2 Brit girls, 2 weeks in Vegas, way too many shots!!!

[EmmaJ]

So here it is, 2 girls from England, 2 weeks in Vegas. The whole trips a bit of a blur and we did a lot of touristy stuff so i’ll just skip over some bits. It’s gonna take forever to write up so i’ll post it a bit at a time...........

Day 1
After a sleepless night (too excited ) then a 10 hour flight we were both pretty exhausted when we arrived in Vegas, so nothing too crazy happened on the first day. We spent the afternoon drinking by the Excalibur pool, then went out and bar hopped in the evening, but i’m pretty sure we crashed and burned pretty early.....

Day 2-Liquid
Probably the one and only morning of the trip where i woke up feeling great, no hangover! We were up pretty early so we grabbed some breakfast in the Monte Carlo before heading over to the Aria.
I’d been in touch with Hali Tendler a couple of days before who said we could get lounge chairs for $50 f&b minimum, so at that price we decided to get one each. We arrived just as it was opening so it didn’t take long before they were ready to escort us to a great spot near the dj booth. We were introduced to our cocktail waitress then we were good to go.

It turned out there was free champagne for the ladies before 1 so we got right on it! This was our first ever pool party and looking around i was loving it already. We were surrounded by beautiful women and ripped guys, the suns shining, music’s pumping, we’re drinking champagne before midday, does it get any better than this?!

After the champagne we went straight onto the frozen cocktails, don’t know how many shots were in these but man they were strong! The whole days a bit hazy to me but i know we loved every minute of it. I vaguely remember talking to some cool guys from Cali who were on the chairs next to us (one of which left his $10,000 dollar watch behind then came back for it with the comment ‘i just can’t stop being stupid!!!’) dancing in the pool, champagne showers, cannon balls, laughing at the ridiculously drunk but hot guys on the daybed next to us......... the next thing we know we’re the last ones there and the security guys are threatening to throw Catherine in the pool while i’m trying to find my shoes which i’d left behind somewhere.

We somehow managed to spend over $300 and we’d forgot to eat so unsurprisingly we were in a bit of a state. Apparently we walked back to the Excalibur but i can’t remember any of that, all i remember is stumbling into our room, going straight to the toilet and throwing up (the only time in the entire trip that i spewed), then passing out fully clothed. Catherine told me the next day she was pretty worried about me and kept checking i was breathing because i didn’t move all night. Must have passed out at about 7:30pm and didn’t wake up until 7am..................

[Guest]

ooh dang! Could've gotten a daybed after that $300 FB

[EmmaJ]

ooh dang! Could've gotten a daybed after that $300 FB

Damn Didn't intend on spending that much but we got a bit out of control!

[Warren11]

Sounds like you had a great time though

[Sweat_shop]

So far so good

[EmmaJ]

Day 3- Palms
Woke up feeling a little fragile and wondering what the hell happened, was pretty annoyed with myself for losing the rest of the night. Catherine must have wandered out for food while i was asleep, she’d left me some pizza and a big bottle of water on the table with a note, such a good friend.
Can’t really remember much of what we did in the daytime, i think we did some shopping and had burgers and shakes at stripburger, great hangover cure but we forgot how huge the portions are in America, too much food!

Then it was time to get ready for palms. We’d picked up a bottle of citron absolut in the duty free so we got started on that whilst getting ready and dancing around the room.
After getting a taxi to palms we grabbed a beer from a casino bar and picked up our passes for the night. They should have been all access but we didn’t notice until we got to ghostbar that they only said playboy and moon. The doorman let us in anyway but then we got stopped about 4 times because it didn’t say ghostbar, every time they had to go and check with the guy on the door. It got pretty annoying so we were in desperate need of a drink by the time we got in the lift.

We headed straight to the bar and ordered some cosmo’s, was feeling pretty sober so we needed a head start. Time to head outside for a hangover moment, what a view! Took a ton of photo’s while we were still sober enough to operate a camera.

Really cool place to start the night but it did have an older crowd, and a lot more girls than guys which is no fun for us!
Got talking to a cute guy from LA but nothing really clicked, think we were both too sober tbh! So back to the bar for more cosmo’s, got talking to some interesting guys from Seattle but they were way older than us and most likely married! Definately time to move on to moon.

