Vegas Recap: Part Two

So, now we're on to Friday night. I'm hoping that by breaking this up I can keep these recaps not TOO overwhelmingly large.

After we went back to the room to get ready/nap (In Steven's case... two naps), we met back up with Joe and Brian at The Hard Rock. Dinner was at NOBU... and let me tell you, absolutely delicious. A little more on that at Wonderland Kitchen. Here are outfit pictures for the night. Steve Madden Merriees got some play time in, but these shoes are NOT made for walking. My ankle is still scabbed from the skin they rubbed off.




After dinner we wandered around the Hard Rock for a bit, while Joe and Brian still refused to tell us what they had planned for the night. Whatever it was, it was at Caesar's, so we headed over there, where the most epic statue molestation photo shoot ever took place. Yes, my father almost got us asked to leave for CLIMBING ON CAESAR by a security guard who came running over... "SIR! SIR! YOU HAVE TO GET DOWN! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Oops! From here on out we basically took obscene pictures with any statue we could find. I'll have some more of those later once I get them from Shelley.






Then the Shadow Lounge, and let me tell you... strippers behind shades are way better than those just out in the open! It was actually pretty cool. Lots of pictures taken there too.



And then, FINALLY, the secret was revealed- VIP at PURE night club! We got to walk right in past a line of girls dressed like hookers waiting to get in (There's a difference between dressing up and looking like a stripper, ladies). Then we were taken to a booth on the roof of Caesar's, where we had our own little escort "T" who told us if anyone was pissing us off, to let him know and he'd take care of it. He also got all serious and said, "OK, here are the rules..." and as we get ready to brace ourselves for a lecture, out comes "It's fine if you want to dance on the couches, just please take your heels off first." I'm ALL for that. Shoes off? Couch dancing? DON'T MIND IF I DO.




Now, cue the endless (and frequent) redbull and vodka's. Ouch. Note the picture where I've got two in my hand at once? No wonder I had such a GREAT hangover the next day. We'll let the pictures take it from here. See ya soon for Part Three!

Hope you're enjoying these pictures... my liver worked really hard to make them happen. ;-)

Vegas Recap: Part One

Ok, so I FINALLY got the internet to work on my laptop and these Vegas pictures have been itching to get out to you ladies. Thanks for all the comments while I was gone!

I think I'm going to do this in three parts: Day One, Night One, and Day Two (Slash half of three... not many pictures from that). So first off: ARRIVAL IN VEGAS! Friday afternoon my dad got in and met up with Steven and Claire, and shortly after met up with his friends Joe and Brian. To preface this: here's a video they made (A Night In Providence) while they were stranded in Rhode Island. They went to Wal Mart, bought $800 worth of camera equipment and costumes, filmed this all, and then returned it all the next day. Yes, seriously.


These guys know how to party, and we spent the day at Carnaval Court at Harrah's. Pretty much the day time equivalent of Senior Frogs. Within 30 seconds of walking in the bartender was blowing a whistle and pouring shots down my throat for my 21st. One of the guys there (Below with all the bottles balanced on his head) actually won as the best flair bartender in the United States! Wild!



All sorts of interesting characters there that day.... The Ed Hardy guy, the WonderBoogie band, the Kung-Fu-Kicking-Deb-from-Napoleon-Dynamite-Girl. No idea what was going on... but apparently this Ed Hardy guy is the creator of the "Golden Dancers" or something? I have no idea. I guess whatever that him it gives him a pass to wear really silly clothes. Here's Steven with these wild folks, and me with the Rick James wannabe of WonderBoogie.

I was also VERY PLEASANTLY SURPRISED by my Dad's best friend's daughter Shelley showing up from Portland, Oregon, when everyone had told me she wasn't going to be able to come! Let me stress, I have never been truly surprised with anything that I can think of- so this was just wonderful! We always joke that Shelley is my "Mentor" (She went to IU too!), so I was so glad she could come.




So the day was filled with plenty of dancing, drinking, etc etc. Then we went wandering back to Bally's to get ready for the night, which will be the next post! (NOBU, Shadow Bar, Caesar molestation, VIP at PURE.... wild things are yet to come!) On the way, however, I ran into this too-skinny-creepy-tongued Gene Simmons wannabe, and obviously had to share that.



