TR- Day 1 – Off on time (Monday)
My lovely wife (Jenn) and I decided a while back to go to Vegas for hear Bday (she’s 30 now, HAHA) and New Year’s. We leave the driveway at 7:55AM. Great I think 5 minutes early. Stop and get some coffee and on our way we are. Consider this, we go to Vegas at least a couple times a year and I go several more for work or with the boys and always fly. I have not driven to Vegas for like 3 years and last time I drove I told myself I would never drive again. Since we are going for 5 nights I decide to drive this time. What a fucking mistake. Anyway, start heading up the road, on Carefree highway there is construction. WTF, on the week of New Year’s. After and extra 30 minutes and yelling and flipping off the construction workers we finally make it to Kingman. Stop by the golf course to play and quick round while Jenn sleeps in the car. Get out and realize it is seriously 30* outside. Since I’m crazy I still get a round in. I should have taken notice when the gut in the pro shop said “Keep you ball on the right side of the greens as the left side is frozen solid.” He was right it was like putting on ice. Since no one else is crazy I’m done in under two hours. Go back to the car to unfreeze. Stop by in and out grab a double double, that is the only good thing about AZ, in and out is fucking great. Cross the dam without too much hassle notice that the line going to the dam from Nevada is over 10 miles long and backed up all the way to Boulder City, looks like we are going home through Laughlin. Did I mention I HATE driving to Vegas?
Once we see the strip put on some music from the hangover soundtrack and we are ready to party for the next 5 days. Stop by Mandalay bay to see if we can switch out Black Eyed Peas tickets from tues to wed. They tell me since I bought though Ticketmaster I have to call them. Talk to Ticketmaster say I can’t exchange. Fucking Assholes! Off to Planet Hollywood.
Traffic on the strip sucks as always, again I’m questioning my decision to drive. It was fucking stupid! Get to Planet Hollywood valet parked. I now realize we have 6 suitcases and a cooler. Hell a group of 6 people behind us only had like 3. I’m like wtf we need 6 fucking suitcases for 5 nights. Jenn says something about why, but as usual, I don’t really listen. It’s still bullshit if you ask me! Line for checking is over 2 hour wait. This is a fuckin Monday, give me a break. There is another line with only one person in it, says for Starwood Preferred guests and VIP’s or some shit like that. Go to that line; get checked in, in like 5 minutes. Stupid people who waited in line! Tried to give the clerk $100 sandwich to get upgraded. See was very nice and not back to look at! She told me they recently changed their policy on tips and that 5 people had been fired in the last week for taking tips. She says it really sucks because they used to make a shitload off tips and now they are all hurting. She still puts us in a room the floor below the top with a view of the Bellagio Fountains. All in all not bad. There rooms are pretty good size, btw.
Go up to the room, have the bell hop bring up the bags. He also makes a comment about why we have so much luggage. I’m like don’t ask me! I go downstairs to do some gambling while Jenn stays in the room and does who knows what. Win a little on black jack and craps. Head down to ABC stores inside miracle mile shops and pick up some mixers for the shitload of alcohol we brought. At least they have reasonable prices!
Eventually we get ready and head over to Mandalay Bay. Keep in mind Jenn has already downed a bottle of Champagne and I am feeling pretty good, too. Head over to stripsteak because we have a $50 coupon. Like an hour wait so we decide to eat at the bar. The bartender was really cool; he kept giving Jenn free shots for her Bday! (Saves me money). Also the Ribeye at this place is awesome, so are the sides. We hang out there for a couple of hours and proceed to get loaded. We had planned on going to the foundation room that night but by this point Jenn is at her limit. End up going back to Planet Hollywood, do some gambling, go to the room, do some fooling around and we eventually pass out!
Again, we were tired from fucking driving; I’m not making that mistake again! It was probably a good thing going to bed early the first night because the next 4 nights were crazy!
Stay tuned!