No probs getting in this time, so we went straight to the bar and started knocking back vodka cokes, probably why i can’t remember many details from moon! We had all intentions of checking out rain but must have been having too much fun.
On one of our trips to the bar we bumped into a bunch of guys, one of them grabbed me and said “i’ve always wanted to buy a beautiful woman a drink”. Well i’ll never turn down a free drink! We were talking to these guys for a while, then for some reason both me and catherine ended up dancing with the guy who’d originally approached me. He then said “i’m happy now i’ve danced with a beautiful woman before i get married”. Cheesy or what? Time to move on.........

We spent a lot of the night outside dancing with random people, and at some point LA guy reappeared, must have made some kind of impression there! This time we totally hit it off, amazing how much confidence copious amounts of alcohol can give you.
So i was with this guy for ages drinking, chatting then dancing and things were starting to get interesting. Kept checking to see where Catherine was at and she seemed to be having fun dancing with a guy so its all good. Then the next time i look over she’s not looking impressed and decided she’s ready to leave, can’t really remember what happened there. Bare in mind Catherine was in a long term relationship at the time so had no intention of hooking up with anyone.
La guy was offering to buy us drinks and trying to convince us to stay, but Catherine was having none of it, she was partied out at that point in time. For some reason i didn’t put up much of a fight, can’t have been that into him then! Kind of regretted it afterwards, but there was plenty more fun to be had later on in the trip..........

[EmmaJ]

Day 4
Dragged ourselves out of bed and went for a ridiculously greasy breakfast at house of blues. We’d noticed that jimmy eat world were playing there that night so went to see if there were any tickets but it was sold out apart from vip seating, who wants to sit down at a gig? We decided against it so went back to our pool to think of a new plan.
After a lazy afternoon at the pool we decided to got to Bacio in the Tropicana, Catherine’s a vegetarian so Italians normally the safest option. Loving the new look trop, we meant to go back and check out the happy hour at cafe nikki but never got around to it. Bacio was great, the staff couldn’t do enough for us and the food was gorgeous.
Now on to cosmo, being cocktail junkies we had to check out the chandelier bar and Vesper. Vesper bar has some of the oddest concoctions on their cocktail menu, but they were amazing! Oh and our cocktail waitress was the most beautiful woman i’ve ever seen, we could not stop staring at her, but i’m sure she’s used to it!
Wandered back up the strip and calling in places for drinks along the way, pretty tame night though so not much to tell.

Day 5
After a trip to the gym (the only one of the trip) we went to Mandalay bay for brunch. Champagne and steak for breakfast, love it! Then we headed down the strip to find somewhere to watch the Canucks game later. Sampled a few happy hours along the way including the $3 drafts at rockbar, and eventually ended up in the paris sports book watching the game.
Hyped up on the win and after about a gallon of bud during the game we somehow ended up in ballys. I remembered reading something about a fishbowl cocktail ($20, 10 shots of vodka in it apparently) in the Mexican restaurant there so we had to check it out. We ordered one to share and some nacho’s to soak it up, the before and after pics say it all really! (Will add pics/vids at the end)
I think we played some slots for a while in ballys then we headed back up the strip, grabbing some $3 corona’s along the day, wandered in an out of casino’s and ended the night drunkenly rambling at a group of Irish people back at Excalibur. A bit of a random day but so much fun. No idea what time we crashed but it’d been a solid day of drinking...........

Day 6 Jet
So Catherine had seen a ridiculous deal for the Mirage, $33 for the night! So we decided to stay down the other end of the strip for a night and check out jet. Don’t think either of us fancied breakfast so we just packed up some stuff and taxied it down to the mirage. It seemed to take forever to check in, the hangover was kicking in and a clip of the beatles was playing on loop,ugh. I don’t care if they’re English and they’re supposed to be some kind of national treasure or something, i really hate the beatles.
Finally we escaped from my own personal hell and dumped our stuff in our room, way nicer than the Excalibur but hey you get what you pay for!

We spent most of the day chilling by the pool, damn nice pool but it wasn’t that hot that day, and we were both feeling a bit fragile. Had something to eat at california pizza kitchen then finally felt up to getting back on it. Grabbed some beers for later then went for a quick power nap before getting ready.
First we checked out Rhumbar because people on trip advisor were claiming they had the best mojito’s in town, i don’t know if it was just a bad night or what but our cocktails tasted awful! Oh well at least they were strong, Catherine ordered something like a mai tai and i swear it was just rum, rum and more rum.
We called in the revolution lounge for a cocktail then had a beer or 2 while playing slots, then it was time for Jet. We’d picked up some passes somewhere along the way, but for any girls wanting to go i noticed there were free passes by the cashier in the gift shops.

