After a shower and lunch at the Pool Café, we met Keith at the Bellagio Race & Sports Book to place our bets on college football games. We learned two very important lessons on Saturday: 1) A&M is a horrible football team right now and 2) Never bet on Texas to cover the spread. A bunch of our friends from the night before are Texas grads and warned us not to bet on Texas to cover. We didn’t believe them until we lost our money.
We spent most of the day Saturday at a sports bar called Blondie’s where the waitresses are dressed like cheerleaders. A bunch of us sat in a booth that had no fewer than 10 televisions of various sizes around it. We watched every game on TV simultaneously. I think Jeff was in Heaven. College football, beer, waitresses dressed like cheerleaders…what else could a man want? Oh, yes – to not lose all his bets.
Saturday evening we headed back to the Bellagio to change clothes and attend Keith’s actual birthday party in his suite. The party kicked off with a visit from the “Hairy Fairy” who appropriately embarrassed Keith.
Saturday evening we headed back to the Bellagio to change clothes and attend Keith’s actual birthday party in his suite. The party kicked off with a visit from the “Hairy Fairy” who appropriately embarrassed Keith.
As the night progressed and as tends to happen at parties, eventually tequila made an appearance.
Keith, Mark M. and Patron
After rounds of shots, we found Mark Mercer passed out in one of the bedrooms. And when you pass out at a party, you must have things placed on your face (let me note that Mark is lucky we couldn’t find any Sharpie markers). As I mentioned in the Friday installment of WHIV, Mark didn’t pace himself.
I need to note the attire that some people were wearing on Saturday night. Todd made quite an entrance when he showed up dressed exactly like J.R. Ewing.
John, Mark H., Will and Todd (aka J.R.)
Around midnight we decided that it was time to hit the casinos. At some point we went to the Venetian where a Halloween party was going on in one of the clubs. I saw these guys dressed like the “**** in a Box” sketch from Saturday Night Live and HAD to take a picture of them. (If you click on the link to watch the sketch, please note it's R rated)
Jessica and one box guy
Here is a picture of Keith's cake after we had already dug into it.
