Operation Odyssey til Dawn

[RickyRekon]

Alright... thanks to some friends of mine, I've got another trip report about a VERY impromptu trip to Vegas from 15-17th of April.... so listen well, and a story I shall tell



It's Friday, I get off work at like 10am and one of the other guys in my squad gives me a proposition, since apparently I'm the Vegas guy to just about everybody in my company now(Thanks JC.com). He and his wife are leaving in an hour with 6 of her college friends to stay 2 nights at the Venetian and they want me to come along and help set things up and just party with em.

I don't even have to think about it, I race home, grab up some fresh clothes(I always keep my slacks and dress shirts ready, just for this situation ) and hop in his truck and away we go!

Since, for once, I'm not driving, I decide to begin drinking... I've got a bottle of Don Julio and a bunch of Raspberry Lemonade and start having a good ol time in the back of the truck. The drive went by sooooo much faster this time...

We arrive in Vegas, I tell my boy to do the sandwhich trick while checking in. he does it, we get upgraded to a bigger suite with a much better view. So it's just me and my buddy and his wife staying in this room... the other 6 girls got their own place at TI, across the street.

After settling in(it's around 5pm at this point), we decide to walk the strip and possibly do some shopping... I am completely shithoused at this point, mind you. We eventually find ourselves in Express, where I spent about $400 on some new clothes... drunk shopping, somehow I always manage to do it. Around the time we walk out, the other 6 girls hit us up and say they've got a hookup at Marquee and granted we all pay cover, we're in. I've wanted to see Marquee for a while now, so I'm totally down. We rush back to our room and change into our brand new clothes and start walking to Cosmo, where the other girls are waiting.

Walking into Marquee, the first thing I noticed was, goddamn there are a crapton of stairs! I didn't mind, but the girls did. We kick it in the BoomBox room for a few drinks, before I decide to wander off and see the main room, since I'm like the only one of the group who is into the House scene. My first impression going into the main room was WOW... so much better then that BoomBox room. I danced with a couple random girls and did more then a few shots before heading out to the balcony to get a breather. I got snatched up by some bachelorette party and end up kicking it at their table outside drinking lots and lots of Skyy. My buddy finds me after about an hour there and tells me they are leaving and gives me a room key... Yeah, bro, I'm not going ANYWHERE yet lol. I kick it with these girls for a couple more hours before all the redbull hits me HARD and I start crashing and spinning just a little... I decide to bail around 4am and make my way back to the Venetian and pass out on the floor, despite having my own queen bed...

Wake up around 10am with my boy Jordan and hit the gym... we had a daybed reservation at Tao Beach courtesy of Donnie, who I will give full recognition for arranging the majority of this AWESOME weekend, at the end of my TR . After the gym, we gather everybody up outside Tao Beach, and head on in... after giving our host a pretty nice tip, she gives us a Daybed plus a little adjacent table and lounge chairs... this sets us up for quite the entertaining afternoon.

The drink of the day consisted of many various pitchers of very brightly colored drinks and in no time, the whole party was having a great time. The party started off rather slow at around 11am, but by 1, the place was really poppin off. I ended up really hitting it off with our server, Janelle, who was great. We bullshit for a while about different DJ's and she eventually tells me that she's going to see Kaskade at Marquee that night and could get me in. We ended up exchanging emails before I left... at first I figured she was just being flirty for a little extra tip, but read on, friends.

I want to break off from the TR for a second and just make some comments based off a topic I saw in the nightlife section about how to score with your hostess/waitress/whatever... I didn't nesessarily "score" with my waitress, but I still made a good friend and contact for my next trip into Vegas. Not by leaving a big tip, not by having some suave game, but by being an honest gentleman, and treating her with the respect any human being deserves.

Anyways, going on! Tao Beach starts really kicking off around 2pm. I never thought beach balls could be so much damn fun! I spent at least 2 hours in the pool launching beach balls with my friends and other random people. After going in the pool, though, things went just a tad sour... My only complaint about Tao Beach is how damn slippery that place is! I fell on my ass about twice coming off the Daybed, and no, I wasn't that drunk. My buddy Jordan, slipped, broke his toe... then slipped again and landed right on his face, busting his nose. He ended up having to leave after that one, not because he was forced out, but because he was so damn tired of falling lol. Soon after that the other people in my party start trickling out and I'm left by myself at the Daybed...

I party for another hour or so with some random ass people, but one in particular sticks out, only because of a JC reference. So my memory at this point of the day is very faded but I do remember sitting at some random couch with these 2 girls and a guy... I don't know how it came up in conversation but one of the girls admitted to being a regular on the forums here and we talk about how awesome it is and such... and then I was making out with her friend like 5 minutes later, before bouncing back to the hotel room to join my friends...

