Part 3: Taking Vegas Back, we will not be defeated dammit!
Day 3
We all wake up feeling much better. I call the spa over at the Excalibur and book massages or wraps for all 6 of us. We head that way, eat breakfast at the café in the Excalibur where the food was pretty good but the service sucked. Anna and Dani ate breakfast with some dude Anna picked up the night before. We entered then spa and off the bat gave Michelle, the receptionist $20 for putting up with our scheduling issues. I called her about 5 times trying to sort out what everyone wanted. Our treatments were FABULOUS. I had an aromatherapy wrap, the spa tech covered me in oil, wrapped me in sheets, wrapped me in steaming hot towels, wrapped me in this foil thing and then left me in the room in the dark for 30 minutes. Superb. Janey and Lisa both admitted to crying while in their wraps… The only down thing was Anna requested that the masseuse focus on her right foot but she failed to read the info card and then blamed Anna for not telling her. The manager took care of it right away and gave her a free massage for the following day. I would definitely recommend this spa for a group of rowdy girls who don’t want to talk in whispers the whole time and who are on a budget… Next we hit up NYNY for a little gambling (and a cocktail). We put Janey in a cab back to TI and hung out at NYNY for a bit drinking/gambling. Eventually we split with Anna and Danielle and just walked a bit back up the strip. We checked out the Monte Carlo since none of us had ever been inside of it (blah) and then hit up the new city center (pretentious) where Lisa and I posed for a picture in front of a ground fountain, it is by the grace of God that we fell FORWARD and not backwards. We walked across to Planet Hollywood for $1 jello shots but ended up walking the whole 'miracle mile' looking for the taxi line and Sam gave a homeless guy a $20 because she felt so bad for him. We cabbed it back to TI and got dressed for the Wynn buffet. Went to the Wynn and Anna and Danielle claimed to hate it. I’m sorry, you preferred the Harrah’s dogfood over this?!?! Yea right, whatever. We were invited to the Palms by a promoter to see DJ Jazzy Jeff and one of the jersey shore kids but we eventually decided against it. We split and made plans to meet up later that night.
Night 3
We head to Excalibur for the Thunder from Down Under show. In line to buy tickets one of the girls refuses to let me pay as a thank you for putting the whole trip together. I now have an extra $55 which is immediately reallocated for 2 citron lemon drops, a shot of patron and a shot of jameson. We go see the show which was excellent. This is a shameless plug but my favorite part was when one of the dancers jumped off the stage and onto a table in the audience, gabbed this lady’s beer, poured it all over himself and then shook the excess out of his hair…that was a nice touch. We declined the afterparty and headed over to MGM to meet Danielle who didn’t see the show because she was having a fat girl moment… As we walk in MGM we decide to stop for a quick $4 jager bomb and as we head down the escalator we’re once again enticed into Studio54 for free drinks. We chill there for awhile but around midnight we put Janey and Lisa in a cab back to the hotel. Me, Sam, Anna and Danielle dance for awhile but finally decide to roll out to the club at our casino Christian Audgier. We stopped for a quick shoe change and then danced our faces off. We ended up chilling with a bachelor party for most of the night but ultimately decided against going back with them to their casino, because as Danielle put it “they were too horny to go anywhere with”. While waiting for Anna outside the club after it closed me and this guy decided in 0-60 seconds to further our acquaintance upstairs in my room…. Danielle later told me that his boys were beyond pissed because he had their room key…oh well! As previously mentioned, I did NOT have a room key because I felt it would be too much for me to handle, I tell random guy not to worry, one of the girls will open the door. As we get off the elevator on our floor, Anna is just getting on and I get the roomkey from her but she informs me it doesn't work. She tells me the next day that me and random guy went running down the hall cheering because we felt we "scored". When we finally get to the room, I have to knock because the key doesn't work...Sam opened the door in a bra, no pants/shorts/panties just bare from the waist down. This is where things definitely get a little shady. I apparently interrupted Sam while she was peeing to let her know I needed a condom, then refused to wait and found them myself however failed to alert Sam so she spent the next 10 minutes looking and eventually interrupted me and random guy to let us know she couldn’t find them. She also woke Lisa up to let her know she’d probably be happier sleeping in the other room. Janey tells us the next morning, she woke up to Lisa asking to sleep in her bed because I was with some dude and Sam was having a sex dream…
I can't believe Nyce just called my TR out as being WEIRD!!!!!!
