Wowza…
Today is the first morning back after my last trip and feeling every bit of it at work this morning.
Trip Intro:
Six of us…
Myself, going to no reason other than my fiancé’ was letting me.
Fiancé (Katie) – Going to watch her buddy (who beat her) at Miss Wisconsin compete in Miss America (Who ended up winning the whole thing)
Old Roommate for 3 years at college (NickE) – going just because
Nick’s Girlfriend (Jayme) – never been to Vegas and what better time than now
My Cousin/Best friend Randy – never been to Vegas and parties harder than anyone I know
Randy/my buddy Ben – Crazy kid with a gambling problem… Never been to Vegas either
…. Trip was a Wednesday to Wednesday at the Jockey Club …. It’s a long long trip but it ended up being $300 cheaper per person to stay an extra 2 nights because of airfare and the “weekly” rate at JC… so figured why not.
Wed 11th:
Woke up to leave for the airport at about 3:00am, it was cold, snowy and shitty, perfect weather to leave in. Went to go round up Randy (lives next door to me) and he is sitting on his computer surrounded by empty beer cans playing poker/betting on horses online…. His trip apparently already had started. We all load up the car and head and pickup Ben, the other two are leaving from Chicago. Get to the airport about 75 mins before the plane is scheduled to leave and the airport is closed…. Yeah, that’s how small this airport is. Flight leaves on time to connect in Detroit, which goes smooth, and the four of us head to the Delta Sky Club.
*Side note – SKY CLUB IS AWESOME. I bought four day passes from ebay for $60 ($15 each) and we got our money’s worth big time. There was free wifi, free snacks/food, satellite TV, and the kicker…. FREE self service bar. 3 hour layover meant we took down what they had left of Bacardi and Crown… we’re wasted in the airport at 9:00am.
… Eventually its time to leave the sky club and head to the plane, which isn’t so bad because I had also bought 20 Delta drink tickets on ebay for $35. Plane goes smoothly, we have a good movie and the flight crew is willing to give me four beers at a time. We each 6 beers/mixers except Katie just sleeps on the sky club booze. Touch-down in Vegas on time and we’re ready to go. Nick and Jayme had landed about 2.5 hours ahead of us so were already on the strip grabbing some lunch at Cabo Wabo. We load up in a limo and head out… swing by Cabo Wabo an pick up the two others and are off to Von’s for some munchies and booze. $600 later we’ve packed the limo with booze and frozen pizzas. Get to the hotel with no check in wait, and unload the goodies. Limo driver was awesome, we were in the car for like 80 mins but she only charged us for 60 and sent us off with 3 bottles of bubbly…. Trip has been great so far.
*Sidenote: JOCKEY CLUB
This is possibly the best “bang for the buck” hotel on the strip. Our room was a two bedroom/two bathroom place with a full kitchen, living room, and dining room. We had 3 queen beds, a twin, and a pullout couch. Slept 6 of use with room to spare and we also had a ton of party/pregame space. Full size fridge was great for keep leftovers and booze cold. Our room during CES (super high prices) was $999+tax for 7 nights…. $1078 out the door. Other awesome features, view we had was amazing! You could go from room to on the strip (street) in 4 minutes….4 minutes to the Cosmo casino floor, and 6 minutes to the Bellagio casino floor. 24/7 heated pool/hot tub.
First night there our choices were AFROJACK at Surrender or just bum the strip gambling and drinking (taking it easy)…. We choice to walk and see what happened, ended up wanting to go to Rockhouse for all you could drink deal for a few hours then to Surrender…. We made it about 1.5 blocks from the hotel and ended up not making it past Bill’s. We all were so shitfaced and in a gambling mood we spend like 7+ hours at Bills just gambling and drinking. I can’t remember much of the details except I only ever told the cocktail waitresses to “surprise me” which was a huge mistake…. I was getting some crazy shit. 3am or so it’s been 24 hours awake, I’m about 30 drinks deep and don’t remember much else…. Not sure when I came home, or anyone else for that matter….. next morning awoke to find about $590 more dollars in my wallet than I left the trip with and half of a Earl’s sub in the fridge with my name poorly scribbled on it. So that was a nice perk.
