We had perfect timing to go pick up Luke from the airport who was flying in from Northern California, and then went to our room. Priya had flown in earlier and already checked into our room. We were at the door knocking for awhile because she was asleep and really got a Vegas welcome! While we were out there, there was clearly a party going on next door, and at some point, the door opened, the music blasting and they pushed out a guy into the hallway and locked him out and he was... completely naked. He was Austrlian and very friendly and talking to us like nothing was wrong. I asked him if he was in the Thunder From Down Under show, and then his friends let him back in, just as Priya unlocked the door for us!
It was just past midnight and I had to take a screenshot of that beautiful March 14 date!
We got changed and geared up with some shots to head out to the strip to celebrate the start of my birthday!
As we left, there was an electric scooter parked outside. I tried to ride it but it required a key. Probably for the best.
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| Meep meep! Everyone aboard the birthday bus! |
Just off our elevators as we entered into the casino there was a giant slot machine that Luke offered for me for my birthday. It didn't exactly work out the first few tries...
Long story short, I didn't exactly win anything... but the fun was priceless!
Ironically enough, my first trip to Vegas after not living in New York anymore, and we stay in... New York New York hotel all the same. We stopped into a store for some liquid ammo and I couldn't resist picking up two PBR's (whereas everyone else was getting Heinekens or something else a step up) and being nostalgic over NYC and representing it! This is me with my PBR's in front of New York New York hotel
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| And inside was even a Knicks player! Please don't ask me who... assuming it is someone "real" |
Me and Priya waking up the next morning, mentally gearing up for morning shots!
Doug's parents had arrived the night before but not surprisingly did not join us out on the strip at 1 in the morning, so first thing in the morning stopped by and gave me a birthday present! It was so sweet!
We all got ready and then hit the strip yet again...
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| Doug and Luke taking a picture of what was supposed to be us... |
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| Us 3 in front of the Brooklyn Bridge knockoff |
The Blue Man Group plays at Monte Carlo and we found this fun light wall on the entrance to their theatre. No one knew what to do to pose, which was why this picture was so funny. Doug was counting down to taking the picture and at one Priya just threw up her hands and Pam just shrugged her shoulders.
We picked up a bottle of champagne for later that night that was some fun Las Vegas theme bottle
We walked to the Thomas & Mack UNLV arena for the SDSU game against UNLV, which SDSU thankfully won.
We have a tradition of hitting a liquor store just outside the UNLV parking lot, and then walking to the Hard Rock Cafe for a drink or two before cabbing it back to the hotel.
Getting ready for night 2, my birthday night out! We even recruited more friends with us for this night, Doug's coworker and his girlfriend.
We usually have so much fun in the hotel room that it's hard to get us out! We made it up to a rooftop bar that was so fun, we pretty much shut the place down and didn't leave until 5 or 5:30. It was all such good dancing! Here was Priya with a super fun breakdancer, although not breakdancing right now...
Aaaand I may or may not have gotten up on the stage with a Birthday Girl Permission to dance! I would also like to point out that they played an inexplicable amount of birthday songs, and who would have thought that Trey Songz' Say Ahh was so appropriate? It came on and we all LOVED it! Some of the lyrics included:
Go girl, it's your birthday...
And we don't buy no drinks at the bar
We pop champagne cuz we got that dough
I'll make ya say ahh just like I'm your doctor
All I prescribe is cranberry and vodka
...and it was my birthday, and we didn't have to buy drinks at the bar (my dress kinda got all my drinks free), and we had popped champagne just before going there, and I was in the middle of drinking a cranberry vodka (Uncle Carl!) when that song came on!
Leaving at 5am gives you great ideas, like thinking a picture in front of trash cans is nice (but it's not)
The next day we were slow moving, but we got going. It was the finals game of SDSU against their arch rivals UNM, which is awful because they are the Raiders fans of college basketball. There may have been an altercation or two, but we made it through... even though it was a super close and tense game (and SDSU fans were sorely outnumbered) and we lost, but we had our faithful liquor store and Hard Rock afterwards to console us
We cabbed it to Bellagio after the game cause there was a special Tiffany's trip in it for me!
We stopped for dinner before going back to the hotel room to rally up for the night. Luke got a stromboli from Sbarro's but was still hungry. He said he wanted another. When he sat back down at the table he said he got something even better than a stromboli... TWO strombolis!!
Night three we were having SO MUCH FUN in the hotel room we really almost didn't leave. Music, drinks, pictures and tons and tons of jokes. We got a lot of great inside jokes from that night that will really live on for awhile. We were all dying of laughter and almost didn't want to leave... but we did eventually. We started out at the hotel bar, Priya and I dancing it up and getting quite a few drinks, and then I even made friends with some French guys FROM BORDEAUX, and they had needed me to translate a lot for them between us and them, and I thought I was doing fabulous, but waking up sober the next morning and reflecting on it... I have no clue if I really made any sense.
This is typical Priya, and one of the reasons I love her. She and I were playing craps with Doug and Daniel and up a few bucks, but then decided to sit out a round. I was asking Priya if she was reading to put down some bets again when instead she shouts out "LOBSTER MANIA!!" and runs off. Right behind us was a slot machine called Lobster Mania and of course we ended up playing and anyone who came by to talk to us, we made them do a lobster impression for us. Can you believe that they did it?
We had an adventure off the strip that night but oh boy was it an adventure! It was sad to be our last night, but we partied it up right nice.
And then of course, the painful hungover ride home. HOWEVER, we were revitalized after a stop at Taco Bell and Dairy Queen, and had yet again a sidesplitting good time in the car that actually makes me enjoy the car ride home and not want it to be over.
And now of course I've been recovering. It was a smaller group than last time, but oh man just as fun. It was such a fun combination of our group, and a good welcome into my next year. Countdown's on til Vegas next year...!
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