Vegas Recap: Part Three

Ok, this is the end of the Vegas pictures bombardment. Next up will be Little Five. For that I think I'll just throw up the highlights in pictures. It's been quite the week. Let's just say I'm ready to get back into the not-so-wild normal life of mine for the last two weeks of the semester!!! My liver needs a break!!!

Saturday in Vegas was spent lying around the pool recovering from the effects of PURE, and I actually got a little bit of color... so THAT's always nice!!! That night we went to dinner at this amazing Italian restaurant called Ferraro's... amazing amazing amazing. Then it was off to the RIO for the Voodoo lounge, with an amazing view of the strip.



Topped that off with a little gambling (MY FIRST SLOT MACHINE!), and an Irish bar with a real live leprechaun! Of course, I'm really smart that I saw this guy, and went running in to tell everyone that I had just seen 'AN IRISH MIDGET!' (Politically incorrect I know) Finally Steven goes, "Alex, I think most people just call those leprechauns." He and Shelley actually paid to have their picture taken with him... and what an angry little leprechaun he was!!! You'd think after paying him for a picture he could at least keep his middle finger to himself!

Then we TRIED to go see the last running of the Bellagio fountains.... and of course just barely missed it. Oh well, maybe next time. So we ended up at Paris, went to a dualing piano bar, where some guy made me dance with him because his girlfriend's dress kept falling down (Seriously, apparently her boobs fell out like three times before we got there) and so she decided she should probably take a break from dancing.


Saturday we didn't fly out until 3, so we wandered down to the Wynn for the Ferrari museum (HEAVEEENNNNN), and I ACTUALLY GOT TO SIT IN ONE! Ended up with this little gem as a souvenir. Real car, fake background, obviously. One of my dad's friends asked if this picture was real, to which he responded "Yeah right, as if any cop could catch up to a Hoover in a Ferrari." True!!

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!!!

Viva Las Vegas

Well ladies (I don't think any gentlemen read this blog), I'M OFF TO CHICAGO! And tomorrow morning, to VEGAS! I hope you all have a wonderful wonderful weekend... I look forward to catching up on all of your blogs when I get back monday!

(Tried to embed the Tiger Song from the Hangover, but that didn't work out so well. Did I ever mention my little brother learned how to play that on the piano? I love that kid.)