Trip was months ago, and I had posted the TR on another site, figured I would repost here for kicks... enjoy
It all started when my Fiance' got 2nd place at Miss Wisconsin and her best friend got 3rd... they both loved the girl who won that year and wanted to go to Vegas for Miss America, which was plenty excuse for me to go, heck, I would go if it was cloudy in Wisconsin. So Myself, Fiance' (K), college roomie (N), and K's friend (L) all were in for the trip
Started planning in late October and found an average deal at PHo (where Miss America was) so booked it for 6 nights. Like a week later found a deal at Imperial Palace for $20/night wkdays and $55 weekend... jumped on that too. IP ended up be my and N's main stay while the girls mostly stayed at Pho.
Also ended up finding plane tix through southwest for $200 a piece round trip - southwest ment 2 free bags each, so both myself and N had an extra bag ( 2 total) fill with booze and booze alone.
DAY ONE
Left on a shitty shitty day in January, cold, snow, just ugly... took the normal 90 min airport drive to like 3.5 hours because of the weather. Plane was on time though, so that helped.
Landed, took a shuttle to Pho first, unloaded the gear and then hiked while drinking to IP to check in. By the time we were all checked in and whatnot it was late enough to not do anything but walk around, gambling, lightly drink... calm 1st night.
DAY TWO/THREE:
The girls had Miss America stuff all day every day. So N and I took this opportunity to get blackout drunk without their judgements. Lots of gambling/free drinks/etc during the days. Night two we were stumbling back to IP after a long long day of drinking and saw a huge circle of people on the sideway and most were yelling and whatnot... totally thought a big fight broke out so we had no choice but to go watch. Turns out the circle formed around a few guys break-dancing from the music spilling out of RockHouse.... they were AWESOME! Seriously some of the coolest dancing I have ever seen. Then would pop out and some random would jump in and do a move or two, and so on and so on down the circle. It eventually got to me and I walked out and busted out my "robot"... keep in mind it isn't your average shitty robot, I won a talent contest on a cruise ship 3days straight for my robot skills.... it was great.
Day 4:
Its Friday and the girls had some Miss America/Wisconsin party they were going to at like 4:00 this day... so that was the only "to do" ... we all went to the fashion show mall and I got suckered into buying her a bunch of crap, and then getting stuck carrying it all afternoon... isn't love grand? After some shopping and lunch at Ra (awesome happy hour) we headed back so they could doll-up for the pageant party... long story short is we found out we could go to, so wedressed up and we headed out to Wynncore for this party. On the main floor of the hotel, there was an entire sideroom rented out with food, drinks, live little band - it was awesome. Ordered my first drink and when I went to pay and they said "Open Bar" all hell broke loose. I went from Budweiser to running the top shelf in like 60 minutes.... one of those times you drink so hard and so fast you don't feel drunk until you either:
A. stand up
B. Look in a mirror
... then it hits you, HARD. Welp, that happened. I was hammered drunk at like 5pm and around a lot of fancy people, took all of my self control to keep from making a total ass of myself. We stayed there for like 4 hours (I don't remember much after 1) and then went for some dinner.... somehow I ran up a $125 bill at Denny's?! .... Ended up down at NYNY and settle at ROK for a while (it was mellow and not too packed)... not as bad as most people make it seem.
Stumbled back at who-knows what time and crashed hard.
Sat:
Woke up feeling awesome despite the booze... girls had the actual pageant tonight so they were gone at like 2pm for whatever. N and I made gambled all morning going up and down and ended with making some bets on the NFC playoffs that day.... Watched part of the first game, and the second game was the PACKERS! ... since we were both Wisconsin born and raised of course we would watch it. Found an outdoor bar at Flamingo that had $1 tap Leinies (mid-west guys may know this beer)... so we were pounding these things... halftime came and the bartender said he had to close up shop - the bar was pissed because it was like 80% Packers fans there.... we asked him how much his pay/overtime was to keep it open for us... he said $56/hr was his overtime rate (can that be true?!... screw being an engineer, I'll bartend).
