Well I survived my first time back to Vegas in 10 years and had a blast doing it. I will try to remember everything I did throughout the long weekend but it’s still all a little blurry to be honest. I met some really cool people from the board and had a lot of fun.
I was originally flying out of NJ on Friday 1/21 @ 8:45am but there was some snow expected overnight which I thought would delay my flight. So doing what anyone would do, I talked to the airline starting on Wed to change my flight to Thursday. They said they could not do anything for me unless I wanted to pay their change fee & the difference between the flights. This was about $1000.00 and I only paid $300.00 for the flight to start with. I let it go and decided to try again Thursday, so Thursday morning comes along and I forgot all about it getting tied up with work & trying to prep everything before I leave. Well about noon on Thursday I get an email that tells me to check in for my flight and when I do they give me the option to change my flight due to weather for FREE. I select to change the flight and they say ok we have one @ 4pm and nothing else. I have been trying to change my flight for 2 days because of weather and now you want to tell me there is a flight available but it is in 4 hours. I took the flight, called the hotel to add an extra night, called the car service for a revised pick up and shoved everything on my desk at work into a drawer and ran home. I pulled it off and made it to the airport and left for Vegas.
The flight out was good and I arrived about 6:30pm. Now my buddies weren’t getting in until Friday night as they live in Cali and were driving after work. So I check into the hotel (The Riviera) and try the $20 sandwich trick. The girl behind the counter had a big smile on her face and said no problem sir I can arrange something. They put me on the 63rd floor of the Monaco Tower which is their newest and upgraded tower. I checked into the room and find it to be pretty decent (especially for $40 a night) but obviously nothing like Wynn, Encore, Aria or others. I get settled and put a call into Hug It Out as he was here and the plan was bottle service @ Tao with Hug, Manda, Hilly & their friend Lisa. I shower up and head to the Mirage for pregame with everyone. We headed off to Tao which I have never been and walk right in and are seated at our table. Nice place wasn’t too crazy packed and awesome service. Justcole0516 & her friend Courtney meet us there and everyone had a great time (or at least I did). Not sure what time we all left but I went back to the hotel and crashed as tomorrows another day.
I woke up Friday morning and had some breakfast @ the buffet which was horrible but only cost me $9 so it is what it is. I decided to head out and explore the strip. I throw on one of my favorite shirts “I Support Single Mom’s A Dollar At A Time” because it is usually a great conversation starter (sometimes good & sometimes bad) and head down the strip. Within 5 minutes of walking out of the hotel I have 5 or 6 people tell me they love the shirt. I eventually end up @ Osheas for 99 cent Miller Lites. I pull up to the bar and yep 2 girls who love my shirt start talking to me and buy me a beer. I sit down and we proceeded to pound down beers, shots and Irish car bombs while getting to know each other. I got a text from Manda and they were @ Carnival Court. I finish up and head over there and meet Manada, Hilly, Lisa, Chad & Jimmy. We had some fun drank some beers and just hung out. My friends got into town about 6:30 and I went to meet them @ the hotel, jumped into the hotel limo and headed off to Freemont Street. We went into this one place and I don’t remember the name but they had these slushy drinks full of ever clear in the back. We each got one and got extra shots of ever clear added to them. They came with 2 straws one for the slushy part and one for the bottom ever clear part. Walked around and did some gambling and then had a bright idea to chug them from the BOTTOM. Yea let’s just say it was pretty nasty but did the job. We left there and headed back to the strip. Stopped at a bunch of hotels along the way and did some hardcore gambling. Bad idea by the way if anyone was wondering. I ended up @ Bond Bar in The Cosmo (sweet hotel all around) and the music was good people were cool and ended up meeting back up with Hug, Lisa and some others that I don’t remember their names (sorry I was pretty hammered at this point). We have some more drinks and I end up going back to my hotel. I get back and see a few of my buddy’s friends that also drove out from Cali and they are going to OG’s. We run up to the hotel room to grab a few more drinks before heading off and somehow ended up on the roof. Yes we were on the roof of the Riviera…….not sure how though but there was an open door and we walked across and into this door and there were hotel employees clocking in and getting ready to start their shift. They showed us the way out and we headed to OG’s. Along the way we pass the Sahara and see this girl walking out. She asked for a smoke and I had one and asked her what she was doing so she says she doesn’t know. I tell her to come to OG’s with us and she does. We get there and I go to hand the guy my ID and realize I don’t have it. The guy says it’s ok don’t worry I believe you, but at this point it’s not about seeing some chick do her thing or drinking anymore it’s about finding my ID. So I tell everyone I’m out and start backtracking to every hotel I was at. It’s around 7am maybe and I said screw it and go to bed.
