Vegas Vacation
Posted By Kristabella on April 28, 2008
It seems so odd to write about a trip when it seems like I’ve been back for so long. But then all I have to do is look on the floor at my still-packed suitcase to remember that I indeed only got back yesterday and that yes, I am a lazy cow still. Whew. Vegas didn’t change that.
So in true Kristabella style (i.e. bullets) here is my Vegas trip in a nutshell. With pictures!
- So being the stupid whore that I am, I decided that going to bed around midnight the night before you leave for a SIX A-M flight is not as good as of an idea as it seems at 11 PM when you realize you still need to watch Lost before you go to bed.
- Because getting up at 3 AM after three hours of sleep is ugly. See what I mean?
- And also, taking photos pf yourself in the bathroom mirror before you’re supposed to get your happy ass on a plane, probably isn’t the best use of time.
- Did you know that the security line at O’Hare doesn’t open until 5 AM? That will freak you the fuck right out of your gourd when you see a line stretching the length of the entire terminal and your flight leaves in an hour.
- Dear TSA man checking IDs, yes that is me in that photo. Yes, I used to have blonde hair. And yes I’m not wearing glasses in that photo. And YES, I may have put on some weight since that photo was taken. But look, terrorists don’t go to Vegas at 6 in the morning. Only drunks do.
- I actually ended up sleeping on the plane a bit, only because lately I’m battling this extreme exhaustion that will limit my fun in Vegas. It wasn’t because my knee caps where shoved through my nostrils because I have the legs of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, only with better hair. Sometimes I hate my long legs and disproportional torso.
- Bacon decided that he was freaked out by flying and spent the whole flight cowering under the seat in front of me, hiding in my bag. I would have taken a photo, had it not been for the knees in the nostrils thing.
- Although, he might have been more freaked out by the foot tapping under the stall in the bathroom which forced him to go running and screaming from an O’Hare bathroom. Which is an odd site any time of day.
- Note to travelers, don’t watch Lost before you go to bed and fly across the country. At the first hint of turbulence, you might have flashes of the plan splitting in half. That may just be me, though.
- Once we landed, my two friends Amber and Sharm and I headed over to the hotel. And then we hit the buffet. Because by this time I had been up for about eleventeen hours. A fact I made known to anyone who would listen.
- Bacon was then introduced to his new friends.
- We caught up over the tastiness at the buffet at The Excalibur and decided that our Pee Wee’s Playhouse-esque word of the weekend was DIRTY. And anytime it was mentioned, we had to take a drink.
- Dirty can be used oh so many ways.
- Over coffee and 4,000 calories worth of breakfast food, Bacon turned on the charm. Sharma was like a greased frying pan in his hands.
- After breakfast, we stopped off at Dick’s Last Resort for a slushy adult beverage to imbibe on our way back to our hotel, so we could check in and hit the pool.
- Which we did, except, did you know that the pool at Mandalay Bay is the place to be? And the line forms at eight o’clock in the morning? It’s not even that warm out!
- Bacon stared wistfully out at the pool below. Which he would never see.
- We got in some pool time, headed to dinner in the MGM Grand and danced until the wee hours of the night at Studio 54. Because we met a nice gentle-boy who gave us free passes. (Seriously he was 21 if he was a day and was wearing a suit jacket 17 times too big for him. I said it was because he recently had lap band surgery. My friends came up with a more logical call that he borrowed his dad’s jacket. Whatever, he used to be a fatty.)
- Saturday we got up, hit another buffet, stuffed our faces some more. A few of us headed down the strip to the shops and I just walked with them, enjoying wearing flip flops and that it was SUNNY and WARM. (Which I reminisced about this afternoon when my heat kicked on. It’s APRIL 28!)
- Then we had some pool time and headed out for the night.
- I left Bacon back at the hotel again, because I forgot, so he had to amuse himself in other ways.
- Bacon also was introduced to Connie and Ang. Note to fellow people who will greet Bacon: he doesn’t find this funny. AT. ALL.
- We had a great time, even if I went to bed the earliest on Saturday night. (It’s a long story, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got some sort of issue because I really shouldn’t be that tired EVER.)
- Bacon enjoyed getting out and seeing the inside of a hotel room and a buffet. Which really, isn’t that all most people see in Vegas anyway?
My cute new outfit!
Group Shot
