Joels two week stint in the U.S......

[ashroid]

DAY 1 CONT>>>


Except as soon as I sit in the cab what happens?!?! I hear, a long the lines of “excuse me! What the fuck do you think you’re doing!??!” I was like what?? And a bit in shock, thinking what was going on.
The shrek continues “I said what do you think you’re doing?!?! Getting into a cab with my friends, Get out!!!”

Turns out the bride-to-be is having a shit night and might as well ruin the end of mine. I try telling her to squeeze in for a few minutes or we’ll get a bigger cab, which is right behind us! But she wouldn’t have any of that. So with my tale b/w my legs I hope out of the cab. A guy yells out from the cab line “unlucky!!” lol …. Couldn’t do much else but laugh really. So i slumped into the cab behind and got drivin back to bills.

Divide and conquer. I've always found bachelorettes to be even bigger cockblockers than guys.

[joelDOWNUNDER]

Day 3 – Monday july 5th - Aria and introduction to Adios Mutha F$@kers!

We woke up pretty fresh, as you would expect after a rather chilled night. We decided to try and walk the strip today, in thongs (1st mistake), after a week of solid drinking (2nd mistake, pretty sure my sweat consisted of 50% alchohol, 20% buffalo wings)…. I think we got up to the MGM from bills and we were absolutely stuffed lol. We made a few stops along the way as well, but the task ahead just seemed way too daunting.

So we grabbed a drink, walked through the mgm, had a look at the few exhibits they have there. We were originally gonna get the monorail home, but just decided to taxi it back as today was most probably one of the most unbearable days outside while in vegas.

Got back to bills, just relaxed for a little bit after our hard slog up the strip :P. After lounging around for a little bit, we decided to head up to the mall near Treasure Island. I needed a camera after losing mine on our 2nd last night out in fullerton (thankfully uploaded my photos to fb, so just lost that nights photos) and Ev needed a new phone and thongs as he also lost his that night too lol… (I guess that’s what happens when you get a 3/4 full shot in a normal glass and decide to neck it after you’ve been drinking for at least 4 hours lol)

So we headed up there, I got some way overpriced shitter camera than what I had originally, but it takes photos, so does me fine, and Ev scored his phone and new thongs. We grab some kfc as well for dinner I think. Shattered I wanted some original recipe chicken but cause it was a KFC ‘express’ or something they just sell average pieces of chicken and meals.

Ev’s been using my phone to contact his bird he got a lift home from at ghostbar on our first night here, so he can actually use his own phone now… he organizes for us to meet up with them later that night. They’re at aria so we’ll meet them down there.

We head back home, showered, pre-gamed (which I love doing in vegas, open up your window have the bright lights flowing in, the drinks flowing and tunes pumping… the feeling cant be beat).

We head over to aria b/w 9-10 ish … Ev chucked a text their way, to find out their having dinner and would still be a while. So we waited around in some side area where a piano was being played, we definitely stuck out like sore thumbs lol, not that we cared… we ordered out first drinks and ended up waiting about 20 odd minutes for them to finish eating.

Ev got a text saying they’ll meet us in 5… I had my fingers crossed that they weren’t gonna be too bad, even though my mate has been raving about them like their bloody 8 or 9’s lol. (I never got to meet the other night cause I was with another bird.)

So ev gets a txt that their down here and to meet them. I take a deep breath and hope for the best lol. Walking up to the rendevous point i realise, they are not horrible, but their not too great either… although there is another 4 friends who we’ll meet up with before we head out, so things aren’t looking too bad.

Head up to the room, get the awkward introductions out the way. They turn out to be a real fun bunch of latino birds. One of the man eaters (in more ways than one lol) offers to get the night rolling with some shots of tequila in a mug… I was pretty hesitant as I’ve had many bad experiences on the shit (its virtually my one weakness lol), however after she had about 5 shots like it was water, me and my mate said we’ll give it a try.

