Now that is service friends. We reflect, laugh and decide it's time to head out. While we are on the way, Dnix hits up Royale who agrees to meet us at wet. I remember meeting him the night before but think this is cool because i will actually have the chance to chop it up. We meet Royale and "the GF" both in good spirits at the gate. Once again, a short amount of wait time and we are all poolside at wet. We link up with our bartender who says to me " Dude you were so fucked up yesterday...It was awesome!!" I take care of him and he takes care of us. Its a good thing. After getting our drinks the guys get in the pool while I lounge poolside. Since I didnt bring trunks to the pool party, i am the designated drink getter. That has priviledges on it's own as i make new friends to and from the bar. Royale and I do some laps around the pool scoping the women. As we were walking around, we run into this cutie who had introduced herself to me a little earlier. By this time she was MC Hammered. She got so excited while we were talking that she knocked my drink out of my hand. There was a quick moment of silence. She then apologized profusely. I assured her it was no big deal, and my drink would be replenished with no problems. Well she made a big deal about and started to sob. Royale tried to soothe her but it just didnt work. She only got louder and louder. At that time, Royale at me and says, " You know this is going in my TR right?" All I could do was laugh. Her friend shows up and we high tail it out of there.

Ok if you watch the video, you will see Dnix surrounded by
some girls who are singing to me. Well here is the story behind that. Apparently, I met those girls the night before. I don't know how this happened but they thought I was the R&B singer Montel Jordan. The funny thing was that Montel was actually at one of the poolside cabanas about 10ft from where we had set up camp. The whole time, I had no idea what was going on. more on that later..Fast forward to the end of Wet and Dnix is completely smashmouthed. One of the cabana boys had got him a brand new pair of sunglasses. As we were leaving, Dnix take the glasses off, brakes them and throws them in the trash. Gangsta! I'm looking for an exit strategy to get this guy back to the room as quickly as possible, but i also have to stop by MGM security to pick up my credit card that I left at Wet the day before. As we are leaving we negotiate a deal with a limo driver to stop at the MGM and take us back to Ballys. Good deal. He pulls up front, and I tell him i'll be right back. I run to security to get my credit card and they tell me that they don't have it and to check back later. No worries. I go outside and the Hummer with Dnix is nowhere to be found. 5 minutes. 10 minutes.. I start calling Dnix and he's not answering. Now I'm actually worried and still standing there after 20 minutes. The kids in bad shape and im hoping that the limo driver didnt take financial advantage of him. I take a cab back to the hotel and he is tucked underneath the covers.. Sigh of relief. Power nap it is..

Night time

Dnix wakes up and tells me oh yeah, "Im still drunk".."oh no" I'm thinking..but he's in better shape that he was earlier. MUCH BETTER SHAPE. he's dancing all over the room and he's ready to party. Great. It's going to be a good night at XS. I get a couple of texts from Cisco and we agree to meet him and his team in the lobby. We cab it to XS and see the line and kinda thick. Cisco and his squad decide to make a move so it's me and boy wonder. He's back on the phone with his connect making things happen. An hour line turnns into 2 minutes and a handshake for us. We breeze in and hit the bar. Dnix is the outgoing one now. Making friendly with a group of girls and bartering drinks for cigs. You got to love it! While posting up, Dnix sees his wheelchair chauffeur from the night before. They chop it up for a bit and Dnix and I decide that it's only right that we get a table. It just doesnt feel right without a table..He texts his contact who escorts to a table in the back by the stripper pole. The whole time Dnix is drunk but he is trying his best to maintain. Our bottle comes and we dive into it. Shortly after a group of males and females come and set up at the tables to our immediate left. They have a nice little party going on and then it's just me and Dnix with a bottle. Something is just not right. I think it's time that we got some company. As soon as I spoke my thoughts to Dnix, I happen to catch the eye of one of three girls. She stopped very briefly. Just long enough to exchange smiles. Yeah it was on. I motioned her and her two friends over. I introduced myself and Dnix and they were game for hanging out with us. They ended up being great girls who were more happy to hang out then attack our bottle. At some point, I left the table, to go to the bar. For what I don't remember. When I got back the girls told me that Dnix helped the manager kick himself out of the club. huh? something to the effect of him telling the manager "Im drunk and I think I should leave" I'm thinking Dnix the night is just starting, fresh bottle, some company, it's going to be a good night. 2 minutes later, here comes Dnix with the manager. he says "Dude don't worry, I'm leaving. Ok well, I'm coming with you. No you are not. Stay and have a good time. Ok so now my Ace has kicked himself out the club and I got a bottle of goose and 3 girls to entertain. I asked the girls if they wanted to stick around and party and they were happy to do so. oh there goes my phone. "Hey we are here, where are you" It's the girls who were singing to me earlier. I meet with them and bring them back to the table so now it's 9 girls and myself. At this point, I'm scrambling, texting any and everyone to come through. Luckily, I made friendly with the guys at the table to our left and encouraged them to join in on the fun. After a short period of time, my boy tre shows up. yes!! then the Aussie boys show up! cool. Now I can realax a little and not have to worry about anyone feeling left out. Things are going well and Tre tells me he has a surprise for us. We decide it's time to go. Tre's like make some friends bring people along and lets keep the party going. Since the guys to my left are so cool we invite them along. We leave XS and step outside and Tre has the limo bus waiting for us. ok...let's ride. I text Cisco, and ask him to meet us at Venetian where we have to make a pit stop. He jumps on board and the bus moves on. Second stop, Seamless. This was my first time at Seamless. We get everybody in and make our way to the stage. Yes the stage. Tre has arranged a Table for us on the main stage. He orders a bottle of Vodka and we drink more. Seamless is a strip club right? Well why didnt I see any naked women the whole time i was there??? Weird. KC magically appears and joins the party. By this time I'm getting bored. The Aussies are bored as well and suggest that we make a move to the Palms. At this time the group splinters off and we make the move to the Palms. KC decides he is going to step up and gets us a limo to take us from Seamless to the Palms. Good call. We get to the Palms and find out that all of the clubs are closed. It was rumored that the party was going all night and into the next day till 6pm. We plot our next move and decide that Drais would be next up on our tour. Alex one of the Aussies just happend to be a card counter. So while his buddy Paul is buying us shots of patron at 6am, Alex is killing the blackjack table. Alex makes a couple of benjis nad we get back in the limo and head to Drais. At this time it's 6:20am. There is a small line but we bypass the line and pay $100 to go into a party at 6:20am. yeah..dont even say it. Let me tell you. that party was rockin. It may have been 6:20am but with all the people it felt like 10:20pm. I found out that all the kids, from the vip hosts, to the servers were in there partying. it was absolutely nuts. I wont go into detail in to what i saw was going on, but let's just say it was wild. Someone ordered 5 bottles of cristal. It was just a wild scene. I stayed for about an hour and a half and had to tap out. I was done.

I tried to leave monday but couldnt get a flight out. I got back to the room about 4 and passed out. Dnix got back shortly after. That night, I got a text from NC telling us that JET was nuts! The mind was willing but the body was not able. Dnix and I both stayed in on Monday. Tuesday morning, we hit hit the airport and flew out.

What can I say? It was a great trip. I thank Dnix who called me by chance 7 days before hand and stopped me from going to vegas very impulsively and invited me to mdw. I had no plans of attending, but the kid has his way with people. It's pretty fair to say if he is in vegas, you might see me along with him..Meeting the guys NC, Cisco, KC, Royale, Keebler was a bonus. You guys lived up to and exceeded your JC pre-trip hype and it was a pleasure partying with you all. I am sure I will see you all again and I look forward to it.

Here are some pics.... I know I know but at least I got em up!

Our little cooler
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Yeah I was yelling again!
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She was hurting the next day!!!
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I dont know how the fuck those drinks became green. Their supposed to be Alaskan Trashcans but I think they made them wrong!
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Inside of somewhere
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This was my whip! I had them move it for me cause I was too hammered to drive :D
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Chics in the elevator... I dont even know!
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This was me driving back home
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This was what happened to us
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So what happened was the car suddenly started sputtering and decided it didnt wanna go anymore so it died.... then after sitting there for about 20 mins it decided to run again for about 30 mins. We made it to the gas station where I bought some shit for the tank and then it made it about an hour to the rest stop where it died yet again. Let it sit for about 30 mins and then it made it all the way home. It's been running fine since!

My inflatable bed... comfortable as hell!!! I think I was posting something on the forum
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This pic came out pretty good!
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3 of the 4 chics that went with me
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Let me know what you guys think.... I'm still waiting on some more pics so I'll post some more up when I get em!

Your girl on Friday night headed out to dinner at the Palms..
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We missed all the dang meetups!!! Sorry restyle! My friends take forever to wake up and get dressed.. :mad:

Liquored up at N9NE..


Wet Republic..



More to come... I know what you guys mean about withdrawal now... I don't know how to feel. My trip was BEYOND PERFECT. I'll shoot you all the deets by tomorrow night...

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THAAAANK ALL OF YOU MY JC.COM SWEETIES!!!!

this was pretty much the best birthday of my life! thank you so much to everyone that was apart of it and made it super special. oh and thanks for all the shots!!

we were able to meet several JCers this weekend including: luckythirteen, drew, cthip, boogie, william142 & hawkgolfer.

i am so sorry to those that text me friday night that i wasn't able to respond to...it was a rough night and couldn't quite function my phone.

i will start writing my trip report verrry shortly! :)

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the pool at TI on friday with our first official drinks in vegas

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it's hard to tell from the picture but the pool was packed and everyone was partying and dancing

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my friends and i with luckythirteen and drew

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blurry view from ghostbar, pretty much how i remember it

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blush, it was really pretty inside. i liked it there

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the womens bathrooms at blush had ken dolls and the guys bathroom had barbie dolls

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the most JC group we could get together at one time for a picture at tryst.

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a very drunk picture of me and hawkgolfer at tryst

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inside the bank...notice all of my club pictures are blurry!

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my friends and i with hawkgolfer and his friend aaron at the bank

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i hate to be that girl but...i was...wearing the birthday tiara to the pool on sunday :D

Okay so this has been a struggle to write on top of telling story after story to all of my friends back home…plus I know there are several things I don’t remember. All of the the days and nights blur together. I regret not taking more pictures but I’m lucky I was functioning well enough to come up with the ones I do have. I’ll warn you: I tend to ramble so I probably will tell you about a lot of things you don’t care about ☺. I apologize in advance!

Day 1- Friday

Our day started at 6:00am eastern time getting up and ready for the airport. I only mention this because it’s the start of our no-sleep weekend. I’ve never felt so awake before at 6 am…I was ready to start the party. The 3 hour plane ride there actually went pretty quickly and landing was the best feeling ever.

