….what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But I had too much fun not to share. (pictures to come soon) So James and I went last Monday through Thursday with my family. We stayed at the Mirage (nice hotel, but too much sh*t with them for me to stay there again.)

So once we get settled on Monday, we gambled a bit (and lost) we walked the strip, and then I took a nice, long nap. Then we got dressed to go to the Run Jungle at the Mandalay Bay. This is one of the nicest clubs I’ve ever been to. For all of you alcoholics out there (like me) they had this bar that had to be about 10-15 feet in the air and about 20 feet wide that was stocked with alcohol, on both sides! I fell in love as soon as I seen it! But the infatuation went away as soon as I bought our drinks – “Jack & Coke and Hennessy & Coke please” “Sure no problem… $23 please” Fuck that! See if my ass buys another drink! (I wish the buzz that we had when we left to go out was still there) So we walked all the way through to the dance floor, and before we even got ready to party, we just had to watch the scenery. On each side of the bar (which was in the middle of the club) they had 2 girls hanging from the ceiling in cages dancing, but what was hot were the trapeze artists. Again on each side of the bar, they had two trapeze artists flipping and twirling and doing all kinds of tricks with an oversized hula-hoop hanging from the ceiling. James and I dipped about 2:30AM, and when we left, there was still a long ass line b/c the clubbed stayed opened til 4AM (on a Monday…)

Tuesday, was a chill day, although it really wasn’t supposed to be. My aunt had a traveler agent’s conference, so my grandmother hung out with us during the day. We went gambling up and down the strip (and continued to lose money!) For dinner we went to the Carnival World Buffet (http://www.harrahs.com/our_casinos/rlv/dining/dining_detail_04.html) We ate so much food! They had 12 different stations, and each station represented a country (theme for the food) They had Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Italian, American, Seafood, Liquor, Desserts, and others that I can’t remember. James and I planned to take a nap when we got back to the hotel and go to Studio 54 at the MGM Grand that night. But our nap turned into a good night’s sleep. I laid down about 9:30PM and woke up about 7:30AM. And was pissed when I woke up b/c we found out via the news that the Billboard Music Awards was at the MGM Grand the night before (the night we slept away!) But the craziest thing about it, was that there was NO advertisement for it. If you didn’t stay at the MGM, you wouldn’t have known. No flyers, billboards, nothing! You know here, people stay promoting for something when it hits town… especially for the “Official After-party”

Oh well… Life goes on. So Wednesday, we did some more gambling (losing) and site seeing along the strip. We went into Caesar’s Palace and saw the moving/talking statues. Looked into some expensive ass shops à Fendi, Chanel, Harry Winston, Gucci, Manolo. That night we felt like chilling, so we went to Mist Lounge in the Treasure Island. Nice lounge, ridiculously small and crowded (what do you expect for free!) So we left there and walked across the casino to the Tangerine Night Club (http://www.treasureisland.com/pages/ent_tangerine.asp) James had to use the restroom so I’m standing in line with 2 Indian chicks (not Native Americans) are in front of me and 2 Asian chicks are behind me. This bouncer asks us were we together, so we were like “Sure, why not” He was like, then lets go up there and I’ll get ya’ll in. He didn’t know we had more with us! James came back and the 2 Indian chicks had 3 dudes with them, and the 2 Asian chicks had this White couple with them. But the bouncer was cool about it. He waited for everyone’s friends to return and let us ALL in for free, as opposed to waiting in a long as line and having to pay. So that club is cool just for that. But honestly, it was nice. It had a view that overlooked the strip and the free show that Treasure Island gives outside. Plus!!! They rocked a lot of Jay-Z!!

Thursday, we stayed in bed as long as we could before we headed out to the airport (where I flight got delayed) And not due to snow like you would assume, but b/c of a mechanical problem…. Mechanical problem??!!! Give me a new plane!!! But they didn’t
=( But we made it back safe to Baltimore about 2AM in the middle of the snow storm.

Friday we spent the day telling people we got married…. I loved TE and KB’s reactions – too funny! For the most part, people were like, I’m so happy for you, but I wish I was there! So for the record, no, we did not get married. We both agreed prior to going, no matter how much we may want to get married; we weren’t going to do it in Vegas. We want a real wedding with all of our family and friends there!

Pictures to come………