TR: So 3 months ago I was in Vegas...

[Drew]

So I know I never wrote one up... I was going to, but I didn't and after a while I decided not to. But hey, after much contemplation I decided to write it up now...

So here goes...

[Drew]

Day 1...

Thursday 9/17

Flying into Vegas, my gazillionth trip to the promiseland. My 2 best friends from CA are driving in. They are K and M from my previous trips/report. They’re birthdays are 9/16 and 9/17 respectively and we had planned this trip to celebrate that. (Unfortunately this will likely have been the last trip the trio of us take together as K and M now no longer talk ::sad face:: ) K’s friend M2 is joining us this trip as well and is driving in the next day on Friday. My family will also drive up and meet up with me during this trip as well. Anyways onwards…

Get on a flight, score empty seat next to me! A group of girls end up sitting in the middle section across from me. I politely help put their luggage in the overhead bin. We all chat now and then throughout the flight about the clubs in Vegas and where we are all planning to go to. I give a couple suggestions, tips. Not a bad start to the trip considering I’m usually stuck with someone I don’t want next to me.

Get to Vegas in the afternoon, I forget when. Had to wait for baggage ( I hate checking, but I had to bring my wii for my mom to give to my nephew, I never played it anyways. Was never into gaming. Don’t know why I bought it). Grab a cab. Head to Palazzo. Hit a ton of traffic on the back roads. Literally took over an hour to get to the hotel, but I was cool. Just too excited and happy to be in Vegas. Restyle txts me at some point in the cab ride saying she’s jealous I was there already.

Sandwiched, got a room on the 42nd floor with a beautiful view and had a small fridge sent up for free as well. Exchange txts/calls with K&M. They are on the road and should be in by 4:30ish. Unpack. Rest up. Get a call on the room phone, security guy says your friends are coming up. Finally! I open the door, wait a minute or two, then I hear running and it’s the 2 of them running towards the room.. gotta love the excitement Vegas brings out. Go to the car to grab the rest of their stuff, including the booze they brought. Drinking begins. K&M marvel at the view we have. Previously we always did it ghetto style and would stay at the Trop or some other similar hotel.

M’s uncle lives in Vegas and comes to Palazzo to have drinks with us since it’s M’s bday. We pick a bar by the food court in the Venetian and just start pounding away the irish car bombs. (During the convo.. M’s uncle goes “So your mom says you have a new girlfiend” Me and K look at each other and are like WTF, this is the first we heard of this and M usually always starts txting us non stop whenever he meets someone. He brushes it off saying it’s nothing serious, is being all shady and says it’s none of our business. We keep questioning him about her the whole trip and get nothing. Anyways… we find out a month or 2 later who it is and without going into detail it involves K’s past and that’s why we no longer can be a trio anymore). M gets crazy wild man drunk and it’s not even 7 pm yet. He’s yelling that it’s his birthday, being loud, going up to random people being obnoxious, etc. I have to extract him from various groups who all thank me for taking him away. Have a couple more car bombs (one of which he drops and breaks lol). I have to control him cause I know he won’t last the night and I have Tao table service setup that night for the 3 of us which I really wanted him to be able to make!

Back in the room, I make M’s nap for half an hour and ration his drinking after that until he is somewhat normal. Get ready, pregame. I do a lurker shot at some point. M starts to seem ok so I let him drink again. More pre game. Then we roll out.

K and I have a tradition that we always do at least 1 $20 bet on black. We stop by a table, make our bet and hit. Good start! This is where I mention that K doesn’t have much money. He only has about $160 to spend for the whole trip (after room, palms bracelet and a portion of Tao… of which I’m covering about 70% of the total costs since it’s their birthdays) So he wins this $20 bet and he’s got like $180. He wants to bet again, I advise him not to saying he’s on a budget and we already won and are happy… but he wants to so I tell him to bet $15 so if he wins, he wins, and if he loses, he still comes up $5 in this exchange. He bets and wins another $15. He seems satisfied and we head to Tao.

