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Third trip to Las Vegas in the last few months, this time for good friend Camerons 21st birthday. Here’s the day by day background.

Thursday: Woke up and went to 8am class. That was rough to begin with. Went to class, took a midterm in my next class, then went to my third class of the day. Hung around till about 7:30 and drove to San Diego. Hung around parents house for less than an hour. Zac picked me up, we went and picked Daniel up, then started driving to Vegas at 11pm. Made it to Vegas in really good time at about 3:30am. Walked around for a little bit, Daniel and I went to sleep at about 5:30 am. I guess that means I was up for 22 hours. whew.

Friday: Slept from 5:30am till about 9:30 ish when Cameron got to the hotel from his early flight. Us four plus Camerons parents eventually made it down to brunch around 11am. Ate and were merry. Wandered around, gambled a bit then up to room. Zac and I head out to the blazing hot strip to explore and Cameron and Daniel head off to the pool. We start walking around… start drinking ar about 1pm ish I would guess. Walk around the strip till I guess like 3 or 4. Head back to room, we are all there and tired at that point and sleep till about 6 when we are awaken to go have a toast for Camerons birthday up in his parents room. Go back to room, hang out for a bit, eat some.. then off into the night festivities.

Head to “Downtown” which is actually utter crap. We met up with other friends that were there and wandered around. It basically sucked except for my giant banana ice alchol thing. After a bit, Cameron, Daniel, Zac and I get a taxi back to the strip and wander on over to Margarittaville. Lots of fun there with the weak dance floor and really corney cover band. We stayed there the rest of the night, till about 2 or 3am I guess. Stumble a long walk back to the Luxor to get to sleep at about 4am or something.

Saturday: Woke up at 11? I don’t really know… tried to get something to eat but those stupid “inclinators” (the Luxor is the pryamid and don’t have normal elevators) shake and make you feel even worse that you were. Needless to say I wasn’t feeling all that great. Neither was Zac, he was in the room while Cameron, Daniel and I went for the food. We head back to room, eventually Daniel and Cameron head out to pool again, I lay down. Zac wanders off to meet other friends that got in that morning at 6am at around 1pm or something. I nap till about 5 or so and head off to get some food. Little Cesars has really good italian cheese bread. Zac was back in the room, then Daniel and Cameron made it back around 6 or so also. We all just lounge around the room till about 9:30 when we head over to t he Excalibur to meet with more people and head out to Body English at the Hard Rock.

Hopped in a limo for a 10 minute drive with about 9 people in the limo. Get to Body English, takes a couple mins for other friend Nate to get us all in free and avoid the line. It was awesome. His cousin works in the upstairs VIP where it’s $4000 for a booth. Yeah, wow. We head on up there after getting a drink and just had a good time the rest of the night. His cousin brought us shots and she was really awesome. Dance floor was okay, I’m not into too much hip hop but they played alot of other good dance tracks to make it good overall. Zac and I leave a little early at about 2ish to the hotel. Taxi drivers are such characters… haha

Sunday: All four of us eventually leave the room at about 10:30 am to head back to San Diego for Mothers Day and Daniel had to work. We actually get on the road at 11. Made it to Daniel’s house at 4:10… he had work at 4:30pm. I make it home shortly after to have Mothers Day with my mum, then drive back to LA at 10:45pm.

Quite the trip. This long, yet short post can only tell so much. Lots of goodtimes with friends.

Best of all, I’m going again this coming weekend. hahaha, round 4 here I come!

2 weeks ago I saw the presets, and four other bands on Tuesday at Cinespace, then onto Wednesday to see Minus the Bear. Both amazing nights. Last week was a busy work week. This past weekend was way fun with all the San Diego friends and working on Saturday.

This week?? Well, I like staying busy so work and play and work it is. Gotta get my passport this week too.

Saturday was also an old friends birthday, Happy Birthday to you.

I took some photos down in San Diego the other weekend. Then added some effects and whatnot and threw them into a photoset. enjoy!

Flickr Photoset here

I realized that it has been quite some time since I have posted anything. I’ve been quite on the busy side. It goes like this: work, school, work, school, work some more… weekend = goodtimes away from the computer most of the time.

This week was quite on the wild side for me and I enjoyed it all. Lets do a day rundown again just because I like making lists.

Wednesday: Worked then off to San Diego. Met up with friends (Daniel, Zac, Josh, and I) and went to the Jason Mraz show at SOMA. James Blunt opened for him who was way awesome. (more music later) Made it back to Josh’s place eventually to fall asleep.

Thursday: A day of creating costumes. Daniel and I were working on his Waldo costume which turned out awesome on Friday. Just hung out most of the night, watched Batman Begins.

Friday: A day of finalizing costumes then off to the night… Party party party. Awesome times with all the friends. (I’ll try to find pictures but I didn’t take any) I could tell many stories of this night, but that would take to long for me to type, so I’ll just say, it was wayyy fun. On a side note, I was Raoul Duke, played by Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Saturday: Relaxing until about 3pm when I was finally able to get up and head over to the spa with Sean. Met up with Zac for some dinner then off into the night again… There were two parties we went too, both kinda odd in there own ways. I drove us to each and watched all the great costumes around SDSU. We headed over to a friends by the the stadium then eventually all back to somewhere to sleep.

Sunday: Watched the Chargers beat Chiefs with Sean, Lucas and Cameron as usual on gamedays. Then I head off back up to Pomona. I get to my apartment and spend enough time unloading my car and getting ready to go to the next thing: We Are Scientists at the Troubadour. Awesome show, sooo happy I went. I headed out to Hollywood alone but remembered my friend Randy lived out there so it was cool he came to the show with me. I really like those guys and expect them to get big soon. I actually like them so much I have bought the cd from the UK since it isn’t out until January here; I also bought a shirt last night.

Well that’s the short version. Overall I’m enjoying all my times away from the computer, which seem to be alot. Have a happy Halloween!