She pours a massive amount into a plastic cup, I start praying I don’t vomit in front of these girls lol, but they assure me its good stuff. And sure enough it was the most amazing tequila I’ve had, and tastes nothing like the cheap stuff I’ve had previously, this was super smooth, enjoyable and really gets you going for the night ahead, that shot virtually set up my night.

HERRADURA REPOSADO- amazing stuff, It’s gonna be my new years drink!


After that I start chatting to the cutish pocket rocket there and pretty much hit it off there. And ev has dibs on another one he became fond with the other night/ the one he’s been texting. As a group we decide to head to the bar downstairs and sort our night out from there.

We get down there, flirting all the way, my girl decides it’ll be amusing to make fun of us and uses the word mate as much as possible lol. We get down there, and there’s these dudes down there whose friend hooked up with one of the girls friends the other night and they keep trying to pick up our girl’s, the girls and us shut em down and we laugh it off. Drinks are flowing, shots, reverse jagerbombs :S,… some how my mate ends up behind the bar, starts talking shit to the bartender and is helping pour our drinks, before being told he wouldn’t want to stay behind there too much longer lol.

We decide to move onto jet, which for some reason we didn’t get into, I think it had only like and hour or two before it closed and they still wanted us to pay like 30 bucks… so we hussled out of their into some bar, somewhere in the mirage (?).

It’s pretty dead but we’re having a good night, the the girls decide to buy us a round. From the moment that drink is bought, our trip was never the same. When this blue drink is bought to me I am intrigued to what it is. I’m told its an Adios Motherfucker.

We were already pretty hammered and these things don’t help out at all, they have like 5spirits or something in there, and when consumed you can be sure you’ll pretty much cue #453534 hangover reference, or at the very least a few hours of memory loss.

After a few more drinks and tearing up the empty dancefloor with our ladies, we all decide its time to head back to aria for:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhN93rFZuJs[/ame]

After all is said and done and we leave when the sun is up and shining brightly, we decide just to walk home to bills since we’re still extremely drunk.

Here’s ev doing the walk of shame gracefully.. with his tan.
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And myself looking splendid.
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sick night...still 5 nights to go!!

Coming up.. more AMF affected stories lol

[joelDOWNUNDER]

Day 4 – Tuesday july 6th – Rockhouse

So after getting home at about 7 or 8am the night prior, after only a handful of hours sleep, we definitely weren’t feeling that great. Got up, showered to freshen up a bit. Ev had his standard 20 minute shower :P …. Takes forever that kid.

Anyways we decide to get a feed close by, so we just head to the restaurant downstairs as they serve real cheap Chinese food for lunch. The feed was exactly what was needed, and tasted real good too! And thanks to my good friends pepto I could actually start eating comfortably.

After lunch we just chilled some more… really most of our days were just spent recovering as best we could from the night before, so we could be ready to roll for the night ahead. We didn’t do much touristy stuff or that. This trip was purely for partying and getting loose purposes, hence nothing too interesting to write home about during the day.

Although, ev did meet up with his bird from last night/ this morning to retrieve his camera that he left in their room.

Anyways to get the night started we headed down to grab some fat Tuesdays. After learning my lesson from the first day, I got just a regular cup octane…. With a standard 5 extra shots… as you do lol.

Then we headed back to bills for dinner. I ordered ribs (I had high expectation after having the best ribs of my life in Anaheim, the week earlier) unfortunately though it was pretty average, but it was food never the less.

After the average dinner and that, it was pretty late already about 10.30ish. I recommend to Ev that we hit up a place to start off and we’ll see how we go from there.

Me getting pumped(/ being a dickhead) about going out (i finally worked out how to do normal photos!! stoked!)


I decided on a place called the rockhouse (I’ve heard mixed reviews, but I’m willing to give every place a try). After getting ready and waiting for ev for ages as always, we didn’t get there until about 12. Walked in, and can’t say the crowd was the best lol, a bit scummy to say the least… still alright, sort of lol. So we adopted the any hole is a goal mentality and thought we’ll stick it our for an hour or two.

