Vegas Day 3

Final night in Vegas.

8:30am - As always, I wake up around 8:30 in the morning. Head down to the poker room for some 2-4 limit hold'em while Sue sleeps.

10:30am - Sue calls me to tell me she is awake and I should make my way back around noon. I'm down $75 when she calls, but manage to claw back to $34 down by the time I get up and head back.

noon - After a quick lunch, its off for more sight-seeing. Today we are hitting up my two favorite casinos on the strip: Venetian and Paris. First stop is the Venetian.

1:00pm - We wander over to TI since it is nearby.



Best thing about TI: They sell Bacardi and Coke in slurpee form! You know I couldn't resist that! Now that we are liquored up a bit, we can move on.

After some more wandering into various casinos, we head back for a simple dinner.

8:00pm - Time for drinking Eric and Sue to shine! Tonight we have decided to try something different and head to the Carnaval Court bar at Harrahs. Its a outdoor bar with a live band every night. This night it was a great hard rock cover band. The only bad thing is that it is an outside bar and it was still 85+ when we go out. Still, we had our funniest night in Vegas ever. We drank, we sang, we danced, and, stupidly, we took pictures flashing gangsta signs because we were hella drunk. I not going to say anything about the walk home because it was both painful and a little gross. Lets just say that people drinking Long Island Ice Teas should remember they are made with 4 shots each:)

Vegas - Day 2

Day two of our Vegas trip:

8:30am - Wake up way too early due to excitement of Vegas. Rather than wake Sue up, I read in the bathroom for a half hour.

10:00am - We are clean, crisp, and ready to go. Head out on the town. First stop, pretzel at New York, New York. They are ALMOST as delicious as the ones at Grand Central;)

11:00am - We wander over to MGM to watch the lions. By sheer luck, we show up just as they are coming out, so we get a good spot.

12:30 - After some lunch and meeting up with the family, we start our first sight-seeing day. First stop, rampant commercialism at the M&M store! And, yes, it IS true what they say about the green ones;)

1:00pm - First stop on the tour: Bellagio. We wander around for a bit, then head to the best part of Bellagio: the authentic gelato shop. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I think I might have had a mini orgasm on that first bite.

4:00 pm - We've hit up Caesars Palace and Flamingo. On the way back, we get some good drinks at Margaritaville at the Flamingo. I think this is the latest I've been sober in Vegas.

6:00pm - We've napped for a bit so it's time for dinner. Head over to MGM again for dinner at the rain forest cafe (shut up; Yea, we are tourists. I blame Sue's family). At least they make decent fruity drinks for the wife. I get beer. I'm not drinking anything that comes with an umbrella.

9:00pm - Separate from the family. Time to really get our drink on! Sue and I have made it our tradition to see NY NY's local band Phoenix at least once while in Vegas. Lots of good 80s rock. We have plenty to drink and lots of great sing-along moments. Our waitress sucks though. She disappears every 20 minutes to do God knows what. I assume smoke breaks, but this Vegas. It could be almost anything to be honest.

1:00am - Tired and sore (I haven't walked this much in the last 3 months), we retreat to our hotel room to pass out.

Vegas 2007 - Day 1

We're back from our 3 days in Las Vegas. Here is our recap of day 1:

5:30pm - Arrive in Vegas and head to the Excalibur. After the usual check-in, unpack, bitch about the god damn time-share sales people cycle, we head down to meet Sue's family.



7:00pm - Head to Dicks Last Resort, the sort of restaurant where the waiter mocks you, forces you to wear a funny hat, and you pay them to do it with a smile. Here for example was Sue's hat:

Sue and I have plenty of drinks and then head out to see some night sights with the family.

9:00pm - We make it down to the Bellagio and watch the water cannon show. At least no one looks down on me for drinking in public this time.

10:00pm - Make it down to the Mirage to watch the Volcano. <Bevis voice>FIRE! YEA!</bevis voice> The family is tired by this point, so we call it a night.

