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Eddie’s birthday

June 10, 2009 in Eddie, Vegas life, daily life, food, mumble

Conversation Monday night while we laid in bed:

Eddie:  “I just can’t get poker out of my mind.  Whatever I do, it just swings right back to poker.”

Me:  “Well, stop trying to fight it, then.”

Eddie:  “I guess I could do that.  Didn’t really occur to me.”

Me:  “Just think about hands.  Eventually, you’ll realize that, for some reason, a giraffe is playing at your table.”

Eddie:  (laughing) “Okay.”

Me:  “And then, all of a sudden, you’ll realize you’re in the OCEAN!”

Eddie:  (really laughing hard now)

Me:  heehee

Monday was Eddie’s birthday, as well as our friend Jody’s.  (Jody lives in Canada and has come down to stay with us for a few days.)

So, to celebrate, we went to Lotus of Siam for dinner.  According to many reviews, it is the best Thai restaurant outside of Thailand.  It’s SO GOOD.   We got like 2 appetizers and 5 entrees to share between the 3 of us, then the waitress brought Eddie and Jody a dessert platter to share for their birthday, and sang Happy Birthday to them.  It was really sweet to see this little old Thai woman sing Happy Birthday.

The dessert platter consisted of a scoop of coconut ice cream, fried bananas, mango and some sort of sticky rice dessert thing.

While we were eating dinner, we were talking about what we could do after.  We were either going to go to the Strip and do something, or just go to a casino near the house and play penny slots and drink.  Since I’m still recovering from being really sick (also why there have been zero blogs for awhile), my vote was to just play penny slots somewhere close.

We went and played quite a few machines, but by far our favorite was one that we could all play together, and then sometimes (and somehow, I don’t think we ever figured it out) the “feature” would happen.  It was “Reel ‘em In” and it was SO MUCH FUN.  The feature would happen on two big screens above us, and was 4 fishermen that would either catch fish or race.  My guy won like 8 times in a row, and then Eddie chose him too and he started losing.  We figured that the computer can tell that more than one person has chosen the fisherman and sorta fixes it where he doesn’t win anymore.  But we still had a ball.

I think the two of them had a great birthday.

Tiger Jam XII

May 19, 2009 in Eddie, Vegas life, concerts, only me, pictures | 2 comments

Wow.

Just…wow.

Eddie has loved No Doubt forever.  In particular, he loves Gwen Stefani.  Ever since I’ve known him he’s talked about his undying love for her. lol  It’s not a sexual thing, he just thinks she’s BEYOND AWESOME.

So when we found out that No Doubt would be the headliners for Tiger Woods’ annual benefit, we knew we would be going.  So, last March, we got up very early and grabbed tickets as soon as they went on sale.  Even doing it as soon as we did, we still wound up quite far back, in one of the side sections near the back of Mandalay Bay Events Center.  Mandalay Bay’s arena is HUGE, so we were pretty far back.  (all the photos I took are up on Flickr, if anyone wants to check ‘em out.  I was able to get a couple good shots even from as far back as we were.)  (I got a set, and Eddie got a set. They were both in the back side sections.  We chose mine to keep since they were on row B and sold his row J seats on Craigslist.)

So, last Saturday we get dressed up and go to the show.  Eddie played poker for about an hour or so while we waited for the show to start (he did really well…hit all his draws and basically any flop that he played a hand).  According to the tickets, the show started at 8pm, so around then we started heading to the Events Center.

We get in there and get seated while The Sounds are playing.  I’ve never heard of them before, but they put on a pretty good show and the lead singer has a really nice voice.

After The Sounds, Paramore came on.  Now, talk about the lead singer having a good voice!  Hayley or whatever is awesome.  Her voice is crazy good, and she’s a very good showman.  Their set was very good.

After a little bit, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers came out to read a little thing and introduce Tiger Woods.  Well, everyone booed him so bad that he just abandoned his little index card and was like “Oh, forget it.  Here’s Tiger Woods.”

I felt bad for him.

Tiger then came out just to thank everyone and to let us know that No Doubt would be coming up in a little bit.

No Doubt put on an AWESOME show.  And it was so awesome to hear Eddie have such a great time.  He knew the words to every song, screamed them all, and, well, screamed any chance he got.

We really needed a night like that.  We had such an awesome time.

(And that was even before the best part.)

The band starts “Just a Girl.”  They’re almost done with the song, when Gwen steps down off the main stage onto this little ledge thing, jumps down OFF the ledge, and RUNS down the side of the aisles…toward the back of the arena.  Eddie, at this point, has pushed me and him both (we were only on the 2nd row, and on the aisle to begin with, so it wasn’t much pushing) down to the steps where we could, like, hit her hand while she ran past or something.  She runs past our section, then COMES BACK and runs up into our section!!

This is her running past us to get up higher in our section:

She stood up there and sang the chorus of “Just a Girl” a few times, getting the crowd involved, etc.  I stood near our seats and Eddie stood up there near her to get photos and grin like crazy.  I was SO EXCITED for him.  He just loves her so much.  Some of the photos he took are blurry but I DO NOT CARE. lol

The best one:

I grabbed her while she ran past the first time, and when she ran past the second time.

Was so beyond totally awesome.

So then after a few more songs, the show was over.

We really needed a night like this.  It was like the stars aligned to give us the perfect night.  Eddie played online before we left and won, he played poker at the casino and destroyed it, we got to see No Doubt, AND Gwen came to OUR section to sing part of a song.  I mean, really?  Out of ALL the sections in the arena?  AND when we sold one of the sets, we sold Eddie’s, not mine.

It was just a perfect night.  Absolutely perfect.