Lap of Luxury

Dina's Birthday ~ Vegas Style

An opportunity to travel to Las Vegas is always a treat but this weekend it was an even bigger treat! My friend Dina, who I met at SFSU when we became roommates, was celebrating her birthday and invited many people for the four day celebration. I arrived on Friday afternoon and had no idea how the night would progress well in the early morning.... Here are pictures from the weekend celebration.

Here are pics of the suite at the Mirage hotel:

Walking in there is a huge couch, big dining table and the two rooms in the back.

The dining table and bar area are shown here and below.

The 'guest room' was the room to the right and it had two beds a desk area and bathroom.


Here is the Master Bedroom



At the foot of the bed was the TV hidden in the cabinet. While it made me think of the Tea with Lemon blog about the TV of his dreams this one wasn't quite as amazing, but it was really cool!

The piece de resistance was the Master Bath

This whirlpool tub was just awesome!

View from the room by day...

and by night.

Friday night after dinner at a restaurant at the Venetian Hotel we went to see the Wayne Brady "Making *#it Up" show. While at dinner reservations were made at Shobu for a private Karaoke room.

A little history - when Dina and I last lived together in SF we lived around the corner from a bar that had Karaoke on the weekends. Dina and I would go there often and Dina really became a Karaoke regular.

Shobu was hard to find for the cab driver to find, but we finally found it.

Here is Bill, he's the one who came up with the idea for the private Karaoke room. (Dina and I met Bill at SFSU when we were all going to college)

This small room accommodated us fine, however there was NO air flow in the room at all. I can't even imagine what that place would be like during the desert summers....

Notice the weird background - it was like that all night with all the odd home videos and or European tour videos

then in between lyrics this kind of screen would pop up

And at the end of every song a score screen would show up always OO to OO

The boys sing it up!

Marisol, Dina (birthday girl) and Bill jam

Dina blows out the birthday candles on the green tea ice cream

Dina ended the night with a song and we were asked to leave - it was 3 am and they wanted to close up for the night.

Once back at the hotel Chris crashes on the couch and Bill called room service for a few snacks


and then THIS spread showed up! Eight, yep eight, dishes of snacks arrived. I was told after the fact that I shouldn't have let Bill call the order in on his own...

Saturday day is still a blur - in bed after 5 am and up around 10:30... a group met for lunch, Dina and I gambled a bit and then we went up to the room for a nap. Then a large group met for dinner. Afterward everyone came up to the suite for birthday cake & drinks.

Dina shows off the bedroom TV

Family and friends hanging out at the suite party

Sunday came much too soon (don't forget we lost an hour due to Daylight savings....) and I headed home in the early evening..... Ah the posh life it came and went so quickly.