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- circlenepal20 September 2007
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- veinleo09 September 2007
Starr's Trek
So i started this long drawn out post about Vegas, and I got as far as getting on the plane to Phoenix and realized i couldn't do it! 
But I had an absolute blast. I guess I'll give you the reader digest version:
Wednesday:
I flew to Phoenix where I met up with the boy (yeah, the one I been bitchin about) to spend 2 days in, you guessed it, Fabulous Tempe Arizona. The first night was filled with drinks and friends and trivia and Mardi Gras, which I think is actually in.... Chandler?? One of those Phoenix suburbs. Then after that we went to this Italian restaurant... Riazza's?? (Tempe help me out, but you can't cause you're gone
) Anyway, some Italian joint where the food was amazing and the company was even better.
Thursday:
Got up and the boy (yeah, the one I been bitchin about) cooked me breakfast. (he's a great cook btw) Then he took me shoe shopping (and he likes Tori Amos, I'm beginning to question his sexuality). Met some other friends for dinner at Red Robin. I got to meet their families so that was neat. Then we went back to his house for a small 'bout of baby momma drama, replete with me calling him out for being a push over, then of course he caved for me just like he always caves for baby momma. Poor guy ain't got a chance. So he leaves to go get his kid and I get into his tequila (which he said he saved for me, he doesn' t like it), then he texts me saying he's got no kid so I hit the tequila even harder and we go out for a grand night of Nick* karaoke at Nate's place. Now I know to drink a lot of water when I'm drinking a lot. So I ordered one, but it was just nasty water, I could barely gag it down, so I didn't drink near enough water for the amount of beer i drank!! The boy ended up passing out at the bar, but i was still rarin to go so he goes home and I get a ride home later with some other friends (Nick* himself and his girlfriend Ali)
Friday:
Flying to Vegas!! My flight was at 7:15 and the boy had to pick his daughter up for school at 6:30 so I get to airport at 6:00. Now I stayed out drinking and karaoking until 2:00 then got up at 5:30 to go to the airport, AND the water at the bar was gross, so I didn't feel so great shuffling through security at 6:30 in the morning. But I get on the plane and the flight attendant is just hilarious constantly cracking jokes through the safety briefing and the whole flight really. But there were these 3 girls sitting across the aisle a couple rows back just chattering and babbling up a storm. it was one of their 22nd birthdays and they were going to Vegas and were terribly excited about it. Now I can't blame them for their excitement, but their incessant chattering and my throbbing hangover just didn't mix very well. But, thankfully it's a short flight. I land in Vegas, get my bags, and catch a shuttle to the hotel. This whole process seems to take forever and I just can't wait to check into the hotel and get some sleep.
I was not prepared for the hugeness that is Las Vegas, Nevada! I finally get to the hotel around 9:00 am and these guys meet me at the shuttle and offer to hold my bag until check in at 2?? Now I knew check in was in the afternoon, but I was really counting on getting to the room early and crashing! I ask the man "I seriously can't check in until 2?? Can I sleep in the lobby??" Which of course, I cannot. So I kind of freak out for a moment because I feel like all hell and there's no way I can stay awake until 2. But he tells me I can go inside as ask, which I did and got into my room no problem without so much as an early check in fee.
So I sleep off my hangover and wake up with just enough time to soak in the hot tub a bit before going to the airport to meet my friend Vanessa. We come back to the hotel and look for a place to eat. I tell her there's a Star Trek experience and she's just as excited about it as I was!! So we go eat at Quark's bar and restaurant and I spend way too much money at the gift shop. Then we go back to the hotel and soak in the tub until her friend Carol got there. Shortly after that we all went to sleep.
