Tuesday, October 21, 2014

UK Friends in Town (Vegas!): Playing Tour Guide For a Week! October 2014

Sean's and my Uk friends Declan, Jo, Toby, and Pete came to visit Vegas recently so obviously we had to make some time to hang with them and show them around! They were here for about a week, I think it was, so we did our best to meet up with them on several occasions to help make sure they got to do a bit of everything before they left.

First off, I apologize for the poor paragraphing, grammatical errors, and hard-to-read run, run on sections. Life's busy and crazy at the moment and I barely had time to jot this all down. Not bothering with proofreading and such. Read at your own risk! Here's how the week went:

The first night, we all met at the Excalibur where they were all staying and went walking up the strip, drinking and gambling at casinos along the way! When we got to MGM, Sean and I had everyone try shots of 151 and then we all got a frozen margarita filled football cup to share as we continued our adventure! One of the gift shops we stopped in for drinks and to look around had a mini deck of cards attached to a keychain for $1. Sean and I picked it up and used it to play drinking games with everyone outside. Walking around near Planet Hollywood a bit later, we ran into Chris Reding's little sis and I introduced her around to everyone. :D We all got $1 beers and/or $2 foot long hot dogs when we got to Casino Royale and then parked ourselves at some slot machines to gamble (or at least watch our friends gamble) for awhile. On our way back to the Excalibur, we took another break in the Flamingo, I believe it was, to hang out by and play the Big Wheel casino game. Sean and I got a coffee and some more food from the McDonald's just outside of the casino and then kept the rest of the guys company at the Big Wheel while they gambled. We got Sean a hot tea from one of the cocktail waitresses. Finally, an hour or two before sun-up, we all walked back to the Excalibur and said goodnight.

We regrouped again the next day, I believe it was, at the Excalibur again. This time, everyone was playing the Big Wheel there when Sean and I arrived. He and I went to the McDonald's upstairs for tea and coffee and then met back up with everyone for some arcade time in the casino's Fun Dungeon arcade. Sean and I shared 2 credits on the PIU machine there. Then it was time for the night's main event: Tournament of Kings! The rest of the guys had messaged Sean and me earlier to let us know they'd be going to the show and had bought tickets. We looked into getting tickets ourselves and joining them and found out that not only could we get a discount on the tickets with our local ID's but we could get our friends a discount too! We weren't sure if it was too late for them since they'd already bought tickets but when we met at Excalibur and went to check with the box office they allowed us to rebook the other tickets with our local ID's, switch the seats so that we could all sit together, and get the cost difference between full price and the locals' discount refunded for our friends! It was about $74 for Sean and me after the discount and totally worth it. I'd seen the show once before years ago but had been waiting for an excuse to take Sean to see it for the past couple of years! Our seats were in the badass Dragon section-the only "evil" section in the show and the only one not named after a country! We were served delicious meals of soup, game hens, broccoli, biscuit, roasted red potatoes, and small, bready desserts with our choice of soft drink. They had an alcohol menu that everyone except Sean and I ordered from as well but Sean and I just enjoyed the treats that were included in the show price and were more than stuffed as it was! Sean and our friends really enjoyed the show and despite having seen it before I had fun being there with them, watching it, and, most of all, checking out all the shirtless men that were in the show. Not as sexy or as much my type as Sean (honestly) but I can still appreciate a bit of variety when it comes to eye candy! After the show, Declan and Jo stayed in the casino but Sean, Toby, Pete, and I drove up the strip in the Mustang with the top down to Fremont where we saw the light show, stopped in souvenir shops, bought some funny adult gifts (a deck of nude guy playing cards for me, a deck of nude girl playing cards for Sean, and a funny grow-your-own-girlfriend thing for my dad), checked out Insert Coin(s), gambled at nickel slots in Mermaid's, ran into my former co-worker Shantia, and showed the guys the strip club I used to work at there. Then we drove back down to the Vegas sign just south of Mandalay Bay for some pics and went back to Excalibur. After a bit more gambling, Pete went to bed. Toby, Sean, and I got some food from McDonald's in the food court there though (including pumpkin pies in spirit of the season!) and then Toby went to bed and Sean and I went home to party on our own!

On Monday, Sean and I went with Danny to watch MNF at Goldcoast casino as usual. This time, it was 49ers vs Rams for the Niners' first MNF game of the season! Niners did their usual and played half the game totally shitty and the other half well. Luckily, it was the first half they did horribly on, losing 14-0, and at the very end of the 2nd quarter they started scoring and kept scoring til the end when they won the game 31-17! Woot!!

