Las Vegas, NV. The city of sin. Trip number 2 of the year was quite a roller coaster ride. I'm not even joking. Let's get straight to the point. I went to Vegas to celebrate my best friend's "Golden birthday." Apparently that's a thing. It's the birthday where you turn the same age as the date you were born. Since I was born March 26, my golden birthday will be when I turn 26...in 3 years. Night One: My flight arrived later than everyone else's. I was up at 5 a.m (Texas time) stayed behind to work and didn't get in until around 9:30 p.m. (Vegas time). I was exhausted as hell! Trust me when I say the last thing I wanted to do was put make up on and hit the bars. Somehow, I managed to do it. I was so dang tired. I was literally falling asleep at the bar. I didn't think it was possible, but I made it possible apparently. Oh and in case you were wondering I wasn't drinking. I abstained from alcohol the entire trip. GO ME! That night I did my first round of gambling (I won...NOTHING.) and we went to two bars. Well a bar (O'sheas Irish Pub...which was my kind of place.) and a night club (Carnaval). It was an exhausting night but I'm glad I was there for my best friend's 25th. *see below* Day One: We returned to our hotel around 3 a.m. which is super late for this old lady. I was so exhausted after being up for over 24 hours. I don't know how I managed. The next day was rough. No I wasn't hungover, I abstained from alcohol, remember? So I have this little thing called S.A.D. (Social Anxiety Disorder) and depression and sometimes it decides it wants to ruin my life. That day was one of those days. I know. It sucks. Anyway I didn't end up leaving the hotel until after everyone had already left. One of my good friend's John stayed behind with me and we had a little heart to heart. I have some pretty great friends. On the real though, if John was a straight man I probably would have found my soul mate. I love you, JJ Wyatt! Anyway, after I got through my depression and anxiety we made our way to explore parts of Vegas including the Luxor Hotel and Casino. The Luxor was such a beautiful hotel. It's completely Egyptian themed and shaped in a pyramid! So beautiful. Then we made our way to Caesar's Palace somehow. I'm pretty sure we uber'd there because that's a hella long distance...anyway I was super excited to find Caesar. Can't you tell? I was mostly quoting Mean Girls while we were there and the occasional Hangover quote. Not to mention we saw a guy dressed like Alan in the hotel. Ha! After that we had some din dins at the Cheesecake Factory and managed to get a little shopping done. I couldn't stay away from Sephora and bought two Kat Von D lipsticks and a nice dress from H&M (which you'll see in a later photo). We then walked ALL the way back to World of Coke. I love coke products but I did a similar tour in Georgia so I wasn't really that impressed all though I did enjoy the coke floats. It was an interesting touch. Night Two: We had dinner at our hotel (Excalibur) at one of their Italian restaurants, Buca di Beppo. It's ultimately a restaurant that serves everything family style so portions are HUGE, but oh so good. After dinner we returned to our rooms to get dressed for the rest of the evening. *see above for the dress I purchased at H&M for only $17!* Right after that was the best part of our trip. THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER. How could I go to Vegas without seeing an Australian male strip show? I couldn't that's how! So I'm just gonna tell you one thing...OH MY GOSH. I've never attended anything like this and I enjoyed every second of it. No shame. Unfortunately no pictures or videos were allowed during the show due to the nature of it, but I managed to get one anyway...during the 5 minutes they let us. This guy was my favorite! Ugh. That beard. That body. Okay that's enough drooling for me. The only unfortunate side to this was...going to a male strip show with three men isn't good for the two females in attendance. The guys didn't want to approach us thinking that the males with us were our boyfriends...little did they know it was quite the opposite. Later that night we attended one of the hottest night clubs in Vegas...Hakkasan. We managed to be put on a guest list and found our way in there. I didn't stay for too long. I actually think I walked in and walked right out. I was just so tired. My medication makes me sleepy. I know, I'm an old lady. On the bright side John and I looked FIERCE, but mostly me because PURPLE LIPSTICK. Day Two: So I woke up extremely refreshed because I didn't stay out past midnight but everyone else was struggling. My friend, June, and I managed to wake up at a decent hour and head over to M&M World. SO MUCH CANDY. Eventually everyone managed to get out of bed and we hit up a buffet at the Mirage and then made our way to Fremont. I fell in love with that part of the city. A few of my friends managed to go ziplining while we were there but I was in a dress so I wasn't able to go, but what I did do was win $18 while gambling!!! That was exciting. I was only able to stay at Fremont for a few hours because I needed to head back to the hotel and change for the Criss Angel show. Night Three: I've been a Criss Angel "loyal" for as long as I can remember. No joke my childhood bedroom still has a poster of him levitating on my wall. Judge me! I told myself that if I went to Vegas during his 10 year residency at the Luxor I would go see his show so I did. My friend June is pretty awesome. She ended up getting us tickets that were over 50% off original price through her job so we paid $50 for tickets worth around $110. Granted we didn't have the best seats in the house but as long as we were there we were happy. Well we get to the Luxor and go to be seated and the usher tells us to just sit down in row DD when we had tickets for row HH. We questioned it and she just said it's okay there's only 2 people in your party, so we didn't complain. Later on she asks us if we mind moving again...guys, we were upgraded to 6TH ROW. I about lost my mind. That show was so funny, entertaining and damn magical. I definitely want to see it again. That was where my trip ended. My friends went on to see Absinthe without me, and I stayed at the hotel and binge watched Fuller House. Traveling can teach you a lot about yourself and other people. I learned I have some of the best friends ever. I had my patience tested a whole lot while on this adventure and I also learned that not every thing needs a remark of sort. You don't need alcohol to have fun and don't let your illnesses bring you down. I know I didn't have pictures of everything I did while in Vegas, but I'm learning to live in the moment and treasure memories. It's so much better than focusing on taking the perfect picture.
That's it for my February adventure. We'll see where March (my birthday month) takes me. Until then...peace!
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