TR: NYE from Drew's eyes

[Drew]

Day 1 Wed 12/30/09

Man this day couldn’t have come soon enough. This trip has pretty much dominated my life for the past couple months and it was here. So day 1 starts…

Wake up pretty early, earlier than I planned. Excitement of course… I start to get ready and pack all my stuff together. Yes, I hate packing and always leave it to the last minute. I’m out of my parents house a little after 9ish AM. Hit up the supermarket to purchase some essentials re: alcohol, mixers, bottled water. This takes longer than I hoped, but I’m out of there by 9:40 and on the way to pick up Aria. Drive about 45 min to get to Aria as I hit some traffic by downtown. Get to Aria, meet her roommate who gives me a shot of Green Lemonade which Aria said would taste horrible, but I actually kinda liked it. Aria shows me the big bottle of Kettle she bought for me and a bottle of some weird belvedere vodka which she says tastes horrible but will mess you up. We part ways with her roommate who jokingly says she knows what I look like now in case I had any evil plans. Lol

Hit the road, hit pockets of traffic throughout the drive, stop by an arbys for lunch. As we get closer, the excitement builds. Exchange various txts/calls with Cisco/loves/marc/nyceguy/socal. Nyceguy’s already getting drunk with the british boys as he awaits our arrival. Get to Vegas round 5 pm, check into the PH tower, get up to room. Aria takes over the bathroom for the next 2 hours to prepare for the night. During this time, I get the free bottle of booze from PH, iron some clothes, and await Nyceguys arrival from his ventures with the brits. Nyceguy eventually gets to the room, unpacks, lays out some stuff he wants to wear for the night and shares how awesome it was to hang with the UK lads. Aria departs bathroom, we all bond and have some drinks and or lurker shots. Decide to hit up earl of sandwich for some grub. Good stuff. Back to room to finish eating and getting ready. Have another couple drinks. Eventually roll out to Wasted space.

Nyceguy was in touch with William142 and madscientist and said we’d meet at the center bar of hard rock. We walk in, walk around and have no clue who we are looking for. I run into a friend from high school, exchange pleasantries (small world) and continue our search for AODers. We end up meeting William and Jenn outside Wasted Space. Wait for madscientist for a little bit, before deciding to just go in. She never showed up anyways! As we were waiting outside, Dan Henderson walks up to Wasted Space. As a big mma fan, that was pretty exciting! So we’re about to walk into Wasted Space, do the ID checks and Nyceguy realizes he doesn’t have his. He says it’s back in the room. I give him my hotel key and he heads back to PH.

Get to our table, order up our goose and sky vodka and start drinking. Not too busy, but it starts to fill up. During this time, I start checking in on Nyceguy who hasn’t returned. He says my key isn’t working, so he goes to the front desk. I head out of wasted space to call PH to add his name to the room so they can help him. After explaining the situation to like 5 different people who transfer me to other people, I finally get someone who’s at the front desk and sees Nyceguy and adds his name to my room. Problem solved I thought. A while later, still no Nyce and come to find out he can’t find his ID at all. This was a downer for me as I felt pretty bad for him. Only way to feel better is to drink more! So that I did.

Did some dancing and drinking. William and his wife are pretty cool. Glad they were there. UK guys get to Wasted Space and get their own table with 2 bottles. Eventually this table merges with ours and we all party. A couple of Chapp’s friends get to Wasted Space and we all just party it up, dancing on our booths etc. Marc finds himself a nice large woman to play with, much to our amusement.

At some point early in the night, Aria departs to go meet up with a local friend . (on a side note, I blame this local friend for getting most of AOD sick post NYE lol) After she leaves , I realize she has one room key, and Nyceguy has the other. I worry about not having a key to my room for a little bit, but quickly move back to drinking and dancing. I’m sure Nyceguy would be in the room. (I hoped!)

Also, Loves had made it into Vegas that night but wasn’t at Wasted Space with us. I sent her various txts trying to get her to come out, but she ignored me lol. Boooo. The brits also tried to get her to come out. They kept borrowing my phone throughout the night ( didn’t know why at first), but I’d get it back and find they were trying to call Loves. No luck either! Oh well!