Part 2 Coming in a little bit...

[RickyRekon]

Part Duex!

Oh yeah, so during the day, somebody stole both my shirt AND my Reef flip flops, so I ended up having to buy a shirt at the Venetian store just to go back to my room... BAH! I get back to the room to find everybody is just SPENT... I try to muster them up for our dinner res at Lavo, but nobody will hear it. I decide I've had enough of it, take a shower, get dressed up, and head out solo.

I got to Lavo around 11pm, meet up with Donnie, to whom I explain my plight. He found it rather amusing, I think. I still decide to have dinner there, and sit at the bar, order a drink, and some swordfish, which was delicious and helped the serious drunk I was still feeling from Tao Beach. I sat next to a couple cool dudes I was bullshitting with, I just love meeting new people in these places...

After dinner, I decide to head out onto the patio for a smoke before going into the club. I'm really glad I did this, as I took a seat next to 3 fine gentlemen who were here on vacation from New York. We all smoke one together, they listen to a couple war stories and I know I've just recruited 3 wingmen . I proposition them on splitting the cost of a Buy 1 Get 1 Deal I got upstairs and they're totally down. We get to the door at Lavo at meet up with Donnie, who gets us all situated and gets us all walked in. We had a table toward the back, by the second bar, but the place was so packed, the action was everywhere so table location didn't matter at all to me. Order a bottle of Belv and a bottle of Moet and kick off the night...

We are flanked by 2 large groups of girls who both have bottles of their own. My 3 wingman all pick out their targets, but I'm personally not really digging any of them, though I had no problem drinking their booze for a while before even touching mine . I hit the dance floor and that's where I saw her, blue eyes, fit body, and just totally my type. I don't even remember what I said to her to open up the conversation, but we hit it off immediatly. We were from the same town and even went to the same High School, she was just a year behind me... small world. I invite her back to the table, where my boys and the girls who were with them are nowhere to be seen... hmmm... but my alcohol is all still there, so all is well.

We drink, dance, and talk ALOT before our host who walked us in, shows up and moves me and my girl to a much more centrally located table, which I appreciated greatly. Walking to the new table I found the guys and the girls they were with... they got moved to a table right in front of the DJ booth and were having a good ol time, I kick it with them for a bit before heading back to my new table and start kickin off the Champagne, pouring a glass for everybody near me and making a toast to the guys in uniform. The bottle goes quick and before I know it, we're empty, so I grab Sarah, and we head to where my guys are at, in front of the DJ booth and set up camp there... the girls didn't mind so all was well...

Then my phone started buzzing... I got an email... from Janelle, my waitress back at Tao. She said she could get me into Marquee for Kaskade, but only if I got there within the next hour. I take a good hard look at Sarah, and decide I'm having much too much fun where I'm at and tell her that I won't be able to make it, but I really appreciate everything, and the next time I'm in Vegas, I'll hit her up.

The rest of the night is blur of dancing, not too much more drinking, and alot of just overall happiness. I bounce out of there with Sarah around 330 and we decide to try and get a hotel room. Problem was, EVERYWHERE was booked. We tried just about every place on the strip, before heading over to the Hard Rock, and even Rumor, before we findly ended up at Alexis Park(Sooooooo Classy ) and staying the night there... at least it was only 60 bucks lol

Before we know it it's 9am, and my phone is going crazy! My boy Jordan is saying he's about to leave me, cause he's got be back in San Diego by 2, so I get dressed, me and Sarah, hop in a cab, exchange info, and I make it back to the Venetian just in time to avoid having to fly back to Diego.

Overall, this trip was probably one of my best, although the time before this, dropping almost 6k at Tryst, was probably just as awesome, if I could remember anything past 12am.

None of this trip would have been possible without the great Donnie@Lavo from the forums here... he truly is one of the premiere hosts in Las Vegas, and has pretty much garunteed that everytime I'm in Vegas, I'm spending at least one night at Lavo... that place was amazing.

[nel167]

Great report man it sounds like you rocked the shit of Vegas this trip. Nothing better than meeting new wing men and partying it up all night.

[JLau]

Awesome stuff!

[BigDex14]

Awsome man, great TR! I enjoyed it

[HunterDallas]

Nice job my man!! The impromptu Vegas visit can sometimes turn out to be a bit of a clusterf*@k, but you pulled it off brilliantly! That's what Vegas is all about...making the party happen solo or in a group.

[Svetlana]

That's how Vegas should be done!

[RickyRekon]

Finally got like 3 pictures from my various trips uploaded to an album here... one from each. Seems I'm always having way too good a time to remember to take pictures.