He then said on the otherside of the wall was a VP bar with the same price and he could move our tab inside... we tipped him out, moved in and played craps during halftime.... 30 min halftime netted me $600 in craps, so I was just pumped. Watched the rest of the game and cashed out with a $168 tab buying $1 drinks.... whoops. N and I each had to have put down at least 25 of these during that game meaning we bought about 100 other drinks for people... too drunk to care. Packers won, I drank even hard because of my bets I placed (odds were really good on Packer's straight bet). Girls called after pageant and we ate dinner at some italian place in by Pho (don't remember any of it... at all). Must have been good because just her/my dinner was like $380 (found out from checking my bank account the next morning).
Sunday: Woke up feeling like trash - but some self induced puking, powerade, and asprin I was feeling great by like noon. We geared up to check out MB/Luxor (never ventured that far south).... spent the day shopping/site seeing until about 4pm we headed back to the room. Got ready and figured we would hit a club - which ever was the first promoter to hit us up while walking. We were just boppin' around gambling/drinking/etc and it didn't take long before a guy came up and offered us free entry to The Bank (guys and girls)... we took him up on the offer and went there. We were all partying pretty hard, I was stupid drunk, again... and then at like 2am my phone started ringing and wouldn't stop... I left the club to check what was up (was a hometown number)... and it was my boss. I was scared shitless. After him speaking slower and slower and slower to I could understand in my drunked state we finally figured out that he needed me to email him some documents right now or they were in big trouble with the Wisconsin DNR (I was an environmental engineer at the time - and they had a big emmissions no-no while I was gone).... so I try and find the group in the club - took forever, finally said I have to go to "work".... gave the lady a $100 to keep her drinking (She turns into a freak when drunk... and it was cheaper than hooker)... so I hike back to IP (where my computer is) and take a pitstop to go to Bills to collect football money.... phone rings again (work) so I duck down the sidestreet that runs to stagedoor store.... while on my phone a guy comes up to ask for the time and when I look he tries to grab my phone and reaches for my back pocket (can only assume wallet and not my ass). I step back and was shocked that an attempted robbery just almost happened on me. *Note, I'm theeee least confrontational person ever and have never been in a fight - I was certain I was getting my ass kicked, with that said I'm fairly strong and by no means a small guy* The guy comes at me adn throws a punch missing me completely at which point some weird actiomovie-instincts took over and I did some weird arm grab hitting the back of his elbow really hard - it was all sort of a blurr.... I take a step back and his arm is clearly broken. I didn't really know what to do, I felt super bad that I did that, but he was also a theif-asshole. I ask him if he wants me to call 911, well he takes another dive at me and I just sort of react again and kick him square in the ribs (I've played soccer for like 15 years so have a pretty solid right foot).... that was it, he laid down and just coughed and gagged... I won my first fight in Vegas!
Anyway, go to the room, send the required documents and now have to try and find the others... took like 2 hours but finally met back up with them and was just ready for bed after everything. Finished with Tequila bar @ Ballys ($2 tacos for the win.)
Monday:
Rented a car so two of us could see the Hoover dam ( i had seen it and didn't car) ...and it was cheaper to rent a car (divided by 4) than taxi to the airport when we would leave.... went and checked it out and headed back to the strip because tonight at the House of Blues was STEEL PANTHER!!!!!! Anyone who is looking for one of the most fun bands in Vegas - THIS IS IT. I had seen them before in L.A. (Key Club) and now they play weekly at MB. They are awesome, 80s hair metal covers and they are just awesome. check them out. Saw the show, drank hard, then headed to downtown/fremont street to see that. Just a lot of little things here and there.
Tues: loaded up the gear, headed to the airport and went home.... crazy trip that I blacked-out a ton of. Can't wait for this year's Miss America trip
Highlights -
The drunken blurr day of the Packers winning
Dance Circle
Came out ahead gambling
Work gave my a raise for helping on my vacation!
Pageant Party
STEEL PANTHER!!!!!