We rented a car because we had plans to see my family that lives in Vegas during the day on Saturday. I had gotten a pretty cheap deal from rentalcarmamma.com for a compact car. When we got there they tried to give us a small economy car and I just wasn’t having it. I politely walked over to the man working in the garage and asked if he really expected me to drive around in a tin can all weekend (with the cutest smile I could come up with of course). He told me to pick out a mid-sized car for no charge. Done and done.

We were starving as it was now 1:00 or 2:00 our time. First stop: In & Out Burger. I grew up on it (in California) and one of my friends had never had it so it seemed like the perfect choice.

After lunch we made our way down the strip to TI. We pulled into the valet line and we were on our way to party town. There was a long line at check in but it went really quickly. I was a little nervous as to who we were end up with at the front desk as I was prepared to try the sandwich trick. The girl that checked us in was young…I’d say late 20’s and really nice. As I handed her my sandwich I nicely said, “It’s my birthday weekend, are there any complimentary upgrades available?” She was really excited, pocked her $20 bill right away and began to check for upgrades. She gave us a strip view room with a bottle of champagne. Perfect.

We headed straight up to the room and didn’t waste any time changing for the pool. I was ready to start drinking. The pool at TI was more of a party than I expected. There were people dancing everywhere, dropping drinks in the pool and hanging out. It was great! One of my friends must have told the DJ it was my birthday because next thing I know he’s shouting out to “Brie from Kentucky” and everyone started cheering. It was great! The buckets of beer were non-stop and the music was good.

We left the pool around 5:00 and my friends wanted to eat and then take a nap (two things I thought weren’t allowed in Vegas??). We went to Kahunahville and I decided it was absolutely inappropriate that there wasn’t a club sandwich on the menu. So, they made me one!

After dinner we headed back to the room where my friends wanted to nap (HA again) but that wasn’t about to happen on my watch. I put my ipod on the docking station and started a dance party! Well, sorta… more so laying in bed dancing (if that’s even possible)…I was almost too drunk to stand up. Later, I decided it would be a good idea to order our bottle of free champagne and jump on the bed, flute in hand, when it finally arrived. I think we spilt more champagne than we drank.

Getting showered and ready was definitely a struggle but I was determined to get it done. I sent out a mass text reminding everyone about the meet at Ghostbar and decided to share a cab with luckythirteen since he was staying next door at The Mirage. We met at the casino bar at TI and headed over to the Palms. He had a wristband waiting at the stuff store and we were on the list so getting in was no problem—plus, it was really early. One of the guys checking ID’s wished me a happy birthday and I was SOOO shocked that he knew. Then I realize he was checking my ID…for my birthday…hello blonde/drunk moment.

There weren’t many people at Ghostbar yet but I didn’t mind. The view was really awesome and the atmosphere was good for the start of the night. Drew sent me a text that he was downstairs and I replied “get your ass up here NOW!” Once he came up we all did a round of shots thanks to luckythirteen. What did I say about shots before the trip?? No SOCO, right? What does he get? SOCO. So, basically, I blame him for the rest of my night being a huge blur.

We decided it was a good time to head over to Playboy. We got there, got drinks and the guys gambled a little bit. I just remember drews friend bit me on the shoulder and I was super confused. Who does that?? Haha. Okay, so here’s where things get fuzzy. Apparently after playboy we went up to Moon…..I don’t remember Moon….. at all. Couldn’t even tell you what it looks like or if I had a drink there or if music was playing…..or anything. At all.

Next thing I remember we went to Rain. The guys got to walk right in with their wristbands but we got stopped. I said, “Oh it’s okay, we’re on the list and, besides, it’s my birthday.” The guy said, “There’s a guestlist line.” I said, “We know Shawn.”……. He let us right in. Haha ohhh drunk people say the darndest things, right? Psh, I wasn’t about to wait a guestlist line!

Once we got into Rain I just remember being kind of bummed that it wasn’t prettier. All I remember was concrete and lots of black. Maybe I’m wrong? Anyway, we lost luckythirteen and I was very concerned and decided to go look for him. I kept getting lost. I just remember a lot of stairs and the next thing I know I’m standing outside of the club in the middle of a roped off area. They told me I had to go back in or get back in line. I thought it was extremely rude of them (even though now I realize I was just in their way) and wandered off to sit down somewhere and take my shoes off. Drew and my friends called me and I told them I got KICKED OUT of Rain (LOL) and to come get me.

Finally we found luckythirteen and found out he had been gambling and won a couple grand. I started to realize that my feet were severely injured from my shoes and refused to put them back on. I even walked to the bathroom barefoot…gross, huh? We decided we were tired as it was now 3:00am and we had been awake for 24 hours straight due to the time difference. Outside the taxi line was outrageous so we decided a limo would be more appropriate.

I don’t remember getting back to the hotel but we did… thank goodness.

Day Two- Saturday

For some reason during the entire trip we were up bright and early around 8:00 am. I sat up right away and said to my friends, “Oh my God we didn’t even go to MOON! Wtf!!” and they proceeded to tell me we did actually go there. Our next trip out I’d like to actually see it again. And somewhat remember it.

I looked down at my feet and was absolutely appalled at how wounded they were. Cuts, bruises, blisters. I couldn’t help to wonder how on earth I was going to wear heels two more nights out. I’m pretty sure I was still drunk from the night before when I asked my friends to call me an ambulance or find a healthcare professional on-site. Thankfully I still had oversized bandages packed from a previous vaction!

I checked my phone and realized several people from the planned meet up had sent me texts asking where we were—I just want to say I am so sorry to you all and hope to meet you at the big group trip in May!

The rest of Saturday isn’t very exciting for all of you to read about. We made the extremely hungover trip out to see my family and get lunch.

Once we got back to TI we laid around the room for a bit and then forced ourselves to get ready for Saturday nights meet up at Blush. As we were getting ready Boogie text me to let me know that Blush wasn’t open yet so we relocated the meet up to Parasol down which is also in the Wynn. Even though the Wynn is fairly close to TI I refused to walk with my feet situation the way they were so we cabbed it.

I had been in the Wynn before but apparently forgot how absolutely gorgeous it is inside. We made our way down to Parasol where cthip was waiting for us. He was really nervous about his friends ID situation so only stayed for one drink but it was really nice to meet him, cool guy. Luckythirteen made it out for the Saturday night meet up and told us his hilarious story of circling the mirage several times looking for the door the night before!! Boogie was actually at Parasol Up, which is upstairs (imagine that) so he came down for a bit to hangout. William142 sent me a text asking where we were—apparently Blush had finally opened so we all finished our drinks and headed over there. We all hung out by the bar and were chatting and having a good time. We found hawkgolfer and his friends and the group was finally all together. They had free champagne for girls but honestly the sound of champagne after having some the night before was not appealing whatsoever. Everyone kept commenting that I was drinking slow but I just knew what was in store for my later since it was going to officially be my birthday at midnight.

…Then I went into the guys bathroom at Blush and did extremely inappropriate things while the Barbies watched. Just kidding… ;)

It was after 10 at this point and time to make our way over to Tryst. There was already a huge line but the whole group followed me as I walked right up and asked for our contact person. He let us in right away and gave us line passes for the guys (which I was extremely grateful for considering we had wayyy more guys than girls). Tryst was AMAZING and gorgeous and just…. Just definitely the perfect way to spend a birthday with a great group of people! The shots started coming right away even though it wasn’t midnight yet and as I made my way to the bar I bumped into a guy that was drinking straight vodka and offered me some. We all kept checking the time almost as if it was new years. It was so nice how everyone was dedicated to making it such a great birthday experience. The DJ was playing great music—when Pokerface came on (huge Gaga fan right here) it was time to start dancing. Apparently my friend and I were doing the same EXACT dance and everyone thought we had rehearsed. It was fab.

Finally it was midnight and a lot of people disappeared to the bar. The next thing I know I’m being handed shot, after shot, after shot. Lots of tequila and Washington apples. William142’s friend bought the entire group a round, which was really nice! I must have done at least 6 shots all in a row and by this point had switched from beer to vodka cran’s. My drink was nearing empty and found some nice guys that had a table to help me out. I think I opened a new bottle for them and just started pouring drinks for everyone at their table, insisting they weren't drinking enough!

The one complaint, if any, that I have about Tryst is how crowded the dance floor was and how bright it was out there. We didn’t go out there a lot since we were attempting to keep the group together so we had our spot that we were basically stationed in the entire night. Luckythirteen disappeared early and I’m not sure what happened to William142 and his friends but we left with hawkgolfer and his friends.

We got in line for a cab and the next one in line was a van…we thought, hey perfect, a van for 6 people!! They wouldn’t let us all in the van though and we couldn’t comprehend why (we found out later why). So, 3 of us got in one cab and the other 3 got in another and headed back to TI. I guess the cabbie didn’t appreciate the tip we gave him so he rolled down his window and began screaming at us!! We were so confused. The shoes came off once again when we got there. I had bandaged them up pretty good but they were still absolutely killing me. We went upstairs and waiting for the other 3 to get there. Everyone except me wanted to go to Casino Royale for some late night gambling but walking down there and being on my feet later in the night did not sound appealing to me so I passed out. Everyone else stayed out pretty late…way to be troopers!


Day 3- Sunday to come shortly. I actually have to return to work tomorrow so I’m off to catch up on some sleep!

What an amazing Vegas trip. It is really hard to know where to start. Woke up at 5am wednesday morning sept 16 ready and packed for Vegas. My buddy came and picked me up and it was off to the airport. After getting threw customs we arrived in Vegas at 1pm. Walking off the plane I knew it would be hot hot hot. But I was not expecting this kinda heat. Being Canadian it is about 70degrees where I coming from. Shortly after the cab ride we got to T.I. Great hotel and really happy me and friends picked it. Met our amazing girl Haley at the frontdesk desk. Worked alittle charm on her told her she would be my new and best Vegas friend if she could hook us up with 2 great adjoining rooms. Me and my buddy Ry wanted our own rooms but joined together, and asked her for a primetime view of the strip. Next thing we know we are checked in on the 27th floor, joining rooms, right above the pirate show overlooking the Strip. Loved looking out the window and seeing Palazzo and Wynn. Walked around abit to get a feel of the hotel and checked out Fashion Mall and had dinner at Pho. Now it was time to "Suit Up" and get our drink on. Wednesday night in Vegas and where the best place to go? The strip club. Called up Spearmint Rhino and within 10 mins a stretch limo was there for us. The strip clubs wayyyy different here so this was kinda a nice treat. Got escorted to a nice vip table and got to meet alot of really awesome girls. Given the chance to talk to them, there are some sweeties there. We always let them know straightup we had no interest in buying lap dances but 2 girls actually just wanted to stay and hangout with us for 3 hours cause they enjoyed talking to us, even though we weren't buying any dances. The girl I was talking to even decided to just give me afew lap dances free of charge haha. What a way to start Vegas. After 3 hours plus there, we had to head back to T.I. cause our 2 other friends were arriving in town. Of course we are tanked when we get back and our friends are tired so we just had a mini hotel party then went to a lounge I cant remember the name. We got back to T.I. at 4am and everyone crashed and I wasnt tired so I went down to the bar to have a drink and met an amazing girl there. She was a dancer at one of the other strip clubs and she was just hanging out while her friends dragged her to go gambling after she got off work. We ended up going to breakfast together and hungout till 9:30am just having coffee, talking and laughing. The perfect way to start my Vegas vacation.

