This is What we Work For...

Here are some of the tunes from the trip.

Pursuit of Happpness - aoki remix [for me, the tune of the week]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_snoM4VkWAw

The Scientist (Coldplay) Maarten De Jong Remix [breakdown of the week!]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBx4IkpustI


Adele - Rolling in the Deep (never found the right club/remix)
you used to hold me - calvin harris
tim berg seek bromance
rihanna - only girl in the world
rihanna - whos that chick
britney - hold it against me
JLo - on the floor
knas - steve angello
snoop dogg sweat
tiesto v diplo
lmfao party rock anthem
martin solveig hello (check out dada life remix and Sidney simpson remix)
barbra Streisand - duck sauce
no beef
afrojack ft eva simons take over control
lmfao - let the bass kick in miami girl
edward maya - stereo love
josh guru project - infinity (dirty electro house)
Usher - club got us fallin in love


Some from Aoki's set:

warp 7.7
doing it right
wake up call
turbulence
white noise/red meat – dada life
show me love – steve angello and laidback luke
swedish house mafia miami 2 ibiza, one


There is one other top tune of that week that I never found out the name... it will come to me (I've heard since).

A few more photo's from various points on the trip

The Stag recovering on the flight home

My view at the pool in Aria

The Stag making some shapes on the dancefloor. I think!

Marquee outdoor club - amazing

I think Paul over-ordered on the booze!

Marathon checking in session at the MGM Grand...

Videos of the best nights

This guy has posted loads of HD videos of the nights we were @ Marquee (Ferry Corsten) and the night @ XS with Steve Aoki, Angello and Calvin Harris.

http://twitter.com/#!/702_baby

Check out the Coldplay scientist remix go bonkers as a highlight..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z3LHW1lsEI&feature=youtu.be&a

Hotels: pics

Hotels: photos

The Last Night

We finally wound down yesterday and had the most amazing meal at the best restaurant on the strip; N9NE @ Palms.

It involved some amazing steaks and 'pinchy' the lobster to which i'm looking forward to digesting on a 14 hour flight home!

I was also treated to a surprise gift from the boys back home who could unfortunately not make it this week to a bottle of top dollar champagne.  Cheers boys,  this was the perfect end to a perfect week.

Played our last game of poker afterwards and saw Carlos Mortensen playing in Iveys room. For those who dont know, he is practically poker royalty.

Pool II

Steve Aoki @ XS

Absolutely amazing night at XS came as a bit of a surprise.

Having mulled over a venue for several hours (Monday is a bit of a slow night) we reluctantly plumped for XS at Encore, having already been on Saturday.

Arrived early to discover Steve Aoki was starting his summer residency tonight.

The most amazing DJ set I've ever seen followed with a guest appearance from Steve Angello (one of the Swedish House Mafia) and Calvin Harris.

Steve Aoki played amazingly bonkers tunes from start to finish, stood on the decks spraying Dom Perignon over the crowd and crowd-surfed on an inflatable mattress.

The Grafton it was not.

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And Home...

Gen Stuff

Spooney (Fake)

Calvin Harris & One of Swedish House!

Steve Aoki

XS II

Day time

Foundation Room

Food..

Old town

Mersey Shore

I'm sure most people will have at least heard of Jersey Shore. Today, Phil decided to create his own version by lobstering up in the sun...

Location : 3730 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109,

Aria Hotel Room

The rooms we are staying in at the moment are fully interactive. Basically everything in the room is controlled electronically from a device at the bedside which also works from the 40 inch plasma.

The devices control the following:

- all lights in the room, each with 5 levels of light control
- sound system
- TV
- net curtains
- blackout curtains
- air conditioning
- electronic "do not disturb sign"

All of these can be programmed for entry to the room, so you can set the TV, lights and air con to come on when you walk into the room.

A "goodnight" button on the bedside table will switch everything off and close the curtains.

A "wake-up" setting allows you to open the curtains and play your choice of music at a certain time, the aircon will prepare the room to a certain temperature before you wake up and the lights will come on gradually.

The Travelodge it is not.
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Deuces

New night out begins..

More scary food - death by hot dog this time

Paul ordered a foot long hot dog yesterday. He didn't realise it would also be 3" thick!

Location : 3730 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109,

Location : 3730 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109,

Flaming Drambuies and you be Nato...

After an amazing night around lots of different Vegas nightspots, culminating in Ghost and Moon, we ended up back in the MGM Grand hotel bar.

There was a fair amount of random booze consumed before I decided some flaming drambuies would be a good idea so I ordered 6 doubles (by this time we'd befriended a cool guy from Chicago who'd joined us.) The barman seemed to want to get the drambuie off his shelf as I left the bar with 6 half-pints of the stuff!

After a bit of drunken explanation (and a few burnt knuckles) we all drank our drambuies. This seemed to be a tipping point for the night and caused half the guys to hit the poker room, leaving Phil and I with Chicago.

Somehow we got into a deep and meaningful about US and world politics. At the point Chicago said "I'll be Obama", Phil said "I'll be Ghadafi" and then they both pointed at me and said in unison "you be Nato" I knew it was curtains...

Location : 3730 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109,

Nacho mountain

Just been for a late lunch in the Aria's Cafe. We ordered some nachos for the table to share, and I ordered a portion for myself, from the appetiser section of the menu, thinking it would be a nice snack.

It wasn't. It was death by nachos. I had to take a second photo with my hand in to give some idea of size!

Location : 3730 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109,

Pool pic

Pics

Pool

Bit cloudy at times but pleasant enough. 25 degrees with a nice breeze.

Waiting for the others to roll down.

Waiting to see Nicole Kidman who is staying.

Iveys Room

Ok the plan to have an early night (4.30am) and get back in sync with the others has gone out the window as Mike and Rob head to Iveys Room.

XS....

Couple of lad bailed so no table option tonight.

Pulled it back tho, only an hour queue which as always with XS worth it. Some Craps by the pool and discovered a new drink - 'adios mofo..' not, as rob almost ordered, a 'grand chaos..'

Prop betting

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