The next installment….

Ok.  So Friday night while we were out and about we were approached by a promoter for Rok Vegas.  He wanted to put us on the VIP list.  We had decided Saturday would be our ‘big night out’, dressed to the nines, etc. 

(Keep in mind we had already been drinking the. entire. day.)

We get into the club and I have immediate flash backs of NYE.  Not a single place to sit, we’re gonna have to stand the entire time, totally packed, difficult to get to the bar.  I about bitch slapped a group of girls that felt the one and ONLY bar in the place was where they should stand and chat it up.  Get your drinks and MOVE OUT OF THE WAY.  Fuck…you know?!  The 3 of us start noticing the VIP tables through out the club.  We had reservations for Spago the following night…we start thinking, who cares about food??! We’d MUCH rather have a kick ass time at the club.  So we made an executive decision to trade Spago for VIP service.  We talk with the manager and he immediately hooked us up. 

BEST. DECISION. EVER!!!!

(again remember, there was this steam/mist stuff the entire night, so some of the pictures seem a bit grainy/odd)

Next thing we know, we are swooped off to our very own private VIP area (Squee!!!), with booth, table, dancing area…..AND personal bouncer and cocktail waitress.  We were given center stage spots practically in the middle of the dance floor.

Here we are sitting in our swanky spot, super happy that we have a place to occasionally sit down our own special place. *GRINS*
(psst…notice the goof behind us?  *snort*)

Sis decided to show John (the manager at Rok Vegas) her uh, appreciation for totally hooking us up.  Notice Lam, our bouncer, ‘over seeing’ the situation.  *LOL* 
What is missing is the pic I took that didn’t came out where she was pulling John by his tie!  ROFL!  Too, TOO funny…..

 
***Oh side note.  John approached me at one point and told me a bit of a dilema he was in…. Normally men reserve these areas and he will pull aside hot females to invite inside their reserved section for them.  He wasn’t really sure what to do for us GIRLS.  *snicker*  Hello….you see hot ladies???  Send ‘em our way!  Bwahaha…..  Actually it worked out quite well.  We made some cool friends that night and had no problem finding fun people to party with.

We *heart* Lam….
He was awesome to us.  Not only did he keep people out of our section, but he let them in when we convinced him it was ok asked him to.  He took a TON of our pictures and kept us safe.  He was freakin’ *AWESOME*! 

And…..our fabulously smokin’ hot waitress.  She made our shots and margaritas directly at our table and took trips to the bar for us for any other needs (BEER, lol) so that we never had to leave our little swanky area unless we wanted to.  She rocked!
(BUT for the life of ALL of us, no one can remember her name?!!? W…T…F?!?!  It’s been seriously bugging me for a fucking week now…GRRRR!)

Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm

Super stars….hehe……..

Showing off our fabulous shoes….Betsey Johnson rocks.

Shots anyone? (smokin hot girl anyone?)

Our cool little table

Ahhh…..The PATRON…  Me and Patron have a love affair going on. Mmmmm…..

Cheers!

Fun friends…..

I know you want me, want me
You know I want cha, want cha,
One two three four

*giggle*

I freakin’ LOVE this shot of my sis and I.

Ok, her feet hurt. Roxy ditches the shoes.

See?  Barefoot.

Again, thank goodness for Lam, he took so many of our fabulous pictures.  Memories were captured bc he was there for us.
Strike a pose!

Totally adorable Marine boys.  With Mardi Gras beads.  It was the beads people.  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. ~wink~

Legs….and she knows how to use them…..

Girlies…..

The theme of that night.

What happens at 5am in Vegas?  Clubs close down.  *ahem*  Yeah…we totally closed the club down.  See what Vegas and Patron does to us?!  Hehe….  So what do we do?  We hit another club that hasn’t closed down yet!  Duh!

Hmm…Marine boys were invited to come along. 


[insert many pictures you will later find on the TFT site]

Well, so….  We tuck sis in at 6am (remember those super big margaritas with six shots of Patron that we got on Saturday….and she drank hers completely. on. her. own?! Um..yeah).  Roxy hits it at 7am.  And…Vixen makes it inside the room at *ahem* 9am. 

*wicked grin*

I was wired, jonsing something fierce for water (that for whatever reason we were stupid enough to run ran out of…..GAH!!!!!  I seriously would have paid $15 for a bottle of water at that point) and became Chatty Cathy (as my sister called me).  Finally, FINALLY fell asleep, aaaaand PC called. 
“Oh hi honey…yeah….what am I doing?  Uh, just going to bed.  Um, yes, I know…it’s….9 something. Uh-huh”
DOH!

