Vegas Baby! (4: The Best Part of the Trip!)

And now I will try to do justice to the most fun Baboo and I had on the trip!

We had just left our Alka Seltzer break and were starting to feel good. We had to walk through the MGM grand again to get to the tram over to Mandalay Bay. I wanted to pick up a stuffed lion for Jacob, but the store was closed. Awww!

On the way there, Baboo decided to stop at a Blackjack table where the minimum bet was only $10. That was pretty cool and the dealer was a nice lady. I’ve discovered that I really only like nice little lady dealers, preferable Asian. Something about them. ha ha.

Anyway! Baboo sat down and I stood behind him. I took my shoes off because they were sorta hurting and was just chilling watching Baboo play. It was pretty cool to watch and made me really want to try, but I wasn’t quite comfortable enough. I dug the little hand movements you do for hit (tap tap on the table) and stay (swish side to side in the air). I was like "yeah, that’s totally what cool people do! I want to be cool!"

So after a little while the drink lady comes by. She asks for everyones drinks and walks away. I wasn’t playing so I didn’t ask for one.

Baboo is winning and losing in equal spurts and it’s just overall fun to me.

The drink lady comes back and then says to me, "So are you sure you don’t want me to bring you a water? I can bring you a water…"

And I’m like "nooo…. I’m fine"

And then she drops the bomb, "Ok, well let me know. Water is good for the Braxton Hicks"

*blink*

UMMM HELLO BITCH… I’M NOT PREGNANT!!!

I must admit that I had bloated up nicely and was not looking as cute in my dress as I had before (or as I did in a very similar dress the night before)… but where does she get off assuming I’m pregnant… and pregnant ENOUGH TO HAVE BRAXTON HICKS CONTRACTIONS!

The crazy lunatic bitch!

I almost wanted to call her back and order some alcohol just so I could see the shock and horror on her face.

bah!

So that became the joke of the night, about how I was pregnant and killing the baby.

At least it made me laugh. I tried to suck it in more for the rest of the night though!

Anyway, after Baboo regained most of the money he had lost (I think he broke even or with a little bit more!) we cashed out and went on ahead to the Mandalay.

I’m gonna stop and do an aside about the fact that I think Vegas is the WORST place to bring kids. It became a big joke with us about the guys who stand outside with the strip club cards. These cards show FULL NUDITY… even VAGINAS!!!! I was appalled and disgusted seriously… because they were all over the ground and just horribly graphic and people are just walking along with their little kids like it was nothing. I will NEVER take my children there. It’s just not a place for little ones. I don’t care how many roller coasters and arcades it has, it’s just not a kids place. I kept seeing little boys and wondering just how much of an eyeful they were getting and what sort of impact it was having on them. I know you can’t shield them from EVERYTHING, but jeesh.

It was too much.

I just kept saying "Yay! Boobs all over the ground! Boobs and vaginas! hooray!"

UGH.

Anyway, we got on the tram for the Mandalay and there were these two chicks with a tiny baby and a little 3 or 4 year old. It was so funny because as soon as the tram started to move, the little 4 year old just bust out laughing, which in turn made the little baby (maybe 6 – 8 months old) laugh too. It was cute.

But I’m still not sure how you have fun in Vegas with kids that small.

Anyway, we got to Mandalay and made a beeline for the Eyecandy Lounge.

It’s this little bar section right in the middle of the casino and the music sounded fun as soon as we walked up. They have all of these leathery couches and a giant screen playing videos that go along with the music that the dj was spinning. We found a seat in the middle section and started to chill and I told Baboo he should probably go get us a drink.

I had been trying to find a mojito, but none of the bars had the stuff to make it. Well Baboo came back with one! And it was SO FREAKIN GOOD! I love mojitos!!!! I guess that means I like Bacardi. *snort*

We just started to chill and watch the people dancing and the videos for the music. It was just a super cool vibe and I was really relaxed and happy we went there! (I really must give a HUGE shout out to my fav …sarah for reccommending that place! It was awesome!!!)

Anyway, I knew I wanted to dance to at least ONE song… but Baboo isn’t really a dancer. He did agree to one song so when a good one came on (Mims "Like This"… which reminded me of hanging out with my Kim!!!), I made sure our drinks were drained and we got up to dance. It was so cute and fun to dance with Baboo. He is adorable. I guess he noticed some guy trying to dance up on me and made sure the line was not crossed. SO CUTE!

When the song was over we had to find a new seat, so we found this other couch area to the side and sat down. We got another drink from a drink girl who was walking around and soon another group of people came and sat in our area with us.