Roll right up to Tao, give them my name and get escorted to my table. Got a table in the hallway between Opium and the Main room. I liked the location. Get introduced to the waitress, runner, and security. All seem pretty cool. Get our bottle of goose and just start partying away. Do some walking around, some dancing, talk to various girls etc. Invite various girls back to table. Move around some more etc. Having a blast. Hang out with a girl wearing a tiara cause it’s her 21st. Kisses exchanged here and there. Fun times… except I notice M is fading and is nodding off. I spend a lot of time getting him to stand up and straighten up. The security guard is super cool but tells me if any other staff see him like that, he’d get the boot. So for the next hour or so I’m on constant wake M up mode.

K gets super drunk, turns to me and is like I want to go gamble. I tell him he shouldn’t etc etc. He’s like your right. Drink some more… 10 min later I notice K’s disappeared. An hour of fun passes by and I see K stumbling back. I ask where he went and he just shakes his head and says he lost it all. LOL. Perfect. This is only the 1st night and he’s broke. Fortunately we find out he’s so drunk that he only lost the money in one of his wallet and still had about $90 in his other pocket. We all roam around, I’m on babysitting mode with M, but he seems ok now. K disappears after a while again. M and I dance in opium room and next thing I know he’s not next to me. I walk back to the table and he’s hunched over. A host is looking at him and signals security over. They want to escort him out. M gets mad and starts getting into with him. I try to calm him down, tell the guard our room number, and M gets Xs on his hands and gets walked back to the room. I probably should have left with him, but I was finally free of babysitting and still had some booze left in the bottle.

At one point a group asked if they could sit at my table. I welcome them. Shoot the shit with the main guy for a while. One of them is a beautiful blonde in a black dress. He says she’s a playboy model (who knows if she was, she was wearing a playboy bunny thing on her necklace though) and have her switch seats with him so we could talk. I’m thinking awesome! We chat, cool… then she starts bitching about her bf etc who didn’t want to come out that night blah blah blha. Tune out…At some point their group left.

I start getting phone calls from K. I pick up, can’t hear anything, say text me, I can’t hear. Hang up, I txt him. He calls, repeat for about 50 phone calls and a couple of voicemails he left me that we listened to the next day. I txt him, he calls or sends a blank txt.

I figure I should leave soon, but decide to make one last lap around the dance floor. I dance by the bar, 2 ok looking blondes come towards me and basically start molesting me on the dance floor and saying really really naughty stuff to me. Like really dirty and really molesting me. I dunno, this just raises flags for me and I’m thinking they might be pros. One says we should go play blackjack. I’m thinking this is weird but I was looking to leave Tao anyways. We sit at a table, I place a bet and lose. They ask me for money to bet with. I’m like umm no it’s ok. They bitch at me and I just get up and walk away. I was pretty faded at this point, but I could tell the whole thing was weird.

I walk back to the room, get another call from K. He’s super wasted, downstairs, lost his room key, and couldn’t remember the room number. I go downstairs, pick him up, go back to room and that ends night one. We laugh about it a lot the next day especially when we listen to the voicemails he left.

[Drew]

Oh I was supposed to meet h2oski at Tao, but he flaked. Also, at one point in the night also, I got txts from a random number asking if I was at Tao. I asked who it was and they just said "a member" and that he had a table at Tao too. Not sure who it was, but exchanged a couple more txts to meet but didn't pan out.

[Guest]

wow.. now I know whos going to be my wheelchair handler for AOD Drew is mr.responsibility.

[LovesVegas18888]

This is great Drew. I'm glad you decided to write it!!

[restyle]

uhhh get to the good part!!!!!

[NyceGuy]

I feel safe for NYE with Drew around.

[aria]

I feel safe for NYE with Drew around.

Drew shouldn't have to babysit us. I've done plenty of babysitting and it's not fun. Drew runs the clipboard, but that's where it stops!

Great TR Drew! I hope there is more!!

[BritishV]

There must be more??? what happens next?

You're such a sweetie babysitting your friends!

[NyceGuy]

Drew shouldn't have to babysit us. I've done plenty of babysitting and it's not fun. Drew runs the clipboard, but that's where it stops!

Great TR Drew! I hope there is more!!

I agree. Plus, I'm not the type that needs to be babysitted. But if someone was to slip something in my drink, I can count on Drew to make sure no one takes advantage. lol.

[Drew]

Hahaha yes I try to make sure people have a great time and don't end up in jail. I'll try to write up day 2 today/tonight

[BritishV]

Yay - for day2

Yay - for not letting peeps end up in jail!

