Our awesome Vegas weekend

So we decided back at the end of June that we wanted to go somewhere in July. Now if you know me, you know that by going somewhere, I mean on a plane. I have NO desire to 'go' to portland, as I've been there a zillion times and I want to relax. I know what you're thinking, Vegas?? Funny place to relax. But they have dirt cheap flights from Redmond and we haven't been in a few years and I've got some friends who live there, so yeah lets go there. Fast forward to the trip...

So we arrive at LAS airport and take the shuttle to the rental car area. We wait in line for 1 hour 15 minutes just to get our car. Once its our turn to be next in line, they send two people to lunch. Of course they do. So we finally get our car, and I'm cranky and want some food and to be to the hotel. Then it takes us over an hour to get to our hotel. For those of you who've never been the airport is literally all of like 2 miles from the Vegas strip. So driving on the strip sucks ass and there is all this road construction, so we finally took some back roads. (Thank goodness we lived there once upon a time) Finally we get to the Venetian. Now this is the hotel to stay at. Gorgeous huge rooms. And I may be a total dork, BUT their blinds and curtains are operated by a remote control, and I think that is pretty awesome. Let alone the TV in the bathroom. Ahhh yes, its everything I look for in a hotel. :)

So I had been texting my friend Tiffany ( who is a manager for the wayne brady show) about this show on the strip called Peep Show, its got Holly Madison from The Girls Next Door in it. I love that show, so I wanted to see if she had seen Peep Show and to see if it was really worth what they charge for the tickets. She said that she knows some of the dancers as they used to be in Wayne's show and that she hadn't seen it, but heard it was pretty good. So now I've gotta decide if I want to go to that show or the Chris Angel show. Then we head to the spa for a few hours. We get back to the hotel and are watching some tv and Tiffany texts me and tells me to call her at her work ext. I call her and she says, I just got tickets for you to go to Peep Show. WHAT! I'm so excited I'm jumping up and down, and then she says, but wait thats not all..... Hugh Hefner will be in the house and they will be filming an episode of Girls Next door, I literally started screaming SHUTUP, and running through the hotel , (Art was getting ice at this time) I'm freaking out, she got us another set of free tickets, and I'll get to see Hugh and the cast from Girls Next Door, and then I'll get to see Wayne Brady's show (cause super Tiffany got us tickets to that too!!!) ... This is awesome!!! Art comes in and I am jumping up and down telling him, he's looking at me like I'm crazy!!! So after I calm down we go downstairs to visit Tiffany (her office and the Wayne Brady show are also at the Venetian) we're standing there talking to her for a while right outside the Blue Man Group theatre and these two guys walk up and go hey did you just go to the Blue Man show, and we're like oh no, we're just talking to our friend, and he goes oh are you going to this show. Nope we say, and then he goes well I've got three extra tickets, you guys wanna go. I look at Tiffany like What is going on, she's like you're not selling those right and he says no they were comped and my friend bailed, they'll just be empty seats if you don't go. So we're like uhh yeah okay let's do it! So thanks to Tiffany, we've now gotten seats to 3 shows! Yes 3 shows. WOOOHOOOOO!!!

So the next day we hang out, go to the really crazy pool, eat and relax. Then its time for the show. So we get all dressed up and away to Planet Hollywood for Peep Show. I of course want a picture of Hef, so I make Art stand with my by all the crew from Girls and try and listen in. I tried asking them when he'd arrive, but the girl was a total bitch to me, so then we just listened in to their convo. :) About ten mins prior to showtime I hear them say, Hef just left the Palms. Okay well there is NO way he's going to make it before the show is suppose to start. Of course they won't start it without him either, but I don't want to not get my seat. So into the theatre we go. About 20 mins later Hef, the 3 girlfriends, Mary and Hef's brother all walk in. The crowd goes pretty wild. Half the people didn't know he would be there ( I wouldn't have either, if not for Tiffany) so they were freaking out. We couldn't take pictures, but it was pretty cool to see him. They used him onstage which was hilarious, I don't want to tell you, so you can watch the episode next season on E and think of me. So he walked pretty much right past us on the part below about 4 feet down from us, I yelled to Mary, but she didn't look. It was a fun night and you know I love my celebrities.