Ok, more dancing, drinking. Notice William and Jenn have disappeared. Me, Simon and Marc continue to party til they closed. Then we take a cab back to MGM Signature where they were staying. We get out. Marc heads in and up to his room. Apparently I looked super wasted as London decides to walk me back to PH, which turned out to be just around the corner. Thanks for making sure I got back ok London! We get to my room and yep, nyceguy is there chillin in bed. We hang out for a bit and London heads back to his room. I then see that Cisco had txted/called me. I hit him up, tell him we’re in our room. Cisco then rolls up with 2MSR, his girl, and another friend. We hang out in our room and chat about the night. Nyceguy, Cisco, and crew then decide there’s still more partying to do and walk over to the UK boys suite. I’m pretty much done at this point and just pass out on my bed.

[LovesVegas18888]

I messed up.. should have been @ Wasted Space .. Sounds like it was a ton of fun! And yes, I blame Aria's friend for getting everyone sick as well!! hahha

[aria]

I would just like to say that I was sick BEFORE heading out to Vegas. It had nothing to do with my friend. And the only person I got sick was Loves, and even then I was around you just as much as her and you never got sick. I still claim she got sick from Cathouse.

And you tried very hard to get the key from me, but I charmed you with my batting eyelashes and extra shots of vodka I kept putting in your drinks.

The Chang! <3

[Cisco419]

Nicely done so far! And what Aria says is true, she was sick prior and I know this because we had been exchanging texts for about a week prior and she was telling me about how sick she was and how bad she felt the week of. But she's a fucken trooper and still made it out and drank like crazy being sick and all.

[Drew]

I messed up.. should have been @ Wasted Space .. Sounds like it was a ton of fun! And yes, I blame Aria's friend for getting everyone sick as well!! hahha

it's all good!

[Drew]

And you tried very hard to get the key from me, but I charmed you with my batting eyelashes and extra shots of vodka I kept putting in your drinks.

The Chang! <3

hahaa no wonder I got so wasted

[Drew]

and yes, aria was major trooper for partying so hard while sick!

[Drew]

Day 2 NYE – dicks and the preparty!

Day 2 NYE – dicks and the preparty!

Nyceguy gets back from the UK boys. I wake up briefly and knock back out. An hour or 2 later, I’m up again. I look over and nyceguy is laying in bed looking at his iphone. We recap his night with the brits in which he shares the story of Marc bringing back 2 woman to the room, one of which had pink hair. Start to retrace his footsteps from the day before and for the next couple hours I become Nyceguy as I call every possible number for phoenix airport, US Airways, mileage credit card companies, casino/hotel lost and founds to see if anyone has found my ID. Unfortunately… as would be a recurring theme, we both fail at finding his ID. We also tore up the room looking for his ID. No dice.

Take a break from searching we start getting txts from the various JC crew about meeting up at luxor later. Marc calls me up at this time and asks for my room number. He rolls up about 15 min later. We hang out, talk about Nyces ID, and our adventures from the night before (well mostly Marc’s adventures!). We then game plan what we can do to get Nyceguy into Cathouse that night. We contact people at the Cathouse and get negotiations going.

Marc and nyce are ready to head out to Luxor to meet up with the other peeps. I try to delay a little bit as aria said she’d be back soon so we could roll together. But momentum has built and we are off to the Luxor.

First stop, Cathouse. We chat with the various hosts outside cathouse that are promoting that nights event as Nyce waits for the guy in charge of Cathouse. He eventually comes down, takes Nyce up to his office and proceeds to interrogate him. Marc and I head over the bar across from Cathouse and Marc buys each of us a bloody mary. Thanks Marc! After about 15 min, Nyce comes out and everything is all worked out for his entry into Cathouse that evening. Nyce is actually a bit shaken as he tells us about the nerve wracking interrogation he was put under. We thank mr. Cathouse and he asks if we want to see where our tables are gonna be tonight. Of course we do. We roll up, check out the awesome area he has set up for us and the JC crew and we know then and there that we are in for an amazing night. We thank him for all his gracious help and are on our way.