And guys I would post pictures, I'm debating, the problem is that 4 of the 6 of us work for the government and 3 of us have clearances. We're all very young in our careers so we're trying not to screw ourselves over yet.
Disclaimer: Please don't read until the next paragraph break if you have a weak stomach or haven't figured out yet that my friends and I have no shame...
Day 4
Lisa wakes me up SCREAMING bloody murder around 7am. I had my last citron on ice around 3 am so I am definitely still drunk. I sit up and start screaming too “what? What? What?” apparently Lisa was going to throw the condom wrappers on the bed but when she reached down she realized there was actually a used condom on the floor…not our proudest moment...
I roll over, sleep for another 20 minutes when the girls decide we ARE going to breakfast. Sam and I pull on sweats and sunglasses and are literally slumped over the table trying to eat. I mis-identify a breakfast potato as a chicken finger and/or a potato wedge. I also can not drink enough water. The poor waiter finally gives us a pitcher. Sam has heard a rumor that McFadden’s has “cheap jameson shots” and refuses to back down despite not actually being able to sit up at the table. We FINALLY decide to go back to the room, nap and then hit McFadden’s. Danielle calls to meet up with us because Anna has ditched her for some scrub. We get to the Rio when I have my ultimate fatgirl moment. I want pizza and I want it right then. Lisa, Sam and Janey go drink while Danielle and I have a pizza, each. I ate half of mine and then began to cry and asked Danielle if this was my fat girl moment, without pausing in eating, and she responded that indeed it was! We finally stopped gorging/eating our emotions and met up with the others at McFaddens. Carbombs were $5 a pop so I bought everyone a round. Sam drank her whiskey and we decided to move it over to Caesar’s. We get to Caesar’s, take some obscene pictures with his statue and move it across to Margaritaville. Lisa and I head into the Flamingo in search of sweatshirts and then the bathroom. I am stopped one second from the bathroom by what can only be described as the most gorgeous man I have ever seen. He sees my tshirt “irish and loving it” and wants to know if I’m from Ireland. I sarcastically replied yes and he demanded to know what part. At that point I realized he was from Ireland and had taken me literally. We talked for about 10 minutes. I told him about how we kept crying and he told me that he and his mates actually had a couple of “brawls” and to not worry about it. At that point Lisa came out of the bathroom and his buddy showed up so it was decided they would come have a drink with us and the girls at Margaritaville. Lisa stopped in the giftshop and I went up to meet the girls and announced that I had a “gift” for Sam meaning the Irish boys. Janey announced to the Irishmen, us and several marines that she would like to make out with one of the Irishmen and proceeded to do just that. I told her that by making out with him she’s perpetuating the stereotype that American girls are easy….thank god. They hang with us for awhile before moving on. We stay at Margaritaville for a little longer before deciding to head next door to O’Sheas. As we are leaving, Sam stops to say goodbye to a group of marines and we impatiently wait downstairs. Finally the girls send me up to collect Sam but I get distracted by the bartender who also liked my shirt. At this point I'm pretty much leaning all the way across the bar when I hear my name being yelled, I look over and Janey and Dani have the "wtf are you doing?" look on their faces. I totally forgot about them because the bartender was so damn hot. We finally made it across to O'Shea's and when we get there I spot a bachelor party in t-shirts and demand to know where the bachelor is. He’s playing poker at a table and I tell him that I am going to buy him a shot RIGHT now and run off to the bar. He comes up a few minutes later and he refuses to accept a drink from me…instead he INSISTS on buying me and my girls a round of shots. Tequila for everyone but Sam who sticks with jameson. We hang out with the crazy bachelor party for a couple of hours until Janey mentions she’d like to visit her grandmother in Albuquerque. That is significant because we had previously decided days before on a safe word which if uttered by any of the girls in our group meant “cease, desist and leave immediately”. When Janey mentioned her grandmother in Albuquerque we ALL agreed it was a GREAT idea and told the boys we had to go. As Sam put it if we hadn’t left then one of us would have been screwed, right there. We went to Harrah’s where we photobombed some poor bastards picture and Sam who was sitting on a rail, fell and swung around the bar twice and then was flung off. Think olympics gymnast. Every single person stood there speechless having witnessed her acrobats but she jumped right back up like a champ. At that point we decide to split for dinner.