Thursday: Woke-up around 1ish I think? Went and had lunch and was going to go Indoor-Skydiving that day but the place was closed for renovations :( Kinda bummed about that but oh well. Off we went for a long day of exploring the strip and doing the touristy thing. Once night comes it is once again time to "Suit Up". Headed off and bounced around from afew lounges till we got to Jet. Did the bottle service here which was alot of fun. Ended up being the perfect thursday night of dancing and partying. The one thing I really really notice is how friendly everyone I met in Vegas was.

Part 2... to be written tomorrow

Thursday PM- I had a get-together to celebrate my 29th with family and friends at a restaurant in Oakland, so I could hang with my folks that weren’t coming to Vegas. And ummm… “I had one too many drinks…!” LOL It was a good time! I was so happy to see cousins I hadn’t seen in forever. I think I made it to bed around 2am.

Friday AM- I was meeting my BFFs in Vegas (Ka from DC, Mai from NY and Maya was coming from Oakland with her coworkers). We all went to middle and high school together and all get together once or twice a year. My flight was leaving at 7am from SFO and my girl was picking me up at 5:30am to give me a ride. So I hopped out of bed at 5:25 and ran around the apartment like a crazy person, showering and throwing everything back in my bags! I was NOT going to miss my flight.

She was right on time (I was not. Lol) We cruised over the Bay Bridge and into the city with no problems. Got to the airport and PRAYED I wouldn’t be harassed about having two carry-ons and a purse. Last time I traveled they made me consolidate and that is a super pain in the @ss!! Checked in with Virgin America quick and easy, and headed to security. They didn’t say anything about my bags!! I almost did a cartwheel! Flight was boarding when I got to the gate so I walked right on. There was a definite buzz of excitement on the plane… I noted it on my FB status update and two minutes later the flight attendant said the same thing over the loudspeaker! Something tells me this trip is going to be epic… :D

Landed on time at 8:30am… Stopped at the ATM and headed right out to the non-existent cab line. For the record, I think this turned out to be the smoothest trip I have EVER been on. And I’ve been on a lot of trips. I think it took about 20-25 minutes to get to the hotel. We were staying at the Excalibur, which was NOT my first choice. But it was a GREAT deal and close to the MGM where I knew we’d be hanging out, we were only sleeping and changing, yadda yadda. So, I get there and apparently you have to pay $20 (or some crap) to check in early! Umm what the hell? No thank you. So I took a seat, and thought about what I would do next… Then I remembered my homie from college was in town so I texted him. He was in town for a friend’s bachelor party so I dropped my bags at baggage storage and met up with him for coffee at the MGM. He’d been traveling for work and was going home, so our visit was bittersweet. I thought he’d be there all weekend! :(

Just as we were finishing our coffee my girl Mai called and said she was at the hotel. It was about 11am now so I gave homie a big hug goodbye and ran over to meet Mai. They told her we could check in, so we did and upgraded to a strip view for $10 extra a night. Found our way to our room, bellman brought my bags up in RECORD time (I was AMAZED, more smoothness) so we unpacked a little and made an afternoon plan. My girl Maya made it over from her hotel and we decided to go for a little walk to find food and make a liquor run. We walked out toward the strip and what do we find… A Jello Shot stand!! Yay!! We went easy and got two a piece (I think?)

JEEEZUS CHR*ST it was HOT walking to the Miracle Mile shops!!! And what’s the deal with the people giving out free club passes?? I thought we were gonna be harassed by porn slappers not guestlist people! Of course the girls need a few things to make their evening outfits complete so we shopped around…. Grabbed some sandwiches… Went swimsuit shopping… Found nothing… Headed back out to the Strip. We were going to get pre-drinking supplies at the ABC Store in the mall but someone thought there was a liquor store back out on the Strip that would have lower prices… Not sure whose dumbass idea that was but the place we ended up only had beer and wine! Grrr. It was WAY TOO F*CKING HOT to walk back so we ended up with a couple bottles of “champagne”. lol Good enough!! Made it back to the hotel and passed out waiting for our 4th to arrive. When she got there she was PISSED to find us napping. Haha! “No NAPPING IN VEGAS!! GET THE HELL UP!!” She ran downstairs to get food from Baja Fresh (our weekend savior) then she laid down and went to sleep. :rolleyes:

Friday PM- Up a couple hours later and start the transformation process that takes FOREVER. I swear it takes my friends the longest time to get dressed… always. So we missed the JC meetup and were twenty minutes late for hour dinner ressie at N9NE! The downing of the two bottles of “champagne” while getting dressed did not help expedite the process. We finished up our last bottle in the cab on the way to the Palms. The cabbie thought whatever we were yakking about was hilarious… I don’t remember but we get going and we don’t care who is listening!! Got to the restaurant and as we were checking in Drew Gooden was walking out. He’s SO CUTE but I’m no groupie so I didn’t say sheeit! Haha! (I actually met him once a long time ago and he was behaving like a man whore so I was in no rush to rekindle our romance. :cool: )

Made our way to our table right next to the bar in the middle of the restaurant and saw DJ Jazzy Jeff having dinner in one of the booths. The food is soooooo delicious… and we didn’t even order all that much! We were stuffed and couldn’t finish our food!! Maybe it was the bubbly… or the martinis… One of the cute host/manager guys (ADAM) came over to talk to us (flirt!) and Mai FUMBLED and knocked her drink on the floor trying to shake his hand. We joked on her for the next twenty minutes while they cleaned up her mess and brought her a fresh drink. The music was great and we were partying at the table when out comes my special birthday dessert!! S’MORES!! We are such greedy asses we stuffed ourselves even though we weren’t hungry. Trying not to fall asleep at the table, we ordered some Red Bull and went to freshen up and go upstairs. I LOVE N9NE!!!!!

We rolled up to ghostbar first... my name was on the list... (thank you Jamaal, Chapp and Jack!) Got stamped and up the elevator in no time!! My girl met some dude on the strip that told her she was on the list and had to go get wristbands but in my drunkenness I was like “Nah, I’m not gettin’ no damn wristband. We’re going upstairs NOW.” And that’s what we did. LOL I was also just being a lazy ass and just didn’t want to go on a wristband-finding adventure… :D

OMG… The view outside was awesome! (As I’m sure you all know!) The only thing was it was still HOT AS HELL! I thought for sure it would be windy! No breeze and the cigarette smell was thick… but I could’ve stayed up there all night!!!! We got in some pics, Maya met some Brits and decided to go over to Moon. I was trying to see if I could recognize any JC members but come on… I could barely see 3 feet past my face! Breezed over to Moon and up the elevators. I LOVE MOON!! We danced and then my girls started drinking water! WTF!?! The girls gave me a shot of Goose though… Danced and danced some more… Went to the bathrooms and watched this guy walk SMACK into a closed door. LMAO I have no idea how you do that!! Went back to the dance floor and waited for my college homie’s bachelor party friends to come upstairs from Rain. Had another drink and danced with them when they got there. My girls had met some dudes and taken over half their booth because their feet hurt. BOOOO!

The girls were ready to leave so we headed downstairs and I made them come with me to Rain just to “see” before we left… Jazzy Jeff was spinning and the place was pretty awesome! My first time in there too. We climbed the stairs to the top balcony and the bachelors showed up right after us. The girls went to find somewhere to sit while I partied with the bachelors and had another drink… (I forgot about that drink until just now! Lol!) The girls started texting and calling and I ignored them, until one came back and said they were ready to go. The groom-to-be was gassing me up about it being my birthday and only being in Vegas for the weekend so let them sit!!! So I did!! We promised to see the guys at the pool party the next day and headed back to the room. I remember seeing some McDonald’s in the room before I konked out.

To be continued…

Saturday- Wet w/ Diddy and XS with Bozo the Clown…

Part 2...

Friday: Now is the day when Vegas kicked my butt haha. Mostly at night though. Day started pretty chillin with deciding to go shoot some guns. I have never shot a gun before so going to the firing range was kinda kool. Got to fire an automatic. Missed most of the targets but still kool. Back to the hotel after to lounge around the pool and drink fruity drinks while checking out all the eyecandy. After afew hours there it was off to Magianno's for some dinner and then it was that time again. Time to "Suit Up." I had some other friends in town visiting so I went to meet up with them at MGM Grand while the rest of my peeps did their own thing that night. Got to MGM and the girl were not even close to being ready so I was chilling with some of their guy friends there and we decided to head down to the strip club again and meet the girls later. It was off to the OG and time for some bottle service. I do not remember a thing past 9pm at night haha. The next thing I know I am back in my hotel room and it is 1pm on Saturday haha. It was almost as if it were right out of the movie The Hangover. I got up out of bed and wow I could barely walk. My left ankle was killing me. As if I had severly twisted it. I just figured random drinking night mysteries so didn't think much of it. I leave my hotel room to go get some food and as I walking down the hallway these 2 girls see me and come up and were like, "OMG it is the wheelchair guy from last night. We love you" WHAT?????????????????? Was I in a wheelchair for some reason last night? I asked them if they were sure it was me and yup they were. They knew my name and what I was wearing. Apparently her and her friend took turns racing and pushing me around the hallway and casino????? This is the ultimate Vegas mystery. How did I get from the Olympic Garden to my hotel? Why was I in a wheelchair? haha My first night ever of not remembering a night. Only in Vegas.