Go back to bar where we got bloody marys and Marc offers to buy Nyce a drink. Bartender is about to pour the drink and then stops and is like wait, I need to see his ID. Fail and she proceeds to ask Nyce to leave the bar area.

Cisco and Socal’s crew were chillin at Loves room. We head over to the elevator so they can bring us up. We wait by the elevator and watch as people come in and out of them. Eventually Loves comes out of the elevator, followed by Socal and Cisco. Loves walks right by the 3 of us and looks lost. We say our hellos to Cisco, meet Socal and her friends, and as Loves realizes what happens, quickly comes back and we get to meet her.

We all bond and decide to go grab lunch. Marcs in the mood for steak. We walk by a couple restaurants inside Luxor that were unfortunately closed. Someone suggests Dicks at Excalibur, we agree and head over.
Have lunch at Dicks. Marc orders bottle of patron. We take multiple shots. Aria and London eventually join us. Drink beer. Inquire about Moe and Dank’s status. Discover Adrian sisters flight was canceled and won’t be getting in til late. Loves recruits 3 girls that were sitting behind us to our Cathouse party. Watch the bartender do a water show. Get big paper hats with funny stuff on them. I happen to be into Midget porn and Cisco touches himself to the jonas brothers. Thanks marc lunch! We part ways a bit after 4 and make plans to get back to Loves and Aria’s room around 6ish for the preparty.

Nyce, London, Marc, and I head over to our rooms at PH to hang out. The plan was for Nyce and I to get ready and then we’d all head over to MGM Sig so the UK boys could get ready. I get ready, not super quick, but in normal time. Unfortunately we did not realize that Nyce was not the get ready quick type. Nyce changes his outfit like 5 times. After an hour or so, he’s still undecided about what to wear. Being that we were supposed to pregame at 6 and it was a little past 5, Nyce suggests the brits go back to their room first to get ready cause he’s still gonna need some time. Eventually, Nyce is good to go. We hop a cab at PH and tell the driver 2 stops, picking up our friends at MGM sig and then to Luxor. Txt the UK boys that we are picking them up and are on the way. Get to MGM sig and there are 2 beautiful woman standing there waiting. The driver comments “I hope those are your friends!” They weren’t of course, but they made for great eye candy as we waited for the brits, hoping they’d be down before the girls left cause we loved to see Marc’s reaction to them. Didn’t happen though as they left shortly after. Marc and London get down and we head to Luxor!

Get to Luxor, txt Cisco and William that we are there. Txt Loves and Aria. Aria responds that they aren’t ready yet and for us to chill for 15 min. Nyce, London, Marc and I go to the bar from earlier. They each get beers and we pretty much zone out for the next half an hour, rallying for the night ahead. Finally get the call that the girls are ready for us. Head to the elevator. Wait for Cisco and crew. Head up to the room and pre party begins! I was kind of tired, but right when we got to the preparty and started drinking, I was pump and ready to party.

The preparty gets packed. Socal and her crew are there. Cisco and his crew. William and Jenn. 3 girls from earlier etc. It was pretty awesome. One of the best vegas preparties ever I must say! Everyone was just clicked.

Exchange a bunch of txts with Chappy to see when him and his crew would be arriving. Got the txt that was there. Moe and Dank had arrived as well and we all were going to meet outside Cathouse. Preparty ends, we head on over to the Cathouse walking by unbelievable lines for both LAX and Cathouse. Get to meet Chappy and his crew. Meet and shake hands with JC. Also, meet Moe and Dank of course! We roll up to the front. Chappy and brits sort out their tables. They go in first, then gradually all of us with bracelets roll in spurts. We never would have gotten in if we had to wait in the normal line though! Thank god for Chappy, JC, and the London boys …

[NyceGuy]

Even tho I had to deal with a bunch of stress for the NYE trip, I have to admit I had a fucking blast.

[Guest]

...she bought for me and a bottle of some weird belvedere vodka which she says tastes horrible but will mess you up. ....

Hey no dissing the belvy man.. its vodka, of course it tastes horrible if you don't mix it

No word on Aria's twins?

[Guest]

PS. How did the name Chang come about?

