A Vegas night!

I arrived in Vegas at about 8pm. By the time I got my car and got checked in to the hotel, it was around 9 and I was pretty hungry. I decided to go down to Nobu at the Hard Rock for some sushi. (you know how I feel about sushi, and the Hard Rock is a great place to find a good time.) I had a delicious meal, and was joined about half way through my hamachi sashimi by a stunning looking older man. Tom and I chatted and laughed as I finished my dinner, and a few more drinks, after which we decided to go to the pool side night club there in the hotel, Rehab. That place is nuts! I’d never actually been there before but had heard rumors. It was all the beautiful people with their after-market breasts and their scant designer clothing and trashy hooker shoes. Thankfully, I had my lucky skirt on. You always look hot in your lucky skirt. It’s the rule! We danced and drank and yelled over the music and danced more. At one point, we ran into Jeremy Piven…..literally! He spilled his drink all over my shirt. This turned into fountains of apologies and he bought us drinks and invited us to hang out in his VIP area and all that. We hung there for a while, but agreed that we felt like everyone was looking at us rif raf, and after about a half hour in the VIP area drinking their expensive drinks and laughing with our heads thrown back, we left. The people watching was great, and Tom was turning out to be a really fun guy.

Around 1:30 or so, I decided it was time to GAMBLE! We went out in the casino and played some roulette, and after uncharacteristically plunking $200 on the table, I walked away with over $1000! We were “that table” that you see in the movies with everyone laughing and screaming with joy. The table was hot. (I say that like I know anything about gambling or have much experience with it. I never gamble! It was sooooo fun!) Once I hit $1000 I decided to cash in and head over to see the Bellagio fountains.

2 things I have been deeply saddened to learn on 2 occasions late at night in Vegas. 1.) some of the bars in Vegas actually CLOSE (I learned this a few years ago) and 2.) the Bellagio fountains don’t do their little show at 4 in the morning. WTF?? I was in a lighthearted, spontaneous and highly drunken state, and when I spotted the maintenance ladder down into the fountain pool, I got a wonderful idea. Let’s SWIM! Tom apparently wasn’t much of a swimmer, so he just watched, and turned out to be a total tool as he scurried away when hotel security came to stop me from splashing around in the fountain pretending to be one of the dancing jets. Well, there wasn’t a sign saying “no swimming” or “no wading” or anything, and apparently that was enough of an argument to stop them from calling the police. It was a bit of a cold shivery buzz kill sitting in the security office at the Bellagio, so once they let me go and asked me not to come back to their nice little hotel, I went back to my hotel and ended the night.

Only in Vegas baby…only in Vegas! At least I didn’t wake up with Mike Tyson’s tiger in my bathroom! And now I have to go to a meeting, and pretend that my head doesn’t feel like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade isn’t going through it.

It was worth it! And later, I will go shopping!!!

(Well, as I said in my blog title....only some of it is true! I was actually in bed reading my book by 10pm, but the story sure was fun to write!)