My boy turned 30. FINALLY. And if that's not grounds for breaking the rules, I don't know what is. So I'll flaunt the "what happens in Vegas" more, and simulatenously shatter my "no pictures of me or my peeps" rule.
See, Dave knew he was going to Vegas for his birthday. He thought I was taking him on a romantic mini break, just the two of us. He was wrong.
While a Vegas weekend a deux might be enough for a regular birthday, the three-oh demanded a bit more. I needed to call in the troops.
The troops answered the call. Coming from New York, from San Francisco, from L.A., the OC, San Diego, and Phoenix, they came. And they brought their collective A game.
Rarely have I been as nervous as I was during our dinner on Friday night, knowing that my Lieutenants were smuggling 25 of our life-longest friends into our luxury suite. "Oh, Dave, before we go see magician Danny Gans, can we run up to the room so I can get a sweater? I'm freezing." He graciously bought my Classic Vegas Kitsch ruse.
Dave was really, truly surprised off his gourd. If he'd been a lesser man, of lesser bowels, he really would have crapped his pants.
Danny Gans a mere memory, our crew rallied hard for two solid nights of whooping it up like we'd never heard of 30.
I mean, any time you get 4 lawyers, a doctor, a six-figure consultant, 2 Harvard grads, and a priest up on the stripper pole, you're doing all right.
Given the reality of our years, it may take us awhile to recover. But it was so, so worth it.
He's not a priest, is he? He's a minister...right? Golly, I hope he's not a priest.
It was such a great time. I felt bad for everyone who wasn't in our group. They had to dance in a non-VIP section, without a stripper pole, with all the unwashed masses. It must suck to be poor.
I'm pretty sure you can see my fake eyelashes in that picture. CVS, $5.99!
Posted by: melati | March 11, 2008 at 08:28 AM
I like how the riff raff over there on the right is also smiling.
Posted by: TasterSpoon | March 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM
One could be misled by the pictures into thinking the entire weekend was one long male revue.
I might add that I am somewhat surprised that all of these emails with XXX in them make it through to my work email.
Posted by: 7thStreet | March 11, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Sooooo sweet.
Posted by: b32 | March 12, 2008 at 05:21 PM
New reader here. Nice blog!
My BF wants to date you...
Posted by: Abbie | March 13, 2008 at 07:23 AM
I hope you're not holding back any gems from the pole dancing. If you've got one like this, I want to know about it.
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=82ynbpyx58
Posted by: notoriouslig | March 17, 2008 at 08:46 PM
What a good-looking and extremely white group of people.
Posted by: gene | March 22, 2008 at 09:58 AM
SOOOOOOOOO fun.
And that orange dress is truly fabulous.
Posted by: Marcia | March 24, 2008 at 04:16 PM