Lowlights -
Pickpocket/fight
fiance's shopping habbits
Coming home to a snowstorm and -10*
It all started when my Fiance' got 2nd place at Miss Wisconsin and her best friend got 3rd... they both loved the girl who won that year and wanted to go to Vegas for Miss America, which was plenty excuse for me to go, heck, I would go if it was cloudy in Wisconsin. So Myself, Fiance' (K), college roomie (N), and K's friend (L) all were in for the trip
Started planning in late October and found an average deal at PHo (where Miss America was) so booked it for 6 nights. Like a week later found a deal at Imperial Palace for $20/night wkdays and $55 weekend... jumped on that too. IP ended up be my and N's main stay while the girls mostly stayed at Pho.
Also ended up finding plane tix through southwest for $200 a piece round trip - southwest ment 2 free bags each, so both myself and N had an extra bag ( 2 total) fill with booze and booze alone.
DAY ONE
Left on a shitty shitty day in January, cold, snow, just ugly... took the normal 90 min airport drive to like 3.5 hours because of the weather. Plane was on time though, so that helped.
Landed, took a shuttle to Pho first, unloaded the gear and then hiked while drinking to IP to check in. By the time we were all checked in and whatnot it was late enough to not do anything but walk around, gambling, lightly drink... calm 1st night.
DAY TWO/THREE:
The girls had Miss America stuff all day every day. So N and I took this opportunity to get blackout drunk without their judgements. Lots of gambling/free drinks/etc during the days. Night two we were stumbling back to IP after a long long day of drinking and saw a huge circle of people on the sideway and most were yelling and whatnot... totally thought a big fight broke out so we had no choice but to go watch. Turns out the circle formed around a few guys break-dancing from the music spilling out of RockHouse.... they were AWESOME! Seriously some of the coolest dancing I have ever seen. Then would pop out and some random would jump in and do a move or two, and so on and so on down the circle. It eventually got to me and I walked out and busted out my "robot"... keep in mind it isn't your average shitty robot, I won a talent contest on a cruise ship 3days straight for my robot skills.... it was great.
Day 4:
Its Friday and the girls had some Miss America/Wisconsin party they were going to at like 4:00 this day... so that was the only "to do" ... we all went to the fashion show mall and I got suckered into buying her a bunch of crap, and then getting stuck carrying it all afternoon... isn't love grand? After some shopping and lunch at Ra (awesome happy hour) we headed back so they could doll-up for the pageant party... long story short is we found out we could go to, so wedressed up and we headed out to Wynncore for this party. On the main floor of the hotel, there was an entire sideroom rented out with food, drinks, live little band - it was awesome. Ordered my first drink and when I went to pay and they said "Open Bar" all hell broke loose. I went from Budweiser to running the top shelf in like 60 minutes.... one of those times you drink so hard and so fast you don't feel drunk until you either:
A. stand up
B. Look in a mirror
... then it hits you, HARD. Welp, that happened. I was hammered drunk at like 5pm and around a lot of fancy people, took all of my self control to keep from making a total ass of myself. We stayed there for like 4 hours (I don't remember much after 1) and then went for some dinner.... somehow I ran up a $125 bill at Denny's?! .... Ended up down at NYNY and settle at ROK for a while (it was mellow and not too packed)... not as bad as most people make it seem.
Stumbled back at who-knows what time and crashed hard.
Sat:
Woke up feeling awesome despite the booze... girls had the actual pageant tonight so they were gone at like 2pm for whatever. N and I made gambled all morning going up and down and ended with making some bets on the NFC playoffs that day.... Watched part of the first game, and the second game was the PACKERS! ... since we were both Wisconsin born and raised of course we would watch it. Found an outdoor bar at Flamingo that had $1 tap Leinies (mid-west guys may know this beer)... so we were pounding these things... halftime came and the bartender said he had to close up shop - the bar was pissed because it was like 80% Packers fans there.... we asked him how much his pay/overtime was to keep it open for us... he said $56/hr was his overtime rate (can that be true?!... screw being an engineer, I'll bartend).
