Well if you didn’t know I was in Vegas a couple weeks ago and oh boy was it a memorable one. It was supposed to be a business trip, which it was (the last two days), but who said you can’t have a bit of fun too. I mean come on! It’s Vegas!!! LOL
So let me set the story here. Me, Sam The Man (of 102.7 Da Bomb) and Nathan Green of New Level Radio were set to go to Vegas for a conference (The Digital Signage Expo). However, Sam’s family thought it would be good if they all got together while he was up there. So it went from business to a hell of a lot of fun!! LOL Sam’s family is absolutely awesome and a lot of fun.
Now I know it’s been a while since I made a post like this, but hey I’m gonna give it a shot. I also gotta admit, I didn’t do a lot of Photog’ing. I don’t know why really. Part of me just wanted to enjoy it for what it was. Another part was thinking, “I don’t want to be out here with this crappy ass lens.”
Anyways lets get this started!!
Here is Sam’s family (omg i had all of their names in my head while i was up there now i forget… ugh F my brain…)
Sam’s mom and dad!
The first night we landed and wanted to eat since the airplane food is basically crap LOL So we went to this place called BLT. I ordered a BLT with some extra cheese. It was alright. I still prefer Teddy’s Bigger Burger (i still gotta try burgers on the edge LOL) by the way… thats not a pickle. more like a cucumber…
STM got the same LOL
There are a lot of photos so more after the break
So that night Sam got pretty drunk at BLT then we went to our Hotel, the Excalibur. Checked-in and dropped off our bags. Yes thats right, we didn’t even check in yet LoL.
So now let the party begin! We head over to the Mandalay Bay to chill out at one of their lounges. I don’t remember what it was called, and I was dying from a serious sinus headache. So while everyone was enjoy the cover band that was playing I went in search of some Aleve. LOL Spent like $7 on a little bottle!! OMG! Oh wells, so I took some with a very nice tasting Grey Goose Pear and Sprite. I know, I know, alcohol and meds not good blah blah. I’m not pregnant so i’m cool LOL Nah j/k, u should never do that.
After the lounge we were waiting for a friend to get us into a club called Rum Jungle. OMG!! THIS PLACE WAS OFF THE CHAIN!!! Thanks to Gill for hooking it up!
How’s the wall of Rum and other Alcohol!
Now thats not all! there is more alcohol and a walk way through it all to the otherside! WTF?! LOL
Go Go pod? what? really?
Yes a Go Go pod! They use a rope pully system to get the girls up there. That’s freakin CRAZY!! and CRAZY COOL!!!
After that we went in search of more alcohol and to get the gambling started!! LoL. Much to my surprise at the Excalibur there is a set of tables where you can gamble and in front of you is a girl dancing on a Go Go stage. I was very impressed with seeing it LOL and of course that’s where we started playing LOL. I made about $200 that night. I didn’t take any pictures because your not allowed to take pictures of the tables and stuff.
Anyways, the next morning I woke up and took a look out the window and found a couple things outside. Like a bible,
Apparently someone is a serious sinner… Oh yeah! the hotel is nice.
I was impressed by how many rooms there were.
Oh look at that another bible LOL
Since we woke up a bit past morning LOL we met up with Sam’s family again for some lunch at Claim Jumper. His family and stuff didn’t really like what they ordered but I was very happy with the Jamican Jerk Chicken I ordered. Papaya relish with a sweet potato underneath. Oh boy was that a big potato.
After lunch we went in search of….. you guessed it! more alcohol! LOL Here’s Sam and Gil at Yard House! Good fun!
