Vegas - LA Farewell Trip/Party

Started from a msg from Anes (Stevanes, in case you're wondering if his name is really Anes heuuehe). Anes is a long time friend of mine. I know him since middle school? High school? Don't really remember hehe.. And no, he's not my high school friend. In fact he went to different school from mine and we have never gone to the same school huehuehe..

Anes: Je, wanna go to Vegas? My farewell party. Let me know k..
Je: EH?! farewell?! the hell Nes!
Anes: yep farewell.. heuhueh
Je: When? And when are you leaving?
Anes: May 30th and leaving on June 19th.
Je: The hell Nes!! that's like in 2 weeks!! June 19th?! So soon???
Anes: hauuhauahuah I know.. so? going?
Je: Let me see if I can find cheap ticket. Btw, is this farewell for real? I'll go to your 3rd farewell if I can't find ticket. How about that? hauhuahhaa
Anes: Damn Je, it's for real this time..huahhauha.. (note: last Dec he went home for good but the next month he went back to US again huahuahha)
Je: Damn Nes, it's like $466 to Vegas!!! I think I'll go to LA (he lives in LA) first then go with you guys to Vegas, if it's cheaper to LA than Vegas. If not then... I'll see you when I see you hauhauhahha..
Anes: huehuheuhe.. Ok, let me know how it goes.

And so, I went to LA first, then Vegas, and then back to LA before I went home.

There were 10 of us and it was a lot of fun!!

We stayed at Monte Carlo...(don't stay here if you don't want to walk that far as it's some distance away from all the other hotels but it's still on the strip... I stayed at Ballys before and it was right there in the middle of the strip.)
The hotel was nice but Ballys has bigger rooms, I think.

We got there on Sunday afternoon. We were out of schedule since some people couldn't wake up, and so we were late picking up Heidi at the airport. She was waiting for almost an hour there hueuheuhe *Sorry Hei..*
She was supposed to arrived at the same time as Yanto but his plane got delayed. So we were on time picking Yanto heuhuehuehe...

Then 2 more ppl came late at midnight. Few ppl went and got them at the airport while the others got ready to go clubbing.
The first night we went to Jet at The Mirage. We got there around 2AM (clubs close at 4AM). It was alright. Some of us weren't really in the mood for clubbing..tired and all.
But the guys were excited though since our waitress was cute heuhhuehuhe ^___^

The next day we went around, took some pics, blablabla...
That night we went clubbing at Pure in Caesar Palace.
Let me just say this... we were wasted... and let's leave it at that, shall we? heuhuehheuhuehe

Btw, the new hotel Palazzo, was alright I think. I don't think it's that great. I think of all the new hotels that just opened there, I like Wynn the best.

We were actually going to go leave to LA by 8PM (all 9 of us, Ijo went back home already), but since they all were so engrossed in winning their money back, we left at midnight.... *And they all lost heuheuhhe*

We rented 2 cars, 1 van and 1 sedan. I rode the van along with Anes, Delvia, Heidi, Yanto, and Congwae.
Congwae drove the van and Anes was the navigator. Yanto actually offered to get his GPS in his bag but Anes said no need, besides we had to open the trunk and go through the bag. It's late anyway.

OK, so off we went....

While on the road, I noticed that it wasn't the same environment that we went before. But I think well, maybe it's dark and you can't see anything.

And so, we drove for about 1 1/2 hours on 15 North (it takes 3-4 hours to go to Vegas from LA).
We passed a sign that said Welcome to Nevada and Nevada welcome center. Anes said, "Hey do you guys want to take pics at the welcome center?" huhuehuhee silly dude.
Then Victor called Anes since he was very sleepy and Kurt and Willy were sleeping (Willy had to go to work in the morning too hahahha).
They were talking and I didn't know what they were talking that got into the topic of 15North.
It turned out that we went the WRONG way!!! We should have taken 15 SOUTH!

Huahuhahuahuaha Congwae was so pissed, and everybody was just awed and amazed. Then we all started to blame Anes... hauhahuhauha..

I thought you said you know the way Nes..
I thought you said you don't need the GPS Nes, I offered it to you already.
And you still want to take pic at the welcome center?!
You're a dumbass Ness..
How come you don't know the way??
And you were so sure of yourself!

huahuhahuahuhahua.... and so for 2 weeks, he put "Anes is a dumbass" on his facebook.. huahuahuhaa..

We made a U-turn then stopped at Jack in the Box in Vegas (yes, we went back to Vegas again! haha).
It was around 3AM. And somebody said, "Look, we're in Vegas again.. we're never gonna get out of here.." huahuhuhaha..
We got to LA at 7AM.
Some of us slept til noon...

Victor bought Indonesian foods!! Oh man, they were sooooo good! I think that was the best meal of the trip heuhuehuehueh..

Then we went to Simpang Asia (Indonesian store), where we went crazy and bought a lot of Indonesian stuffs (foods).

Afterwards we went to Rodeo Dr, but it's closed already. We took pics and then went to Promenade. We were going to catch the sunset at the beach, but we were too late. So we took a walk on the street there.

The last day we were going to go to Pronto's and then Mie Yanti before going to the airport.
But we decided not to go since they are all in different way and we were very tired. Some of the guys were trying pot huehuehuhe.. It was so funny.. they can't stop laughing.. They were in la-la land..^___^
My flight was the latest of all. So we split the cars.
Delvia and Heidi went with Victor and the rest went in a separate car.

I don't know where Victor went but we went to Shinsengumi and had ramen. It was great! I think the best ramen that I have ever tasted here in the US.
I even forgot to take pic heuhuehuhee.. (btw, I didn't take that many pics of the trip or of Vegas since I took thousands of pics of Vegas last year)

We stopped by at In-N-Out on our way to the airport. Everybody, and I mean everybody, was saying you've got to try their fries! It's awesome! You have to try In-N-Out!
We couldn't find one on the way and I told Anes, we don't have to get it now, I'm going back to LA anyway (someday, right Fin? hahhaa). But he said, yes I know but I want you to try the fries, which was backed by the others.. "yea you gotta try it."

Finally it was there. We bought the regular fries and naepolitan shakes. And the verdict is..... it's ok... huahuhauhauha..
Gletwin said, "Are you crazy?! It's only OK?! you got the wrong one!! which one did you get? the regular one? No wonder!!! you should have gotten the animal style!!! Anes dumbass!" Ok, chill out Win, it's only fries...hauhauhuhauha...

When I went to work the next day, my brain didn't work, my body was sore all over, I just wanted to sleep... It was hard... heuhuehuhe..

All in all.. it was a very fun trip..

And lastly...

Best of luck to Anes and Kurt!! Hope you'll get whatever you want in life. And I hope you get that job Kurt.
When you're rich, don't forget me!!! huehuhehe..
I heard you guys are in Sg already. Well, have fun and party hard before you join our club, "the working ppl" heuhehuhehe..
See you in Dec Nes... Let's party again in Vegas on new year huahuhauhuha..