Saturday: Kept it chilled. Did alot of gambling today and lost alot of money. Also spent some time down at Kahunaville. I was more just waiting for the night to start. Me and my friends decided to go to Blush to meetup with Restyle and the rest of the JC group. Got there and it wasnt open yet so texted her and told her to just go to Parasol. I was at Parasol Up and she was at Parasol down with everyone. So I bounced down to say hi for 10 mins. Great meeting everyone I did from the JC group. Just wasnt sure who was who though haha. Sorri. After that I had to go see a friend quickly at the Venetian and then ended up at Tryst. Wasnt really feeling Tryst that much cause of the lineup and huge crowd. We all wanted something alot quieter to party so we headed to Christian Augeir. Wow! What a great night we had. The club was busy but not overly busy and me and my buddies somehow managed to charm our way into the VIP and bottle service for free haha. The VIP was all girls and maybe 3 other guys. We were outnumbered what felt like 10:1. A great drunken night of partying and dancing ensued.

Sunday: Sad Day. Back home to reality.

All in all an awesome awesome Vegas trip. Everything I hoped for and more.

Lookout again Las Vegas cause I will be back in February to do it all over again :)

Saturday Day- I think we started stirring around 11am? There was much discussion about what to wear and what not to wear. Got texts from the bachelor party that they were headed over at 12:30 or so… We started walking over to the MGM around 1p. After what seemed like the longest walk EVER, we found our way to the pool! There was a huge mass of people and we couldn’t quite tell where we were supposed to be, so we headed for the guestlist line (which was THICK) and tried to figure out the quickest way in. The bachelor party homies were at the front of the line and had been there for an hour! People were dropping out of line and we wiggled our way up to them. Found the man with the clipboard and were in!! (The homies texted that they were still trying to get in another 45 min-1 hour later…) (Thanks Wet Republic hookup!!) We had to wait again at the top of the stairs but we were comped so no worries. Walk right in and were handed cute little cups of Ciroc and Lemonade from a cute Ciroc model!! I love this place already!!

We headed straight to the bathrooms to freshen up and cool off! COTDAMN it was hot!!! Then to the bar for the first of many Ciroc and whatevers… lol Hey it was a Diddy party! What else were we supposed to drink!? Plenty eye candy… Guys and girls... Rappers, athletes, actors, the place was PACKED with people and the DJ was hot all day. Diddy party!! There’s nothing like it! I used to work at his restaurant in Atlanta when I was in college. I have so many fond memories of drinking and partying (at work and after!) Gooood times. :D We grabbed some towels and found a spot near the pool to drop our stuff. Thought about doing a small daybed in advance but it was a little more than we were willing to spend. Didn’t really need it anyway. We danced, got drunk, flirted, took pics with random cuties, took pics of some random not-so-cuties… GOOD times!! Had a little too much fun and my hair was no longer cute. But it was TOTALLY worth it! I didn’t feel like anyone was being pretentious (pet peeve) everyone was just there to party and have a good time!! (Made sure to thank and tip our contact, I don’t think he had a clue what I was talking about.. or he couldn’t hear me.. He was pointing to his ears. LOL) I LOVE WET REPUBLIC!!!

So when the sun was getting low we started making our way toward the exit, going back to the hotel to regroup and get ready for the night. Saw some cuties walking out and I walked right up behind one and started walking in step with him. LOL (I got home and learned the name for this is “Ghosting”! FF to 2:30 mark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peAtB_dFUh0 LMAO Drunk! Sue me!) Found out he and his crew would be at XS later… HEY WE’RE gonna be at XS later! *wink wink nudge nudge Huh! Huh! ;) So we walked and joked with them all the way out of the hotel, parting ways at the front… Now what the hell was his name?? Oh yeah and the bachelor party never made it in… :(

Got back to the hotel and we were starving since I think all we ate was a taco or something all day. There was a discussion about going to sit in a restaurant for their $20 three course dinner but I believe I was the one who shot that idea down? I was still wet and was sure they didn’t want us sitting in their restaurant anymore than I wanted to be sitting in there! We grabbed food at Dick’s Last Resort on the way up to the room. Burgers, wings and I got a salad. The female bartender was a total biotch for some reason? There was some misunderstanding about her carding us to order food, no drinks. Dunno. Then, while we were sitting there waiting for our orders to come up, a large bellied bartender turns around in front of us and flashes a red g-string!! All I remember is seeing him climb up on the other side of the bar… ass, belly and g-string!! It was totally 7 or 8pm by the time we got our orders, so I knew we’d blown another chance at making the JC meetup. :( So we ate, yelled at each other, had some laughs, passed out...

Saturday night- I think I woke up around 10? I dunno. I know I was b*tching about wanting somebody else to get up and shower first because I’m always the first in the shower. I had a hangover ‘tude. LOL I think we all went back to sleep for another hour. Then I woke up again with an attitude and b8tched again about somebody needing to get up or we just weren’t going out!! (still half drunk. Don’t judge me!) Laid around, then went to the bathroom mumbling and grumbling and somebody was already in there... LOL Oops! My bad! We started the glam process (two more hours) and had nothing in the room to drink!! I WAS SO DAMNED GRUMPY!! And SOBER!! WTF!? Hopped a cab over to XS and the bachelor party was already there texting that they met some people from our colleges that were giving them free drinks. (SpEED it up cabbie!!) Made it to the Encore and found our way to XS. General admission line took no more than 10-15 minutes MAX and we were in! The place is gorgeous! Walked in and who do we see? Cutie from Wet Republic and friends @ the first table on the right! He had his guy pour us all drinks and insisted that the waitress give me an extra birthday shot of Patron… Ok!

Since none of us had ever been to XS before we took ourselves on a little tour. So MANY PEOPLE!! But it wasn’t overcrowded! Nice. We did a lap around the pool and finally ran into the bachelor party who introduced us to the free drinks people. Lol Apparently the lady was a graduate of my college and works for Heineken now and was in town for work/the fight. It was just she and her husband at the table outside by the pool, trying to meet their comped table minimum of 2 G’s. They were ready to go, so she tells us that she’s gonna order another bottle so they can make their minimum and they’re leaving… and Happy Birthday. WHAT!! A table and a free bottle at the newest, hottest, most beautiful spot in the world outside on a warm night for your birthday? OK!! THANKS!! I LOVE XS!! :D Mmkay! So I remember some drinking, some walking, some pictures, dancing with one of the bachelor party (I think he kissed me!?), two of my girls went to the airport to catch early flights, me and my last girl stayed with the guys and polished off the bottle. Then we went on a drunken ride to Olympic Gardens, which I was highly disappointed in. Now let me say, I do not like girls like ‘that’, but these chicks looked super busted. I felt bad for the guys because they’d paid to get in and the strippers didn’t even have bubbies!! Where are the bubbies?!

We went back to the guys’ hotel to hang out more, they promised to cook us breakfast. They made pretty good eggs and microwave bacon. Lol Then we all fell asleep. It was 6am last time I checked a watch…

Sunday - We slept for what seemed like the whole afternoon when my girl woke me up and said “It’s time for our Walk of Shame!” Me “OMG!!! What time is it?!!??” Her “11:30” Me “Oh.” Not too bad. We say our goodbyes to the boys and head downstairs. Luckily, we didn’t look a hot funky mess. The doorman was totally flirting with us while we were waiting for a cab!! Then the lady cab driver tells us we look beautiful and we tell her we’re dressed up for a wedding but she’s asking too many questions for us to keep the lie going, so we fessed up. I still don’t think she quite understood though... LOL THEN, since we only took one key out of the room the night before (whose dumbass idea?!) we had to stop at the front desk for a copy. The girls that left took the one key we had. So we couldn’t sneak up to the room, we had to walk tall across the lobby in all our hooker-esque glory at 12 noon on Sunday!! The lady in front of us in the line goes “You girls look BEAUTIFUL all dressed up so early!” We just looked at each other and tried not to laugh. If you only knew lady…

The rest of the day and trip were pretty laid back… My girl stopped and got food for us in her Saturday night dress, while I got water and went upstairs. We debated on laying around for the rest of the day or going to Rehab. I sent out a few texts to see what the bachelor party and the cutie from XS were doing and all said they were headed to Rehab. We laid around and watched a bunch of episodes of Parental Control on MTV that just happened to be hilarious! Then decided to get off our butts and check out Rehab. To be honest, I could’ve done without it… Maybe we didn’t have enough to drink or were still hungover or I expected too much but meh. Just wasn’t my cup of tea. I did have fun hanging with the bachelors though. (OHhhh I know.. they were pumping house music the ENTIRE time we were there. No switch up.)

We ended up going over to the seafood buffet at the Rio and got lucky there was no line!! It was wrapped way around the escalators when we came out. The food there was reaaaally good. We went back to the room and passed out. I tried to wake myself up and thought about going out but it wasn’t happening. Then around 1am I was up and wide awake. I think I watched the MTV awards or something.. I was in and out. Texting one of the bachelor party, who kept saying come hang with him cuz he couldn’t sleep either. Ummm... no. I had a 9am flight and wasn’t gonna stress myself!! So I finally went back to sleep and could barely wake up to get to the airport!! Rushed around throwing stuff in the suitcases, hopped in a cab, told him to take the cheapest way, (I think the cabbies try to play you when they go the “fastest” way). Get there in no time and I pay the guy and he goes “I forgot to turn on the airport tax” or some crap. I’m like… “Nahh”. And walked away. He didn’t say sh*t else. Last one on the flight and we’re delayed because of fog at SFO. So I just took the time we were sitting on the ground to look over my pics and LAUGH to myself…

I had an awesome time and I owe it all to you guys and my BFFS!!! I LOVE JC.COM!!!

Who the hell is this?! LOL
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I dunno his name either... :)

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Okay, okay, okay...here it is. Finally found time to write it after working 13 hours. Blah!

Day 3- Sunday

Once again we work up fairly early and feeling absolutely miserable. I realized I hadn’t eaten since lunch the day before so we headed downstairs for a little breakfast and a bloody mary. Bloody mary’s + a few waters= the best hangover cure ever. After breakfast we got dressed for the pool and started drinking again. The pool wasn’t as crowded today probably because a lot of people left that day but it was still a lot of fun. I wore the tiara because I just decided I didn’t care what other people think of me. It was my birthday dammit. The only problem? People kept coming up to me and asking if I was getting married. I’m pretty sure my response was always “hell no.” Lol.

The drinks were going down a little slower than usual but we made our way to the bar and got a few beers. Other people kept ordering mojitos, which was hilarious—any bartender knows that mojitos are a pain in the ass to make. Plus his mint muddler looked like a huge dildo, which was hilarious and made for interesting conversation.

Anyway… we got back in the pool and some asshole knocked the rest of my friends drink into the pool…really there wasn’t much left but he insisted on buying another drink because he thought it was mine. He came back with two—one for the spilt drink and one for my birthday. I was a good friend though and gave the 2nd to her.

