Vegas - Early... Day 2

I'm including pictures in this post that aren't necessarily in order of having occurred, like I wanted to. These were pics from Lisa's camera and I just couldn't pass them up.

Now, where did I leave off??? I think we were at the Flamingo having a drink...

After we finished our drinks, Starsky, Hutch, Auri & I started off on our long, freezing-ass cold walk back to the hotel. I'm pretty sure I've been colder at some point in my life, but for those 15 minutes, I didn't think so. We got to our room and then called the rest of the crew to see where they were... and apparently they were right behind us because they were just coming into the hotel. Odum made his way up to our room and the girls made their way back to theirs. Since I wasn't feeling well, I made everyone leave after about 15 minutes so I could be sick in the bathroom without an aural audience. Sadly, I couldn't puke. TMI, I know, but you're getting it anyway. I'll leave the next hour out of the story to protect the innocent. (Note: nothing naughty happened. I swear on my mother's life!)

Mike and Greg left our room around 4:30 or 5 AM and as we were letting them out the girl across the hall was just leaving to go run the Las Vegas marathon! She asked if we were going and we informed her we were just going to bed. Yeah, we're special like that. Aurs, Odum and I got in bed around 5 and slept until maybe 9. I should mention here that I was nauseous all night, tried to throw up multiple times, and couldn't, so I didn't get much sleep. I think we were awoken at 8:30 by Noelle on the phone telling us to get our asses in gear and get moving because we had planned to go to Sunday brunch at the Bellagio since we had heard it was so good. I think we actually left the hotel around noon. A good portion of time had passed while Auri was face-down in bed... doing what? I can't say. Sorry, but I value my life.

Brunch at the Bellage was pretty good. I don't know that it was worth $30, but it was ok. It was pretty uneventful... just the seven of us, and Michelle, stuffing our faces for an hour. After brunch, we bought our tickets for "O" and then Auri, Noelle, Rose and I headed over to the Luxor while the rest of the bunch went back to the hotel to take a nap. Auri's mom and step-dad were staying at the Luxor and had run the marathon that morning so we wanted to say hi. Plus, the girls wanted to see the Luxor, so we thought we'd cross that off the list. And even though Mike and Greg were staying at the Luxor, that is NOT the reason we went over. We did happen to run into them though on our way up to Auri's parents' room. The picture below is not of Auri's victory dance. That one is on my other computer and I'll upload it later!I'm ending here for now because it's time to head out. And my fingers are so cold I can't feel them. More to come... we're getting sooo close!