And of course me… enjoying a New Castle… great tasting beer mmmm
After a hefty lunch everyone wanted to play some basketball and apparently I didn’t really have much of a choice on whether or not I was going to play… So I played. HAHAHA I still suck… hey I can kinda guard but don’t ask me to shoot the ball when my hands are frozen from the cold ass air LOL Best part though was attempting to play with skateboard shoes. yeah they had some gumsoles, but they sucked on the chilled down court. LOL One thing I brought back with me from the trip is a majorly messed up leg and ankle. (It’s still sore LoL) It’s still pretty sore but hey I played it off. Sam’s nephews can ball! I can see them playing college level when they grad. Maybe UNLV or something I don’t know, but they kick my ass… Hmm that’s not saying much though LOL
After the game we all met up with Sam’s family again to go eat at a place called BJ’s. I’ve actually be there before with @Loganz so it wasn’t anything new, but this time I ordered a Fettuccine Alfredo… Mmmm that was good. Here’s everybody all together
I think that night we all went to meet up with Sam’s parents in Down Town Las Vegas (more like the Hawaii district LoL) I think I won another $200 playing Blackjack at the Fremont hotel. Everyone was wondering about my luck playing so we went to Fitzgeralds and I ended up losing about $40… So yeah I don’t know. LOL I think it was my Italian blood fighting the luck of the Irish LOL
Anyways next morning was a photoshoot! Not one I was shooting though. One of Sam’s sister’s friend was doing the shoot. She had a very nice setup. I would have taken some pics too but umm… it was like fuckin 30 degrees in Red Rock Canyon. I couldn’t take my hands out of my pockets HAHA omg I was soooo frozen after that LOL here are some shots I caught along the way though LOL
I was pretty surprised to see that Louie Anderson is still out and about LOL I haven’t heard anything from him, but I wasn’t going to go to the show though LOL I couldn’t remember the TV show I used to watch as a kid with him in it though….
LoL I’m playing with my Telephoto Lens… it gets really close
It’s sights like this that let me remember why Hawaii is so beautiful… I don’t know if I could handle this kinda stuff at our bus stops…
SNOW!!! I love seeing snow though… btw how’s these shots from the back seat LOL
I’ve notice something missing from Las Vegas… GRASS!!! TREES!! lol
Roadrunner? Hmm HEY! JCPenny’s! LOL
So after the photoshoot we went in search of some food. Now this whole time his family was ranting and raving about this Hawaiian food place that is better than any other place we had ever been to in our lives. Like it was so hyped up that we just had to go and see for ourselves. I mean we had to right?
Oh wait… wtf? ITS CLOSED!!! AHH!!! All that hype… shot down LOL Anyways the place is called Island Flavor.
Look at the disappointment in Sam’s eyes LOL
Well more about them, they bring flavors from the Big Island to the big continent and are close SUNDAY MONDAY!!!! AHHHH!!! next time next time LOL
So we were still hungry of course and we had to eat right?! Along the way though I caught this ugly ass car on the road… that green and gray.. umm yeah no..
So we ended up in the same mall as Claim Jumper. This place was called Brio. OMG! THIS PLACE IS GORGEOUS!!! The decor was amazing!
Hell even the AC unit on the wall was painted the same colors as the walls
So after lunch we went to check out some Casinos again started playing. On the way there i saw this in a las vegas magazine… Hawaii Massage? Is it lomi lomi?
but we decided to walk around City Center. My dumb ass didn’t take out my camera till we got to the Belagio… but this is CUTE!!! They did it for Chinese New Years! It was sooooo cool looking.
Look at this lil guy…
Meet the Belagio Emperor
Sam The Man and his brother in-law Meqelle (I never asked how to spell his name LOL MY BAD!!)
My turn to bust out the Bruce Lee action LOL
Haha this panda is trying out for a porno! YAY!
These flowers are gorgeous!
Ok so seriously… Aria is fuckin HUGE!! this is from the ground and i still couldn’t get the whole hotel LOL
Attempt #2
No seriously… it was BIG!
Next time… I’m checking how much it is to stay at Aria…
If you look closely there are JBL speakers setup all over the outside here i thought that was pretty cool LOL
Here’s a real creepy looking tree i found… i guess outside but coming from underneath? lol
Inside there was a chocolate-dessert-pastry shop and they made this really big flowers out of chocolate! CHOCOLATE!! OMG!!!
There was this really cool looking restaurant in there… i was feeling the harry potter vibe coming from it lol
so after we gambled we were going to go to red rock hotel… but before that we needed to get the car… but wtf is this shit? yeah thats a scrolling sign thing full of sayings about how you shouldn’t do this and that. pay attention to your kids. money isn’t everything… i’m thinking to myself “WTF? r u ppl trying to get me to cut myself? wat is this shit!?!” lol
so here we are for dinner at this mexican place which was really good! it’s called cabo wabo. we annihilated the chips before the food came out LOL
For most of the trip i was drinking screw drivers lol because they are AWESOME!!