We had reservations at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone because we got one of those restaurant.com coupons but we decided we wanted to eat somewhere nicer for my birthday. We headed back up to the room and got ready for the night. We decided to eat next door at Kokomos, the steakhouse at The Mirage since we were meeting Hawkgolfer and his friend there later anyway. The food there was really good and the service was amazing (I’m picky about service because I work at a restaurant).

After dinner we met up with Hawkgolfer and his friend and decided to start out the night at Revolution lounge at the Mirage because it was pretty early at this point…maybe 8:30 or so. The lounge was pretty inside and played strictly music by The Beatles. For some reason they didn’t play a single song that I know and everything was pretty slow which was putting me to sleep. Finally we decided to make our way to The Bellagio since we were planning on hitting up The Bank. I had sent a text earlier in the day to the contact on the site but never heard back so I was slightly worried about getting in. Later I realized I had text the wrong number and it had actually been a landline that I had put in—whoops!

The cab ride to the Bellagio had to be the more ridiculous experience of my life. At one point we were sitting perpendicular to traffic at Caesars Palace, driving up on the sidewalk just barely missing pedestrians and weaving in and out of construction barrels. I thought I was going to die. Literally. And the driver just kept laughing.

We finally made it to The Bellagio all in one piece just in time for the fountain show to start. I was actually pretty excited about this since I had never seen it so we walked a little closer to get a good view. Afterwards we were headed towards the door and some lady comes up and hands me three ladies passes to The Bank and two reduced admission passes for the guys. It was perfect.

It took us a while to find The Bank because it was absolutely nowhere near the door we entered through. Once we did I had to put my shoes on –okay, side story—sooo I decided that there was no way in hell I was wearing heels all night again so I brought a larger purse with my heels in it and wore flip flops most of the night…once we got to the door I put my heels on until we got inside where the flip flops came back out, hey, they were COACH at least.—okay, anyway so just as I read on the site there’s no real line at the bank…just a mass group of people waiting to be picked out of the crowd to enter. I made my way to the front near the ropes, was approached right away and asked how many in our party…just like magic. In 2.5 seconds we were riding the escalators and making our way inside.

Nothing in particular stands out about the night once we were inside… it was nice, I’d go back, we danced our asses off (especially me since I was all comfortable in my flats) and got drunk. Good times.

I’m not sure what time we left be we definitely shut the place down. We headed back to TI and decided we weren’t done partying so we went to Mist for a few drinks. It was so nice to sit down, take off our shoes (lol) and relaxed. Soon enough they were closing down so we relocated to the casino bar. I’m pretty sure we were up drinking til 5 or 6.

We woke up around 9 or so and I knew we had to book it to get our stuff together, get lunch, return the car and make our flight. I was feeling hung over as usual but nothing too out of the ordinary. The first flight was fine and then we had to change planes in Salt Lake City, UT. The second flight…. absolutely miserable. WORST FLIGHT OF MY LIFE. I have never ever ever felt so hung over in my life. I had the shivers, hot flashes, shakes, you name it…I think people thought I had H1N1 for not only how I looked but also how often I was getting sick. The flight attendants were feeding me water. Ughh… it was awful. Never again…next time we’re either taking a later flight or a direct flight on the way home.

Anyway, it was pretty much the best birthday of my life thanks to all of you. I’m counting down the days til I return! :D Tomorrow night is Birthday round 2 with all of my friends at home...not quite sure if I'm ready. I'll definitely be rocking flip flops again!!

ok, since i'm a recently revealed lurker, i thought (and chap suggested) that i'd share a tr about my recent trip during this last ldw. but its gonna pale by comparison after reading all of your great trip reports. it looks like i was one day off from everyone though cause we hit up all the palms clubs that saturday versus friday, but on to the report.

my friend dre was in town from south carolina and had decided to do a turnaround trip to vegas that saturday. originally, i told him i wasn't going to be able to make it cause my wife just had a baby, but after a lot of persuading by him, and intensive wife negotiations by me, it was on. he volunteered to drive his rental and had already arranged for us to crash at the hard rock with some of our other friends that were staying that weekend. so i was only there for 1 day/night but i'll split it up into 2 since i tend to be kinda wordy.


saturday 9:30am - 7:00pm

so he picks me up from chino hills around 9am sat morning and we're off. the drive is kinda congested for early saturday morning, but hey it was ldw after all. we stop in barstow around 10:30 and decide to eat and lay a base for the alcohol as we figure that could be our last meal for quite some time. so we pound our food in record time and hit the road again, and poof 2 hours later and we're in vegas.

seeing as we only have 1 day to try and cram as much partying in as possible, we decided to buy the wristband for the palms so we can hit up all of the clubs and not waste any valuable time waiting in line. the all access wristband also gets us into the pool party at the palms which they were having all weekend as part of a ldw dj party celebration thing, so we decided to head straight there and worry about dropping off our stuff at the hard rock later.

get to the palms and pick up our wristbands no problem so we head to the bar for the mandatory "i just to vegas" drink and cigarette. once we pick those up, we're off to the pool. there's a small line where there checking id's and unbeknownst to us, you can't bring any drinks in. no worries, i pound my beer and dre downs his long island which i can tell damages him just a little bit, and we head into the pool area.

so the original plan was that our friends that got in last night were going to get to the pool early and reserve us some loungers. yeah, that didn't happen. give them a call and they're still in the hotel room nursing their wounds from the previous night's escapades. so we do a lap around the pool in the futile attempt to find a chair. the place is pretty crowded with lots of talent walking around and of course no open chair in sight. so we end up just setting our crap down on the ground by a nice pillar between the bar and the blackjack tables, grab another drink, and camp out in the pool to enjoy the view. we drink a few beers, catch up, and bullshit for about an hour or 2 when the rest of the crew finally shows up.

so i'm just chilling in the pool drinking my beer when this drunk girl swims up, looks at my charger hat, and starts going off on how the chargers are a jv team and suck major balls, and on and on.

as a side note, i didn't realize that wearing a charger hat would be such a polarizing thing at a pool party (i'm a die hard charger fan, and yes it has been painful over the years but i appreciate your sympathy). i got comments everywhere i went, it was a love/hate relationship but as i was pulling serious wing/grenade man duties that day (man rule section 4 subparagraph 3 states that the married man/men in any group of guys must always be the wing/grenade man at all times. duties include being the first to infiltrate a group of woman who clearly don't want to be talked to, talking to a female companion of the woman your friend is interested in regardless of their size, looks or mental health, apologizing on their behalf when they behave inappropriately, and to provide adequate cover when an escape is necessary), it worked great at striking up conversations with random groups of girls. but i digress.

so this girl is just going off about how much the chargers suck and how the cowboys are the greatest team ever, and i'm like "excuse me do i know you". turns out i kind of do cause she came with my other friends. so all day we're engaged in a shit talking, shot taking, football debat that kinda made a scene in the pool the drunker we got. but she was actually pretty cool even if she did have poor taste in football teams. the rest of the day was pretty much a blur of talking to random people, miller lite cans, shots, and tony homo references.

at some point i do remember having a drunken debate outside of the bathroom with this extremely hot woman about how she was convinced that the mens bathroom was nicer than the womans. so she drags me into the women's bathroom and makes me drag her into the mens which causes the bathroom attendant to flip out. but i won that debate, the women's bathroom is much nicer, so we decided to hug it out.

around 5ish the pool party thins and we head to the hard rock and try and regroup for the evening. so we're hammered and starving so dre decides that we need to hit up the hofbrauhaus. for those unfamiliar its a german beer hall right across from the hard rock. i gotta say, i love the hofbrauhaus, always a great atmosphere. you sit down tavern style and share tables with other guests and everyone is so damn friendly. being rational drunks, we decide that we each need to order a giant stein of hefeweizen. that was the tipping point for me, i vaguely remember eating a fucktastic steak, and the next thing i know i'm lying in a cot in a room at the hard rock and someone is yelling "get up bitches".

part 2 to come...

sat - sun 9:00pm - 11:00am

apparently i've been asleep for a couple of hours but i swear it felt like 15 minutes. i'm super tired, and still pretty tipsy. dre's all pumped up for the evening festivities and he's just killing me (is there anything more annoying than someone who's really upbeat when you feel like complete shit). so now the boyz have busted out the bottle of patron and start patron shots over me, (my cot is right in the middle of the room), and the smell is killing me. i finally can't take it any more and i drag myself outta the bed and head downstairs to starbucks. after a quadruple shot of espresso, i start to feel slightly better. i take a shower and get ready and i'm almost as good as new, if new is 1/2way hung over, tipsy, and slightly nautious. after another cocktail and a forced shot of patron, i start to feel better and the caffiene starts to kick in. so we head out to the room where are other friends are staying to round up the troops.

so we walk in around 11 and my cowboy fan friend is lying in bed puking her guts out in the trash can. i find this hilarious and start heckling her and taking pictures. apparently she's not gonna make it out to the clubs even though she already got the wristband. as funny as it was though, we were kinda bummed cause she was the "fun" girl but of the group.

the rest of us arrive at the palms around midnight and decide to head over to ghostbar first. we get there and the place is just a madhouse. just silly crowded and there are like 5 semblances of lines stemming out in various directions. i find the guy with the clipboard and show him my wristband and he puts us in one of the many different lines. at this time my friend john starts bitching about the wristbands saying how he knew we'd still have to wait in line. 5 minutes later, the clipboard guy comes back and lets us right in to the elevator. that shuts john right up and leads to jokes all night at his expense. a few moments later we're in and at the bar.

ok, so i've been to ghostbar a few times and this is the busiest i've ever seen it. then again, it is ldw. so we make our way to the bar and i order us a round of kamikazes. the girls start dancing in the no dancing zone that everyone is dancing in and dre & i head outside to look around. i head over to the railing to take a couple of pictures and to try and smoke a cigarette in peace. next thing i know, some girl grabs me and i'm now standing on the little see through window which gives you the nice view of the ground many stories away. so the random girl who pulled me on this thing says this way if the glass breaks, we can all die together. i'm like wtf? i look around and dre is taking to another girl in the group so cue grenade man duties i start taking with this crazy chick. dude, she's just out there, but i smile and nod at all of the right places and slowly disengage myself and start talking to one of her friends who is more or less sane. so we hang out with these ladies for a bit and debate how the bottom side of this plexiglass window gets finger prints and smudges on it as its like 50 some odd stories up and inverted.