[P-tr-ck]

haha, great that you took the time and wrote the TR.

Can't wait for Day 2!!

[AK2Vegas]

This is the sound of your public clamoring for more [...].

[Drew]

Day 2... ditch and JC at the Palms

Day 2 Friday 9/18
Wake up at some point in the morning, walk down to the food court by the Venetian, and grab some grub. Head back to the room, start recapping the night before. After some recovery time, get ready and head to Ditch Fridays, which we got access to via the palms bracelet that I got online.

Although we’ve been to Vegas a ton of times, none of us had ever been to a pool party. Yea, we’ve swam in Vegas pools, but the concept of the pool party in Vegas was pretty foreign. We hit up Ditch and immediately we’re like this is awesome. K and M are thanking me for showing them the light. We grab some drinks by the bar, do a walk around, hide our stuff in a corner, and just drink and swim. It was the perfect recovery for the night before. Crowd was great, not packed, but a good amount. Along the way I see the girls from the plane that sat next to me. They took my suggestion of Ditch Fridays. They seemed to enjoy themselves and 4 of them ended up volunteering for the dating game show thing they do at Ditch.

Another highlight of Ditch were these 2 smoking hot women in bikinis just chilling in the pool. Every dude that was near kept looking. At one point one girl got in the pool, then facing the other girl, came up from the water bent over as the other girl was sitting, leaned in and started making out with her. All the guys were shell shock. Wish I had a camara.

Anyways, we swam and drank, hit the big beach ball around, drank, repeat for hours. Later in the afternoon left Ditch. M asks about getting a tattoo, but didn’t like the prices. We head back to Palazzo.

Exchanged various txts with Restyle and other Jcers during the day. Restyle left me a drunk voicemail. “Drewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…..” She wanted to make sure I was going to the meet and to coordinate when I’d go and when she’d go.

M wanted to do some shopping, so we walked the Venetian shops. Stopped by a store, he bought a belt. While there the clerk looked at me and was like you look like you partied hard last night.

Back to the room. More drinking. K’s friend M2 gets in. He’s digging the view too. More drinking. . Grab some food. More drinking. Get ready to head to the palms for the JC meet that restyle set up. Running a little late. M2 isn’t clubbing, but he comes to the Palms to hang out and gamble a little. We bring our drinks from the room to the Palms and drink in the casino as we weren’t sure they’d let us bring them into Ghostbar, plus this gives us some more time to chill with M2. Restyle is txting me to hurry up and to get my ass to Ghostbar. I see some dude roll in with an entourage and I’m like who the heck is this guy. Look closer and I’m like woah that’s Kid Rock, I tell my friends, they look and are like woah. Other people around us hear and look too. Next thing I know random guys and girls are running up to them and following. They walk across the casino and that was the last I saw of Kid Rock.

Finally head up to Ghostbar. Do a walk around, check out the amazing view, grab a drink, txt Restyle. Find their group as she notices my txt and is like I think Drew is here and then I rolled up right next to them. Restyle is there with 2 of her friends and Luckythirteen. Everyone seems cool and ready to have a good time. One of restyles already looks like she’s had a great time. My friends roam around Ghostbar while I hang out with the JC crew. Lots of people were supposed to come to the meet but looked like they flaked. Oh well, fun still to be had! We get shots and LT orders a round of soco and something, much to the dismay of restyle. A trooper she downs the shot anyways.

After the shots, we go inside and walk around, do some quick dancing. I wonder where my friends went. Then I eventually see M. He comes up to me and is like K just got taken to the kitchen or something by the bouncer and got the boot cause he was too drunk. It wasn’t even 10 PM yet! I felt bad cause he dropped money on the bracelet and the night ended early for him. After K got the boot, he met up with M2, went back to Palazzo and checked out Cut? The steak place cause M2’s friend worked there.

Back to Palms… after a bit, we to head to Playboy/Moon. Roll up to the line, flash my wristband as does LT and M. Get let right in. Restyle and her friends walk in behind us without wristbands and the guy stops them. Score one for the wristband. We quickly take care of the situation by saying she was on Shawn’s guestlist . He points to the guestlist line, restyle sneakily cuts into the front of it and gets let in. Head up to playboy and hang out there for a while. I run into someone that works at my office. Small world!

