Viva

Went to Las Vegas last weekend with Muffin, Sweeting (Sweety, Sweetini), Heatherb (Feather), and Maus (Flaus). It is now Thursday and I'm still EXAUSTED!

Sweeting, Erin, and Muffin hadn't ever been to la vega before! We stayed at the Mirage so the group convened late Friday night and stayed out until daybreak walking around our hotel, Ceasars, and the Bellagio. Quote of the first night from Heather "If I do a faceplant in the casinos, cut a sister OFF!" For the record, she did two faceplants and there was no cut her offing happening.

Saturday I bounced right up and was ready to go. I took a walk down the strip while the rest of Team Vega was sleeping. Once everyone was up, we went to the pool... (THE POOL!! in Februrary!!)... and did more people watching and slot machining. That night for dinner we went to Koi in Planet Hollywood-- it was tres chic minus the weird annoying bachelor party hitting on the girls at the table behind us. One of the guys was just SUCH a d-bag to the point that it almost spoiled dinner. We spent the rest of the night waltzing around Paris (where HeatherB ALWAYS wins... she won 100 bucks at Roulette and another 150 or so on SLOTS of all things), New York New York (where we went to an awesome dueling piano bar), and Luxor. Sweeting went to the dark side and I wasn't feeling well so we went home while Muffin, Erin, and HeatherB stayed out and made the obligatory sunrise FatBurger run.

Sunday... more of the same but took longer to get out of bed :). We went to "Carnegie Deli" in our hotel for lunch. All of us ordered normal-people sandwiches except Muffin who ended up with seriously the biggest sandwich ever. It was like a 2X4 of corned beef and turkey. The highlight of lunch was this guy who pointed out the sandwich to his wife, and the woman looked at it and said, "That's the grossest thing I've ever seen." Muffin turned bright red and didn't really eat it. He brought half back to the room and let it sit there all afternoon until we demanded it be removed from the room.


Sunday night Erin, HeatherB, and I went to LOVE Cirque du Soleil. It was SO great. It was just so great! I had been really wanting to see it and we think our nosebleeds were actually the best seats in the house since we got to see the big picture of everything. The music made the show so fun to watch. I got strangely emotional at the end of the performance... it was just so beautiful haha. The colors and the people and the music... sigh. It was really really neat.

Monday Sweeting and I made it to the airport and launched the long trek home. Got back really late on Monday night and was back at work on Tuesday morning. The last time I was in Vegas was in 2006 and frankly I think a Vegas run every two years is PLENTY. You just completely lose track and stop carrying about the money that is being spent. It's like it becomes Monopoly money.

Every penny becomes worth it though when I think about the billions of laughs (we had a quad, you know... where there are two bunk beds and four people - Sweeting and his Appletinis and the Wan - It's not THAT kind of an emergency - the disfunctional ironing board in the room - do you think he's gay? - they were asian! - Muffin being "not hungry" and eating Sweeting's leftover BLT 6 hours later - the gross penne at the buffet - Sweeting's thousands of flushes in the middle of the night). You know, I LIKE Vegas. It's just a lot of fun. The lights are beautiful, the energy and people around you keep you pumped up, you never run out of things to do or people to watch. Really though I could have a laugh-out-loud weekend with these people anywhere in the world.