around 2 or so, the rest of our friends come over and we decide to head on over to moon. again, super crowded, but we flash the wristbands and we're in the elevator in minutes. but i'm at the back of the group and end up having to wait for the next one. so i get up there and again, the place is super packed and my friends are not in sight. so i end up heading to the upstairs bar to get a drink before i worry about trying to find anyone. there's this hilarious scene at the bar cause this older short little balding guy is totally molesting a hot girl half his age while she bilks him for drinks. so i get a beer and start talking to the friend of said molested girl, who's just laughing at her friend. 1 drink turns into 2, which morphs into 4, and next thing i know an hour or so has passed and i'm a little drunk. so i get a hold of dre and he & john finally show up at the bar and i pull the introductions and all of us hang out for a bit. dre tries to surgically extract the hot younger girl from the older guy with little success and he didn't have the right tools for the job, ie a deep wallet and the willingness to buy her drinks for the rest of the night.

so we hang out for little bit longer and drunk dre & john decide to head to the dance floor to try meet/dance with women. yeah, to all of the ladies that may have been at moon that night, i sincerely apologize. so i decide to head down to playboy club to try and get my gamble on. this has been the longest i've been in vegas without gambling and i'm starting to go through withdrawals. i grab another drink at the bar then find a table i like (meaning one who's minimum i can afford) and i'm about to sit down when john and dre arrive. dre doesn't gamble at all so we try and figure out what to do next as the rest of the group has already called it a night. so we come up with what any other drunk group of guys would do at 4:00am in vegas, and decide to hit up a strip club.

we exit the palms and the taxi line is ridiculous. so we grab the nearest limo and have him take us to the strip club. now on goes the debate about getting in with no cover, the limo driver ensures us that we won't have to pay cover. so we get there, and of course we end up having to pay. but we don't end up paying for the limo which was some relief, but i would've must rathered paid $40 for that versus the $30 a person for cover. so i take dre's wallet away from him. (a couple of years ago dre lost the priviledge of managing his own money in a strip club due to repeat credit card and atm instances which always leads me to be his drunken strip club money manager). so he tells me before we get in that he's only going to get 1 lapdance and that's it, and don't let him get anymore. so we pay the cover and i look in the wallet and his drunk ass only has $5. oh well, looks like i'm covering his dance, its only one so no big deal.

so i go to the bar and grab us a round of drinks and by the time i get back, john is already off with a stripper and dre has a girl on his lap. she's totally selling a dance and i break the bad news to her that i have his money but i'll gladly get the dance for him. so i look at dre and ask if he wants one, and he looks back at the dancer and shakes his head, and she gets all offended and takes off. let me tell you, there's no more hated a person than the money manager of your drunk friend. all night, girls on his lap, him saying that i got his wallet, the girls hitting me up, me looking back at him, and him shaking his head.

so i eventually get up and head to the bathroom and by the time i get back i have an angry cocktail waitress giving dre a hard time. i come up and ask what the problem was and apparently my drunk friend had ordered another round of drinks without his wallet. sonofa...ok i pay the waitress and calm her down and now i've pretty much reached the sober level. dre finally finds a girl he likes and i take her aside and clearly explain that he's only got enough money for 1 dance and i give her the money and a fat tip in advance and she takes him off to a dark little corner leaving me alone with 3 beers. i start working on them as i'm trying to bring back the buzz. john finally reappears for like 2 minutes before another girl pulls him away. meanwhile i look at my watch and think and its been like 15 minutes which is way longer than it takes for 1 dance. so i'm just picturing the stripper giving dre like 5 dances and coming back to me with a large bill. and you're pretty much at their mercy, its not like the customer is always right here, debating the bill is definitely a moot point. he finally returns and it turns out the girl just wanted to hang out with him a bit, thank god. now that he's gotten his lap dance out of his system, and i no longer have to babysit, we just chill and drink some more beers and enjoy the show. john finally returns again and we grab a cab back to the hard rock.

6:30, the sun is coming up, and i still haven't gambled. so john and i sit down for some blackjack and dre grabs a coffee and water and starts sobering up. i'm excited, i've been itching to play all day now. so i pull my my last $200 in cash out of my wallet, cash it in and get ready to roll. 30 minutes later its all gone. now that was pretty anticlimactic don't ya think? so i get up while john continues to fight the losing battle. dre comes over and insists that he's ok to drive home. i say now? he says yep, gotta run from the hangover. another thing about dre is that he is done after a day of drinking. if he crashes now i think that there's no way we're getting outta vegas before 5:00pm and i really should get home to the wife & baby. so i say i'm down, we go out to the room, grab our bags, say later to the fellas, and we're outta town by 7:00am.

the drive home was uneventful, stopped at baker for the best bacon cheese whopper i ever ate and then we were back in chino hills by 11:00am. pretty fun trip, the highlight was definitely the pool party at the palms. it was the first time i ever hit one up and it was pretty fricken awesome. i was bummed that we didn't hit up rain but my friend john wasn't a big fan and we spent way too much time at ghostbar. huge thanks to the info on this site and everyone in the forum, those palms wristbands hooked it up. easiest time i've ever had trying to get into a club without bottle service.

a couple of pics, 1 of the hofbrauhaus beers and 1 or my cowboy fan friend in her finest hour. quality isn't the best though.

I'm back from my trip, and I'm aching, my hands are shaking, my voice is gone, and I loved every minute of it.

I'm planning on posting a very detailed and entertaining TR soon, as I now understand why it's difficult to get it done right away.

Update: Fixed the pics.

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On our way...I'm the one by the window.

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Wet Republic

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Rehab

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1 Week Before

I'm starting with some backstory here because this TR will need it in order for you guys to fully understand certain parts, and appreciate the outcomes.

So, what started as a simple comment on the way to a club with my friends, "Hey, you guys wanna go to Vegas?" became a reality. Now here we were, 1 week to go and time couldn't go any slower. It was a group of 4 and I felt I was prepared for our weekend thanks to this forum.

A friend of ours who moved to Phoenix for school found out we were going and decided he was going to meet us there too with one of our other friends (his roommate) and some other guy he knows from there. I'm like Great! It's gonna be a good group.

I'm doing my usual routines at work (ie. surfing the jc forums and facebook) when I see a post from one of my homegirls I went to college with. "Vegas once again…" So of course I reply with "I'll be there in 1 week. Enjoy." She says she'll be there the same week for her birthday with her cousin. So now it's gonna be 9 of us. I'm thinking this is turning out pretty well so far.

I tell my friends and they're all excited now, especially since I have these 2 gorgeous girls going to meet us up (my homegirl and her cousin are 2 extremely attractive Dominican females from the Bronx). They asked me if I would mind if they tried to "talk" to them, because they thought I was trying to get her since I knew her. But of course I said fair game, since we were friends for years. I had a HUGE crush on her in college but it subsided after nothing happened and she showed absolutely no interest past friendship. My friend Junior in particular said he was gonna try, so I was rooting for him. lol.

Day One

Alarm goes off.

I hit the snooze button. Normally I lay in bed for a few snooze button presses before I get up. But I quickly realized, this wasn't an ordinary day. This was the morning of my flight to Vegas. I get giddy, jump up and start preparing. Fast forward 1 ½ hours later and all 4 of us are in the car heading to JFK Airport all pumped.

Fast forward another 1 hour and we're checked in, finishing having breakfast, walking towards the gate. Find out we have free wifi on the flight. Perfect! I can give live updates to my friends lol. We had a connection in Salt Lake City (made the costs way cheaper).

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A voice comes over the plane PA system saying we're approaching and tables up, seatbelts buckled and seat back up. I turn to my friend, "We're about to begin. Prepare."

Walking through the airport itself was already exciting. We snapped photos of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign, and we were just soaking it ALL in. We get to the baggage claim area. As we're waiting I see a guy holding up a sign with my name in the distance. Perfect! My friends didn't know, I had set up a Limo with Presidential Limo (thanks to the advice on the forums here). I grab him, grab our bags and we head out to the Limo. We get in, pour the champagne, toast and it starts to feel like we're in a dream now.

The limo driver asks us where we're heading that night. I say "Tryst" and he says "no, go to Tao". He says he knows 2 managers that work there if I'm interested. I discuss it with my friends and we decide to go ahead and do Tao now instead. He was convincing.

We stop at the liquor store, grab a few bottles, and take pictures by the Vegas sign. I text my homegirl that we're here. Finally we pull up to Caesars. We walk into the lobby, I tell my friends to wait while I check in. Since we're getting 2 rooms I tell one of my friends to come with me because I wanna try something. The $20 sandwich trick. My friend starts panicking because he's afraid it won't work.

We get called to the counter. I start chatting it up with the woman. I make her laugh and it's all cool. I hand over my cc, id and $40 (for 2 rooms) and say "Are there any upgrades available? Something on a high floor with a nice view?" She looks at it, sees the money, puts my card down, pulls the money from it and to the side and says "let me see." She says she has 2 rooms on the 7th floor in the Palace Tower that are ready now, OR 2 rooms on different floors in the Augustus Tower that will be ready in a couple of hours. We decide to go with the Palace Tower because they were 5 doors from each other and ready now.

As we're walking thru the casino after dropping our bags off in the room, I see my homegirl in the distance at one of the machines. I run up behind her and grab her waist and I say "Hey there sweetness", she spins around stunned and when she realizes it's me she throws her arms up and we hug. I introduce her to my friends. I tell her we'll meet up later.

After some walking around the forum shops and grabbing a bite to eat. We decided to start getting ready around 9. I had gotten a call from a manager at Tao saying she'll set us up with a table in the main room but we have to be there by 10:30. So I'm like cool.

So we get to Tao at around 10:45. After several attempts at contacting this manager, I call the limo driver and he says he'll call us back. Next thing I know I get a call from a different manager and he says he's driving to Tao right then and there and he apologizes for the inconvenience. As we're waiting and I'm walking I bump into this girl who used to live across the street from me. We're shocked to say the least and we start chatting it up, she says she does VIP hosting in Vegas now when she's not playing professional basketball in Europe. It def put me in a good mood and it was a good sign.

We finally start walking into Tao and it's so packed they put us in the Opium Room (I think that was it). I'm like whatever, we sit down and we get 2 bottles and begin. One of my friends in my group is a cop in Brooklyn and he starts chatting it up with the bouncer in our area. He calls some other guy and they start talking. Apparently the guy had some connection to the NYPD. The guy comes over stays there in our area and starts bringing girls to us every so often.

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Me and my friend Junior. I have the white tie.

The girls send me a text saying there heading there now. They get there and we all start drinking and dancing and having a blast. My friend Junior moves in and starts talking to her and dancing. Now I'm looking around and everyone is talking to someone of the opposite sex and we're just having one hell of a time. I look down at my watch, it's only 1. The night is just starting.