So we offered some random people a game to beer pong, we were pumped as since this was our first game ever! (It’s not something popularized in Australia) I made the rookie mistake of not realizing the the big bud light bottle was for both teams after pouring the majority into our cups lol (I guess it’s a good or bad thing depending which way you want to look at it).

Ev at the realisation at having to skull a 1/4 beer... again lol


Our second mistake was choosing to order Adios Motherfu$%ers and drink them rapidly to make up for lost time…. In short, we got our ass handed to us, resulting in tones of skulls of beer to complement the strongest drink on earth in AMF’s lol.

People say pictures speak a 1000 words ( and tend to be a hell lot more interesting)… heres a quick timeline to explain WTF happened lol, cause our memories sure as hell can't help lol.

Arrive around 12ish... first game of beer pong around 1230
mood = positive


around 1am... second adios had
mood = slightly intoxicated

[joelDOWNUNDER]

1.20ish...still playing beer pong against randoms.. had them down to one cup and still lost!!


*blackout*
Wake up next day.

This is what we captured. (All just around 2am.... within 2 hours we got absolutely hammered, fastest time it took it ever took us to get drunk lol.)



Here Ev is hugging what is believed to be a hooker... we both sort of remember him yelling " i got propositioned"... running around and high-fiving people lol.... we had a bet earlier to see who can get asked first.


And luckily we sobered up on our way home

[joelDOWNUNDER]

continued....





Then we must of decided to head to one of our many late $5 rib - eye specials at bills... easily best thing ever... however we definately dont remember this stop off lol





you could do a hell of a lot worse


Funnily to note, we woke up at about 6.30am feeling alright and we decided to head down to grab the rib-eye special, since it finishes at 7am.... not realising we were there only a few hours earlier lol, until i later looked at my photos.....we did this twice on our trip.

Coming up... wasted space

[IRockNvegas]

Hahaha great pics

[WarreN]

You guys gotta come for mAyOD! Lovin it!

[hellomynameiskristin]

I must say Joel, you and your buddy sound like a good time. I hope my trip is half as bad ass as yours looked.

And I have to admit, I am a sucker for men from abroad as well...there is just something about a man with an accent...

[Sensei Rob]

Damn Joel this is top notch stuff "mate"........Booking again for 2011?

[joelDOWNUNDER]

I must say Joel, you and your buddy sound like a good time. I hope my trip is half as bad ass as yours looked.

And I have to admit, I am a sucker for men from abroad as well...there is just something about a man with an accent...

Cheers, i'm exactly the same with girls, so my whole trip i was pretty much in heaven lol

Damn Joel this is top notch stuff "mate"........Booking again for 2011?

Hhahah yours still outshines mine, still got a long long way to go to have a trip like you did.
And unless i win tattsloto, unfortunately no chance. 1. I'm a uni student that works shit jobs lol. 2. I want AT LEAST $500 budget a day (i'm gonna stay a week) and 3. I need a new car... so unfortunately i'll have to hold out until may 2012

[joelDOWNUNDER]

DAY 5 - Weds - Wasted Space

During the day from what i remember was pretty uneventful, samey stuff; recover, eat, gamble and watch the bellagio fountains in my jocks etc... so i'm just gonna skip to the night......



As I did with most nights, I headed down to grab a fat Tuesday ( yes I was in love) for my pregame as it gets you well prepared for the night ahead, and of course with the obligatory 5 extra shots!

Love these things!


So tonight we decided to give wasted space a shot, especially since I knew it is 40 bucks open bar ( we found out later that was only for locals ), also I was excited to check out the hard rock hotel since ive heard great things about the place from all you cats on the forums.