Night 4 –
We get dressed and head downstairs for Pho. Sam refuses to put a dress on until we are at the restaurant at which point she decides she DOES want to dress up so she leaves to change. We eat our food and decide we need to lie down. I immediately pass out. The girls wake me up at 10 so that Janey can leave to catch her flight home. I text Anna and Danielle that things aren’t looking good on our side. Sam at this point is bitching that she wants to go out but she literally can’t stop puking or get out of bed. Lisa is also down for the count and is silently weeping in Janey’s bed. Seriously, she had her head between her knees and I said "is she crying?" at which point she turned to us and started sobbing. I mix her a vodka soda to take the edge off and text Danielle that after I finish puking and refreshing my make up I will cab it to MGM. She calls me RAGING drunk “she just bet $100 on a single hand, she hasn’t eaten since noon, Anna left her, she wants her mother etc”. She denied this conversation the next day until she looked at her phone record to see that she did indeed make an outgoing call to me. I finally pulled a tshirt on over my party dress and closed my eyes at midnight on a Saturday in Vegas. Fail.
Day 5: this city's made us crazy and we must get out
Day 5
We wake up and hit walgreens for souvenirs. The first 2 times I went to Vegas i didn't even have a postcard to show for the trip. I drop $70 on crap and realize we need to get the hell out of this town ASAP. Sam heads to the airport early because she’s flying stand by. We didn’t realize we were on the same flight home until the night before so we canceled my mother grabbing us from Dulles because Sam’s bf can pick us all up. We meet her at LAS, after our cabbie neglects to put us off at American, but instead at the other end the airport because he’s a jackass. Sam is told she can’t board in a tshirt so before I checked my luggage I pulled her out a nice shirt. American had the worse bag check in system I’ve ever seen. At one point an employee yelled at us for not being able to understand how the system worked, she also refused to acknowledge that I had already checked us in until I showed her the boarding passes. I finally had to request that she not speak to any of us again. Another employee came over and took care of us. It’s 10:30 on a Sunday at McCarran, do you REALLY think people can handle checking their own luggage? Do you really think you should antagonize them about it? Or should you just take the extra step and DO YOUR JOB?!?! We breeze through security, except Anna who is pulled aside and is made to throw everything out of her carry on...the same stuff that made it out of NATIONAL AIRPORT is being confiscated at Las Vegas, yea right…were we flagged? Clearly. We meet up with Sam, give her the shirt, get food and hang out. 5 minutes before the plane departs she is told she can’t sit in executive class in jeans. She misses our flight and we realize that it’s official, Vegas has won. We call Sam on our layover, she’s crying, I’m crying, the stranger next to me is crying (jk) it’s a serious mess. She eventually finds a flight that got her home at 9am the next day. We take a $60 cab ride home and all agree not to contact each other for at least 7 days.
Review: looking back, I’m glad that we had the group that we did. I don’t think any other combinations would have been able to regroup from all of the crying and puking and still genuinely love each other. The main 4 of us have been traveling together since we were little kids. In fact we tell people we aren’t friends, we’re sisters (cue the awws).
Hindsight: I booked us 4 nights because I felt last time 3 nights wasn’t enough. I can admit when I’m wrong, three nights won’t be a problem next time.
Clubbing: I also should’ve researched the clubs a little more. We aren’t into house/trance. We also prefer to DRINK at a bar and dance at a club. We noticed that we didn’t hear any lil’ wayne, wacka flacka, Gucci mane, jay-z or TI. We kind of chalked that up to being from DC where we hear all types of hiphop in the clubs including go-go and reggae. We thought TAO was gorgeous just too crowded and I’m also not sure table service makes sense…at least not for girls. I came here with you people, why seclude myself away from everyone else?
TI: we felt the service was great and very prompt, very clean casino, nice sized rooms and a super early check in. The major con was that one night, our group was split and both of us tried finding quick cheap food, one group around midnight and then the second around 2am. There was no carryout just sit in and room service. As my friend Anna said “there are too many rules”. I will also make sure that next time there’s some type of 24-hr food stand in our casino so that the night doesn’t have to end if you realize at 2am you haven’t eaten in 12 hours… I personally would stay here again if looking for a nice casino however we’ve made it a point not to stay at the same place twice.
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