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so my final blog for trek america, begins with viva las vegas!
Because our tour leader was a dude we stayed a night extra rather than in Flagstaff which was cool but one night there was defo enough!
We arrived at our fabulous motel (bit of a come down from the last time I was in Vegas and stayed in Excalibur on the strip) early afternoon, we had all crammed ourselves in 3 rooms so there were 5 of us in our room but it was good fun getting ready with the girls for our limo tour and darting up and down the corridor to see what the other girls were wearing! So finally all suited and booted we grab a lift to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and drinks while we await the limo... such an upgrade from the fun bus (our dirty van). It was really nice to have a proper dressy night with everyone and we all looked buff ting if I say so myself! Me and Steph discovered the best cocktail in the world called Fizz U, if you are ever in Hard Rock get one (although apparently Miami hard rock dont do it anyomore.. much to my rage). Being the classy people that we are we headed to the off licence for some drinks to take in the limo, I've become a smirnoff ice drinker by this stage thanks to Cathy, Steph and Thea! The tour drove us up the strip and to downtown blasting out the tunes, when we got to downtown we saw the Freemont Experience light show which was wicked and was done to queen songs so we were screeeeching it out and I think most of the street were staring at our antics, one guy was filiming us because we were so loud and giggly but we were having a great night! Then we got back in the limo and drove to Bellagio for the fountains show which is always really nice.
When we had popped to the shops earlier that day some man gave us VIP passes to a club in the Bellagio so we thought it would be rude not to go haha, most of the girls headed off there and the others went to an Irish Bar in Ceasers Palace. We went to a bar for pre vip drinks or something equally superficial and pushed Thea through the door before they could check her ID haha I'm sure that made us look really cool lol. Then me, Steph, Cathy, Hayley, Jenny and Lucy headed over to the club it was super posh as you can imagine and playing some good music so we had a little dance before some arrogrant bouncer asked us if we would like to sit at one of their tables (where you get free drinks) catch is everyone at said tables is a free loading arse licking vip wannabe type... not that I am starting to dislike this place or anything... anyway I sit next to some Donald Trump lookalike that looks at me like I'm rif raf, and then points out some guy in a funky hat dancing away and says 'his not with you is he' and then chuckled... Donald Trump clearly thinks that you can only wear beige trousers and a navy top to be acceptable round here... anyway I didnt feel comfortable in this place at all so I left for the Irish bar... I know where I belong! Cath and Jenny felt the same as me really so came too, I had to barge some man with short guy syndrome out my way cos he didnt understand excuse me, which promted one of the best evil looks I've ever seen!
Ok so phew we are out of there and in the Irish bar where I find a very happy Karen standing outside with a guy she's found and introduced as her new boyfriend... he is a punk... in her words! He was nice guy though and think he was very happy to have Karen's attention! Eric and Anna were inside having a few drinks, luci and steph arrived not to long after leaving Hayley in the VIP room I think lol (more on the outcome of that later) but we proceeded to drink and some weird american guy in a kilt with a hip flask kept telling me his life story... then this English guy comes over to chat to us and I spent the rest of the night with him really! He was in the RAF and provided me with money to gamble away and I pretty much lost it all but he didnt seem to mind haha, Luci, Cathy etc were gambling too with various randoms you end up talking to after pub hours in those casinos! Eventually we all headed home to find Thea all tucked up and signs of Hayley being home but no Hayley... till we found her asleep in the loo! We woke her up to hear all about her night and then we would get a few sentances and giggling as we told her about ours and then she'd fall asleep snoring away mid sentance and wake up again was very cute and very funny! Got some fab pics of that too, poor Hayley suffered pretty much the whole of the next day!
In the morning Eric drove most of the group to a shopping outlet but me anna and steph went to a breakfast buffet instead... and the over indulgence begins! We then went and got a pedicure and starbucks and just looked around some of the hotels that end... we were all so shattered from the night before so I headed off for a sleep. That night we went for dinner at the Stratopshere and then looked round some casinos and then went back for an early night!
