Here is a summary of the weeekend.... pictures to come...
Friday- got to the airport with Tara and Sam.... Sam gives me a cute veil to wear and it says "I do" in pink in the back... she also made an itinerary for the weekend, and I got to see it because I really had no idea what aws on the agenda...but she made it so cute with all these scrapbooking stickers and everything and then Alanna wrote a poem for the invitation and so Sam put it on there, it was really cute...we get on the plane and as we are taking off the flight attendant announces "Ok we are looking for a Lauren...Lauren celebrating her bachelorette party, please raise your hand!" I'm like OMGGG how do they know this?! I look at Sam and she's like "noooot me!" So then I'm like whaaat?! She brings over a bottle of champagne, drink ticket and a note saying "Have a great bachelorette weekend, sorry we couldn't be there! - Tana, Whitney & Laura". I could have cried it was soooo sweet and thoughtful! So that was a great start to my trip... We get in to our hotel at Vdara, it's super nice. It smells awesome... we hang out for a bit then decide to walk around the hotel and aria next door. Oh, and at that time Sam surprises me with this huge basket full of bachelorette stuff-- a T-shirt with "advice for the bride" that everyone had to sign, a bride's mug that lights up, a huge light up diamond ring, a hot pink sash, a pink tiara, pink bubbles... and a white bathing suit with pink sequins!!! I'm very excited about this obviously and then all of a sudden, everyone disappears and then comes back holding up their green sequined bikini's!!!! This might sound sad, but it made me extreeeemely excited and I was like ok, anything that happens this weekend is going to be hard to top this!!!! It was the best surprise ever! And then she got all the other girls little bachelorette party favors- pink and white plastic bachelorette party cups, pink light up diamond rings, bubbles, candy...sooo cute! Tiffany also made me a bachelorette weekend scavenger hunt necklace with index cards that were pink and green and hanging from a bedazzled necklace chain!
SO then we all get ready and head over to Sushi Samba at the palazzo....with red cups in hand... yes, that's right, we are that ghetto! No, but it was so strange, no one told us to get rid of them or not bring them in or anything! It was so weird! Sam had what we should order on her phone per suggested by our friend Ken. We got edamame, these fried tempura green beans with black truffle aioli-- that sauce was amazing...and shishito peppers... then we got the rock shrimp tempura which was super good-- tasted a lot like the one from katsuya and sushi roku, but always a favorite of mine. The miso marinated seabass was my favorite by far...they were on skewers and they were to die for! Just melted in your mouth! We also had a tri meat plate... hanger steak, ribeye and pork. The hanger steak was SUPER good, the ribeye I tried but was too fatty for me... and the pork was OK. Also tried peruvian corn which was interesting... first time I've ever had that. The only thing I could think of was how corn doesn't really digest and how huge those things would be...but then thinking about it more thoroughly I realized that you had to chew these because they were so big as opposed to normal ones that you probably just swallow. Then we had a few sushi rolls too... they were all pretty good. Best part was that Sam tried her first roll-- a cooked lobster roll and Jenny also tried one too-- a cooked salmon roll. Margo bought a bottle of champange on her and toasted the weekend with a nice speech, so that was really sweet of her. And then they brought us these complimentary cucumber cocktails which was really nice, but not very good hahaha... so we ordered beer and sake. Then we were off to Encore. Sam's contact didnt' answer his phone which was kind of annoying but turns out we didn't need it anyway! We waited for my cousin and Sarah and then walked over...they said the line was really long which it was, but then all of a sudden someone said oK, some guy is getting us in and we all follow him over to what looks like a shorter versioned line, and then all of a sudden we step to the side and walk right in! We literally waited maybe 3 minutes and then just walked right in. Got a drink, then the guy who got us in was like "why aren't you guys at a table? Find a guy who says he has a table, go over with him, have a few drinks the get the hell outta there!" It was pretty funny. So we followed him over to a bachelor party table, some of the girls talked with some of the guys, my cousin especially made some friends it seems like, then we all decided to go dance. Unfortunately it was super duper packed and the music SUCKED. Every song sounded the same....and house/ techno is really not our forte so that kinda killed the mood. Casie decided she wanted to go take her shoes off and stand in the pool, so we all followed her and it was amazing! Got to take our painful shoes off and dance in the pool for like an hour. Such a great idea. We left around 3 and went home and ate and went to bed.
