Las Vegas Party

Friday - Left LA at 7ish and we ate the chicken jerky that I had earlier (lunch food) on our way to vegas. It was kinda messy but I have "wet ones" ready so it's Ok. I had enough sleep the other night so I was very talkative and energetic and that way, Darwin wont fall asleep while driving. The last time we went to Vegas was Feb this year and it was cold.. Now, it's like HELL!! Temperature goes up to 110F.

The iPhone was very helpful in navigating our trip coz Garmin (GPS) is not updated and it can't recognize the 210 freeway. Garmin keeps telling us to take Interstate-5 which we took last Feb. I dont want to go back to Pearl Blossom coz that highway is creepy. The iPhone doesn't speak like Garmin though, but you can go to the next direction manually. What's nice about it is you can see the satellite maps. Ok, enough on iPhone. haha

We had coffee at Starbucks in Barstow, which is our usual stop coz it's midway to Vegas. I had the usual too.. white chocolate mocha.. 2 hours later, we're in Vegas!!! We got there at 11:30pm and we're already sleepy and tired so we just stayed in the hotel.

Saturday - I woke up at 9am and took a shower. I told Darwin that instead of gambling and losing all of our money, we'll just buy something. So, we went to Fashion Show Mall and it's a "ginormous" mall (hey, this word was just added to the dictionary, FYI) They have Saks Fifth, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus... all the classy stores. We had breakfast first at the food court then we headed to Louis Vuitton. I've been wanting to have their purse coz it never goes out of style. I aldready know what I want coz I've been looking at eLuxury.com since last week. So I bought the Damier Canvas Speedy 30. I love it! I promise myself I wont spend anything til the end of the year.

LV Purse Damier Canvas Speedy 30



@ Gondola in Venetian


We went to Venetian to meet up with our friends. I was fascinated by Peter Lik's photos.. those are just amazing. Then we went to Darwin's uncle for lunch at 2ish. We had Jollibee and we stayed for a while and had chicka. Both his uncle are funny. I think it runs in the family. hehe

Dinner. We met up with our other group of friends at Salt Lik BBQ. Jannie and Sherwin will only stay until Monday and they will go hiking in Arizona. I would love to do that, I hope I can convice Darwin next time... but maybe during fall coz I cant stand the Summer heat. Jamie and Vicky will leave on Sunday... we call them our "Chinese" friends except for Sherwin who's pure Chinese but knows Tagalog. haha I also met up with Kim who lives right across Red Rock Hotel and we had a nice chat with bonus chismis.


@ our Hotel on our way to Red Rock

Dinner at Salt Lik BBQ at Red Rock Hotel

Chicka with Kim



Clubbing. We decided to go to Tao Nightclub where you'll see Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan dancing. It's a famous nightclub in Vegas that I think everyone went there that night. It took us 20 minutes to get in and once you're in... there's another line to go to the 2nd level which plays hip hop. I had my my usual drink, midori sour and Adios motherf****r. It was soooo disappointing coz we cant even dance coz it's over crowded. There's a lot of empty seats but they wont even let you sit because it's for VIPs only... which really sucks.. You have to pay $800 for bottle service. Grrr.. But at the latter part of the night, we found a room and danced the night away (with an aching feet). By 2am, we decided to go home and rest.



Clubbing at Tao in Venetian








Sunday. Went to Bellagio to take pictures of the garden which they change quarterly then we went to church to hear mass. Had lunch at Grand Lux Cafe for Dinah's 30th Birthday. I had Shrimp Scampi and Darwin had beef with veggies. Left Vegas at 5pm and got home at 12mn. That was a tiring week but lots of fun!




Bellagio Gardens

Lunch at Grand Lux Cafe with the birthday girl