WHEW! That was a long one. Friday night will be up sometime tomorrow hopefully. So many pictures I want to share! The trip was so fun... and now it's Little Five week here at IU, so I'm sure that will bring plenty of posting too. Tomorrow night I think my friend Betsy and I are going out to "Wine Night" at Crazy Horse where some Bloomington based DJ's are playing. Friday we're having a cook out! Hooray. Love good weather, Little Five, and just college in general. Hope you all are having as good of a week as I have been!!!

Picture Post- Bloomington Bars meet 21 Year Old Alex.

Well, last night was just as good as I had expected it to be. I have some amazing friends that made the night absolutely wonderful. AND I DIDN'T LOSE OR BREAK ANYTHING! Great success, if you ask me. I was feeling it this morning, but I'm absolutely fine now aside from being pretty tired. Think I may try to sneak in a nap before dinner at SUSHI BAR! Kelly, being the wonderful roommate she is, made me cinnamon rolls this morning and added the "hair of the dog that bit you" remedy by making a round of lemon drops. Haha. So here is a recap of pictures. I thought that would be best.

(Birthday outfit! Ended up trading the glad's in favor of flats... probably wise on my part)

(Nick's at Midnight!)

(The whole gang at The Vid... Pineapple Upside Down shots!)

(Sink the Biz at Nick's)

(Dancing on the booth at Kilroy's to TRICKY!)

(My AMF- Adios, indeed.)

Made it out alive! Hooray. Now let's hope I can say the same for Vegas.

***Disclaimer: I'm fully aware most posts resulting from this week and next (Little 500. World's Greatest College WEEK. Period.) are going to make me look like a raging alcoholic. I promise I'm a fully functioning responsible citizen most of the year... and now a legal one too! ;-)

Birthday With the Family!

From the time this posts, I will have exactly 12 hours until I am 21, and hence a member of the legal drinking world. THANK GOD. I've been waiting for this since I was 4 years old and running to grab my dad a beer when he got home and looked like he'd had a hard day at work, or when I was 12 and drinking Shirley Temples, or 15 and drinking sparkling grape juice out of champagne flutes at Thanksgiving. Bare with me, this may be a long one. Feel free to skip through the pictures.

(Forever 21 Dress, Old Navy Cardigan, Steve Madden Taylas)

So first, here are me and the beautiful mother and father of mine who brought me into this world 21 years ago:

Over the weekend I went out to dinner with my family at Bonefish Grill.... YUM! That means delicious steak and even more delicious BANG BANG SHRIMP. One of my favorites, of all time. They also brought these cute little chocolate-covered strawberries with a candle in the whipped cream, which was nice since we had cake waiting at home!!!


That cake I speak of? Strawberry cake with Cream Cheese frosting from Donut Bank in Evansville/Newburgh, IN. SO GOOD. Almost TOO sweet, you can only eat a little bit!!! My mom even picked out that cute martini design for the top.


Then it was time to teach my 17 year old brother how to be my new bartender (See here), since this was typically my job when my dad was entertaining friends. Now that I'm legal, his turn to take the reins. Also time for presents!!!

My parents gave me the Kathy Griffin book (!!!!! LOVE HER!!!) and two Lolita martini glasses: '21' and 'Celebration'. I also got two really cute bracelets (The green one in this picture below). Well, plus the new phone: a Blackberry Bold which I am now IN LOVE WITH and desperately needed (but that was free through my dad's office, and he and my brother both got phones too, so it wasn't so much a present, specifically). The main present is the trip to Vegas this coming weekend, which is probably the best present I could EVER ask for.



THIS picture is from today when my roommate Kelly was going through my closets planning outfits for me for tomorrow night/the weekend in Vegas. I haven't seen her much lately thanks to school/traveling, and I MISS HER! But I'm excited for all these outfits. ;-) You'll have to stay tuned in to see which one makes it out tomorrow night!


So, as my Marketing Research professor says, so long for now. I'll try to bring myself to recap tonight with what I can only imagine will be a very hungover post tomorrow. (My bar guide for the night, Annissa, wants to end the night at a bar called The Upstairs that serves a drink called the 'AMF'.... Adios MotherF*&*%#... I'm sure that will do me in if the rest of the night doesn't.) And you can be damn sure that next week will bring a FABULOUS Vegas update with lots of good outfits.

(And again again thanks so much to everyone who's been visiting/commenting lately! You guys always are so sweet and I love hearing your stories about things too!!!!)