Another member of the New Level Radio family Nathan Green showed up! WASSUP!!
I want this setup in my first house… just imagine having all of those screens in your living room setup like that lol with the bar in the middle too LOL
That’s two trays just for the guys LOL yeah we ordered a hell of a lot of food LOL
Mmmm steak…
Sam the Man and his fajitas
Sam’s brother in law Rob and his steak fajita plate
My steak fajita skillet plate
Hmm yeah… it was that good. or maybe he was just hella tired from us taking him out and partying like crazy LOL
Yes we had some fun with the situation LOL
After that we went to Red Rock Bowling alley and well…. this place made @AieaBowl look small… LOL well it wasn’t as cool though but it was fuckin HUGE!!! (that’s what she said lol)
and look at all the tables they have! thats a lot of places to sit, eat, and DRINK!!!
Everyone trying to act all “Hard” lol
MORE BEER!!!
More trying to act hard…
No joke here… thats really really far away LOL
Sam and all his sisters
Now here is what the trip was all for! The Digital Signage Expo!! WOOOO Except this day was all about getting ur passes so there wasn’t much to see, but our buddy Havoc was there to help us getting all checked in and stuff.
After we got our passes we went to this place called Sushi Roku and omg was it nice WOOOO! and real Japanese chefs which is always nice YAY!
The decor i swear was awesome!
After lunch it was back to City Center to show it off to Nate which he thought it was freakin COOL! lol and look MORE CHOCOLATE!!!
After that we went to another place called Blue Martini! OMG it was extremely cool there! and a 4pm Happy Hour! WOOO!
I had a Grey Goose Pear/Vodka but check this out! They actually cut a slice of pair and put it into the drink! That was a very very cool touch!
Oh! Look who we were hanging out with! SEAN LYNCH!! That’s right! The man himself!
We were actually there celebrating one of Sam’s sister’s birthday! So here’s everybody in the party!
Now of course its a birthday right? so there has got to be some alcohol involved right?! lol
Happy Hour was half off pupus! WOOOO
Our very very cute waitress HI! i forgot ur name SORRY! LOL
The place is very nice though it kinda reminded me of Pearl a little bit LOL
Apparently there was a lot of fun going on with the camera LOL
YAY for hot bartenders LOL
they dont look drunk at all!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
YAY! there’s a band playing… but omg was the acoustics bad and terrible… no seriously… all u could here is the band not their voices. it was bad i wanted to go behind the bar and just start working the audio myself. im sure they could hear themselves in their monitors but ummm did someone forget the audience… oh wells she wasn’t very good anyways LOL
So after Blue Martini we went off to the Mandalay Bay to check out this spot called Mix… You wanna know about crazy high! this place is crazy HIGH!!! 63 stories up in the air!!! thats twice as high as Aaron’s was in the Ala Moana hotel LOL LOOK AT THAT VIEW!!!
Sam and Nate for their Photo-Op LOL
Sam just staring out the window.
In the restaurant side of the place there is this beautiful setup hanging from the ceiling is wow…
Alright so after this spot we went and hit up another spot called Minus 5 and well lets just say it was certainly an experience. I couldn’t take my camera in but hey guess what! they had their own photog there! she shoots with a Nikon but oh wells LOL here are some shots from there
So i case you can’t tell the Minus 5 means its minus 5 degrees Celsius in there. IT IS COLD IN THERE!! but that’s wat makes it all fun! the cups made of ice. the sculptures made out of ice. everything! its all ICE! even the bar!! and the love shot bong there! nice titty spouts LOL
Ok I caught some Ciroc up the nose but hey it was all good! lol
If you want to know more about this place go check out minus5experience.com
Ok but seriously there are so many photos in this that i really can’t fit it all in to one and i been working on this post for weeks now so imma just post it! if you want to see the rest of the photos CLICK HERE!!