Sean and I went out with his UK friends again on Tuesday night. We all met up downtown on Fremont Street and walked around drinking and gambling. Sean and I joined in the gambling on Mermaid's penny slots just for the sake of some free drinks and then we walked on, stopping to get hot dogs and more drinks and gamble a bit on the way to the really cool bar Sean and I had found awhile back called The Griffin. The drinks at The Griffin weren't cheap but I was glad to get to have an excuse to drink there with friends and the atmosphere was really cool. We spent quite awhile there at one of the tables drinking various things and hanging out. By that point, Toby was too drunk to do much more so he walked himself back to Circus Circus, where they were spending their last few nights. The rest of us squeezed into the Mustang and I drove us to Walmart for booze and McDonald's. Then we drove back to Circus Circus, dragged Toby out of bed, and chatted and drank in Jo and Declan's room all night. Toby and Pete finally went back to bed in their room next to Declan and Jo's and the rest of us stayed up playing drinking games. It ended up getting a little naughty with Declan and Sean locking each others' tongues, Jo and me making out briefly, me eating an ice cube out of Jo's butt, and much more til we finally turned out the lights, got naked, and sexed our significant others! Jo and Declan were in one bed. Sean and I spent most of our time in the other bed but paid a quick visit to the other two on their bed and reached a hand in their crotch area to troll them while they were humping. Back on our respective beds, we all rolled around in various positions til everyone jizzed everywhere. Then we all fell asleep at 8:30am, though that only lasted about 3.5 hours and at noon we were up again.

Sean and I had to go home for a bit after that but later on we went back to Circus Circus to pick up Pete and Toby for another night out. It was about 7pm and dark outside or so when we all got loaded into the car but Pete and Toby wanted to see the Hoover Dam so we drove out, stopping for gas and passing through Boulder City on the way, and saw the dam. We were there for a little while, taking pics and looking around. On the way back, we stopped again to visit the Hacienda Casino. Then we drove home, picked up Danny, introduced everyone around, and went to Cane's for food! We had to drop Danny back off at home after eating but Pete and Toby got to look around our house, meet the pets, take pics of all the dance games, and try Technomotion. Around 10:40pm, we rushed out of the house headed for Pinball Hall of Fame to give Pete and Toby a quick look around the place. They took lots of pics and vids and we played a couple of games. Then we drove to Walmart and picked up a couple of things. On the way back to Circus Circus, we stopped in the Crown and Anchor British pub. I thought it'd be funny to take a group of UK dudes to a British pub and see what they thought of the place. They liked it and got a couple of drinks before playing a game or two of darts! We finally dropped them back off at Circus Circus after that and said goodnight.

On Friday, the guy who usually buys photo sets of me in various outfits (usually dresses and lingerie) finally started asking for topless photos and offered me 25 percent more pay in exchange. I happily took him up on the offer and let him hire Sean and me to take pics of me posing in Red Rock for $80! :) While there, we got to pet a cute horse that was near it's fence adjacent to the street on one of the residential properties in the area. So cute! After Red Rock Canyon, we did the last two photo sets inside Red Rock Casino. For obvious reasons, those photos, as well as about half of the others, were fully clothed.

Later that same night, being our UK friends' last night in Vegas, Sean and I used some club passes we had laying around to try and get the 6 of us in to Tryst nightclub at the Wynn casino. We didn't expect the passes to work because nightclubs always seem to have an excuse but we figured we'd try anyway and we're actually 1/3 successful! The doorman said the passes worked for ladies only, though they didn't say anything about that or about any other restrictions that might've applied to us on them, but they got Jo and me in free and the guys were only $30 each! Inside, the place was only 1 level but looked pretty awesome and had catchy, mostly rap and hip-hop music (basically the songs I usually listen to anyway) playing most of the night. We were all too sober at first but Declan, Jo, Toby, and Pete got drinks at the bar and I talked a few guys up and got drinks off them to share with Sean. We spent most of the night goofing off and dancing but went back up to the casino at one point so everyone could gamble at the slots in order to score free drinks. The cocktail waitresses there were surprisingly rude and horrible with service SO slow that some of us finally had to give up on ever getting drinks. Toby and Declan were tired anyway so they eventually just said goodnight and walked back to their hotel room. The rest of us stuck it out, went back to the club, and drank and danced the night away til closing time just before 4am! We were hungry after that so we went to Denny's down the street for food but their service was really freakin slow so we gave up and went across the street to get McDonald's instead. They were out of almost everything we wanted on the menu (frappuccinos and every $1 item) so Sean and I ordered a couple of $3 McGriddles. I ordered bacon and he ordered sausage but when I got mine there was so little bacon the sandwich was basically just bread-couldn't even see the meat from the outside of the sandwich - and the bacon I DID get was tiny, crumbly, broken into several miniature pieces, and burnt. I don't like to complain but I had to have them exchange it for a sausage one. Luckily, the sausage one was delicious! It didn't look like much but it tasted amazing. I was still super hungry after eating it though so once we finished at McDonald's and Jo and Pete said goodnight to head back to their room Sean and I went home and ate super yummy ribs and other leftovers we had in the fridge while watching House. Then we raped each other (which I don't remember at all but had Sean fill me in on after we woke up later and I found lube and sex toys next to me) and passed out together a little after 6am!

