hello.
i remember like 3 years ago tm had planned on all going to vegas sometime. i don't know why, but i thought it would be too hard to plan all of us going, and that it wouldn't happen, but it finally happened this week. 4.5 sets of tm siblings. (the .5 was me because b couldn't go, booo) it was an awesome time, tied for best vacation with vegas from 5 months ago. i should just make all my vacations in vegas. i'm gonna step up and try to remember as much as i can and record it for thai mafia posterity.
i hate the flight from chicago to vegas. i'm too excited to sleep and it's such a long wait. i bought some pez and juice boxes to tide me over though. we got into vegas at around midnight. checked our bags in at ti and hung out for a little. no hotel room the first night, just like the last time i went to vegas, because that's just how we roll....cheaply. fo'ty nations...ready to ROLL, SON! i think caddy ended up being the first person to win something on the trip from the slots. the first thing we planned on doing before anything else was go to a strip club (olympic gardens). i think i've gotten bored of stripclubs, so it wasn't like i had a boner thinking about getting titties in my face as soon as i got there, but i still was looking forward to seeing princess (aye) getting a lapdance, just because i had this hilarious picture in my head of her getting one. if you know her, you understand. anyways, i was kinda iffy on going to the male stripper section of the club, but it turns out it was the craziest, most hilarious shit i've ever seen in my life. we ended up buying all the girls dances and it just about turned into a huge orgy, since they all got them at once. (they don't ever show any cock thankfully) they start grinding their 10" fake bulges into the chicks faces, pretend they're eating them out, grab their boobs, ram them doggystyle. it was hilarious. then i went back down and got a below average lapdance. the chick was good looking, but it hurt. a tip for you ladies, grinding doesn't work if there's no insertion.
had a lot of time to kill before the 11am checkin, so we went to bellagio because i saw rachel ray eat a $12.95 awesome breakfast buffet there once on food network. turns out it's $30 on sundays. thanks bitch. so that plan was out.
we ended up gambling a little at bellagio. i don't really like the feeling there, it's a little too frilly. but i would've liked to play poker there. i did end up having my most memorable blackjack hand ever there (not that i've played a lot of blackjack). ended up with 77 against a 5. split. hit the first one, and i get a king. hit the second one, i get another 7. split again. hit the new first seven and get a 4. double, get like a 6 or something. hit the next 7 and get another seven. split yet again. hit the new first seven and get a 5. the other seven gets paint. so i have 5 bets going on this one hand. dealer ends up busting. i'm awesome. other than that, i got raped gambling on the trip.
decided to go back to ti and hang out and eat there for breakfast. they had an awesome breakfast buffet for only $13. by this point we were delirious. we were able to make it to checkin at 11 and sleep for a little. then lost more money and ate the buffet at bellagio. it was pretty good. then i got all dressed up to go to tangerine, just to find out it was closed. bastards. so chico, oiy, dow and i ended up having a good session of blackjack instead, with ron livingston. good times.
next day, split off with the guys to play poker. decided to go to the flamingo because there was a tourney there. registered in the tourney for $55 and played some mindless $1-2 limit while we waited. we found out too late the the tourney structure was horrible. 30 entrants, everyone starts with $1000, big blind starts at $50, and it doubles every 10 minutes. since the blinds were so big compared to your stack, i felt like i couldn't just sit around waiting for hands. fortunately i got pocket queens on my 4th and 5th hand. unfortunately i lost with them both times. i ended up busting out when some guy called my queens all in with pocket 2s on an A34 flop after he got his 5 on the turn. not good times. at least i wasn't the first one out. some other guy busted out on the first hand. oh, they were also showing the bears game on tv there. yes i did bet on them. funny how the only sports bet i won was on preseason football.
then we ended up going to nobu at hard rock for japanese food. it was unbelievable. chico, don and i ordered this $120 7-course meal thing that turned out to be like 12 courses. definitely worth it, i was losing that much money playing blackjack for an hour anyways, might as well sit at a table and eat food instead. highlight was probably the oyster wrapped in salmon. the dishes were small, but i ended up being full at the end. also saw the hottest chick of the trip there, although charlie still thinks the title goes to a dealer at ti. went back to ti and waited fruitlessly for buuuaaa's turn to karaoke at mist, then played some more jack with princess and dow with a bitchy dealer. felt bad for aye, she lost all her money in 5 minutes. nothing of note until later that night, waiting for the elevator to go up to bed, when i spotted my first hooker with some guy. i don't know why, but it was funny. enjoy your herpes. vegas, baby.
the next day, some of us hung out at the pool. it was pretty nice, although i'm guessing the pool is probably a little small compared to others. not really any hotties, mostly families were there it seemed like. but we did get to see a lame version of don. buuuaaa went to join him in the jacuzzi. later on we went to new york new york to eat some good deli, then visited mgm. that place is freakin huge. we got paid $25 to watch a half hour commercial, then i had some $40 gin and tonics at the blackjack tables there. that kinda sucked, but it is a nice place. i forgot to cash my $25 chip there, so next time i go to vegas, i'm gonna have to stop by there again.
after stopping back at ti, went to stardust to eat at tony roma's. i thought the food was alright, not great. after that stopped by the wynn for a little bit to check it out. it's pretty nice. the poker room also looks nice too, they got their waiting list for tables on plasmas so you can see how long you have to wait for the different tables (same as at mgm). went to tangerine and mist at ti and there weren't any people there, but it's still fun when tm is involved.
next day woke up and had an awesome blackjack session with chico. we were on fire. i don't remember even losing a hand. reminded me of that one sports guy column where he lost his ass the whole trip, then on the morning before leaving for the airport he makes a comeback, just enough to make you love vegas again. funny how that works. went to the rio for their buffet, with dow and don's parents treating us. thanks guys, it was pretty sweet. their tom yum was a lot better than any of the piss they try to serve out here in waukeesha. overall i liked it better than the bellagio buffet.
and that was pretty much the end of the trip. i really didn't want to leave and come back to reality. the first tm vacation was really good, i was glad i was able to hang out with everybody, especially the people who i normally don't hang out with too often. the only regret i have was not playing as much poker as i wanted to, but there's always next time. i know i originally told chras i probably wouldn't be able to make the potential oct/nov vegas trip because it was too soon, but damn...i'd strongly consider it now. as long as my mommy don't find out.
if you want pictures, you could probably check out some of the other tm blogs when they put them up.
edit: sorry, this is so hard to read, i just kinda threw it together. but at least you can kind of decipher what it is i did out there.
also, if anyone is wondering, my ankle was fine out there. apparently you don't feel pain in vegas either, along with the need to sleep or eat.
laters.
posted by mcpheeny 4:50 PM