[Drew]

Hey no dissing the belvy man.. its vodka, of course it tastes horrible if you don't mix it

No word on Aria's twins?

It wasn't your regular belvy. It was like infused with herbs and some other wierd stuff.

Aria's twins were covered on the car ride. Her clubbing outfits did accuentate them though, but I did my best to look above the shoulders most of the time when conversing with her!

[Drew]

PS. How did the name Chang come about?

Cisco's bro started calling me that the last day I was there and everyone else still there loved it and kept it going. Something about me being so cool or something, who knows!

[Drew]

Day 2 NYE – cathouse!

Day 2 NYE – cathouse!

With the help of the Cathouse contact Nyce spoke to earlier in the day, we get into Cathouse and find the rest of the crew stationed at the tables already. The JC contingency must have been like 50 people deep. We had an entire 3 table section. It was a fantastic location. As chappy mentioned, it was still pretty spacious, so Nyceguy and I start pounding away at the open bar. I was downing them left and right and it was so easy to get them from the bar. Then like in an instant the Cathouse became insanely packed and getting to my open bar because much much tougher and longer. This did not deter me as I continued making my way there many a times to get my drink on.

Interspersed among the trips to the bar were many interactions at our section. I danced a lot. Early in the night, me and a couple other guys decide to stand up on our booths and dance. Other people followed suit and this booth became where I did the majority of my dancing the rest of the night. This was great. Had much more room on these booths to dance on than at Wasted Space the night before. Chappy got on there as well and started blowing on his blow horn. Throw in loud chants of AOD AOD AOD AOD interspersed throughout the night, in combination with the blow horn and we got ourselves a crazy time. AOD AOD AOD. The whole sections would burst out AOD AOD AOD. Blowhorns. AOD. We dominated Cathouse. It was unbelievable.

Must also point out another Marc moment… As I was dancing on the booth, I notice marc dancing with one of the 3 girls Loves recruited earlier. Next thing I know, he lays her down on the booth by my feet, mounts her and they just start going out at it. I look down at this girls face and she looks like she’s in total ecstasy. Everyone quickly oohs and ahhs, hovers around and camaras start popping out all over. This lasts about a minute and ends, and we all continue dancing and yelling.

It’s getting close to midnight, I see Nyeguy holding a bottle of champagne and pouring a couple glasses. He pours another glass and hands me it. Thanks Nyce! Loves sees me from across the table, calls out Drewww and waves me over. Everyone’s excited. We’re chanting AOD. Then countdown begins, 10,9,8…. 1, midnights. Loves and I have our midnight kiss and champagne.  This was the best NYE ever!

We all continue to party, dance, and do our AOD chants. At some point, I make it back over to Loves and she makes a sad face. I look down and there is a good amount of blood on the floor and find out she cut her foot. Jenn quickly comes to her aid and walks her away. I grab as many napkins I can find on the table and wipe away as much as the blood as I could. There was however a bit more blood than there were napkins, but I manage to wipe most of it off. I go off by the bathrooms to see if there were any sign of Jenn and Loves. Couldn’t find them. Head back to the tables, sit next to aria and we both notice a ton of broken glass on the booth. We spend the next 5-10 min picking up glass from the seats. Finish picking that up, and then I notice tons of broken glass around ground of one of the tables. I find the runner and inform him of the broken glass. Says he’ll take care of it. 15 min later. Still nothing. Waitress comes around and I tell her. A couple min later someone is by to clean the mess up.
Back to partying! Continue to dance on the booth and party away. Chapp then comes up to me and says Palms Place, let’s go. We gather the troops and attempt to make our way out of Cathouse. Chapp would gather a few people from the section, walk them out, then go back to get more.

Wait with Will outside. I inquire about Jenn and if Loves is ok. He tells me that they are up in Loves room taking care of her foot, but she’s fine otherwise. Cool.

Nyceguy has disappeared on my though. I txt him that we are heading out. I walk all over Cathouse in search of him but no luck. I head outside of Cathouse where most everyone else is and txt Nyce to meet us right in front of Cathouse. I call him, he picks up, we both say where are you. I tell him we’re heading out, we’ll be right outside of Cathouse. Nyce: ok cool I’ll be right there….