Vegas you know…..  *snicker*

Sunday we slept. I think I made it downstairs for Starbucks at um, 1pm?  Yeah. It was like that.  My poor sister was THE most hung over that day.  I think Roxy and I were mainly just *TIRED*.  Or maybe my hang over just didn’t hit me until about 11pm Sunday.  We had fabulous plans like….going to a strip club.  We even heavily researched which one we’d hit.  The fabulous mall down the strip (you know we are shopping whores!).  What stories we would tell!  But no, no…after the way we all felt Sunday, it was a wash.  We went nowhere that day.  Ordered room service for sandwiches at some point in the day….with lots and lots of water.

The roller coaster we never made it too.  Damn!

NY NY lights…

Finally about 5? 6?  We decided we would join the land of the living and go have dinner at the posh Italian restaurant located downstairs inside the NY NY.  It was….disappointing.  *groan*  Honestly, the Minestrone soup (only vegan option on the menu) was fine.  But I know both Roxy and my sister weren’t super impressed with their meals.  Although STILL what we ordered that night, with drinks, was less than what those fucking appetizers came to at the Rain Forest Cafe.  *shaking head*

By Sunday night our feet were toast.  Two full nights (one of those including pulling an all nighter no less) of fabulous shoes left our feet wrecked.  Hung over and the thought of stuffing our feet in more fabuous shoes made us all literally *CRINGE*.  No….  We’re cool.  We decided to say fuck it go much more casual.

My feet are still recovering from spending all night Saturday dancing in my Bj’s.  *ouch*  Sacrifices, sacrifices though, we would all totally do it again in a heartbeat. 

We hit Coyote Ugly our last night.  They/we had an abundance of Jello Shots.
(and adorable Marine boy toy from the previous night…:::grins:::….hmmm…….)

The Coyotes were in rare form that night.  Bwtn calling out the London guy in his much-too-tight skinny jeans to the other dude in his argyl sweater vest that one of them literally made him take off….hahaha!!!!

Then there was this dude.  A total rocker dude that one of them insisted on putting ponytails on.  Bwahahaha!!!!

Ok, there was this chick who was dressed insanely Pin-Up girl hot.  Hot Hot Hot.

Coyotes….  The one in black, and then the other in peach were fucking *AWESOME*.  They put the others to shame they were *THAT* good. (again…how can I ever go to our Denver one and have a good time bc ours pale in such comparison to these girls?!?!)

Probably ideally, we would have had one more night.  To whoop it up a bit more.  As Sunday night wore on, I realized I was increasingly more hung over.  Roxy and Sis were feeling rough and really, you can’t BE at CU with out being called out to have fun. 

I did have a slight confrontation with a dude standing behind me.  And then another at the bar.  Apparently it was “I’m a stiff asshole” night…  *grumble grumble*  I have a long standing reputation for not taking shit at bars.  I’m so totally NOT a confrontational gal but fuck with me in a bar…um yeah, not gonna be down with that.

Not a one of us would change anything about our trip.  Yeah…we only made it two blocks from our hotel the entire time we were there.  Yeah…the food fucking sucked ass.  But we thoroughly enjoyed every. single. night we were there.  Pulling the all nighter Saturday was probably the most fun and memorable night I’ve had in years…… 

And the best of all was I stepped outside of my norm, no holding back.  No worries.  No cares.  (Permission for naughtiness does that to a gal ~grins~) We all had the most awesome experiences we could imagine.

Sadly, the best meal I had while there was the lettuce, onion and swiss cheese sandwich on Rye (you really can hardly call that a vegetarian sandwich, lol) that we had the very last day were were there.  We grabbed sandwiches from the NY deli inside our hotel.  The guy making the sandwiches had THE biggest crush on Roxy.  (hehe…)

Would we do it again?  In a fucking HEARTBEAT. 

Do I have stories to share involving adorable Marine boys?  ABSOLUTELY.  The question is…when?  ~wink~

~ xo

Vixen

So I’ve decided the best way to do this is in two parts. Saturday night was insane, as in we had VIP status at Rok Vegas and closed the club down at 5am. I have a hellova lot of pics from that night. And while we had fun ALL the nights we were there, that one def MADE the trip. But that is for part two ~GRINS~

Friday-
We arrive.  And what do we do?  Start taking pics in the airport!  I’m ok being ‘those kind of tourists’  *snicker*.  I had a cute pic of Roxy…I thought, but damned if I can figure out where it went (weird…).  Between us three girls we had six LARGE bags, *not* including carry on’s, lol.  Hey, fabulous SHOES take up a lot of room people! 
(wishing I had pics of all our bags…dang)

We get to our hotel to check in.  This is where we were expecting to be completely overwhelmed by the lights and sounds.  I guess we were expecting it to be like you see on TV, surprisingly enough, not so much!