Next day is sunday, our last day. Sad. So Tiffany had told me in advance that Wayne uses people from the audience in his show, and was I going to volunteer. Uhh that would be a heck yes I'm going to. So we get to the show and she has gotten us front row seats!!! WOOHOO! I'm so excited, I feel like I'm going to pee my pants. Wayne Brady is a funny and good looking guy. So the show starts and I'm just in heaven watching him. He's hilarious! So then he's telling us about the volunteer part and asks for 4. Of course mine is the first hand in the air, and I'm like oh oh oh me me me. Yes I got called. Then onstage I go. YEAH!!! So me and the other 3 volunteers have to act out the words he's using in his skit. We didn't do so good, but we were fairly funny. Some of the words we did, were globe, where we spun one of the people, coffee machine, somehow we ended up hitting the girl and a really funny one was a sliding ladder from the library. Where the guy volunteer got on all fours and I jumped on his back, and the two ladies jumped on mine and I go now move, we must have looked like idiots. But it was fun fun fun!!! The show was AWESOME!! And sooo funny and he can sing and dance too! If you go to Vegas, get tickets and go to his show, its so good!!!

All in all it was a GREAT weekend!!! We had a blast at all the shows...Thanks again to my friend Tiffany for making it all happen!!! Viva Las Vegas

Ohhhhh the joys, yep its another poop story.

So here's one to make you laugh.

So our restrooms at work are public. I mean they are in our backroom, but we let our clients and everyone use them. People for some reason just LOVE to take a crap in our bathrooms. Its like oh I gotta go, let me go stink up the bathroom at Ann Taylor Loft. I have people come in just for the bathroom...so anyways, here's the story.

On Sunday it was clean the bathroom day and its my turn. That's fine, whatever. Its disgusting and we clean the toilet once a week. Since so many people love to take a crap in our lovely restroom, there are always poop spots...like how on earth does your poop get in those spots, I do NOT understand. So I get my plastic gloves on and squirt the crap (no pun intended) out of the toilet with the cleaner, I get it all clean and scrub inside and out so its all pretty and ready for the next client to come stink it up.

Later in the afternoon I tell Mieke (my co mgr) that I gotta pee and I'll be right back. I go in and low and behold....poop stains, I'm like you have GOT to be kidding me...seriously, it's only been clean for like 5 hours!!!! I start walking towards the toilet and I realize there is poop smeared on the top of the bowl, like right underneath the seat. It looked like someone seriously picked it up and smeared it on there. DISGUSTING.... I run out and tell Mieke she has to go check it out. Did I mention Mieke has horrible gag reflexes and gags at everything. She's like no way, I'm not going in there. She goes and checks it out and is like I'm not cleaning that, and I said well I'm not either cause I already cleaned it today. So I told her to just get some gloves and spray a bunch of cleaner and maybe since it was fairly fresh it would like just run down the bowl and she could just use a paper towel to clean up the side. I said I'd clean the rest if she'd just get that part. So she goes in for the cleaning in a few minutes.

About 5-6 minutes later she comes back out to the floor, I ask her if she survived... She said well I sprayed it and it started running down and it was making me gag, I'm laughing a little, I'm not going to lie... and then she goes and then I went to clean it, and my keys broke and fell into the toilet. OHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYY GOSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH....I had to run to the back I was laughing so hard, I nearly peed my pants.... Her keys to the store fell into the toilet that now had poop dripping into it. She had to reach in and get them. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at work in my entire life. If you only knew Mieke, and then thinking how funny the story is anyways....oh my gosh , her keys falling into the poopy water, and having to get them. Its just what timing those keys had deciding to break and fall in right then. Ohhhh the life of retail. Never a dull moment...Never.