Couple minutes later, Nyceguy calls and says “Where are you?” I say, right in front of cathouse to the left. “Ok be right there”. 5 min later, Nyceguy calls again “Where are you?” “Right outside Cathouse where are you” “be right there” I keep watching the door way of Cathouse but he doesn’t show up. Repeat above call conversation again.

Somehow after Socal’s involvement, Nyceguy appears. He was looking pretty rough. Jenn then shows back up. At this point, most of the group has left for Chappy’s Palm place after party. It’s Moe, Dank, Cisco, Will, Jenn, Nyce, Socal/crew, 3 girls from earlier, and myself left. Moe and Dank call it a night and part ways as does Socal and Flip. It was pretty much game over for Flip at that point.

Cisco, Will, Nyce, and Jenn try to figure out how to get to Palms. The 3 girls aren’t going, but they walk with us anyways on their way to wherever they were going. Jenn disappears. Will starts walking towards the exit and a really quick pace. Cisco is on his phone. The 3 girls start to follow Will. I follow them, but walk slowly for Cisco and Nyceguy who’s trailing me about 30 feet as Will is another 100 feet ahead of me. Cisco stays on the phone and never follows. I almost catch up the Will, but Nyceguy is falling further behind. I stop and yell for him to make sure he’s going in the right direction. He runs into one Cisco’s crew. They exchanged words for a bit and Will is quickly disappearing from view. I get Nyceguy to continue walking. Catch up to Will. Luxor cab line isn’t open. Will says we’ll tram it to Mandalay Bay. We hop on a tram and somehow end up at Excalibur, the other way direction. Wait there for another tram, but see taxis on the road below. We decide to try to get one of those. We part ways with the 3 girls and try to hit up a taxi. Unfortunately this was a fail. Walk by Excalibur cab line which was super long. Will’s on the phone with Jenn as he’s guiding us. I didn’t really understand why Will was taking us to Mandalay Bay, but I guess the cab line there was the best bet to get out of the strip.

We get back to the tram and the one for Mandalay Bay arrives. Nyce and I are about to hop on and Will stops, says he’s gonna go back to PH and find Jen. Tram leaves and it’s just me and Nyce and a billion other people on board.

Get to Mandalay Bay. I’m pretty wasted and I have no clue where I’m going. I just start to walk in a direction I believe will lead me to a cab line. We walk throughout Mandalay Bay. Nyce looks like he’s wakling aimlessly. Every once in a while I’d notice he’d fall behind and find some sort of post/column to lean on with his eyes closed lol. Lots of walking later, I find the exit where the cab line is. It’s is INSANELY LONG. It made the lines we saw outside of LAX and Cathouse look like nothing. But we get into it anyways. The whole time we’re in line, we try to make contact with the various cabs driving in to see if they’d pick us up before the pick up point. Halfway through the line, we succeed and a cab waves us over. We hop into the cab, people in front of us start bitching at us. Mandalay bay security runs over to the cab and yells at us to get out. I ignore them, the cab drivers tell them to f-off, drives off, and the Mandalay guys yell out write down his cab number!!

Oh by this point, Nyce is done and we decide to pass on the Palms after party and just head straight back to PH. Once we are off, the cab driver informs me that he will be charging me $40 + whats on the meter. I bitch about it, but I’m really in no mood to deal with it and take the raping. The streets are a madhouse and even the backroads, cars are bumper to bumper. We are literally in the cab for almost an hour. Finally, get back close to PH. Pay $65 ( I almost considered just running out…but I didn’t… with Nyceguy passed out, there was no way we’d get away lol). Wake Nyceguy up, get out, and decide to hit up Earl of Sandwich.

Roll into Earl of Sandwich, walk up to the counter to order. Cashier gives me a weird look then proceeds to point out the long long line on the outside of Earl towards the casino. We walk out and get into line. In line for about 25 min before we get to order. During this time I txt aria to see how the after party is and txt Will if he wants to join us at Earl. He doesn’t. Order our food. Take it back to our room. Eat it and pass out some time a little before 5 AM.

[NyceGuy]

I remember Cathouse....and then Earl of Sandwhich. Nothing in between.