Thursday 14th:
Woke up at like 9am with my brain just pounding…. Rolled out of bed to make myself a hangover cure: 1 pedialyte packet into a powerade, 3 Ibuprofens, 1 pepto pill…. As I am doing this Randy and Ben walk into the room completely hammered…. They haven’t slept in almost 48 hours and only left Bill’s because they were told they were to drunk to continue playing there…. Well done boys. Everyone is finally up and moving by like 3pm and we try and figure out what we’ll be doing today. Nothing too exciting during the day, and about 7 pm the drinking starts again… hour or two of pregaming in the room while the ladies get dolled up and then we head out to the strip to gambling and drink a little… everyone is pretty buzzed at this point and we take up a host from the forums here CK on his offer of a comp’d bottle at the bank with the option of b1g1 after… figured with only have a comp’d bottle for sure the table would be terrible but I was wrong… dance floor table right next to the hallway for the bathrooms under the DJ booth. We tried to make the bottle last but didn’t quite happen and then were told that unless we bought more the table was getting bumped… which was totally fair since we really didn’t even pay for this table… we were fine with buying just a round of shots, dancing a little more and then off to the next place. The plan was to stop by Hyde but for some reason ended up at Hooters (no idea how or why)…. Ended up gambling there and eating my weight in $.25 chicken wings. Oh well. Worked our way back to the hotel place by place and crashed around 5 am.
Friday 13th
Woke up again to a room that stunk of old booze and my head just pounding. Once again its about 8am and Ben and Randy aren’t in the room…. Try calling their phones, both dead. Randy stumbles in like 10 mins later but has no clue were Ben was…. Ben shows up about 15 mins after that…. He had passed out sitting up in our hotel’s computer/guest services room. He said housekeeping came in and woke him up… again, well done boys. We all head to Hash House for some breakfast and try and recap what happened the night before. Everyone sort of browned out but at different points so we had a pretty good idea of the happenings. Girls did a few hours at the spa and some shopping after, myself and NickE headed down to CES for the day, and met up with some other friends from home. During the CES day here we somehow got between a big announcement and a heard of people looking to get there, one of the friends from home (not part of our immediate group) ended up getting trampled/knocked off some stairs and broke his ankle… sort of put a damper on the day since he was planning on partying with us that night. Originally we planned on bottles at Pure, but because of the way the day worked out for that evening we figured to “take it easy” just trying to site see and causally drink while doing so because of the days happenings. This plan seriously lasted 2 hotels into showing the Vegas virgins some of the hotels…. About 11:30pm I get a text from Darryl @ Cathouse sayings “GET HERE, NOW!”…. I text back that we weren’t dressed for nightlife at all…. Long story short it didn’t matter and seemed important we got there, hopped in a limo and made it to the Luxor in record time. We walk in, find Darryl and are walked in to a man at the owners table of Cathouse blasting Dom allllll over people…. Sure as shit that’s where we are taken. It was Boags from the forums here… he had bottle upon bottle at the table and Darryl said he was ready to leave…. So there was a table full of booze that had been paid for and somehow the Vegas God’s (Darryl and Boags- Ben) smiled upon us. We were happy to take over. So the six of us, dressed like scrubs, were drinking out of our minds on our “night off”. It was just a crazy that it actually happened. I can’t really remember how much cash I threw to Darryl and Ben for this… probably wasn’t enough. We had such a good time, I remember having to go to the bathroom to towel off because it was raining Moet from the ceilings…. Can’t really remember but I think there was at least 2/3 bottles of vodka, 4+ bottles of moet, and a bottle of Dom…. Crazy night. We partied there until I have no idea and ended up stumbling back through NYNY were I got some pizza that I instantly threw up…. Then ended up winning a few hundred dollars playing craps (I didn’t remember, fiancé had to fill me ).
