I'm Coming Home!!! April1st-3rd 2011

[Rpun]

4/1/11-4/3/11

I know this Trip Report is way late, but life has been hectic lately, and I’m booked to be back in Las Vegas in August so I am inspired!

There were 9 us on this trip and being the Vegas Veteran of the group it was my duty to plan everything, which was a bit of a headache but eventually totally worth it. For the sake of clarity I’m going to list the participants, but ill give’em nicknames (and this is what we call them in real life as well) to protect their identity:

Rpun(Me), Rags, Sloth, Sandman, RaFool, Shmeagle, Erection, T$, Kanka.

A little background on all of us is that we are all great friends from college, and this will be the 1st of our annual boys trip.

Theme Song of the Trip: Coming Home (Dirty South Remix)

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Friday Day:
All of us guys get to SFO for our 4:45PM flight (except for Sloth, he is going be flying in later that night because of work, and Sandman who is running late as usual). Now this is the first time in Vegas for many of my group, or it’s their first time in Vegas “doing it right” so the anticipation is palpable. When I get there the boys are playing hacky-sack in the middle of the terminal and everyone is looking at us already. We hit the bar at the Airport grab a beer and chill out till our flight leaves. Sandman shows up right as we are boarding our flight. We flying Virgin America so the first thing we all do is order up drinks and start making a ruckus. We have 2 rows in the plane and people looking at us funny again but we are stoked.

Hit the tarmac in Vegas, was able to pull some strings and get a limo there to pick us up free of charge. Now my boy Shmeagle as long as I have known him has said he has never been in a limo in his life so he is like 6 year old in a candy store excited, jumping around/taking hella pictures/etc. He gets in the limo and pops the bubbly, and out comes my infamous toast: “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, and Can’t Lose!” Anyone who has watched FNL knows what I’m talking about. I always toast this way and all my friends are sick of it, but secretly they love it and toast with me every time. So stop at a Liquor Store stock up for the weekend and on the way to the Venetian.


Friday Night
Check In and pull the $20 Sandwich, the clerk’s boss I right behind her so she can’t take it but still upgrades us to a room with a view of the TI show. We get into our room and the upgrade to the Rialto Suite was totally worth it as we got 9 guys in one room so we need the extra space. Shots get lined up and then grab some food at the food court. At this point I tell everyone to not let me lose my phone, b/c it has all the host's #’s on it and I need to be connected for an emergency at work (perils of startup life)This was the worst thing I did all weekend, and you will see why later. Get back to the room and more shots and beer, Shmeagle starts doing cartwheels and almost brains himself on the steps. We start getting ready and find out Sloth’s flight is delayed so he isn’t going to be at the hotel till 10ish. I get ready quick grab Rafool, T$, and Shmeagle and we hit the casino floor. Play Blackjackfor like an hour till everyone else showers/etc and break even for the session.

Get back to the room couple last shots and we out. Hit the strip and take the quick walk to Encore to hit up Surrender (I love this place, and its vibe). Get to the door find my boy Mikey T and he gets us sorted out quickly. He brings us to our table and damn he was right it is the most awesome table right by the DJ, on the Dance floor itself. (Tip for everyone, take care of Mikey and he will take care of you two times over) Hook up with our waitress, slip a 20 to the runner and the bouncer and we are golden. Now the Coming Home track starts blowing up and the Magnum Goose bottle is starting to get to me a bit and I’m standing on the couch singing to everyone (My voice sucks btw), b/c I’m back in Vegas and I really have come home.

Now Mikey got us a steady stream of hotties coming to chill with us, but I have worked out with our bouncer to kick’em out if they Drink whores, one of the girls called me out on it and I just said “Sorry Honey, I really don’t give a damn”. Now my boy Kanka has got this Rhianna Look alike chick that’s he is with so we let him chill. We all have ourselves some cool girls to chill with, we rage hard and then someone I think Erection drops the two crazy words: “Strip Club”
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Final damage at Surrender is about 2K. Mikey T gets the Limo to the Rhino set up, settle the bill and we off. Hit the Rhino at 3AM and it’s packed -- no place to move. Get to the guy Mikey told me to talk to toss him a Benjamin for grease and out of nowhere a table appears and 10 Coronas. Score!!! We chilling checking out the scenery; Shmeagle and Sloth are amazed by the talent and get up to the tip rail and just take it all in. Bout 3:30ish this dime piece of a brunette comes and sits on my lap, I’m sloshed as hell right now, so she convinces me to get to the back room for 30mins. As she is finishing up she tells me her and her friends are hitting Drai’s and if I’d like to roll. Told her I wasn’t down to pay, but she said we connected and she just wanted to party. So I said why not. At this point my friend Rags is being cornered at the ATM by a girl and you know he hates/loves his life right now. So I leave with the 3 girls we hit Drais at like 4:30AM and then I cant remember anything till 7:30Am where I’m back in a cab to the Venetian, still have all my money thank god, but LOST MY CELL PHONE!!! Crawl into bed for nap hating myself right now.

TBC...