I start talking and dancing with some girl from Chicago. We're just drinking and chatting when I feel someone pull my arm. I turn around and it's my homegirl's cousin, she says "Don't talk to her!" I'm like great, nice block. She says she's only there for drinks, cause she saw her earlier at some other table asking for drinks. So I'm like great, I turn around and I'm like "Nice to have met you."

My homegirl sits down next to me and we start talking. I ask her how my outfit looks and she responds with "Sexy as hell." So I'm like "Thanks." She grabs my tie and runs it through her hand and says, "That's dangerous. It makes me wanna pull you in." And she does exactly that while laughing. Now, she has ALWAYS been flirty, but I never thought anything of it.

So we're drinking and talking and she gives me a couple of lapdances. She gets up and asks me to walk with her to the bathroom. So I get up and I start walking through the crowd. She goes in and I go into the bathroom myself. I lean against the wall while I wait for her. I feel someone start pinching my arm, I turn around and I see her poking her head from around the corner. She grabs my arm and pulls me toward her around the corner and starts dancing. So we start dancing and she starts playing with my tie, and looking up at me. She says, "Didn't I tell you this was dangerous for me?"

She smiles and pulls me towards her and we start kissing.

To be continued…

Day One (Part two)

So after more dancing, drinking, shots, making out, Shouting the chorus to Empire State of Mind (NEW YORKKK!!) we are having a blast. This girl confesses to me that she had a crush on me since college but she never told me. And that when she found out I was coming while she was here, she made up her mind that she was gonna get me lol. She even told my friend, but my friend was too drunk to tell me. I found out later on. She had told him that she's going to kiss me.

My cop friend disappears with some girl. No one knows where he went. My other friends disappears also. So it's just me and my friend Jon with these 2 girls now. We wanted to head to Drais, but the girls wanted to hit the slots at the Venetian for a bit.

We ended up staying there for a while, but it was a blast. everyone was feeling good. So we leave there at about 5:30ish. Take a cab back to the hotel. My friend Jon says he'll be back and he disappears now too. I'm with the 2 girls and they ask me to come with them to their room because they wanted to change. They changed into some comfortable clothes because they wanted to keep gambling for a bit. We head downstairs, her cousin disappears and its just us 2 now. She hits the monopoly machine and we're just having a blast lol. Completely all over each other and hitting the buttons on the machines. We decide to leave back to my room at about 7:30am.

End of Day One

Some more Day One pics...

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Day Two

I wake up at 10:30am. Get ready for breakfast in 5 minutes.

I leave to have breakfast with the fellas. We find the Augustus Cafe right in the lobby and decide to eat there. We're reminiscing about the night before and how great it was.

We decide we want to do Ditch, but I didn't have any bathing suits because I couldn't find any to buy in NY anywhere. So we plan to go to shop for some.

I run back to the room at 12:00pm. Hang out with her for about an hour in bed, before she leaves.

I rush to get ready because I want to make it to Ditch. My friend and I decide to head to Miracle Mile (I think its called that), and I buy a few things and head back. But by that time it's like 3:30-4:00. So we decide to just check out the Caesars Pool and the Venus pool instead.

We hang out and talk by the pools for about 2 hours or so. We leave by 6, head back to the room. I shower and change so we can see the bellagio water show at 7 and then we could head to the Paris Buffet afterwards.

But before I do, I call my "friend" and she says she's not feeling well. So I had some motrinds and stuff and I head to her room for a bit to give her them. We hang out there and that's where that picture was snapped with the mirror on the ceiling.

to be continued...

After hanging out with her for a bit, I meet up with my friends and we head towards the bellagio fountain. We watch the show, and then head into the Paris hotel for dinner. The buffet was great, and we head back to our rooms to start getting ready for the night.

At about 10:30pm we start heading over to the Palms in a limo. The girls said they would meet us there, but they were going to check out some spot in the Palazzo that was doing free drinks for ladies or something.

We pull up to the Palms, and I give my other friend (the one from Phoenix) a call because they were already there waiting for us to start the night.

We link up, grab our wristbands and we decide to head up to Ghostbar to check out the view and start the night.

From here we do a little bouncing around. Ghostbar -> Rain -> Playboy Club -> Moon.

Everything was running smooth, everyone was having a good time, until we hit a little speed bump at Moon.

My friend Junior was standing by the dancefloor moving into it eyeing his next target, when some guy was walking perpendicular to him. Junior didn't see him until the last second and stopped to let the guy pass, but as the guy passed he kind of stared Junior down in his face. That's a universal problem sign.

Immediately, within half of a second, my friend from Phoenix comes from behind Junior and steps in between them with his hand on the guy's chest. "Keep it moving. We're in Vegas baby, we just having a good time. Keep it moving!"

Everyone in our group starts to quickly look around and dissect the situation. It's only 3 of them, and its 7 of us. The guy's friends were on the side not moving. One of them tried to step forward but my friend Jon (the big guy) put his arm out and stopped him and said "You don't wanna do that my man." And they pulled back and stood on the side without moving.

"Keep it moving. We in here just trying to have a good time." My friend says.

"I'm from LAS VEGAS! I'm on that Mayweather sh*t!" says tough guy.

My friend responds:
"I'm from NEW YORK! I'm on that Mike Tyson sh*t!"

That's when everyone in my group takes a step forward, and the guys friends grab him from behind us and move him away.

It sucked because now everyone was in "fight mode". But thankfully, I recieve a text 5 minutes later from my old neighbor (the one I bumped into in front of Tao the night before). Apparently, she's heading to Seamless and wants to know if we wanna go. So I say "Yes!" because I think we need a change of scenery.

We go outside to meet her and we see she's with 2 party buses. We hop into one and we're on our way around 3:30am.

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We get a table at Seamless and my old neighbor's friend who was with us that night starts asking if we want girls. We say "YES" so he starts grabbing some of the girls to start dancing on the guys.

At one point, I look around and see that everyone in the group has a girl dancing on them. I'm like "whew, quick recovery to an almost bad night".

They leave the best one for me because I kept handing the girls off to the guys first.

Fast forward to 7:30am, we're pulling up to Caesars in a limo. We step out the limo and cover our eyes from the bright sky as we walk into the hotel and into our room to sleep.

Night 2 wasn't as good as the first night, but it had it's moments...

Wed 23rd - The Journey

Ad arrived at my house at 4.15am, we'd both only had a few hours sleep from the excitment. Packed the car up and headed to London Heathrow for our 8.15am flight. I asked Ad if he had his passport and drivers license and he said he didn't have his drivers license and would use his passport as ID. I wasn't happy about this but didn't really have time to travel to his house to pick it up. Who goes Vegas without it?! :rolleyes:

Got to the airport, checked in, grabbed some breakfast and boarded the plane for the gruelling 10+ hour flight to Housten, then we'd connect to Vegas from there.

Once arriving at Housten we had about 1.5 hours to kill. Went through customs, used the toilet and popped outside so Ad could have a smoke. At that point Ad realised he had left his passport on the shelf in the toilet!!! We ran back in there and it was gone!!! Ad's a mate but I couldn't believe what a retard he had been!! :mad:

We spent the next hour searching the airport asking customs, lost property, the airlines, security, the cleaners....fucking everyone to see if it had been handed in, and it hadn't! On top of that as he didn't have his drivers license we didn't have the option of boarding the flight and sorting out an emergency passport while in vegas. Plus our luggage was put straight onto the flight to Vegas and we obviously wasn't going to make the flight now.

I wasn't going to leave him, we spoke to the airline and they said if we can sort it out in time for their last flight of the night which was 9.10pm we could board that plane. By this time it was about 3pm, we spent another half hour searching and asking but was getting no where. At this point I realised the only way was to go to the British Consulate and hope they would help us. It turned out they were a half hour drive away at downtown Housten, so off we went.

At the British Consulate we dealt with a lovely lady that said she would issue an emergency passport to get us on our way even though he didn't have any other photo ID and his photo wasn't on their system! I had to have my passport scanned and sign to confirm he was who he said he was so if there was any problem I would be prosecuted.

We were on a time limit, she told us we needed to go to the Police Department and get a reference number and also get 2 passport photos. We spent the next 1.5 hours running around downtown (which personally I didn't think was a very nice place!) sorting that out. Got back, filled forms and we had the emergency passport to get on our way.:)

We managed to make the flight and landed in Vegas at about 11pm. We picked our luggage up without a problem. I was so relieved at this point, really didn't think we'd make Vegas the same day after all that aggro.

We were physically and mentally exhausted but decided to take a stroll down the strip and stop off for a beer or 2 before hitting the sack. We walked a way down and stopped off at a bar with an outside terrace and thought that would be a nice place to chill. Security asked for my ID which I produced, then asked Ad for his, he left his passport at the hotel so we couldn't go in. At this point I lost my temper, I walked off 1 way, and Ad the other lol. I had a little walk about, took a few pics, stopped for a beer and headed back to sleep. Ad was alreay there asleep.

An end to an absolute nightmare, but we were in Vegas with 5 full days ahead of us......

Day 1 - Thu 24th

We got up at about 8am, Ad apologised and we agreed to put it all behind us, wipe the slate clean and get on with our trip.

We headed down to the pool and grabbed a couple of loungers. We spent the whole day drinking cocktails and soaking up the sun and taking dips. The Mirage pool is a nice place to chill at. At about 3pm our local mate turned up with a bottle of vodka and cranberry so we spent the rest of the day drinking that and chatting catching up. Chris (local mate) mentioned the Rio had a poolside concert that night and as we had nothing planned we decided to hit that up.

Early evening we went back our room and sorted ourselves out for the night. We then grabbed a cab to Chris's place then off to Rio.

The concert was good fun, lots of people and was nice to go somewhere a bit different from the normal club scene. I have no idea who was playing ha! I was quite drunk by now and got the guys to follow me through the crowd. I pushed my way through and ducked the rope and we ended up in the VIP section on the sofas for an hour or so until we got asked to leave the section.:)

After a few hours we made our way back to the strip, went to the room to freshen up and headed to Jet as it was nearby. Jet was decent and was packed out. I liked the tunes there. At some point Chris disappeared with a couple of girls and didn't see him for the rest of the night lol. Nearing the end of the club me and Ad decided to go to Peppermill for some food as we hadn't eaten all day. I got chatting a girl in Jet and she joined us.

At the peppermill we ordered some food and a fish bowl full of a cocktail to share. After finishing that we staggered to the cocktail bar and chilled in there for a while. During this time we decided to play silly buggers and had a peanut fight.

