life

Wow, .. this is pretty much everything I can say about our 3 days in Las Vegas. It all started on a rainy Friday morning. Due to, well … let’s just say “girls and being on time”, we missed our bus to go to Santa Barbara Airport to pick our car up. After we eventually got their we took an SUV instead of a regular car because we had to pick up friends of Christoph in Riverside. So we took that 3 hour ride to Riverside and went to “In ‘n Out Burger” for lunch. And I have to say that this place could not live up to its reputation. The Burger was okay, but the fries? But hey, .. this is just more like an opinion. After our stomachs were satisfied we took on that long road to Las Vegas. Miles and miles of a totally straightened out highway were you were only allowed to go 80 mph.

After an additional 4 hour ride we saw light at the end of the tunnel. All of a sudden there was Las Vegas glowing in the desert. After a quick ride over Las Vegas Boulevard we drove to the Palms where Andre, Adnan, Christoph and Philip were already waiting for us. Because of typical financial situations of university students we were sharing a room which was supposed to be for 2 instead of 5. After we got ready we killed that 2 liter vodka bottle in about 30 minutes, took a freaking limosine to the strip, and started gambling in the Bellagio. This was just how I imagined a night in Vegas was supposed to be. Some went playing Texas Hold’ em, some were playing Black Jack and I was just sitting at the slot machines playing 1 Cent every game. While others spent an entire fortune (Adnan) I managed to get out of their losing only 8 bucks. Haha! Nice! We left the Bellagio for the MGM Mirage and went to a club. I think the name was Revolution but it could be some other name. As a matter of fact, there are some parts of that night that I don’t remember due to a big share on that vodka I guess. I found myself and Adnan later talking to two girls we met at Caesars palace. I don’t know exactly what happened after that. I think we took a cab back to our hotel at around 4 or 5. The rest of the story is kept secret! You know, … what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. We went to bed at around 6.30 and got up at 10. So we had exactly 3 and a half hours of sleep before we got ready and left the hotel heading for the Strip. The girls were still asleep and we decided to leave them in the hotel since it was tooking ages for them to get ready anyways. After seeing the fountains of the Bellagio and walking through the 1 mile shopping center we eventually met Annika and Fulya at the Caesars Palace around noon. We decided to get food in the Venetian. I had Panda Express, which is just awesome. We later saw the volcano break out at the Mirage and the pirate show of Treasure Island which should be really R-rated by the way! The Stratosphere was my greatest fear of the night and since the battery of my camera died earlier this day I did not even have a decent reason to go up there. I guess you could call it group pressure. We got up there and I was too scared to even walk freely. I decided to call it a day and went down to the Casino. The others went up on the freefalltower. After having a couple of free vodka-redbulls the others made it down the tower and we took a cab back to the Palms.

 

After me and the boys all got dressed we killed another bottle in the room. We figured that it was way cheaper than get a 20 dollar beer in the clubs. The girls too their time, .. what a suprise :) After midnight passed we decided once again to leave without the girls. We were already pretty fired up and the clubs only stay open until 4 ish. First Club: the Rain. Very good music (which is not definite for american clubs i guess) and a cool place. We did not hang out there too long though and so we made our way up on the 55th floor to the Ghostbar. A pretty awesome location with a glass floor on the balcony overlooking the entire strip! Probably the best location I partied in EVER! Just when we got ready to leave some girls came to dance with our boys and we ended up staying in there the rest of the night. We missed out on the Playboys club and the moon. I do not remember much of the time after that but last time I looked at the time it was 7.30 in the morning. And again: Some things stay in Vegas ;)

The alarm went off at 10 in the morning. We had to be out of the room at 11. After those 2 and a half hours of sleep and a total of 6 hours the last 2 days we all looked pretty trashed. We met down with the girls in the hall and took off to a Las Vegas Outlet Center. After I prayed to god that he gives me the strengh to endure a visit to an Outlet Center with 4 other girls I ended up buying a little for myself too.

 

We finally made it home at around 11. We all fell int0 our beds being totally exhausted from a couple of awesome nights in Las Vegas.