Saturday-- Got up the next morning and went over to aria's brunch buffet. Becky was so sweet and treated me to brunch, even though she shouldn't have! It was really good, I was just disappointed that I really couldn't eat as much as I normally can. I had eggs benedict, eggs, sausage, french toast, corned beef hash, hash brown... I think that's it...and then some espresso ice cream. Then we headed back over to our hotel for our cabana! IN OUR MATCHY SWIMSUITS yesssss.... it was really fun but it was super windy, wind like you've never seen before... and then like half an hour later they said they had to shut down the pool area for safety reasons, which sucked, but at least they refuded everyone back their money... so then we had to decide what to do (which is harder than you think with a big group of girls) but then we decided to just walk over to aria's pool because they'd let us in there... well instead of the regular pool, we ended up getting into liquid which is more the pool party scene and I'm so glad we went! It was kinda crazy and everyithing but fun to be at... we set our things down on the side and just got in... well actually I got a lava flow and was kicked out of the pool, so I got out with Laura, Tiff & Tara, we finished our drinks then got in... we definitely people watched a lot hahaha... then around 5 we went back to the hotel, I showered and went downstairs to the spa to get my make up done (present from Samantha, she's the sweetest ever) and the girl who did my make up said her name was Maile... so of course I asked if she was from Hawaii, which she was...and we talked and figured out we knew some mutual people- not that shocking, but when she said she went to Moanalua, I asked her if she knew my friend Marci and turns out she was best friends with Marci's sister Kristi growing up! Anyway, so that was neat-- I went back upstairs then we all took the tram over to Monte Carlo to grab some food at the food court. Brought it back to the room, ate & watched TV, got ready again and then played some drinking games. Tiffany had a "girls night out' game where everyone just had to answer questions, and then Sam had a "How well do you know the bachelorette" game and whoever answered first didn't drink, while everyone else did. That was pretty funny and fun to see who knew what answers. But then there was one that Sam passed over and goes, ok that's sad. And my dumbass goes, "what! read it!" It read: Where do you see the bachelorette in 5 years? So then I look over, Casie looks a little teary eyed, Tara is crying, Sam is getting teary eyed, Jenny says "with my neices and nephews in Hawaii... and then I start tearing up and I'm like "Damnit!!!" And Sam is like "I TOLD YOU!" Hahahahaha So then we go downstairs, a mini limo shows up and tiff negotiates with him so we take it back over to Encore and meanwhile Roenicke is texting me asking what we are doing and where we are and stuff and turns out he is going to Surrender too. Oh, and we had a few options because the guy that got us into Liquid was a promoter at a club and said he could get us in somewhere too, then some guy said he could get us into Bank, then Tiff had another friend I think at Rain with a table... so we had a lot of options. Anyway, we get there and some guy asks Jenny what we are all donig and she says "trying to get in here I think" and all of a sudden we are chugging our drinks because we are beign let in! Roenicke finds us, says HI and is like "when did you get here?" I say "2 minutes ago..." and he is like "well the line is back there--" nope not for us! I guess it's been so long since I"ve been to Vegas with all girls I forgot how awesome it is!!! We got in everywhere, no problem, no charge, it was pretty freaking amazing! So we get in, and it's HUGE... like super huge and open space all around the pool and the cabana's are the "tables" which is neat and it's just really ginormous. We go over to cabana 150 because Tara's coworker is there and we meet him and his friends and they give us free drinks all night! It was cool because none of them were creepy or trying to hit on any of us, they were just nice and whatever. So we just dance the whole time, mostly just us girls which was awesome. I took my shoes off immediately so my feet weren't in pain again and that was great! The music was like 99% hip hop and rap so that was awesome too... we just danced and sang and drank til about 3:30 or something and it was just sooooo much fun!!!!! Everyone went home after that other than me, becky, jenny and tara... we took a cab downtown and went gambling. We gambled til around 5, 5:30... I won around $40-50! So that was great :) Then we went home, ate and went to bed!!!
Sunday-- got up, showered, packed, checked out...went to have brunch at the cafe at Aria, then it was time to take a cab back to the airport. Laura, Becky, Sam and I were all on the same flight home... soooo exhausted now but it was so worth it. Greatest weekend ever thanks to the girls and thanks to Sam my MOH for planning it all!
Also-- so sweet.... Laura came in on Saturday and brought a card from Kendra and Marion with $$ to buy drinks for the weekend since they couldn't make it, Tara bought me Victoria's Secret Pink PJ pants that say "Up All Night" in Bling...and Jenny and Becky got me the cutest picture album that says Lauren's weeeknd with her girls 2010 and VS gift card.... so generous and thoughtful of everyone! I have the best friends ever I am so lucky!
P.S. forgot to mention, you will see in the pics, but I was in white all weekend-- the girls wore all black on Friday night (which I finally realized once I saw everyone dressed haha... ) and Saturday was bling night so we were all blinged out in sequins... I loved it!
