The Girls: Joanne - The Bride-to-be, Bethan (Hellcat), Jenna (the Scarlett Harlot), Sarah (the Huntress), Lauren (Loco), Tiff (Kelly Kapowski), myself (Madame Vicious V - I'm not vicious, I swear!), Jodi (Tink), Janine (Daisy Duke), Courtney (Punky Brewster), Tammy (Honeypot), Kendall, and Heather.
Background info: Myself, Jenna, Lauren, and Tiff are all close friends and often hand out with Bethan too, Sarah is Jo's cousin who lives in Calgary, Jodi Janine and Tammy are high school friends of Jo that the rest of us didn't really know, and Courtney and Kendall are their friends that we were meeting for the first time. We planned to do a sailor theme at the pool on Saturday, so I made us all sailor hats with nicknames that Jo came up for us... it was all a surprise for her, she had no idea what the names were for, and the girls didn't know what their names were.
Heather had (emphasis on the had) huge plans do to back-to-back Vegas weekends: July 1-4, spend the week with her family and friends in Cali, then drive back out to meet us on July 8. We get a text from her on July 3 saying she was walking drunk in her monster heels, slipped off a curb and broke her foot!! So we hadn't even left yet and were already down a girl.
Friday
The first batch of girls, Jodi, Janine, and Courtney, all arrived super early in the morning (like 10am) and Tammy was a couple hours after them. They were staying at TI so they spent the day drinking at the hotel pool. Not sure about Kendall... I don't know her personally (she was a friend of a friend on the trip), and was a last minute addition... and complained about her feet hurting, and cried about it? Weird. Anyways... I hear they had a good time, and ended the afternoon with Courtney puking in a hallway planter/garbage can like a champ.
Myself, Jo, Bethan, Jenna, Lauren and Tiff all flew in on the same flight from Bellingham arriving in Vegas at 5pm (Sarah was right behind us getting in just after 6). We ending up scoring both the exit rows and were tossing back margaritas and vodka crans in luxury with our legs stretched out. It's always such a party flying in to Vegas, love it! So we meet our limo driver at baggage claim (booked the champagne/roses airport package with Presidential)... he was this cute kid from the midwest somewhere and was asking us about Canadian indie bands, which Jo is totally into, so they were deep in music convo while we waited for bags. He took us to Vons for a liquor and snacks stop, and here was the one and only fail of the trip: we forgot our box of hard booze at the checkout! Soooo devastating. I left to grab something, told the girls to make sure buddy rings through the bottles, they mis-understood (how do you mis-understand "DON'T FORGET THE VODKA!!" ?!?? uughhh), and we left without it. No wonder the bill was a lot smaller than I thought it would be. But at least we still had champagne, beer, and coolers to keep us going. Got to the Venetian and checked into our connecting Bella suites on the 12th floor with a pool view, unpacked, had some drinks.
We had dinner resos at STK for 8pm, and with 7 girls needed to get ready, it was basically a shower/makeup/hair assembly line!! And then off to the Cosmo (such a beautiful hotel btw, definitely staying there next trip). STK was so much fun, definitely a party vibe in there (or maybe it was just us!) and the music was awesome. Details are hazy but I remember the whole restaurant singing along to Journey and the Fresh Prince theme song. Tammy had just finished a sign language course and was making up dances and getting people at tables around us up and dancing with her. Every time a group walked by to get seated, we'd high five each person. Made lots of friends, and were invited to join a group of guys at their table at Marquee after. Honestly if we could have stayed and partied at the restaurant, we totally would have haha. Oh yeah, and the food was amazing!
Tiff had set up guestlist at Marquee through a host she knows from past trips, and we were inside after just a short wait. Marquee is so ridiculously nice, and even though I knew it was three rooms, its wayyy bigger than I expected! Now as I mentioned, the bride's musical taste is more indie rock, so as much as she was down to party, she's not a big club person because she doens't like EDM. With that in mind, we headed to the bar and started pounding drinks, and then went exploring the different rooms in the club. Laughed when we saw the library room and posed for pics because the big joke with her fiance leading up to this trip was how we were going to be staying in our room doing book club readings for 2 days.
BTW, the stairs in Marquee are garbage! Tried to find the guys' table that we met at dinner, but couldn't remember their names. Fast forward a few hours and we realize Sarah is missing (she was going to the washroom wayyy earlier). They want to look for her, so Tiff and I say we'll check outside... aka we head to the back bar and keep the party going, shhh
We're talking with this group of older guys there for a stag, they order us a few AMFs and then one of them starts balancing beer bottles on his head? haha. Reminded me of this old Vietnamese guy that used to be at every Vancouver rave that would balance water bottles on his head and both shoulders while busting out the dance moves. The search party gives up after about an hour and the girls are ready to go (Tiff and I are kind of dissapointed but what can you do, not our trip! We grab another drink and bounce). Turns out Sarah had stumbled as she was walking into the washroom, security saw her and thought she was super messed up (she only had 2 drinks but was really dehydrated and dizzy)... they took her vitals and wanted to send her to the hospital? But instead they X'd her stamp and kicked her out, and wouldn't let her come find us. We head back to the hotel, change, grab drinks, and go down to the casino. One of the girls gave Jo some cheesy bachelorette dice where one has actions and the other describes types of guys. We were having fun getting groups of guys to stop so Jo could do her thing, but she was hammered and was chucking the dice *at* people instead! Then when they'd finally stop rolling, she'd take one look at the guy and be like "yeah no thanks" and keep moving... so if you were the "tall guy" she was supposed to "kiss", I apologize if she insulted you haha. The rest of the night is blurry, and I'm pretty sure we hit the strip because I found a Casino Royale voucher in my purse.