He then said on the otherside of the wall was a VP bar with the same price and he could move our tab inside... we tipped him out, moved in and played craps during halftime.... 30 min halftime netted me $600 in craps, so I was just pumped. Watched the rest of the game and cashed out with a $168 tab buying $1 drinks.... whoops. N and I each had to have put down at least 25 of these during that game meaning we bought about 100 other drinks for people... too drunk to care. Packers won, I drank even hard because of my bets I placed (odds were really good on Packer's straight bet). Girls called after pageant and we ate dinner at some italian place in by Pho (don't remember any of it... at all). Must have been good because just her/my dinner was like $380 (found out from checking my bank account the next morning).
Sunday: Woke up feeling like trash - but some self induced puking, powerade, and asprin I was feeling great by like noon. We geared up to check out MB/Luxor (never ventured that far south).... spent the day shopping/site seeing until about 4pm we headed back to the room. Got ready and figured we would hit a club - which ever was the first promoter to hit us up while walking. We were just boppin' around gambling/drinking/etc and it didn't take long before a guy came up and offered us free entry to The Bank (guys and girls)... we took him up on the offer and went there. We were all partying pretty hard, I was stupid drunk, again... and then at like 2am my phone started ringing and wouldn't stop... I left the club to check what was up (was a hometown number)... and it was my boss. I was scared shitless. After him speaking slower and slower and slower to I could understand in my drunked state we finally figured out that he needed me to email him some documents right now or they were in big trouble with the Wisconsin DNR (I was an environmental engineer at the time - and they had a big emmissions no-no while I was gone).... so I try and find the group in the club - took forever, finally said I have to go to "work".... gave the lady a $100 to keep her drinking (She turns into a freak when drunk... and it was cheaper than hooker)... so I hike back to IP (where my computer is) and take a pitstop to go to Bills to collect football money.... phone rings again (work) so I duck down the sidestreet that runs to stagedoor store.... while on my phone a guy comes up to ask for the time and when I look he tries to grab my phone and reaches for my back pocket (can only assume wallet and not my ass). I step back and was shocked that an attempted robbery just almost happened on me. *Note, I'm theeee least confrontational person ever and have never been in a fight - I was certain I was getting my ass kicked, with that said I'm fairly strong and by no means a small guy* The guy comes at me adn throws a punch missing me completely at which point some weird actiomovie-instincts took over and I did some weird arm grab hitting the back of his elbow really hard - it was all sort of a blurr.... I take a step back and his arm is clearly broken. I didn't really know what to do, I felt super bad that I did that, but he was also a theif-asshole. I ask him if he wants me to call 911, well he takes another dive at me and I just sort of react again and kick him square in the ribs (I've played soccer for like 15 years so have a pretty solid right foot).... that was it, he laid down and just coughed and gagged... I won my first fight in Vegas!
Anyway, go to the room, send the required documents and now have to try and find the others... took like 2 hours but finally met back up with them and was just ready for bed after everything. Finished with Tequila bar @ Ballys ($2 tacos for the win.)
Monday:
Rented a car so two of us could see the Hoover dam ( i had seen it and didn't car) ...and it was cheaper to rent a car (divided by 4) than taxi to the airport when we would leave.... went and checked it out and headed back to the strip because tonight at the House of Blues was STEEL PANTHER!!!!!! Anyone who is looking for one of the most fun bands in Vegas - THIS IS IT. I had seen them before in L.A. (Key Club) and now they play weekly at MB. They are awesome, 80s hair metal covers and they are just awesome. check them out. Saw the show, drank hard, then headed to downtown/fremont street to see that. Just a lot of little things here and there.
Tues: loaded up the gear, headed to the airport and went home.... crazy trip that I blacked-out a ton of. Can't wait for this year's Miss America trip
Highlights -
The drunken blurr day of the Packers winning
Dance Circle
Came out ahead gambling
Work gave my a raise for helping on my vacation!
Pageant Party
STEEL PANTHER!!!!!
Lowlights -
Pickpocket/fight
fiance's shopping habbits
Coming home to a snowstorm and -10*
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