Today is the first morning back after my last trip and feeling every bit of it at work this morning.
Trip Intro:
Six of us…
Myself, going to no reason other than my fiancé’ was letting me.
Fiancé (Katie) – Going to watch her buddy (who beat her) at Miss Wisconsin compete in Miss America (Who ended up winning the whole thing)
Old Roommate for 3 years at college (NickE) – going just because
Nick’s Girlfriend (Jayme) – never been to Vegas and what better time than now
My Cousin/Best friend Randy – never been to Vegas and parties harder than anyone I know
Randy/my buddy Ben – Crazy kid with a gambling problem… Never been to Vegas either
…. Trip was a Wednesday to Wednesday at the Jockey Club …. It’s a long long trip but it ended up being $300 cheaper per person to stay an extra 2 nights because of airfare and the “weekly” rate at JC… so figured why not.
Wed 11th:
Woke up to leave for the airport at about 3:00am, it was cold, snowy and shitty, perfect weather to leave in. Went to go round up Randy (lives next door to me) and he is sitting on his computer surrounded by empty beer cans playing poker/betting on horses online…. His trip apparently already had started. We all load up the car and head and pickup Ben, the other two are leaving from Chicago. Get to the airport about 75 mins before the plane is scheduled to leave and the airport is closed…. Yeah, that’s how small this airport is. Flight leaves on time to connect in Detroit, which goes smooth, and the four of us head to the Delta Sky Club.
*Side note – SKY CLUB IS AWESOME. I bought four day passes from ebay for $60 ($15 each) and we got our money’s worth big time. There was free wifi, free snacks/food, satellite TV, and the kicker…. FREE self service bar. 3 hour layover meant we took down what they had left of Bacardi and Crown… we’re wasted in the airport at 9:00am.
… Eventually its time to leave the sky club and head to the plane, which isn’t so bad because I had also bought 20 Delta drink tickets on ebay for $35. Plane goes smoothly, we have a good movie and the flight crew is willing to give me four beers at a time. We each 6 beers/mixers except Katie just sleeps on the sky club booze. Touch-down in Vegas on time and we’re ready to go. Nick and Jayme had landed about 2.5 hours ahead of us so were already on the strip grabbing some lunch at Cabo Wabo. We load up in a limo and head out… swing by Cabo Wabo an pick up the two others and are off to Von’s for some munchies and booze. $600 later we’ve packed the limo with booze and frozen pizzas. Get to the hotel with no check in wait, and unload the goodies. Limo driver was awesome, we were in the car for like 80 mins but she only charged us for 60 and sent us off with 3 bottles of bubbly…. Trip has been great so far.
*Sidenote: JOCKEY CLUB
This is possibly the best “bang for the buck” hotel on the strip. Our room was a two bedroom/two bathroom place with a full kitchen, living room, and dining room. We had 3 queen beds, a twin, and a pullout couch. Slept 6 of use with room to spare and we also had a ton of party/pregame space. Full size fridge was great for keep leftovers and booze cold. Our room during CES (super high prices) was $999+tax for 7 nights…. $1078 out the door. Other awesome features, view we had was amazing! You could go from room to on the strip (street) in 4 minutes….4 minutes to the Cosmo casino floor, and 6 minutes to the Bellagio casino floor. 24/7 heated pool/hot tub.
First night there our choices were AFROJACK at Surrender or just bum the strip gambling and drinking (taking it easy)…. We choice to walk and see what happened, ended up wanting to go to Rockhouse for all you could drink deal for a few hours then to Surrender…. We made it about 1.5 blocks from the hotel and ended up not making it past Bill’s. We all were so shitfaced and in a gambling mood we spend like 7+ hours at Bills just gambling and drinking. I can’t remember much of the details except I only ever told the cocktail waitresses to “surprise me” which was a huge mistake…. I was getting some crazy shit. 3am or so it’s been 24 hours awake, I’m about 30 drinks deep and don’t remember much else…. Not sure when I came home, or anyone else for that matter….. next morning awoke to find about $590 more dollars in my wallet than I left the trip with and half of a Earl’s sub in the fridge with my name poorly scribbled on it. So that was a nice perk.