My lovely wife (Jenn) and I decided a while back to go to Vegas for hear Bday (she’s 30 now, HAHA) and New Year’s. We leave the driveway at 7:55AM. Great I think 5 minutes early. Stop and get some coffee and on our way we are. Consider this, we go to Vegas at least a couple times a year and I go several more for work or with the boys and always fly. I have not driven to Vegas for like 3 years and last time I drove I told myself I would never drive again. Since we are going for 5 nights I decide to drive this time. What a fucking mistake. Anyway, start heading up the road, on Carefree highway there is construction. WTF, on the week of New Year’s. After and extra 30 minutes and yelling and flipping off the construction workers we finally make it to Kingman. Stop by the golf course to play and quick round while Jenn sleeps in the car. Get out and realize it is seriously 30* outside. Since I’m crazy I still get a round in. I should have taken notice when the gut in the pro shop said “Keep you ball on the right side of the greens as the left side is frozen solid.” He was right it was like putting on ice. Since no one else is crazy I’m done in under two hours. Go back to the car to unfreeze. Stop by in and out grab a double double, that is the only good thing about AZ, in and out is fucking great. Cross the dam without too much hassle notice that the line going to the dam from Nevada is over 10 miles long and backed up all the way to Boulder City, looks like we are going home through Laughlin. Did I mention I HATE driving to Vegas?
Once we see the strip put on some music from the hangover soundtrack and we are ready to party for the next 5 days. Stop by Mandalay bay to see if we can switch out Black Eyed Peas tickets from tues to wed. They tell me since I bought though Ticketmaster I have to call them. Talk to Ticketmaster say I can’t exchange. Fucking Assholes! Off to Planet Hollywood.
Traffic on the strip sucks as always, again I’m questioning my decision to drive. It was fucking stupid! Get to Planet Hollywood valet parked. I now realize we have 6 suitcases and a cooler. Hell a group of 6 people behind us only had like 3. I’m like wtf we need 6 fucking suitcases for 5 nights. Jenn says something about why, but as usual, I don’t really listen. It’s still bullshit if you ask me! Line for checking is over 2 hour wait. This is a fuckin Monday, give me a break. There is another line with only one person in it, says for Starwood Preferred guests and VIP’s or some shit like that. Go to that line; get checked in, in like 5 minutes. Stupid people who waited in line! Tried to give the clerk $100 sandwich to get upgraded. See was very nice and not back to look at! She told me they recently changed their policy on tips and that 5 people had been fired in the last week for taking tips. She says it really sucks because they used to make a shitload off tips and now they are all hurting. She still puts us in a room the floor below the top with a view of the Bellagio Fountains. All in all not bad. There rooms are pretty good size, btw.
Go up to the room, have the bell hop bring up the bags. He also makes a comment about why we have so much luggage. I’m like don’t ask me! I go downstairs to do some gambling while Jenn stays in the room and does who knows what. Win a little on black jack and craps. Head down to ABC stores inside miracle mile shops and pick up some mixers for the shitload of alcohol we brought. At least they have reasonable prices!
Eventually we get ready and head over to Mandalay Bay. Keep in mind Jenn has already downed a bottle of Champagne and I am feeling pretty good, too. Head over to stripsteak because we have a $50 coupon. Like an hour wait so we decide to eat at the bar. The bartender was really cool; he kept giving Jenn free shots for her Bday! (Saves me money). Also the Ribeye at this place is awesome, so are the sides. We hang out there for a couple of hours and proceed to get loaded. We had planned on going to the foundation room that night but by this point Jenn is at her limit. End up going back to Planet Hollywood, do some gambling, go to the room, do some fooling around and we eventually pass out!
Again, we were tired from fucking driving; I’m not making that mistake again! It was probably a good thing going to bed early the first night because the next 4 nights were crazy!
Stay tuned!
the group on the other side of us has like 3 kids with them. WTF! Three kids in Vegas! Stupid ass people! Anyway we get to Mandalay Bay at 7pm right when the doors open. We had floor tickets so we got an awesome spot right by the stage, like three feet away. You could smell Fergie
. She smelt good, btw! Since we got there early, we had to wait forever for the show to start. Right before the show started two Cougars with their kids try to cut their way to the front. By this time we had made pretty good friends with everyone around us. We all proceed to tell them to Fuck off and that we had been standing there for hours, so beat it. The cougars could have stayed, though. A few minutes later another couple tries to cut their way all the way to the stage. They keep yelling out seat numbers or some shit. We all yell back that it is general admission on the floor you dumbasses. They still won’t leave till some crazy bitch standing with us threatens to kick their ass. They finally, go somewhere else. The concert fuckin rocked! Best concert I have seen in a long time.
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