The next day me, Cathy, Thea and Jenny did as much of vegas as we could cram in one day, we started at Luxor, Excalibur, MGM, New York New York (where me and Jenny had a ride on the roller coaster and then lost Thea and Cathy for at least 40 mins) and we ended up in Planet Hollywood to meet most of the others for a dinner buffet, and my god did we eat, I dont think I've ever laughed so much in my life!!! We all had the most random selection of food ever! Thea had chocolate and veggies on the same plate, Rhydian had about 5 puddings, Corn was going for his world record of sushi intake! We were in hysterics the whole meal which made the dinner one of the best we've had on trek! Rhydian stole basically a whole bowl of M & M's for the fun bus :) but Corn wasnt allowed any because he didnt assist in the theft haha! We then went back to the motel to get ready for a show we were going to see that night called Legends.
Me, Thea, Cathy, Steph, James, Hayley, Lucy and Jenny all went to see it, they had Justin Timberlake, The Temptations, Whitney Houston, Jay Leno and of course Elvis!! The show was great and me and Cathy got seriously flustered as the Elvis impersantor was soooo sexy!! He winked at us *faints* we all stalked him after for photos mmmm. Me, Cathy, Luci and Hayley went to a Karoke bar for drinks after and had such a good night! We met lots of strange country folk that we basically made our mugs and made them sing all the songs we picked... we got a few life stories out of them though... seems to be an american thing! Us girls sang Shinia twait (we thought the country people would like it) and celine dion think twice... something of a trek legend you see. We met alot of randoms in that bar... including one country guy that we all thought was hot until we realised he had no front tooth lollll and we heard some girls that had seen him too saying 'his so hot... but his not got a front tooth!' when they were in the loo! Hayley and Lucy headed home but me and Cathy decided to stay and we met two guys that lived in vegas that were going to the karoke bar next to our motel so we went with them... and got their life stories too.. we also invited some other guy from New York that was on his lonesome to come with us, one of them could not sing to save his life but insisted on doing about ten songs by the end of the evening... he left at about 4 am because apparently one of his clients called him and he needed to 'create a party' we bid them farewell and headed home! Oh and a little fact for you.. 2-pac was shot in that casino next to our motel!!
The next day we had to say good bye to vegas and me and cathy were not feeling to fresh for the journey to san diego... however it didnt stop me going for a wine tasting with Karen in San Diego old town the minute I got off the bus... why do I do it? That night me, Karen, Anna, Thea and Cathy all went back to old town for some mexican food as the old town was quite pretty, we had some drinks the size of our head in that place!! The journey there was quite amusing too as we tried to get on without a ticket as we had already flirted with some ticket inspectors that day and we thought it would be ok... but they discovered us but bless the ticket inspector he ran over to the machine pressing all the buttons for us because he thought we were really upset confused tourists lolll!
The next day was a free day in San Diego so I headed to the park with Karen and Thea, it was a nice day and me and Karen went for lunch in the nicest place ever and had a chat about the last three weeks and all the wicked things we had done... ahh I have loved trek and am so glad I met all the guys on it because they were all class! My fave quote from Karen of that day was when she was off to the docs as she had pain in her leg and i said 'i hope you dont have to have your leg amputated' and she said 'i know.... could you imagine... gutted!' lollll gutted to say the least! Me and Thea then hit the shops and I brought a stupid amount of earrings because they were all 3 dollars! That night we all went out for our farewell dinner :( sad times... Eric had promised us all steak and the resturant had run out hahah shame! Then everyone who was over 21 headed to a bar where two pianos have duel and sing all well known songs that people request but make them rude towards each other or the audiance... very funny... we requested in the ghetto approx ten times... when they finally sang it we gave it the high pitched cartman voice like we never have before! It was a good night, on the way home me and Cathy were sung to by a musician but it was really arkward cos his song was really mushy and he was looking in our eyes haha I didnt know where to look!
So we woke up and it was our last day together.... sad times... we all went to Pacific Beach on the way to LA, and had fun mucking about on the beach doing Dawson's Creek poses by the pier! Then we listened to all Eric's classic songs one last time! When we got to the hotel we just couldnt bare to leave each other haha so we all arranged to have dinner in close by pub! I knew that me, hayley, steph, cath, thea and Rhydian were all going to be together a few more days so i wasnt too sad... until we all hugged good bye to the others and then I cried... cringe... I can cry really easily you see lol! So that was the end of Trek - brilliant 3 weeks though!
I think LA is gonna be another blog cos this has got too long... again!
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