Thursday 14th:
Woke up at like 9am with my brain just pounding…. Rolled out of bed to make myself a hangover cure: 1 pedialyte packet into a powerade, 3 Ibuprofens, 1 pepto pill…. As I am doing this Randy and Ben walk into the room completely hammered…. They haven’t slept in almost 48 hours and only left Bill’s because they were told they were to drunk to continue playing there…. Well done boys. Everyone is finally up and moving by like 3pm and we try and figure out what we’ll be doing today. Nothing too exciting during the day, and about 7 pm the drinking starts again… hour or two of pregaming in the room while the ladies get dolled up and then we head out to the strip to gambling and drink a little… everyone is pretty buzzed at this point and we take up a host from the forums here CK on his offer of a comp’d bottle at the bank with the option of b1g1 after… figured with only have a comp’d bottle for sure the table would be terrible but I was wrong… dance floor table right next to the hallway for the bathrooms under the DJ booth. We tried to make the bottle last but didn’t quite happen and then were told that unless we bought more the table was getting bumped… which was totally fair since we really didn’t even pay for this table… we were fine with buying just a round of shots, dancing a little more and then off to the next place. The plan was to stop by Hyde but for some reason ended up at Hooters (no idea how or why)…. Ended up gambling there and eating my weight in $.25 chicken wings. Oh well. Worked our way back to the hotel place by place and crashed around 5 am.
Friday 13th
Woke up again to a room that stunk of old booze and my head just pounding. Once again its about 8am and Ben and Randy aren’t in the room…. Try calling their phones, both dead. Randy stumbles in like 10 mins later but has no clue were Ben was…. Ben shows up about 15 mins after that…. He had passed out sitting up in our hotel’s computer/guest services room. He said housekeeping came in and woke him up… again, well done boys. We all head to Hash House for some breakfast and try and recap what happened the night before. Everyone sort of browned out but at different points so we had a pretty good idea of the happenings. Girls did a few hours at the spa and some shopping after, myself and NickE headed down to CES for the day, and met up with some other friends from home. During the CES day here we somehow got between a big announcement and a heard of people looking to get there, one of the friends from home (not part of our immediate group) ended up getting trampled/knocked off some stairs and broke his ankle… sort of put a damper on the day since he was planning on partying with us that night. Originally we planned on bottles at Pure, but because of the way the day worked out for that evening we figured to “take it easy” just trying to site see and causally drink while doing so because of the days happenings. This plan seriously lasted 2 hotels into showing the Vegas virgins some of the hotels…. About 11:30pm I get a text from Darryl @ Cathouse sayings “GET HERE, NOW!”…. I text back that we weren’t dressed for nightlife at all…. Long story short it didn’t matter and seemed important we got there, hopped in a limo and made it to the Luxor in record time. We walk in, find Darryl and are walked in to a man at the owners table of Cathouse blasting Dom allllll over people…. Sure as shit that’s where we are taken. It was Boags from the forums here… he had bottle upon bottle at the table and Darryl said he was ready to leave…. So there was a table full of booze that had been paid for and somehow the Vegas God’s (Darryl and Boags- Ben) smiled upon us. We were happy to take over. So the six of us, dressed like scrubs, were drinking out of our minds on our “night off”. It was just a crazy that it actually happened. I can’t really remember how much cash I threw to Darryl and Ben for this… probably wasn’t enough. We had such a good time, I remember having to go to the bathroom to towel off because it was raining Moet from the ceilings…. Can’t really remember but I think there was at least 2/3 bottles of vodka, 4+ bottles of moet, and a bottle of Dom…. Crazy night. We partied there until I have no idea and ended up stumbling back through NYNY were I got some pizza that I instantly threw up…. Then ended up winning a few hundred dollars playing craps (I didn’t remember, fiancé had to fill me ).
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