We dropped Katie off at her hotel and hit the sack at about 7am.

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Day 1 updated :)

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Ad passed out after leaving the Rio :D

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Notice the brown envelope in Ad's shirt pocket, thats his passport!! Didn't realise until I looked at this pic!!

They're the pics for Day 1 :)

Day 2 - Fri 25th

Got up about 10am and got ourselves ready for Ditch. Got a call from Chris saying he was going to meet us in there. We got there at about 11am and got straight in as we had pre-paid passes.

Met with Chris inside, got a drink and had a walk round but couldn't find any loungers. Went back to the bar and asked a guy if he could find a few for us, he went off to see what he could do. 10 minutes later he came back with VIP wristbands for the 3 of us with free drink tags. Cool.:)

Spent the day enjoying ourselves, chatting and dancing with cool people. Only problem I had with the place is it had a too high guy to girl ratio, at least on that day it did.

By the end of the party me and Ad were pretty mashed and ended up in the toilets puking into the same bowl! Felt much better afterwards though lol.

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After leaving there we headed to Chris's apartment for a drink as it was just down the road. While there his girlfriend and kids turned up, was great to meet them but didn't stay too long as felt uncomfortable being around them soo fucked up.

Got back to the room and thought we'd have a few hours sleep before heading out. Slept through the alarm and didn't wake up til 5am!!

Day 3

I feel someone shaking me awake. I open my eyes, it's my friend Jon (we're sharing the same room). He says we slept through the alarm I had set so we could wake up early for Wet Republic.

I jump up like there's a fire and look at the time panicked. But it wasn't so bad. I wanted to wake up at 10am, but ended up waking up at 10:30am. We're good. I tell everyone to get ready within 5 minutes, no lie.

By the way, I realized I was still drunk. I woke up drunk.

So we get ready and we're heading towards the cab line downstairs. I call the girls and they say they're not ready yet. So my friends and I decide to get some breakfast while we wait. We eat, they come downstairs and we're on our way to Wet Republic.

We get there at about 11:45am. I had been speaking to Corey from there (thanks to this website) and he had set up a daybed for us. But when we got there he said they had already given it away. Great! Well, I figured whatever, we can all just hang out. But he came back and said that some MGM executive was holding a daybed for some VIP guest, but they hadn't confirmed anything yet. If he didn't confirm anything within the next 5 minutes, it was all mine.

10 minutes pass and we're walking into Wet Republic to our daybed. We set our stuff down and I order the first couple of pitchers and bucket of water, and we begin.

So we're all hanging out, I'm in the pool. It's all good.
When all of a sudden, my nose starts bleeding.

GREAT!

I start heading to the bathroom and my homegirl's cousin grabs a bunch of napkins and we're sitting on the steps on the side of the bar. I'm chilling, like this will stop soon. I'm ok. No biggie.

Next thing I know two paramedics come and tell me I have to follow them downstairs. lol. Great!

So we're downstairs waiting for the bleeding to completely stop. It stopped within the first 5 minutes, but they made me stay there anyways. I was literally sitting on a chair with my legs extended in front of me crossed slouched down texting on my phone. So normally, anyone else would panick and the day would be ruined. Guess what was going through my head?

"This is gonna be great in the TR."

So it stops, I go back to the daybed. I chill for a bit but I decide I wanted to head back because I just felt like showering and washing my face. My friends were gonna leave too but I insist that they ALL stay, I just wanted to go back to the room and clean up then I would come back.

But my "homegirl" (don't know how to refer to her anymore) would not leave my side. She said she's going back with me no matter what. So I'm like, fine. We catch a cab back to Caesars around 2ish.

I head to my room and she hits the slots while she waits. I shower, change, and I thought about going back to Wet Republic, but she asked if I wanted to do any sight seeing and walk the strip, cause I hadn't really done much. So I agree.

We start walking the strip and we head into Harrah's casino. I ask her if she wants to hit any of the tables and she says she doesn't know how to play any of them. So I tell her I would teach her. We start easy with Roulette. I throw down 100 and start showing her. I ask her to pick all the bets. 5 minutes later we're walking away with the 100 gone.

Next we see the craps tables. So I hadn't played craps before but I had learned specifically for this trip and I couldn't pass up this opportunity. So I approach the table, there's only 1 other guy there playing. I throw down 100. I start playing and trying to explain the game to my homegirl.

Fast forward about 10 minutes, and I'm picking up the dice with the table full and a crowd watching the table cheering me on. I was on a ROLL!! Everyone was up thanks to me.

It was awesome, everyone high fiving me. Shouting everytime I rolled something good. It was really exciting. Of course I kept playing until I lost all of it, but the experience was worth it.

We leave and start walking the strip a little more. We decide to go back because the rest of the group was already back and they wanted to meet up.

We meet up her cousin who's with my friend Jon. We go to the girls' room and we're just chatting. My homegirl and I decide we want to eat so we head out. We kept disagreeing on where to eat but we ended up at Caesar's buffet. Not bad, but we had a great conversation about college and things. We ate but we sat there for about an extra hour just talking.

Next thing I know it's 10pm. I decide it's probably time to get ready asap. She runs to her room and I go to mine. We have to get ready for XS.

I wake up the guys and tell them we gotta be out of the hotel by 11 the latest. The girls took forever to get ready so they said they would meet us at the place.

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We get there and the line isn't so long but we grease one of the guys there and all 6 of us walk in at about 12:30ish. It's PACKED!!! We post up by the bar when I get a text from the girls saying they're here. So I go outside to meet them and there was this moment that I can't forget. I'm looking for them when I see them walking towards me from far off.

It seemed like slow motion. They were walking side by side, on the same step in cadence, one leg in front of the other and all the guys were stepping aside and stopping to look. I just smiled because I knew they were walking towards me.

I walk up to the same guy I greased and I said, these 2 are with me. So since I was generous, he said ok and we walked in again.

So we decide to sit down outside by the pool because inside is so packed. We get some drinks, take some shots and we're just chillin outside.

So, after a bit she says she wants to dance. And we spend the next hour or so just dancing and my god, it was like the picture of us on the pillar.

She says she wants to use the bathroom, so I go into the mens room. I'm outside waiting for her against the wall and she comes out, and she walks right up to me and starts kissing me. So we're there for like 10 mins just making out. It was awesome.

We go back to the dancefloor, dance some more. Then we start snapping photos like crazy.

Eventually we leave, we head back to Caesars at around 5 I think. We lost everyone so it was just us 2. She insists on hitting the slots again. So we do, and we're laughing, kissing, playing, all over again. We order drinks and we're there till about 7. I never thought the slot machines could be so much fun. We eventually head back to my room around 7ish.

Day 3 - Sat 26th

Woke up at 5am and was pissed off we missed out on Friday night, not sure how long we would have lasted if we had made it out though if i'm honest. Went back to sleep for a couple of hours then ordered some room service for the 2 of us.

Left the hotel about 10am and got a cab to New York, had to go on the rollercoaster ride. Went on the ride and thought it was pretty mad. Got back outside, went to take a couple of pics and found the screen on my camera had packed up!! Bought it about a month ago mainly for the trip and was well pissed off. Didn't take it on the ride either, left it in a locker.

So, stopped off at a camera shop and ended up paying $300 for another decent camera!

Walked down the strip and stopped off at the bar/restuarant by the outside stalls. Had something to eat then proceeded to drink several Adios cocktails!! :D

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On our 3rd refil we stumbled back to the hotel and went to chill at the pool for a couple of hours. We then went back to the room and got ready for the night. We had the all access passes and was originally going to go Ghost Bar then to Rain. We had got invited to Chris's girlfriends birthday party at Cherry nightclub at Red Rock that night though, so was planning to go Ghost bar for a while, then off to Cherry and maybe catch the end of Rain.

We got to Ghost Bar at about 8.15 and got our bands but the bar wasn't open til 9pm so hung about for a while. Once at security we were kept waiting 10-15 minutes by the side as they didn't recognise the emergency passport. We got in though and all was good. Spent a couple of hours in there checking the view and chatting to people then left to grab a cab to Red Rock.

Wow, didn't realise how far away the Red Rock was, but wasn't a problem. When we arrived we texted Chris as he was coming out to walk us straight in. He came out but security would not accept Ad's emergency passport as ID. Basically had a nightmare, the superviser would not even come to see us face to face. In the end Chris's girlfriend came out (Kim), and being a lawyer managed to sort it out after a while. We said to leave it as it was her birthday and we'd head back but she wouldn't have any of it, cool girl. After a couple of hours we got in!!

Had a good time in the club and met some cool people. After leaving the club, me Ad and Chris hung at a bar drinking until about 7am. We then left Chris and got a cab back to the hotel. We wasn't going to see him again on the trip as he was busy the next few days.

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Pic from Ditch, think i'm struggling a bit haha!

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Day 4 - Sun 27th

When we got back to the hotel we thought we'd chill at the pool for a few hours and maybe grab some sleep on the loungers. We were due to go Rehab then The Bank that night.

At about 10am Ad came over really rough and wanted to go to the room so we headed up. He basically went really bad for overdoing it and had a panick attack. Heart going mad, shaking, couldn't move...not good! Nearly had to call an ambulance but gave him a valium which calmed him down and he managed to fall asleep.

He wasn't going anywhere that day or night and I didn't fancy going on my own so I just slept, popped down for the odd beer and watched tv and got room service. I felt pretty bad myself by then and couldn't handle going out on my own. :(

Day 5 - Mon 28th

That was the partying for the trip over, Ad was still in a bit of a bad way and I wasn't much better. Some people just cant handle Vegas! lol

Spent the day doing tourist things and walking around. Went to the top of the Stratospere which I actually really liked, and bought presents for family.

That night we went to Freemont Street which was cool, had a few drinks in a bar then headed back to the hotel at about 2am to sleep as we were catching a flight home the next morning.

Trip could've been much better and gone smoother but glad I went. The good times were worth it.

Forgot to mention, just to finish the trip off I went through customs with gift sets I bought for my mum and sister and they wouldn't let it through as it was liquid and just over the amount allowed. I couldn't leave it there as it was expensive so they said I could check it in. Only thing was I had 25 minutes to get back to check-in, then back through customs and onto the plane.

I just about made it, but as I was sitting on the plane I realised I left a different gift at customs!! A couple of pictures I bought from Freemont street. Not expensive but really pissed me off, what a fucking retard!! Haha

Next year im going with family, brother, sister, cousins etc so hopefully it'll be a better trip and will go smoothly.

Sorry for wasting your time reading this but at least you should have a good laugh at my expense. lol