After checking in, unpacking, etc we head out to buy beer, water and snacks.  Long time pro-drinkers like ourselves know that these things will come in handy.  And while the beer was something like $18 a TWELVE pack (choke!) it was still cheaper and more convenient to have in our room (a la Red Neck style in a cooler, hehe) than ordering some up from room service or making trips up and down to one of the bars.  Beer is good. ~wink~

The hotel had two infamous bars/clubs inside- Coyote Ugly and Rok Vegas.  Which is why we chose this hotel (duh, HELLO!). Hehe…  Hence the sign. BTW, I picked up something perfect for HNT…things to look forward to  ~grins~

You won’t hear me raving about the food on this trip, nothing to write home about.  That’s fo-sho’.  Certainly NOT that we came for the food because we’re lushes like that, lol.  I’m sure we could have searched harder for better food but of the 3 restaurants we ate at while we were there, they all had sucky food.  Dinner our first night included over-priced sandwiches at a place we had only chosen bc they had advertised happy hour on Coors.  Only to find out after we ordered that Happy Hour was only AT the bar.  Damnit.  So we ate, then moved to the bar to take advantage of the earlier mentioned Happy Hour.  My poor sister did her best to stay out of a convo with an incredibly drunk, single guy *dying* to share his life story (at least four times….) with her.

We had decided early on that we wanted to start our first night in Vegas at Coyote Ugly.  We gussied up and headed over.  We quickly discovered one of the other perks of dragging PC along with us everywhere.  Not only does he have pockets, but he takes all the pictures.  So…sadly enough, not so many pics at CU bc we spent a good portion of the night up on the bar.  We had a kick ass time there.  I’m not sure I’ll be able to have as much fun at ours anymore bc the Coyotes in Vegas fucking ROCK.  They were sexy as hell AND very interactive.  There is no ‘not having fun’ there.  They put our Coyotes to shame, making ours look like stuck up betches honestly.  But whatev…

Seriously, my sis has THE. BEST. facial expressions. Haha! Gotta love her!

Cute chick hands us Tuaca pins!  Hmm….  Where to put it?  ~grins~  (Btw, mine is STILL blinking, lolol!)  Not that we drink Tuaca…  *shudder* (I mean, definitely not after last NYE, hahaha…..*ahem*) We did do our fair share of Patron shots though.  Us girls loooooooooooooove us some Patron, CHA-CHING.  But the Coyotes made up for it by giving us free shots the rest of the night.

Ok.  The *only* draw back of the night was that CU doesn’t have restrooms located inside.  In fact.  They don’t even have restrooms on that same FLOOR (CU is on the 2nd floor up a long flight of stairs/escalator).  Restrooms are located on the first level and around a bend.  Annoying, yes.  BUT it gets better/worse.  About 11ish for whatever ungodly reason, the escalators quit working. Mmm….poor planning if you ask me.  Who lets their escalators quit working on a Friday night?!?!  So.  Here we are WALKING down the escalator….bc it’s a known fact that girls people who drink need to visit there frequently. 
(Psstt…notice fabulous shoes!?  Hehe….)

Slept in.  Only woke up with slight hangovers which a sufficient amount of Advil and Starbucks cured.  Oh yes!  There was a Starbucks on the first floor pretty much RIGHT OUTSIDE our elevator.  BOOYA BABY.  A vacation just isn’t a vacation with out Starbucks in the mornings.  Seriously. 

We decide to start our day off with Bloody Mary’s at the Rainforest Cafe.  The NY NY has a nifty little cross over bridge that connects to the MGM.  So off we go.

This by far was our most expensive meal.  Where the 3 of us shared an appetizer and had two drinks a piece, adding up to….$105.  *ahem*  The theme of this trip was mucho mula and how to get the most ‘bang for our buck’.  Interesting Bloody Mary’s too.  They came with kettle chips on top ?????  The kettle chips were better than our appetizer and our drinks.  Doh.

Oh well.  It was the experience (that’s what I keep telling myself anyways, lol).  We did get some great pics for our kiddos.  They also had a fabulous gift shop in which my sister and I found cool, fun gifts for them.

Leave it to my sister to molest the Ape. 