So we jump in a cab, still pounding our fat Tuesdays, and make our way down the strip for the hard rock. Upon arrival I’m really enjoying the vibe this place is giving off and just the overall setr up of this establishment.

Since I’m a massive music geek, I really enjoyed the memorabilia of a lot of the stuff there.

I'm a massive killers fan.



After admiring the surroundings for a while, we head over to wasted space. Unfortunately we found out the 40 buck open bar was a no go. Also the club was tiny (not that it’s a bad thing, just wasn’t expected) than what I was anticipating.. We go up to the bar and order our favourite drink ever, an adios MF to keep the ball rolling.

After a drink or two, we start talking to a group of girls from arkansar (??) about 4 or 5 them…. They were all real cool and cute, so I just bounced around and went with the one I got along with the best, turns out it was she was the birthday girl. Seriously this accent is ridiculous. I’m usually a ‘I should of went up to her sort of guy’ but I’m trying my best to leave no stone un-turned on this trip.

Unfortunately ev seems to be striking no luck with any of her friends and just bounces around the club.

He eventually decides on the easy option and goes to spearmint rhino (without telling me) lol, Only after going against the recommended option of a brothel by the informing and persevering cab driver., leaving me to fend for myself at hard rock lol.

Later on in the night I realise ev is nowhere to be seen, and as always ev is incapable of responding to texts and calls. So I decide to go a grab a pack of smokes outside of wasted space, get a breather away from the club, and try to get a hold of him.... no luck.
So i think fuck him, ill party on by myself.

On my way back to wasted space I bump into 2 of the girls from wasted space, my one and her hot friend. We end up chatting more, have a dart or 2. I start trying to seal the deal, by taking them back up to their room, since they are staying at hard rock.

Unfortunately they brought up some excuse and i got knocked back at their door. I tried persevering for a bit, but to no avail…All well, got her number at least, and left for downstairs.

Went down stairs, grabbed a drink a prowled the floors like a lonely single drunk aussie bloke does lol… after 20 minutes after striking a convo with a few randoms here and there, drunkness got the better of me and I stumbled my way out of hard rock for home, still not knowing where ev is.

Get the cab home and pass out around 3 am I recon.

Overall not a too exciting night.... little did we know in a few hours that was all gonna change...Cue hooker problem story lol

[TheMuss]

This is dead set ridiculous!! Unbelievable story and great stuff mate, this stuff pumps me up deluxe!

Me and the boys are heading over in March for 2 and a half weeks. Starting in Hawaii, LA and then Vegas for Th/Fr/Sat/Sun - going to be an absoloute joke.

9 weeks to go and saving like a lunatic madman. Any advice you have is much appreciated buddy!

[BSM]

I'm just impressed that months later, you still have a good recollection of what happened. A week after I got home, the details were pretty fuzzy.

However, that didn't stop American Express from reminding me, monthly, of what I did in Vegas.

[joelDOWNUNDER]

However, that didn't stop American Express from reminding me, monthly, of what I did in Vegas.

Hahahahhahaha

A lot of it is still very fuzzy, however tonnes of photos and also as sad as it is, weekly reminiscent texts about Vegas between myself and ev, tend to keep the trip some what fresh.

[joelDOWNUNDER]

This is dead set ridiculous!! Unbelievable story and great stuff mate, this stuff pumps me up deluxe!

Me and the boys are heading over in March for 2 and a half weeks. Starting in Hawaii, LA and then Vegas for Th/Fr/Sat/Sun - going to be an absoloute joke.

9 weeks to go and saving like a lunatic madman. Any advice you have is much appreciated buddy!

Hahahahah cheers, Yeah trip reports got me so pumped to for my trip!! Trust me, there are still plenty of great reads on here, which are a lot better than mine!

Advice wise, no idea where to start... so, so many things lol, if it's your first trip its gonna be a massive learning experience.

Although you do have to have bottle service!
Have an adios MF
Have a shitload of money (which i didnt lol)... prepare to blow your budget!