One of the girls asked me to take a picture of their group, but I let Baboo do it. I tend to cut off heads and do things off center and he’s got a very steady hand and can take pics way better than me. After that we just started talking a little cuz the DJ was playing some real old school stuff and so we laughed with this girl and her friends for a bit. Turns out she was a twin which was funny cuz we didn’t notice until her sister was sitting across from us and Baboo was like "oh those are sisters!" ha ha. funny. I sorta wish we could have kept partying with them, they seemed like a nice group!

Anyhow, we enjoyed our drinks and sorta bobbed to the music. I think I went to the bathroom twice (damn you bladder!!!) but it was SUCH a good chill time. That was really the vibe I wanted to have the night before, but I’m glad I got it eventually!

Behind us was this group of rowdy drunks who eventually got into a fight. Some guy with a mohawk was gawking at girls, which in turn pissed off his gf… some other loud chick in the group got in his face and told him he was wrong and then went to dance. while most of the group was gone, the guy started to get really loud to his gf and scream at her "JUST TALK TO ME!!! JUST TELL ME WHAT’S WRONG!!!"

You couldn’t help but notice…. and from my somewhat trained eye I knew he was very likely going to beat the crap out of that girl. Maybe not right there, but later for sure. I felt really bad because you could see the fear all over her face. but she kept her mouth shut, probably to minimize the drama. Well, eventually the rest of the group came back and the "fuck this and fuck you and fuck fuck fuck!" occurred and then guy stormed off and then came back around the back side of the wall… it was like a half wall seperating the bar from the casino and started hanging over it and yelling like a damn nut! Eventually he stomped off again and I was hoping he wouldn’t come back.

There always has to be SOMEONE acting a fool!

Seriously, security needed to come snatch his dumbass up before something bad happened… but they came about 10 minutes after the entire group disappeared. Baboo was like "I wanted to tell them they were late!"… but I’m glad he didn’t, stupid security!!!

I know that girl got her ass beat later on. It was sad.

but what could I do? Nothing.

Eventually it all soothed over and Baboo got us another drink.

By this time it was almost 2 and I realized that the damn monorail stopped running at 3 am!

SHIT A BRICK!

I felt like fucking Cinderella!

I wish we could have stayed a lot longer. We could have totally stayed until they shut it down, it was really that much fun. I probably could have gotten another dance with Baboo in too!

But I knew we had to try and get back to the monorail cuz we had to pass through the New York and the MGM to get to it and with my crappy shoes it was gonna take a while.

Well… we finished our drinks and listened to one last song and then left. I was sad to go. Eyecandy is definitely fun and a place I want to go back to! No cover and dancing and drinks and comfy chairs… it doesn’t get better! Just a great vibe.

ANYWAY!!!

We go back to the tram and it’s SHUT DOWN FOR REPAIRS!!!

are you serious?!!! ahhh!!!!! not  cool!

Instead of a quick trip over to the new york new york we realized we would have to cross through Luxor AND Excalibur in order to even get that far.

FUCK! And we only had about an hour to do it in! At the rate I went in those shoes, we’d have been cutting it WAY too close… so I tore those bad boys off and ran with no shoes on! ha ha.

We had to take a bathroom break and the room was down this mile long hallway. These girls were all "where is it?! why is it so far! oh nooo!" and I had stopped halfway and they were like "you can make it! come with us!"

but I didn’t have to go to the bathroom. ha ha.

so i just laughed and followed them anyway. Yay for drunken craziness!

After that we zipped through the casinos, and thank god most places had carpeting and I didn’t feel TOO gross without my shoes. But it was gross anyway. But I was drunk and not really caring much. ha ha!

We made it ot the tram with 30 minutes to spare… thank goodness!

We weren’t quite ready to turn in, so we went into our casino and stopped at a penny poker machine! It was fun and we got a drink! Some big guy that Baboo dubbed Hurley (from Lost) was trying to maddog us away from the cheap machines, but we didn’t move. SORRY HURLEY!!! I lost almost all of the 10 bucks I put in the machine, I cashed out at 4.65. hee hee. It was actually fun and I stared to learn the rhythm of betting so that I could increase my money and then pull back so I wouldn’t lose as much.

When we were done with that we went to the bar for one more drink (cranberry and vodka is what I had been having outside of  my two mojitos and one madori sour).

OH! I FORGOT! the night before when we went to the bar I put in a $5 bill in the machine and was accidently betting max credits (which was $5!) and doubled my money without thinking about it and cashed out immediately. ha ha…

Anyway, by this time we were so drunk we couldn’t even finish our last drinks so we took them with us. So we stumbled up to the rooms and yes… sex like woah occured (we had a lot of sex in that room, now that I think about it. hee hee)…

and yes… another black out!

Next Entry: The last day (Alcohol Poisoning, shopping, black jack rules!)

I probably won’t get to that entry today though. I have half an hour of work left and I should probably do some stuff.

But really, Saturday night was really fun. I can’t wait to post some pics!!!!