Saturday:
We wake up and go get breakfast at a buffet in NY NY which has a roller coaster in it. So we eat and a have a couple drinks, gamble a little bit adn head up to the coaster. We decided to get the all day scream pass because it was the cost of 2 rides, plus you got to cut in front of all the people who have to pay! So I'm buying my wristband and my card gets declined! I know for a fact that I'm not anywhere close to my limit. She says it says "call for voice authorization" so I'm thinking it's just some fraud alert thing since I was in a new town using my card a lot. So I give her my debit card and call the number on the back of credit card and sat on hold for 15 minutes before I gave up and rode the coaster. I got a hold of customer service hours later and they told me there was never a hold on my account and they had no idea why it was declined. I used it later to buy a monorail ticket and it went through no problem. ~Weird~
so we rode the coaster a couple times then went back to the casino and met my friend from the RCPM board at the bar. We tell him we're thinking about going to the Star Trek Experience and he says he wants to go too, but can't until tomorrow so we decide to wait.
Then we decided to go to the Stratosphere (think space needle) because my friend was dared to ride one of the rides. We took the monorail to the last stop a couple blocks from the Stratosphere. And we're looking at this thing from down the street and they're freaking out. Every now and again we see one of the rides in action. They decide they're hungry. I didn't wanna eat and then go on the rides, so we decided we'd go back tomorrow. We caught a great meal at the Sahara and gambled a little. Then we went back to the Star Trek bar and had a couple drink and again I spent way too much money at the gift shop. Gambled a little (and I do mean a little, like 5 or 10 bucks, I'm a cheapskate ). Grabbed a Reuben at the jewish deli that was recommended to me. It was great except I asked for yellow mustard and got brown. BLEEECH!!! 
Then we had tickets to Blue Man Group which was spectacular!!! They TP'd the audience 
We were in the last row (cheapskate) and suddenly all this paper starts falling on our heads and people start passing it forward and it kept coming for a long time and we're throwing it forward and this blanket of TP crowd surfs all the way down to the stage and they started dancing with it. It was awesome!
We went back to the hotel and they decided to go to this club, but I was exhausted so I stayed behind and soaked in the tub some more.
Ok, I've been trying to do this for days now. It' just going to have to be a 2 parter!!
Assuming you care to hear more.
But I had an absolute blast. I guess I'll give you the reader digest version:Wednesday:
I flew to Phoenix where I met up with the boy (yeah, the one I been bitchin about) to spend 2 days in, you guessed it, Fabulous Tempe Arizona. The first night was filled with drinks and friends and trivia and Mardi Gras, which I think is actually in.... Chandler?? One of those Phoenix suburbs. Then after that we went to this Italian restaurant... Riazza's?? (Tempe help me out, but you can't cause you're gone
) Anyway, some Italian joint where the food was amazing and the company was even better.Thursday:
Got up and the boy (yeah, the one I been bitchin about) cooked me breakfast. (he's a great cook btw) Then he took me shoe shopping (and he likes Tori Amos, I'm beginning to question his sexuality). Met some other friends for dinner at Red Robin. I got to meet their families so that was neat. Then we went back to his house for a small 'bout of baby momma drama, replete with me calling him out for being a push over, then of course he caved for me just like he always caves for baby momma. Poor guy ain't got a chance. So he leaves to go get his kid and I get into his tequila (which he said he saved for me, he doesn' t like it), then he texts me saying he's got no kid so I hit the tequila even harder and we go out for a grand night of Nick* karaoke at Nate's place. Now I know to drink a lot of water when I'm drinking a lot. So I ordered one, but it was just nasty water, I could barely gag it down, so I didn't drink near enough water for the amount of beer i drank!! The boy ended up passing out at the bar, but i was still rarin to go so he goes home and I get a ride home later with some other friends (Nick* himself and his girlfriend Ali)
Friday:
Flying to Vegas!! My flight was at 7:15 and the boy had to pick his daughter up for school at 6:30 so I get to airport at 6:00. Now I stayed out drinking and karaoking until 2:00 then got up at 5:30 to go to the airport, AND the water at the bar was gross, so I didn't feel so great shuffling through security at 6:30 in the morning. But I get on the plane and the flight attendant is just hilarious constantly cracking jokes through the safety briefing and the whole flight really. But there were these 3 girls sitting across the aisle a couple rows back just chattering and babbling up a storm. it was one of their 22nd birthdays and they were going to Vegas and were terribly excited about it. Now I can't blame them for their excitement, but their incessant chattering and my throbbing hangover just didn't mix very well. But, thankfully it's a short flight. I land in Vegas, get my bags, and catch a shuttle to the hotel. This whole process seems to take forever and I just can't wait to check into the hotel and get some sleep.