Friday- got to the airport with Tara and Sam.... Sam gives me a cute veil to wear and it says "I do" in pink in the back... she also made an itinerary for the weekend, and I got to see it because I really had no idea what aws on the agenda...but she made it so cute with all these scrapbooking stickers and everything and then Alanna wrote a poem for the invitation and so Sam put it on there, it was really cute...we get on the plane and as we are taking off the flight attendant announces "Ok we are looking for a Lauren...Lauren celebrating her bachelorette party, please raise your hand!" I'm like OMGGG how do they know this?! I look at Sam and she's like "noooot me!" So then I'm like whaaat?! She brings over a bottle of champagne, drink ticket and a note saying "Have a great bachelorette weekend, sorry we couldn't be there! - Tana, Whitney & Laura". I could have cried it was soooo sweet and thoughtful! So that was a great start to my trip... We get in to our hotel at Vdara, it's super nice. It smells awesome... we hang out for a bit then decide to walk around the hotel and aria next door. Oh, and at that time Sam surprises me with this huge basket full of bachelorette stuff-- a T-shirt with "advice for the bride" that everyone had to sign, a bride's mug that lights up, a huge light up diamond ring, a hot pink sash, a pink tiara, pink bubbles... and a white bathing suit with pink sequins!!! I'm very excited about this obviously and then all of a sudden, everyone disappears and then comes back holding up their green sequined bikini's!!!! This might sound sad, but it made me extreeeemely excited and I was like ok, anything that happens this weekend is going to be hard to top this!!!! It was the best surprise ever! And then she got all the other girls little bachelorette party favors- pink and white plastic bachelorette party cups, pink light up diamond rings, bubbles, candy...sooo cute! Tiffany also made me a bachelorette weekend scavenger hunt necklace with index cards that were pink and green and hanging from a bedazzled necklace chain!
SO then we all get ready and head over to Sushi Samba at the palazzo....with red cups in hand... yes, that's right, we are that ghetto! No, but it was so strange, no one told us to get rid of them or not bring them in or anything! It was so weird! Sam had what we should order on her phone per suggested by our friend Ken. We got edamame, these fried tempura green beans with black truffle aioli-- that sauce was amazing...and shishito peppers... then we got the rock shrimp tempura which was super good-- tasted a lot like the one from katsuya and sushi roku, but always a favorite of mine. The miso marinated seabass was my favorite by far...they were on skewers and they were to die for! Just melted in your mouth! We also had a tri meat plate... hanger steak, ribeye and pork. The hanger steak was SUPER good, the ribeye I tried but was too fatty for me... and the pork was OK. Also tried peruvian corn which was interesting... first time I've ever had that. The only thing I could think of was how corn doesn't really digest and how huge those things would be...but then thinking about it more thoroughly I realized that you had to chew these because they were so big as opposed to normal ones that you probably just swallow. Then we had a few sushi rolls too... they were all pretty good. Best part was that Sam tried her first roll-- a cooked lobster roll and Jenny also tried one too-- a cooked salmon roll. Margo bought a bottle of champange on her and toasted the weekend with a nice speech, so that was really sweet of her. And then they brought us these complimentary cucumber cocktails which was really nice, but not very good hahaha... so we ordered beer and sake. Then we were off to Encore. Sam's contact didnt' answer his phone which was kind of annoying but turns out we didn't need it anyway! We waited for my cousin and Sarah and then walked over...they said the line was really long which it was, but then all of a sudden someone said oK, some guy is getting us in and we all follow him over to what looks like a shorter versioned line, and then all of a sudden we step to the side and walk right in! We literally waited maybe 3 minutes and then just walked right in. Got a drink, then the guy who got us in was like "why aren't you guys at a table? Find a guy who says he has a table, go over with him, have a few drinks the get the hell outta there!" It was pretty funny. So we followed him over to a bachelor party table, some of the girls talked with some of the guys, my cousin especially made some friends it seems like, then we all decided to go dance. Unfortunately it was super duper packed and the music SUCKED. Every song sounded the same....and house/ techno is really not our forte so that kinda killed the mood. Casie decided she wanted to go take her shoes off and stand in the pool, so we all followed her and it was amazing! Got to take our painful shoes off and dance in the pool for like an hour. Such a great idea. We left around 3 and went home and ate and went to bed.
Saturday-- Got up the next morning and went over to aria's brunch buffet. Becky was so sweet and treated me to brunch, even though she shouldn't have! It was really good, I was just disappointed that I really couldn't eat as much as I normally can. I had eggs benedict, eggs, sausage, french toast, corned beef hash, hash brown... I think that's it...and then some espresso ice cream. Then we headed back over to our hotel for our cabana! IN OUR MATCHY SWIMSUITS yesssss.... it was really fun but it was super windy, wind like you've never seen before... and then like half an hour later they said they had to shut down the pool area for safety reasons, which sucked, but at least they refuded everyone back their money... so then we had to decide what to do (which is harder than you think with a big group of girls) but then we decided to just walk over to aria's pool because they'd let us in there... well instead of the regular pool, we ended up getting into liquid which is more the pool party scene and I'm so glad we went! It was kinda crazy and everyithing but fun to be at... we set our things down on the side and just got in... well actually I got a lava flow and was kicked out of the pool, so I got out with Laura, Tiff & Tara, we finished our drinks then got in... we definitely people watched a lot hahaha... then around 5 we went back to the hotel, I showered and went downstairs to the spa to get my make up done (present from Samantha, she's the sweetest ever) and the girl who did my make up said her name was Maile... so of course I asked if she was from Hawaii, which she was...and we talked and figured out we knew some mutual people- not that shocking, but when she said she went to Moanalua, I asked her if she knew my friend Marci and turns out she was best friends with Marci's sister Kristi growing up! Anyway, so that was neat-- I went back upstairs then we all took the tram over to Monte Carlo to grab some food at the food court. Brought it back to the room, ate & watched TV, got ready again and then played some drinking games. Tiffany had a "girls night out' game where everyone just had to answer questions, and then Sam had a "How well do you know the bachelorette" game and whoever answered first didn't drink, while everyone else did. That was pretty funny and fun to see who knew what answers. But then there was one that Sam passed over and goes, ok that's sad. And my dumbass goes, "what! read it!" It read: Where do you see the bachelorette in 5 years? So then I look over, Casie looks a little teary eyed, Tara is crying, Sam is getting teary eyed, Jenny says "with my neices and nephews in Hawaii... and then I start tearing up and I'm like "Damnit!!!" And Sam is like "I TOLD YOU!" Hahahahaha So then we go downstairs, a mini limo shows up and tiff negotiates with him so we take it back over to Encore and meanwhile Roenicke is texting me asking what we are doing and where we are and stuff and turns out he is going to Surrender too. Oh, and we had a few options because the guy that got us into Liquid was a promoter at a club and said he could get us in somewhere too, then some guy said he could get us into Bank, then Tiff had another friend I think at Rain with a table... so we had a lot of options. Anyway, we get there and some guy asks Jenny what we are all donig and she says "trying to get in here I think" and all of a sudden we are chugging our drinks because we are beign let in! Roenicke finds us, says HI and is like "when did you get here?" I say "2 minutes ago..." and he is like "well the line is back there--" nope not for us! I guess it's been so long since I"ve been to Vegas with all girls I forgot how awesome it is!!! We got in everywhere, no problem, no charge, it was pretty freaking amazing! So we get in, and it's HUGE... like super huge and open space all around the pool and the cabana's are the "tables" which is neat and it's just really ginormous. We go over to cabana 150 because Tara's coworker is there and we meet him and his friends and they give us free drinks all night! It was cool because none of them were creepy or trying to hit on any of us, they were just nice and whatever. So we just dance the whole time, mostly just us girls which was awesome. I took my shoes off immediately so my feet weren't in pain again and that was great! The music was like 99% hip hop and rap so that was awesome too... we just danced and sang and drank til about 3:30 or something and it was just sooooo much fun!!!!! Everyone went home after that other than me, becky, jenny and tara... we took a cab downtown and went gambling. We gambled til around 5, 5:30... I won around $40-50! So that was great :) Then we went home, ate and went to bed!!!
Sunday-- got up, showered, packed, checked out...went to have brunch at the cafe at Aria, then it was time to take a cab back to the airport. Laura, Becky, Sam and I were all on the same flight home... soooo exhausted now but it was so worth it. Greatest weekend ever thanks to the girls and thanks to Sam my MOH for planning it all!
Also-- so sweet.... Laura came in on Saturday and brought a card from Kendra and Marion with $$ to buy drinks for the weekend since they couldn't make it, Tara bought me Victoria's Secret Pink PJ pants that say "Up All Night" in Bling...and Jenny and Becky got me the cutest picture album that says Lauren's weeeknd with her girls 2010 and VS gift card.... so generous and thoughtful of everyone! I have the best friends ever I am so lucky!
P.S. forgot to mention, you will see in the pics, but I was in white all weekend-- the girls wore all black on Friday night (which I finally realized once I saw everyone dressed haha... ) and Saturday was bling night so we were all blinged out in sequins... I loved it!
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