Honestly, the 3 of us wanted to be a lot more inappropriate with the big Ape (don’t judge me! lol) but there were so many children around.  Which shocked the hell out of us.  Hey, I consider myself to be super open minded and a very non chalant parent (hell, one my kiddos favorite restaurants is Hooters *snort*), but it would never even occur to me to bring my kids to Vegas.  Why??????  Yes, I know there are shops (we toured the four story M&M building next door) and shows and entertainment.  But it seems like a very adult charged environment and I wouldn’t want them there.  Where would the fun in that be?!  *LOL*

We had a freakin awesome time walking the entire MGM.  If we were to go back I’d want to stay there.  VERY cool.

She wants her MTV *giggle*

We literally made it two blocks.  That is as far as we ever got the entire time we were there.  Doh.  It was *gorgeous* out, super nice weather, we totally lucked out.

This is awful!  WTF?!  It’s a Bubble Butt Blower….  *shaking head*
And no, I did NOT buy one.

So two blocks from our hotel was this Mexican Cantina.  They had 4 Coronas for like $2!  Hey, we’re sold!  SWEET!  Who needs to walk further when you’ve found what you came for!  Hehe….  We spent the entire afternoon there.  Eight or so Coronas later….

We had been eyeing these ginormous margaritas all afternoon that people came in to buy.  When it was time to head back to get ready for dinner (we ended up back at the same Cantina and while their drink specials rocked, their food sucked…:::sigh:::….) we decided we had to try a couple one. Just ONE of those had six shots of Patron in it.  YUM-MY!!!
(hehe…i purposely made her look like the lush here…..)

Sis was intrigued by these guys the entire afternoon.  HAD to have her pic with them. *LOL*
Michael was cool, except for the very disturbing gold thong on the outside of her his pleather pants.  Um…????

Roxy and I had our dreams come true.  We met EDWARD!!!!!  *swoon* 
Seriously he was a fucking kick ass imposter!

Yeah so…right outside our elevator (on the way to Starbucks)  was this giant freezer/fridge thingy of raw meat.  It was utterly disgusting. Please, for the love of god, don’t put a giant see-thru container for RAW MEAT outside a hung-over vegetarian’s place of residence.  Eww ewwww EWWWWW. 
*barf*

Part 2 will be our Saturday night……

To be continued…..

~ xo

Vixen

Vegas was fun my friends…..

Would you believe it if I told you the three of us girls drank this entire bottle? Uh yeah (doh).

~CLICK~

(and YES, I promise I am working on a recap…it’s going slowly. I promise to show lots of evidence pics!)

HappyHNT!!!

~ xo

Vixen

So TFT made it up last night sometime near midnight.  I’m home.  And recovering.  Kind of  *LOL*  We had an absolutely FABULOUS time in a very appropriately named town…..Sin City.  ~wink~

I’m going to get my household and laundry under control.  Sort through my hundreds of pictures.  And get my head out of a beer and Tequila induced fog.  I think I’m *still* recuperating from the one night we closed down one of the clubs at 5am and then didn’t make it to bed until after 9 am.  I haven’t stayed up all night since I’m sure my early 20 raving days.  (doh!)

Once I’ve done that I’ll post a recap.  Fortunately for you guys, not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas (hehe….)  *MUAH!!!*

(it’s amazing we got as good of pictures as we did bc the club had this steam/fog stuff through out it all night, lol)

~ xo

Vixen

Friday Favorites-

So.  I’ve run into a bit of a snag regarding my Friday Favorites.  It seems more and more blogs have disabled right clicking.  Which I get it.  Before I began copyrighting my stuff, I did the same thing.  …..Until I realized what a huge PITA it was for the readers ;)  Anyway, so I’m only including links this week bc I didn’t have the time to hunt down and ask everyone to send me their pics.

I’ve been doing FF since April of 2007.  And I’ve always asked permission before using pics and always *used* pics to do my FF.  I’m wondering if I need to make a change though considering things…  What do you guys think?

BTW, there were a TON of AWESOME ones this week!

Barefoot Dreamer

Emmy- Right Turn Without Signaling

Sexy Sadie

Bella

Frenchies

Phynix Bell

Redundant Bombshell

Click on the links and go visit the girls!

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After talking about taking this trip for over three years, trying to figure out a way to make it work out, we are finally on our way!  I remember when I thought the idea of us going away on a girls trip seemed so surreal.  I  know I keep talking about it but I’m that excited.  (hehe) I’ll be back home late Monday.  Hopefully I’ll have it in me to throw a small teaser up at least. 

Miss me! *winkgrins* And have yourselves a FANTABULOUS weekend!!!

~ xo

Vixen