I woke up Saturday and headed down to the casino and meet one of my friends and he says man I lost my ID last night to which I reply yea man me too, that’s weird. A little while later our other friend comes down and before we can say anything he says I lost my ID last night this sucks. Right then it clicked, all our id’s had to be somewhere because there is no way all 3 of us lost our id in one night let alone one night together. So we have some coffee and start to brainstorm and it dawns on us we think Hard Rock. We call up and sure enough all 3 id’s are waiting for us. We ran to the HR and got our id’s back, crisis solved for me anyway. I headed back to the hotel because I was scheduled to get tatted @ 11. I proceeded to lie down almost pass out (stupid tattoo machine kept waking me up) and get tatted. After that I headed out to meet up with everyone again. Back to Osheas for some cheap beer and then Carnival Court. I guess the plan tonight is to hit Tryst so I head back to the room to try and catch a nap which didn’t work but its ok I did relax. I got ready to go out again and headed to Hug’s room for pregame. We meet the girls at the taxi line and headed to the Wynn. There is where we meet up with Bizzy (Chris) & his friend John and head into the club for some bottle service. There was a little miscommunication about the deal we were getting and upgrades but whatever in the end it was no big deal (to me anyway) but we had a nice table right by the entrance to the dance floor. Cole & Courtney met us there as well and we were at it again partying the night away. I left there (not sure what time) to go meet up with my friends from Cali and ended up @ Bond Bar in the Cosmo again, had a few drinks there and went over to Planet Hollywood in search of some food. Actually I took my own tour of the Cosmo since I hadn’t done that yet and man their rooftop pool is the shit man. Anyway then headed to PH and found a nice joint that had Kobe burgers and it was delicious especially @4am drunk. After that it was hotel time and sleep time again.
I was originally flying out of NJ on Friday 1/21 @ 8:45am but there was some snow expected overnight which I thought would delay my flight. So doing what anyone would do, I talked to the airline starting on Wed to change my flight to Thursday. They said they could not do anything for me unless I wanted to pay their change fee & the difference between the flights. This was about $1000.00 and I only paid $300.00 for the flight to start with. I let it go and decided to try again Thursday, so Thursday morning comes along and I forgot all about it getting tied up with work & trying to prep everything before I leave. Well about noon on Thursday I get an email that tells me to check in for my flight and when I do they give me the option to change my flight due to weather for FREE. I select to change the flight and they say ok we have one @ 4pm and nothing else. I have been trying to change my flight for 2 days because of weather and now you want to tell me there is a flight available but it is in 4 hours. I took the flight, called the hotel to add an extra night, called the car service for a revised pick up and shoved everything on my desk at work into a drawer and ran home. I pulled it off and made it to the airport and left for Vegas.
The flight out was good and I arrived about 6:30pm. Now my buddies weren’t getting in until Friday night as they live in Cali and were driving after work. So I check into the hotel (The Riviera) and try the $20 sandwich trick. The girl behind the counter had a big smile on her face and said no problem sir I can arrange something. They put me on the 63rd floor of the Monaco Tower which is their newest and upgraded tower. I checked into the room and find it to be pretty decent (especially for $40 a night) but obviously nothing like Wynn, Encore, Aria or others. I get settled and put a call into Hug It Out as he was here and the plan was bottle service @ Tao with Hug, Manda, Hilly & their friend Lisa. I shower up and head to the Mirage for pregame with everyone. We headed off to Tao which I have never been and walk right in and are seated at our table. Nice place wasn’t too crazy packed and awesome service. Justcole0516 & her friend Courtney meet us there and everyone had a great time (or at least I did). Not sure what time we all left but I went back to the hotel and crashed as tomorrows another day.