LT starts to gamble at the tables making some decent sized bets. I check on him a bit later and he’s down a few hundred. Go drink some more, then I see him again and he’s up a lot more and shows me his $1000 chip. I think he had a couple of them. Never seen one of those before!

Next stop was Moon. Walk around, check out the outside patio view, do some dancing, go back outside, etc. M wants to go inside towards the dance floor. I go with him and leave restyle and company outside. (I still slightly thought M was bs-ing me about K, so I was txting K that we were at Moon and I ended up getting txts back that he was on the way and a couple that said he was there by the back. Later find out it was just M2 messing with me lol).

On the dance floor this little asian girl stops in front of me, grabs me and starts dancing. After a little bit she kisses me. I see restyle out of the corner of my eye by the door. I go to her and as I get closer I notice she’s having some sort of argument with her friends… girl drama. I quickly evade as does LT. I go to find M. Can’t find him. Go back to restyle, her and her friends are cool again. We decide to check out Rain. I txt M telling him we’re going to Rain.

Restyle, friends, I go to Rain. Lots of people. I flash my band and get right past the ropes. Restyle finds a door guy, says she’s on the guestlist and drop’s Shawn’s name. The person doesn’t know who Shawn is. Must have been a newbie. He flags another person down and asks who Shawn is and that person immediately comes over and opens the ropes. Go into Rain. Seems cool. I grab a drink and we walk by the dance floor. Restyle’s friends are on water at this point. I txt M some more asking where he’s at. Restyle txts LT to see where he is as he didn’t come to Rain with his. He said he was gambling but would come right over. Restyle goes out to get him. We wait like 15 min inside Rain and wonder what’s taking restyle so long. Next thing I know she txts me saying she got kicked out of Rain. We were like WTF and went out to find her. She didn’t really get kicked out. She walked out , tried to go back in but they said she was too drunk. We’re outside of Rain and find LT. He won some more money. Restyle, friends, and LT decide to call it and head back to TI/mirage. I say bye to everyone but restyle refuses to say bye to me so I that I have to go to the meet up the next night (I was unconfirmed about the next meet up… which I unfortunately did end up missing…. Sorry!)

After they leave, I head back to Moon to try to find M as he never showed up at Rain or answered my txts. I roam around Playboy and Moon trying to find him (with a few drinks and mingling along the wayt of course). He was nowhere to be found. A few more drinks later, I decide to head back to the Palazzo.
Get in the cab line, wait. Talk to the people in front of me. Kid rock gets brought up. Someone else mentions that Kim Kardashian was at the Palms that night too. Damn I wish I saw her!

I get in the cab and almost get to Palazzo when I get a txt from M saying he just got back to the room. I tell him I’m just getting to Palazzo and he comes down to meet me. The reason why he didn’t return my txts earlier was because he left his phone in the room. Doh! He tells me M2 is passed out but K wasn’t in the room. I txt K, no response. M then shows me his wrist and all excitedly show the TAG watch he bought at the Palms after the clubs for a grand. He tipped the sales lady a hundred bucks too. I make fun of him saying he’s a drunken fool, but he insists this was a rational decision and he really wanted the watch. I dunno, shopping at 2 AM after clubbing doesn’t seem a great idea to me!

We decide to go find some food. Walk to the food court, but it’s closed. Walk back and find that Grand Lux is open all night. Chill there by the bar. I order some soup and he orders some sort of tuna burger or something. We chat up the Lavo waitress next to us that just got off work. Hour later I finish my drinks and soup and call it a night. M is still working on his meal, but I head up back to the room.

I get in the elevator and 2 well dressed guys walk in. They speak with like a british or austrailian accent. I’m pretty faded and tired, but I look and I swear to god this guy was the guy who plays Bill Compton on True Blood. Of course I didn’t want to be the drunken idiot who goes “hey are you bill compton???” So who knows if it really was him.

I get back to the room. Notice that K is passed out. (Yes he’s alive! The next morning we ask him where he went cause when M went back he wasn’t there. He had no recollection at first but later on remember he somehow wondered out trying to find a McDonalds but didn’t and went back to the room).
I try to sleep. A little later M comes back into the room. We knock out at around 5is AM. For some ungodly reason, both M and M2 get up at 730 AM and starts waking me and K up wanting to go walk around the strip. I tell them to f off and let me sleep and so starts day 3….