I was not prepared for the hugeness that is Las Vegas, Nevada! I finally get to the hotel around 9:00 am and these guys meet me at the shuttle and offer to hold my bag until check in at 2?? Now I knew check in was in the afternoon, but I was really counting on getting to the room early and crashing! I ask the man "I seriously can't check in until 2?? Can I sleep in the lobby??" Which of course, I cannot. So I kind of freak out for a moment because I feel like all hell and there's no way I can stay awake until 2. But he tells me I can go inside as ask, which I did and got into my room no problem without so much as an early check in fee.
So I sleep off my hangover and wake up with just enough time to soak in the hot tub a bit before going to the airport to meet my friend Vanessa. We come back to the hotel and look for a place to eat. I tell her there's a Star Trek experience and she's just as excited about it as I was!! So we go eat at Quark's bar and restaurant and I spend way too much money at the gift shop. Then we go back to the hotel and soak in the tub until her friend Carol got there. Shortly after that we all went to sleep.
Saturday:
We wake up and go get breakfast at a buffet in NY NY which has a roller coaster in it. So we eat and a have a couple drinks, gamble a little bit adn head up to the coaster. We decided to get the all day scream pass because it was the cost of 2 rides, plus you got to cut in front of all the people who have to pay! So I'm buying my wristband and my card gets declined! I know for a fact that I'm not anywhere close to my limit. She says it says "call for voice authorization" so I'm thinking it's just some fraud alert thing since I was in a new town using my card a lot. So I give her my debit card and call the number on the back of credit card and sat on hold for 15 minutes before I gave up and rode the coaster. I got a hold of customer service hours later and they told me there was never a hold on my account and they had no idea why it was declined. I used it later to buy a monorail ticket and it went through no problem. ~Weird~
so we rode the coaster a couple times then went back to the casino and met my friend from the RCPM board at the bar. We tell him we're thinking about going to the Star Trek Experience and he says he wants to go too, but can't until tomorrow so we decide to wait.Then we decided to go to the Stratosphere (think space needle) because my friend was dared to ride one of the rides. We took the monorail to the last stop a couple blocks from the Stratosphere. And we're looking at this thing from down the street and they're freaking out. Every now and again we see one of the rides in action. They decide they're hungry. I didn't wanna eat and then go on the rides, so we decided we'd go back tomorrow. We caught a great meal at the Sahara and gambled a little. Then we went back to the Star Trek bar and had a couple drink and again I spent way too much money at the gift shop. Gambled a little (and I do mean a little, like 5 or 10 bucks, I'm a cheapskate
). Grabbed a Reuben at the jewish deli that was recommended to me. It was great except I asked for yellow mustard and got brown. BLEEECH!!! Then we had tickets to Blue Man Group which was spectacular!!! They TP'd the audience We were in the last row (cheapskate) and suddenly all this paper starts falling on our heads and people start passing it forward and it kept coming for a long time and we're throwing it forward and this blanket of TP crowd surfs all the way down to the stage and they started dancing with it. It was awesome! We went back to the hotel and they decided to go to this club, but I was exhausted so I stayed behind and soaked in the tub some more.
Ok, I've been trying to do this for days now. It' just going to have to be a 2 parter!!
Assuming you care to hear more.
Comments
That seems like a really fun trip.
I am totally jealous!
Gosh that town. I feel like I could spend a year and not do everything I wanted to (especially since my credit cards would be maxed out in 2 weeks!! It's EXPENSIVE there)