Vegas baby. Vegas.

So we surprised my buddy Jason for his 30th birthday with a trip to Vegas. 10 of us piled into two rooms for the weekend at Harrahs. He was unbelievably surprised…it was so much fun.

Alli’s post pretty much sums it up. Great trip. Awesome surprise. Well done, Brooke.

I’ve experienced such amazingly bad luck in a trip to a casino. I played poker with Jason one night and I’ll tell you what…I didn’t get but maybe 2 hands that I could play. When I finally went all-in, I had K-J, which was by far my best hand of the night. Guy called me with A-J and his A won. That’s weak.

I would win some money at the nickel slots (I think I won about 50 bucks…not bad for nickels!), but I got worked over playing Let it Ride.

One of the highlights to the trip (besides the trip itself) was getting to go see The Beatles’ themed Cirque de Soleil show at the Mirage, LOVE.

It was so unique and brilliant and it featured such incredible music and told a great story. Totally worth the money to go. We all really enjoyed seeing it. My dad will absolutely love it when he finally gets to see it.

Other funny highlights of the trip:

• Stalking Coach K in the high-limit slots at Harrah’s
• Watching Stowell go on perhaps the best blackjack run I’ve ever seen
• Brooke getting hooked on high-limit slots
• Brooke being “too tired to eat” on Sunday morning
• Taking naps at the pool on the first day because our room wasn’t ready (in our normal clothes)
• My 7-team parlay that would have paid me $1000 if I wouldn’t have missed 4 of the games (stupid KU, Penn State, Saints and Chiefs!)
• The random girls from Chicago that our girls met in the bathroom
• Seeing Kevin Richardson from the Backstreet Boys at Caesars
• Seeing Old Downtown Vegas for the first time (no, seriously, we can walk there…really, Jason?)
• Seeing why no one goes to Old Downtown (what a hole!)
• The free ceiling show in Old Downtown
• “Who is that guy? Is he famous?”
  “He must be, he’s driving a Bentley!”
• “Jason, thanks for last night…signed, Vegas Showgirl at Harrah’s” funniest picture
• High fives all around to the casino
• Almost getting kicked out of Chipotle thanks to Brooke
• Watching the Bellagio fountains…seriously never gets old…so incredible
• Not winning a single sports bet that I made (out of 4)
• …so many more

Great trip all around. Fun stuff. When’s the next one?