I woke up Friday morning and had some breakfast @ the buffet which was horrible but only cost me $9 so it is what it is. I decided to head out and explore the strip. I throw on one of my favorite shirts “I Support Single Mom’s A Dollar At A Time” because it is usually a great conversation starter (sometimes good & sometimes bad) and head down the strip. Within 5 minutes of walking out of the hotel I have 5 or 6 people tell me they love the shirt. I eventually end up @ Osheas for 99 cent Miller Lites. I pull up to the bar and yep 2 girls who love my shirt start talking to me and buy me a beer. I sit down and we proceeded to pound down beers, shots and Irish car bombs while getting to know each other. I got a text from Manda and they were @ Carnival Court. I finish up and head over there and meet Manada, Hilly, Lisa, Chad & Jimmy. We had some fun drank some beers and just hung out. My friends got into town about 6:30 and I went to meet them @ the hotel, jumped into the hotel limo and headed off to Freemont Street. We went into this one place and I don’t remember the name but they had these slushy drinks full of ever clear in the back. We each got one and got extra shots of ever clear added to them. They came with 2 straws one for the slushy part and one for the bottom ever clear part. Walked around and did some gambling and then had a bright idea to chug them from the BOTTOM. Yea let’s just say it was pretty nasty but did the job. We left there and headed back to the strip. Stopped at a bunch of hotels along the way and did some hardcore gambling. Bad idea by the way if anyone was wondering. I ended up @ Bond Bar in The Cosmo (sweet hotel all around) and the music was good people were cool and ended up meeting back up with Hug, Lisa and some others that I don’t remember their names (sorry I was pretty hammered at this point). We have some more drinks and I end up going back to my hotel. I get back and see a few of my buddy’s friends that also drove out from Cali and they are going to OG’s. We run up to the hotel room to grab a few more drinks before heading off and somehow ended up on the roof. Yes we were on the roof of the Riviera…….not sure how though but there was an open door and we walked across and into this door and there were hotel employees clocking in and getting ready to start their shift. They showed us the way out and we headed to OG’s. Along the way we pass the Sahara and see this girl walking out. She asked for a smoke and I had one and asked her what she was doing so she says she doesn’t know. I tell her to come to OG’s with us and she does. We get there and I go to hand the guy my ID and realize I don’t have it. The guy says it’s ok don’t worry I believe you, but at this point it’s not about seeing some chick do her thing or drinking anymore it’s about finding my ID. So I tell everyone I’m out and start backtracking to every hotel I was at. It’s around 7am maybe and I said screw it and go to bed.
I woke up Saturday and headed down to the casino and meet one of my friends and he says man I lost my ID last night to which I reply yea man me too, that’s weird. A little while later our other friend comes down and before we can say anything he says I lost my ID last night this sucks. Right then it clicked, all our id’s had to be somewhere because there is no way all 3 of us lost our id in one night let alone one night together. So we have some coffee and start to brainstorm and it dawns on us we think Hard Rock. We call up and sure enough all 3 id’s are waiting for us. We ran to the HR and got our id’s back, crisis solved for me anyway. I headed back to the hotel because I was scheduled to get tatted @ 11. I proceeded to lie down almost pass out (stupid tattoo machine kept waking me up) and get tatted. After that I headed out to meet up with everyone again. Back to Osheas for some cheap beer and then Carnival Court. I guess the plan tonight is to hit Tryst so I head back to the room to try and catch a nap which didn’t work but its ok I did relax. I got ready to go out again and headed to Hug’s room for pregame. We meet the girls at the taxi line and headed to the Wynn. There is where we meet up with Bizzy (Chris) & his friend John and head into the club for some bottle service. There was a little miscommunication about the deal we were getting and upgrades but whatever in the end it was no big deal (to me anyway) but we had a nice table right by the entrance to the dance floor. Cole & Courtney met us there as well and we were at it again partying the night away. I left there (not sure what time) to go meet up with my friends from Cali and ended up @ Bond Bar in the Cosmo again, had a few drinks there and went over to Planet Hollywood in search of some food. Actually I took my own tour of the Cosmo since I hadn’t done that yet and man their rooftop pool is the shit man. Anyway then headed to PH and found a nice joint that had Kobe burgers and it was delicious especially @4am drunk. After that it was hotel time and sleep time again.
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