Background info: Myself, Jenna, Lauren, and Tiff are all close friends and often hand out with Bethan too, Sarah is Jo's cousin who lives in Calgary, Jodi Janine and Tammy are high school friends of Jo that the rest of us didn't really know, and Courtney and Kendall are their friends that we were meeting for the first time. We planned to do a sailor theme at the pool on Saturday, so I made us all sailor hats with nicknames that Jo came up for us... it was all a surprise for her, she had no idea what the names were for, and the girls didn't know what their names were.
Heather had (emphasis on the had) huge plans do to back-to-back Vegas weekends: July 1-4, spend the week with her family and friends in Cali, then drive back out to meet us on July 8. We get a text from her on July 3 saying she was walking drunk in her monster heels, slipped off a curb and broke her foot!! So we hadn't even left yet and were already down a girl.
Friday
The first batch of girls, Jodi, Janine, and Courtney, all arrived super early in the morning (like 10am) and Tammy was a couple hours after them. They were staying at TI so they spent the day drinking at the hotel pool. Not sure about Kendall... I don't know her personally (she was a friend of a friend on the trip), and was a last minute addition... and complained about her feet hurting, and cried about it? Weird. Anyways... I hear they had a good time, and ended the afternoon with Courtney puking in a hallway planter/garbage can like a champ.
Myself, Jo, Bethan, Jenna, Lauren and Tiff all flew in on the same flight from Bellingham arriving in Vegas at 5pm (Sarah was right behind us getting in just after 6). We ending up scoring both the exit rows and were tossing back margaritas and vodka crans in luxury with our legs stretched out. It's always such a party flying in to Vegas, love it! So we meet our limo driver at baggage claim (booked the champagne/roses airport package with Presidential)... he was this cute kid from the midwest somewhere and was asking us about Canadian indie bands, which Jo is totally into, so they were deep in music convo while we waited for bags. He took us to Vons for a liquor and snacks stop, and here was the one and only fail of the trip: we forgot our box of hard booze at the checkout! Soooo devastating. I left to grab something, told the girls to make sure buddy rings through the bottles, they mis-understood (how do you mis-understand "DON'T FORGET THE VODKA!!" ?!?? uughhh), and we left without it. No wonder the bill was a lot smaller than I thought it would be. But at least we still had champagne, beer, and coolers to keep us going. Got to the Venetian and checked into our connecting Bella suites on the 12th floor with a pool view, unpacked, had some drinks.
We had dinner resos at STK for 8pm, and with 7 girls needed to get ready, it was basically a shower/makeup/hair assembly line!! And then off to the Cosmo (such a beautiful hotel btw, definitely staying there next trip). STK was so much fun, definitely a party vibe in there (or maybe it was just us!) and the music was awesome. Details are hazy but I remember the whole restaurant singing along to Journey and the Fresh Prince theme song. Tammy had just finished a sign language course and was making up dances and getting people at tables around us up and dancing with her. Every time a group walked by to get seated, we'd high five each person. Made lots of friends, and were invited to join a group of guys at their table at Marquee after. Honestly if we could have stayed and partied at the restaurant, we totally would have haha. Oh yeah, and the food was amazing!
Tiff had set up guestlist at Marquee through a host she knows from past trips, and we were inside after just a short wait. Marquee is so ridiculously nice, and even though I knew it was three rooms, its wayyy bigger than I expected! Now as I mentioned, the bride's musical taste is more indie rock, so as much as she was down to party, she's not a big club person because she doens't like EDM. With that in mind, we headed to the bar and started pounding drinks, and then went exploring the different rooms in the club. Laughed when we saw the library room and posed for pics because the big joke with her fiance leading up to this trip was how we were going to be staying in our room doing book club readings for 2 days.
BTW, the stairs in Marquee are garbage! Tried to find the guys' table that we met at dinner, but couldn't remember their names. Fast forward a few hours and we realize Sarah is missing (she was going to the washroom wayyy earlier). They want to look for her, so Tiff and I say we'll check outside... aka we head to the back bar and keep the party going, shhh
We're talking with this group of older guys there for a stag, they order us a few AMFs and then one of them starts balancing beer bottles on his head? haha. Reminded me of this old Vietnamese guy that used to be at every Vancouver rave that would balance water bottles on his head and both shoulders while busting out the dance moves. The search party gives up after about an hour and the girls are ready to go (Tiff and I are kind of dissapointed but what can you do, not our trip! We grab another drink and bounce). Turns out Sarah had stumbled as she was walking into the washroom, security saw her and thought she was super messed up (she only had 2 drinks but was really dehydrated and dizzy)... they took her vitals and wanted to send her to the hospital? But instead they X'd her stamp and kicked her out, and wouldn't let her come find us. We head back to the hotel, change, grab drinks, and go down to the casino. One of the girls gave Jo some cheesy bachelorette dice where one has actions and the other describes types of guys. We were having fun getting groups of guys to stop so Jo could do her thing, but she was hammered and was chucking the dice *at* people instead! Then when they'd finally stop rolling, she'd take one look at the guy and be like "yeah no thanks" and keep moving... so if you were the "tall guy" she was supposed to "kiss", I apologize if she insulted you haha. The rest of the night is blurry, and I'm pretty sure we hit the strip because I found a Casino Royale voucher in my purse.
I was planning my Surrey trip from Long Beach using that airline one of these days...
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