Vegas - Day #2

My morning consisted of sleeping in, going for a run along the strip with Deanna and then later we took a taxi and met all the girls at the Luxor for the bestest breakfast buffet ever! While we were at the Luxor, we decided to pick up our show tickets for Criss Angel - Cirque de Soleil. For those of you who don't know, Criss Angel is a magician and has a show that airs on A&E called Mindfreaks where he performs all kinds of stunts & tricks for the public. Most of his stuff is pretty amazing to watch and leaves you baffled as you try and figure out "how did he do that?"

While we were in line to get tickets, a lady with a headset approached us and asked if we wanted to stick around and participate in an episode of "Mindfreaks" which they were taping right there at the hotel for this fall's show. We all agreed to stay and after waiting around for almost 2 hours, me, Deanna & Kari decided to go shopping instead. An hour after we left, Criss Angel finally appeared and out of all the people standing around waiting to see him, my friend HK had to be the most excited - especially when she was selected to participate in a magic trick with him which they filmed for the show. After the taping, he let her keep the cards used for the trick and took a moment to get a picture with her. She had a permanent grin on her face the entire rest of the day: While the girls stayed at the Luxor, we walked back to our hotel which was on the other side of the strip taking in all the sites and doing some shopping as well. Here are a few pics from the afternoon:

Eiffel Tower @ Paris

Fountains @ the Bellagio

New York, New York

We all met back at the hotel later in the evening and ate dinner at a really fun restaurant called Kahunaville in the hotel. We had the worst service from our waitress who was anything but nice to our group and after complaining to the manager about her, they were all bending over backwards for us! We somehow managed to have a good time regardless of the crappy service & the food was really good!

Afterwards, we all went back to our hotel to get ready for another night out on the town. Earlier in the day while we were shopping, a gentleman had stopped us to tell us about a nightclub he was promoting and ended up giving us 7 VIP tickets to the nightclub JET at the Mirage. We were positive we were going to have to pay him something since it seemed everyone in Vegas who helps you wants a cash kickback, but he walked away before we could even get out our wallets. So we told the girls about it and we all agreed to check it out. We all got ready to go and about 11pm we made our way to JET - of course getting a picture before we left:

We got to the club, found the promoter guy, stood in line for just 10 minutes and he escorted us all right past 3 lines of people on in to the club. We all even got 2 free drink tickets per person which was awesome since drinks in Vegas are at least $10/beverage. Inside the club was way cool and they played great booty-shaking music all night - which we did plenty of! At around 1:30am they had a special performance by a dance group called Beat Freaks who performed last year on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew and placed 2nd. They were awesome to watch and well worth waiting around to see! Of course we managed to snap a few pics of the ladies up in the club:

HK, Jennifer & HT ( a Heather-sandwich :)

HK, Deanna, Kari, & Marlo