Our UK friends had to fly home a little later that day but Sean and I were still free to party so in the afternoon he, Danny, and I took a trip out to St. George, UT and Mesquite, NV to get Chick-fil-A and explore! On the way, we stopped for gas and snacks at Rebel and McDonald's. Then I drove us to St. George, stopping to check out the convenience store/casino/fireworks store combo on the Indian reservation on the way. It'd changed so much inside but still had pretty much the same stuff - just all rearranged. We arrived at Chick-fil-A around 9am and got some extremely tasty meals to fill out stomachs with. There wasn't much more to do, especially not that was open, in St. George by that time so we drove back to Mesquite to look around after that, stopping in each of the three casinos we found there. Sean had never been to two of them before and Danny and I didn't remember them well so it was kind of new to all of us. We started at the Eureka casino which was relatively big and nice inside. There wasn't much of particular interest there but they did offer free metal coffee mugs just for signing up to their players club so Sean and I signed up and took advantage! The next casino we stopped at was the Virgin River casino across the street. Danny and I had taken Sean there before to show him the DDR Max 2 machine in their arcade. This time, we explored the arcade a bit more, played a few games, and cashed some tickets we found and won in for cheap prizes and candies. Sean and I even played a credit on Max 2 together! Then we all looked around the rest of the casino and Sean and I signed up for their players club, getting $5 each in free play for doing so. The last casino was down the freeway toward Vegas an exit or so. It was called the Casa Blanca and was part of the same players club as Eureka. It was nice inside as well but didn't have much of interest for the three of us aside from a very miniature arcade with just a few stand up cabinet games next to the cafe there. After the casinos in Mesquite, we couldn't think of much more to do in the area but had had our fun looking around. Danny was tired anyway and I was satisfied by having been able to show Sean another place I'd been before, even if I barely remembered it myself. I drove us all back home then and Danny went to bed but it was just a couple more hours til Sean and I were out again, this time taking advantage of $1 margaritas at Sunset Station while getting a bit of work done. It was finally back to real, but still fun, life after that!

Howl At The Moon 10k Virtual Race 2014

Awhile back, Sean and I were looking for a race to do and found the Howl At The Moon 5k, 10k, and half marathon virtual race. It was only $17 per person to register for whichever distance race you wanted to enter. After registering, runners could run at their location of choice for the agreed distance, enter their results on the race website (optional), and receive their finisher's medal and souvenir race bib in the mail soon thereafter. (Of course, people could just register, not run, and receive the medal anyway but the system's based on honesty and the assumption that people will generally attempt to earn their medals, not that it really hurts anyone else if they choose not to.) 

Anyway, Sean and I decided to commit to the 10k so that we could get a decent workout, optionally do even more, but wouldn't feel compelled to do an entire half marathon. The location we chose to complete it at was Red Rock. I messaged one of the guys who pays for [innocent and clothed] photos of me to see if he'd want any of me at Red Rock and he paid me $36 for a small collection of photos of me in a few outfits there, pretty much making the race free for us, aside from the cost of gas to get there. (See a few of the photos at the bottom of this post.)

I had to have some pics of Sean too so I took a few of him just for me. :)
After the pics, Sean and I went to find a trail to run. We'd never done a trail in Red Rock before, or at least not completed one, but it was time to change that! We found one called First Creek Trail System. It was 3 miles round trip, rocky and sandy. It was dark out now so we lit the way with Sean's phone and jogged on! At the turnaround point, there was no real marker or significant feature to assure you you were there but the trail disappeared beyond that and our GPS things said we'd reached the turnaround so, after exploring for a couple of minutes, we jogged back.
We drove on a bit to Bonne Springs after that so we could jog the short route I'd done out there one night several years back. From the car where we parked to the Bonne Springs archway entrance and back was just over a mile round trip.

We drove back the way we'd come after Bonne Springs, stopping at Calico Hills (where our rock is) and doing a quick hike up the mountain where we took a break, had some sandwiches I'd made, and cuddled together while watching movies on my phone before hiking back down and driving home, about a mile total round trip.

The next day, we returned to Red Rock with the doggies and had them finish off our race with us (plus an extra mile or two!). We took drinks and snacks and parked at a lookout point a few minutes down the road from the turnoff for Calico Hills, jogging out over the uneven shrub and rock covered landscape, taking a couple of breaks when our fat dog Sammie fell behind a bit. When we finally turned around, we made our way over to the paved highway to jog our way back to the car on the road. The total round trip was about 2.6 miles, I believe. When we got back to the lookout point, we rewarded everyone's efforts with tasty snacks and drinks! Then we headed home, finally having earned our medals and more in the most roundabout way ever! Haha
Some of the gig pics of me at Red Rock: