kate and her best friend illeana arrive at the las vegas airport ready for an exciting trip of vegas casinos, clubs, shopping and more. i think it was the "more" part that they were not prepared for. but they were great sports about it all. we picked them up at the airport on the most grizzly day i have ever experienced in vegas. grey, freezing, windy. the forecast said it would be sunny, but the girls brought some incredibly atypical vegas weather with them. we took them by the house and then on to the first adventure. a casino? no. shopping? no. a random fake western town with a lot of weird animals? yep. so we boarded the train on a freezing windy somewhat rainy day to travel a few feet to the western town to watch a hanging. it was riveting. we all tried our best to humor zach and his idea of an amazing day. i will say that we saw some crazy animals. i think my favorite was the black chicken with big furry feet that ran around. zach thought he found his long lost goat he has been wanting forever. he wants to name him luther.
when we got back to the house i was handed a zebra dress and told by kate "you are wearing that". my response? " i thought you were wearing that?" her response? "yeah. i am wearing it, you are wearing it and illeana is wearing it." come to find out that zach had requested that kate go to the clothing store she owns in charleston and pick up three matching dresses that we would all wear out together. i told zach i couldnt do it and he said "take one for the team, trace." so i wore it and it was hilarious.
the next day we went to red rock canyon. an amazing thing happened. i have lived here an entire year. have been to red rock canyon i don't know how many times in search of a burro. never seen one. well, today was the day. we finally met. take a look.
the girls wanted to go to a club so we agreed we would go to ghost bar and the palms. they got dressed up in amazing dresses and to the ghost bar we went. we walked up to the front and the 2nd door man gave kate trouble over her very legit i.d. we went to security, got the i.d.s scanned. gave them wrist bands, went back. the doorman decided he wanted to be a mr mean man for no reason. he said there was no way we were getting in his club so we got the manager. the manager was very nice. took us through another set of security and up the back elevator. the mean doorman had called security on us so he had to take us up a back way. when we exited the elevator the manager took us into the kitchen!! here he gave us a talk about how we had done nothing wrong, apologized for his staff and told us that we were going to have a good time at his club. then he escorted us past all the doormen saying "code 4" (later i learn this means V.I.P.) he takes us up to the bar and tells all the bartenders that we are to drink for free. in addition to that we were getting free drinks left and right from various men in that place. the manager checked on us throughout the night and then asked us if we would like to check out the new club "moon" in the new tower of the palms. he had someone escort us to that club. no cover charges were paid anywhere. at that club we were led to a private table stocked with alcohol and told we could have whatever we wanted. then a man came up to me and told me we had to leave bc the owner's wife thought we were too pretty to sit there. ridiculous!! so we ventured to the brand new playboy bar where kate spent the first amount of money any of us had all night. she got 2 drinks and paid over $40 i think. we then got a text from zach telling kate i had to work and we needed to get home. didnt get to bed till 4am bc we got home and proceeded to chat for a while. it really was quite an entertaining night!
the next day we took the girls shopping and then to top the night off to a suprise visit to meet characters of star trek at the bar quarks. we all shared a smoking (literally) bowl of warp core breach? i would say an fantastic end to a vegas experience.
