Firearms, Buffets and Wheelchairs: Day1
This is the start of my friends and I second annual trip to Vegas. Starting last year we decided that we should do an annual trip together each year. And unanimously we all decided on Vegas. Anyways we left Chicago O’Hare Thursday at 6:20am and I have to recommend an early flight to everyone. Not only do you squeeze in an extra day but our plane was so empty that we all got our own rows of seats and were able to lay down and catch up on some rest for the weekend. We land in Vegas at 8:30am and head directly to The Hotel at Mandalay Bay where we were staying. Fortunately we could check in at this hour and I definitely recommend this hotel to anyone. Two rooms, one a living room side with couches and a 40in flat screen and nicely sized wet bar and a bathroom. The other side of the room was the bedroom side with two beds another flat screen a huge bathroom with shower stall and huge tub with another flat screen in there. Very nicely decorated and makes for a great room to do some pre-gaming as well as entertaining guests.
We realize how early it is and decide that we need to start this weekend off with a bang. So with that in mind we head to the Gun Store to fire some weapons. I wish I did the automatics as someone else wrote about but seeing how novice I am with guns and how much I think I actually trust myself. I decided it would be better to shoot a 9mm glock. This was an interesting experience and a great way to blow off a little steam and to get us pumped up. Still very early in the day its time for the pool and some drinks. Mandalay has a great pool set up with a huge wave pool, bars and also an outside casino. Eventually we make it through the day and it is finally time to get ready and go out for the night.
Earlier on we thought it would be fun to head down to Freemont St. to have dinner walk around and drink and do some gambling. Well we got a little side tracked on the way there in the cab. Of course being in Vegas and with a group of guys someone brings up the strip club idea. Fortunately for us the cab driver chimes in says he knows a spot where we can have dinner as well. “Dinner and a show” someone yells out as well as “beef and booty”. He takes us to Treasures that is completely dead at about 530-6pm at night. And what we thought would be dinner was a few items laid out on table and them telling us they have a full buffet. Well we had some laughs and some questionable food and continued on to Fremont St. and thanks to Treasures they hooked us up with a complementary limo and we pulled up feeling good. We jumped in and out of casinos and gambled and continue to consume a good amount of booze. Towards the end of our time here a homeless guy kept bothering us asking “if we knew what Einstein’s theory of relativity was?” First of all I don’t know what it is but I bet he didn’t either; just a funny side note to the review. At this time were feeling very good and decide lets go back to the hotel and go to Mix, which is in the hotel. We get back and the elevators from our room won’t let us go up there. So we go down to the lobby to take elevator back up to the 64th floor and while we are in line we notice one of our friends is missing. We continue to call him and get no answer, oh well his lose we head up to Mix. As we get in we notice that our friend is already up there, how I don’t know. And he’s in the corner passing out against the wall and Mandalay Bay EMS is coming by with a wheel chair ready for a true VIP escort. One of the funniest things to see plus after reading other peoples reviews I’m glad to hear that we weren’t the only people in Vegas to need a wheelchair. We escort him back to the room and literally he rolls off the chair into the bed. I decide its way too early so my friend and I decide to head back up to Mix. We finish the night off getting completely inebriated and meeting some cool and interesting people. Good start to a great long weekend.
Day2 to follow shortly.
This is the start of my friends and I second annual trip to Vegas. Starting last year we decided that we should do an annual trip together each year. And unanimously we all decided on Vegas. Anyways we left Chicago O’Hare Thursday at 6:20am and I have to recommend an early flight to everyone. Not only do you squeeze in an extra day but our plane was so empty that we all got our own rows of seats and were able to lay down and catch up on some rest for the weekend. We land in Vegas at 8:30am and head directly to The Hotel at Mandalay Bay where we were staying. Fortunately we could check in at this hour and I definitely recommend this hotel to anyone. Two rooms, one a living room side with couches and a 40in flat screen and nicely sized wet bar and a bathroom. The other side of the room was the bedroom side with two beds another flat screen a huge bathroom with shower stall and huge tub with another flat screen in there. Very nicely decorated and makes for a great room to do some pre-gaming as well as entertaining guests.
We realize how early it is and decide that we need to start this weekend off with a bang. So with that in mind we head to the Gun Store to fire some weapons. I wish I did the automatics as someone else wrote about but seeing how novice I am with guns and how much I think I actually trust myself. I decided it would be better to shoot a 9mm glock. This was an interesting experience and a great way to blow off a little steam and to get us pumped up. Still very early in the day its time for the pool and some drinks. Mandalay has a great pool set up with a huge wave pool, bars and also an outside casino. Eventually we make it through the day and it is finally time to get ready and go out for the night.
Earlier on we thought it would be fun to head down to Freemont St. to have dinner walk around and drink and do some gambling. Well we got a little side tracked on the way there in the cab. Of course being in Vegas and with a group of guys someone brings up the strip club idea. Fortunately for us the cab driver chimes in says he knows a spot where we can have dinner as well. “Dinner and a show” someone yells out as well as “beef and booty”. He takes us to Treasures that is completely dead at about 530-6pm at night. And what we thought would be dinner was a few items laid out on table and them telling us they have a full buffet. Well we had some laughs and some questionable food and continued on to Fremont St. and thanks to Treasures they hooked us up with a complementary limo and we pulled up feeling good. We jumped in and out of casinos and gambled and continue to consume a good amount of booze. Towards the end of our time here a homeless guy kept bothering us asking “if we knew what Einstein’s theory of relativity was?” First of all I don’t know what it is but I bet he didn’t either; just a funny side note to the review. At this time were feeling very good and decide lets go back to the hotel and go to Mix, which is in the hotel. We get back and the elevators from our room won’t let us go up there. So we go down to the lobby to take elevator back up to the 64th floor and while we are in line we notice one of our friends is missing. We continue to call him and get no answer, oh well his lose we head up to Mix. As we get in we notice that our friend is already up there, how I don’t know. And he’s in the corner passing out against the wall and Mandalay Bay EMS is coming by with a wheel chair ready for a true VIP escort. One of the funniest things to see plus after reading other peoples reviews I’m glad to hear that we weren’t the only people in Vegas to need a wheelchair. We escort him back to the room and literally he rolls off the chair into the bed. I decide its way too early so my friend and I decide to head back up to Mix. We finish the night off getting completely inebriated and meeting some cool and interesting people. Good start to a great long weekend.
Day2 to follow shortly.
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