We went straight to the bar for vodka cokes then grabbed a spot around the dance floor. Those drinks went down way too quick, and Catherine headed back to the bar which was getting pretty busy. A guy next to me asked what the deal was with the bottle service, turns out he was over from Manchester, England visiting his brother who was studying somewhere in the US and they’d gone on a road trip. We were chatting about our trips and his bro went to get us some drinks and still managed to get back before Catherine, she was too busy talking to the guy next to her at the bar!

After she reappeared we moved on to the other side of the club where i started dancing with a cute guy and Catherine was chatting to a married guy for ages but she can’t remember why or what about! The guy i was with soon started to get a bit weird asking me to go back to his room with him, hey i’ve only known you 5 minutes and the nights only just starting! He started to get a bit rough so it was time to get out of there. We went wandering and somehow ended up being invited to someones table, then the guy who invited us disappeared and the table was empty. Wtf, time to move on again!

This was when we discovered the cocktail waitresses with shots for tips, and totally took advantage! Must have been really drunk by this point cos i can remember i kept knocking drinks over, not what you wanna do with the prices in clubs! Thoroughly liquored up we headed to the packed dance floor and lost each other for a while.....

Back at the bar and i got talking to some irish guys who asked me to take a photo of them, they handed over the camera and on the screen was one of them butt naked! Yeh yeh, very funny boys! I went off to the dancefloor with the irish guys and left Catherine talking to someone, turns out he was from our hometown and lives about 5 minutes away from me, small world! She also remembers a couple trying to coax her into a threesome while i was away but politely declined.

I’d been having some fun with one of the irish guys but then he started to get weird on me, i just seemed to be attracting all the creepy guys that night! The club suddenly didn’t seem as busy so it must have been late. I was wasted and my judgement clearly wasn’t very good at that point, so we decided it was time to leave and do a bit of gambling instead and then crash.........

[Warren11]

Great TR, sounds like the creepers were after you guys that night!!! Just one question, how did you muster the strength for gym during your time in Vegas?

[EmmaJ]

Great TR, sounds like the creepers were after you guys that night!!! Just one question, how did you muster the strength for gym during your time in Vegas?

Well we didn't go crazy every night seen as we were there for 2 weeks, don't think i'd have survived the trip if we did! But thats the only morning we felt up to going

[Missouri Girl]

Great TR so far....I couldn't imagine being there for two weeks!

[EmmaJ]

Great TR so far....I couldn't imagine being there for two weeks!

I was hoping being there for 2 weeks would kill off our Vegas addiction for a while so we could travel to other places, but it didn't work, i still didn't want to come home and i can't wait to go back! If anything it just made it so much harder to adjust to normal life when we got home

[Guest]

haha nice! Atleast your friend Catherine isn't a C-blocker. Also you actually got sometime to GTL? Wow I thought I was the only one that does that. Good job and you girls definitely need to come back for the invasion.

[EmmaJ]

haha nice! Atleast your friend Catherine isn't a C-blocker. Also you actually got sometime to GTL? Wow I thought I was the only one that does that. Good job and you girls definitely need to come back for the invasion.

If anything she's the worst person to ask if something's a good idea, she will always say yes! Hoping to get back next year, maybe for a week this time though

[Alexandra]

haha nice! Atleast your friend Catherine isn't a C-blocker. Also you actually got sometime to GTL? Wow I thought I was the only one that does that. Good job and you girls definitely need to come back for the invasion.

If anything she's the worst person to ask if something's a good idea, she will always say yes! Hoping to get back next year, maybe for a week this time though

I've got the same idea!! One week in Vegas! So far i've only done 4 days/nights so far.... one week actually sounds frightening!

[Guest]

haha nice! Atleast your friend Catherine isn't a C-blocker. Also you actually got sometime to GTL? Wow I thought I was the only one that does that. Good job and you girls definitely need to come back for the invasion.

If anything she's the worst person to ask if something's a good idea, she will always say yes! Hoping to get back next year, maybe for a week this time though

If you are doing a week, then theres no better week to do it either for the JC invasion or EDC week. Speaking from personal experience. If you are into house music, EDC week can't be missed next year!