Given that I went to bed at 11pm on our first night I was up at 5:30am Vegas time and ready to party. The great thing about this city is whenever you are ready to go, it's ready too. It was the perfect lazy morning, I read some of my book, watched Good Morning America, and waited for my body to feel like getting ready for the day.
We started our day with an Irish coffee and a Bloody Mary, which was great except all my Bloody Mary came with was celery. Are you joking me? I can't get an olive? A pickle? A pepperonchini? Luckily I had some turkey sticks in my purse that I packed in case I needed an emergency snack, so I tossed one of those in there to jazz it up - a lady who brings her own meat to the party is the classiest lady you'll find.
Then it was time for brunch with a dear college friend of mine Ryan! We did speech together and whenever I travel to Vegas we always catch up. We went to Palms for an awesome meal that consisted of made to order eggs Benedict and breakfast pizza, sushi, smoked salmon, all the best baked goods and street tacos (they were so good I had two despite my stomachs claims to be full). It was so wonderful to catch up and hear all about Ryan's Vegas adventures. And then Robin Leach stopped by our table (he knows Ryan) and Devin and I wanted to play it cool so we did not get a picture.
Then I took another nap because I love naps, and woke up at 5:30 am.
Then it was off to the strip! We took the bus that runs from Fremont to the strip and it was very convenient. Here's Devin waiting for the bus and clearly very happy to have me photographing him. 
Oh here's a smile I forced out of him. He's happy even when he's frowning, I promise.
We had dinner reservations at 7 so we got drinks at a place called 3535 (recommended by Ryan) before we went for food. Damn. These drinks were phenomenal. This is a sampler of infused alcohol. There's an espresso infused whiskey, a bacon and ancho infused whiskey, and cookie dough Ingushes cherry cordial liqueur. I took a sip of each one and made a face like I had taken a sip of gasoline.
Which is why I ordered a peanut butter and chocolate martini that was out of this world. I also got a coconut martini that included banana infused liqueur and rum chata.
We then ate dinner at a restaurant called Javier's which is in Aria. It was a recommendation from my brother in law and Devin and I love Mexican food so it seemed like a no brainer. First of all we had this appetizer that sounded like a queso dip from the description but was actually a giant plate of melted cheese (thinking thick and melty like the cheese on top of a pizza) with mushrooms and chorizo and spices and amazingness. It came with corn tortillas so we made little cheese roll ups, which were very similar to the kind they have on Taco Bell's dollar
menu but infinitely better. Like obviously not even in the same ballpark in terms of quality and tastiness but that's the only comparison I have. It was insanely stringy also, which is the best quality of melted cheese. Each spoonful begged not to be separated from the pile and attempting to pull the cheese apart just created longer strings of delightful cheesy heaven. If you can't tell I wanted to dive in for a cheesy swim but let's talk about our meals also. Phenomenal. We both went the seafood route. I did a mix of shrimp and crab enchiladas and Devin did a sampler plate that included a shrimp taco, a lobster enchilada and a seafood stuffed chili relleno. Everything we ordered was bursting with flavor, fresh seafood, and of course more cheese. Expect I was so full from the cheese explosion and brunch that I could only eat half an enchilada. Don't worry, that totally came back to the room. Because when food is amazing not even being a leftover can keep it down.
Then we made it back to Fremont with overly full tummies and found our way to an arcade bar. 
Devin played a few of the classics. I killed at Tetris and then shockingly I dominated at the fighting games. We played twice and both times I beat Devin and then went on to win 3 rounds against the computer. I've never played an arcade game like that before so it could be luck, or it could be I am a born champion. 
Let's go with the second option.
Then I managed to stay up to an impressively late 11:15 before I told Devin it was my bedtime. The new goal of the trip is to see midnight. We'll see what happens.
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