[Rpun]

Part 2

Saturday Daytime:

So I wake up round 10ish and my head is pounding, scrounge around for some water/advil and then it hits me that I lost my cell phone!!!! I’m pissed now that I’m sobering up a bit. The boys are all waking me up wondering where I was the night before (since I couldn’t remember I honestly couldn’t tell them much) but they told me I was texting them to come to Drais at 5:30 in the morning. Then Erection remembered that I told them the day before not to let me lose my phone, and now I’m getting endless shit. The first running joke of the weekend is born and now everyone is really getting into it. I say screw this pour myself a bloody Mary and go “hair of the dog” Its VEGAS!! Jump onto my laptop and check my email to get Chris Traer’s number and text him from RaFool’s phone to make sure we set up at Tao Beach that day while the others start their day with a liquid breakfast. I jump into the shower with my bloody Mary and get myself fresh. The boys are ready, the sun is out and we head down to Tao Beach.

We Get to Tao Beach, Chris sets us up with a daybed for $500 on the grand opening for the year of Tao Beach, I was hesitant b/c I thought it might be in the back or something, but a lil thank you to Chris and we are right in the party zone right under the DJ/Cabanas. So beers and pitchers all around and I’m chatting up our waitress who goes to UNLV and she is telling me about the day with Roger Sanchez spinning, some SI swimsuit model, and that Jamie Foxx would be in the house later. So we all taking it kinda easy b/c we are feeling last night and we were going to see Tiesto that night at the Hard Rock and wanted to be full blast for that. Were kicking it with the girls at the day bed next to us, a group of cool girls from LA, got into a lil Nor-Cal vs So-Cal battle (Nor-Cal is way better btw). At this point Sloth, Rags, and T$ go to explore aka pull some more girls b/c they feel left out/have no game. So all of sudden the crowd picks up and I see Tiesto at the cabana above us, and I’m going effing crazy b/c he is my favorite DJ of all time, and here he is partying, so I get to shake his hand, take a pic and act like a total groupie. At this point I’m Coming home start playing and I’m into it and life is perfect!! So its getting late now and we are about to bounce but we have no idea where Rags is, we start looking for him, but his phone/wallet/keys/shirt was with us, at this point Jamie Foxx and Gabrielle Union show up and Jamie is wearing a white linen shirt with a black stripe (will be an important detail later) performs “Blame It” and we decide to bounce and let Rags fend for himself.

We hit up Grand Lux grab some food b/c all we have had all day is booze and it’s like 4:30. We assumed Rags was up in the room getting down so we take our time; get back to the suite and he is nowhere to be found. Some of the guys take a nap and we throw on sportscenter and grab a beer. About 6:30 Rags shows up at the room, completely wasted, no flip flops, and wearing a white linen shirt with a black stripe!!!! They exact one Jamie had on, so now we are giving him a hard time that he either stole the shirt or got down with Jamie and was on a walk of shame. All he could say was that Jamie was there and we missed him and he was pouring goose down girls throats! And he repeated it like 100 times so we created a version of the Barbara Streisand Song called Jamie Foxx and let him have it (actually still a joke to this very day). Now it’s time to get fresh for Tiesto’s show and we are all stoked!!

Sat Night

The reason we came to LV this weekend was to see Tiesto b/c we are all huge EDM guys and Tiesto is the pinnacle of a party DJ. Pre game pretty damn good, revel in the bro-itude of this trip. Go out to the front of the Venetian and cop a Hummer Limo to HR b/c we have to do it baller. Show up at like 11:30 and it’s too early to go in and we aren’t drunk enough, so we sit down at a blackjack table and play for about an hour and abuse the free drinks. Lose about $150 and thus marks the first time I’ve gone to Vegas and not at least broken even. So we get into the Joint and Tiesto is about to come on, shove our ways to the rail and wait for him to drop. His Set was amazing; the production value was off the charts. Highlights include: Tiesto Saluting our group during his first song “Beautiful World”, Dancing with some girls clearly on X and were enjoying tactile sensation way too much, Somehow our spread out group finding each other during “I’m coming Home” and belting it out to each other in the middle of the dance floor, and Sandman coming up to me with a triple shot of patron and forcing me to take it.

Awesome night and some of the boys leave with girls; me, Erection, and Rags dip out at like 3:30 while Sloth, Kanka, and Sandman head to Vanity. We try to grab a cab but the line is longer than anything I have seen so we spring for town car, and our driver end up telling us about a couple a few months before who paid him to drive them up and down the strip while they got down in the back seat, and the poor guy only got from Ceasers to Bellagio before he popped off. So we get back to the Venetian and we aren’t tired and still kind of amped, so we end up taking a late night walk down the strip and see at least 10 old men with hookers/bargaining with hookers. Only in Vegas! Get back to The Venetian and crash.

Sunday
Sadly nothing crazy this day, just all woke up feeling like death, recapped our night the day before and kept gushing about how awesome Tiesto was. Finally grab some McDonalds and head to the airport to take off. All of us passed out on the flight back to SF.

At this point we are already planning next year’s trip, and luckily me and Rafool will be coming back to Vegas in August for a bachelor party and cant effing wait!!!!

[Warren11]

Great report, glad you had a great time.