11:30pm - heading back up to the room. By this point I'm just pretending the time-share people don't exist.

That sounds delicous AND sexy

Someday soon, I hope this will be me:

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53 hours and 20 minutes to go

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Good Work Crew!

A very successful and packed 4 days this weekend:

Friday - TGI Fridays and Simpsons movie. Spider Pig and teeny boppers. Like Oh MY GOD! Seriously! Shut up!

Saturday - Bowling for Rhinos, a fund raiser for the Detroit Zoo. Fun bowling, plus Mike won $300+ dollars on the 50/50 raffle (all of which are going to his wedding planner to ensure he gets his hand job on the wedding day). And white music that even I was ashamed of (I'm looking at you Sue, Mike and Pam!).

Sunday - Drove up to my uncle's cabin in the middle of nowhere Michigan to celebrate my cousin's graduation from high school. Rode jet skis, played Euchre, chatted with family, and watched my 18 year old cousin get wasted with parental blessing. Also, I think this may have been the very first time I have ever really drank in front of my parents. That was only a little weird. Plus my alcoholic cousin (a different one), is sitting there the whole time watching as I drink. I felt a little bad that I was drinking right in front of her, but f#$k it. I'm not the one with a problem, so why should I have to stop drinking? (really! no problems here!)

Monday - Drive back from Middle of Nowhere. About half way into this 3 1/2 hour drive, my mom runs over a large 2x6 board that was in the middle the of the freeway for God only knows what reason. Pops a tire AND bends the rim. Nice...My dad had to drive 60 MPH the whole way home.

My Great Weekend

I had a fantastic weekend. It was so good that the best I can do is bullet points and links for now. Sue and I need to rest for the next week at least before I will have anything that resembles coherent prose:)


1) ESPN: Spartans win first NCAA hockey title since 1986 - Fuck YA! No better way to put you in a good mood to go out clubbing then hearing your Alma mater has won the NCAA hockey tournament after being a 3rd seed.

2) Montreal - Great city. Good times had by all. Got some new crazy memories to enjoy later in life, from the smoke detector going off in our non-smoking room (I can't mention why) to the crazy tranny that started mumbling and following us after our trip out Saturday night.

3) Stereo - Fantastic club in Montreal. At least the after-hours part is. Before 2am, the place is pretty lame. Its been a while since I danced the night away until 4am, but it was certainly worth it. According to several of our co-partiers, Stereo has the best rated sounds system in North America. After listening to it for a few hours, I became a believer.

4) Bal en Balnc - Holy shit! I have never seen ....well... ANYTHING like this. The most fucked up, crazy, loud event I have ever been too. Armin Van Buuren rose to the top of both my and Sue's lists of favorite live DJs. His set was un-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE.

I don't even know how to describe this to someone who hasn't been to an event like this. Here are a bunch of pictures to give you an idea.

One thing I have to mention is the weird paradox of people who come to this event. It was a strange mix of openly gay men and insanely hot, scantly clad women. The two in combination doesn't make a ton of sense to me, but whatever:)

Throw in people from 18 - 45, including whole families (I saw a rather large number of Asian families all together for some reason). And what is really odd: no pushing, no fighting, no drunken brawls or angry words. Just a bunch of people together having fun and listening to some fantastic music.

Bal en Blanc FTW!

The Wilson Tag Team will be celebrating Easter this year by attending Bal en Blanc in Montreal, one of the best trance and house parties on the continent.

Nothing like hard trace and house music to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus:) If only I didn't have to dress in all white. Stupid conforming rules. I thought techno music was all about dressing like a complete freak and being an individual and all that:)

P.S. Kudos to our buddy Sebastian for coming up with a way to get us there on the cheap!

This is Ithaca, NY

Some pics of our recent trip to Ithaca, NY to visit our great friends Paul and Sue. It was very pretty with all of the waterfalls. There were 3 or 4 huge waterfalls. The one place looked like something out of the Lord of the Rings. Very beautiful landscape!