If you've got a moment, i want to tell you a story.
Grab some Capri Sun and a fresh bag of 8 ounce cheetos, cuz i want to school you on sump'in. You ready, b? Let's go get 'em:
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Tony, Ive been to vegas err year since 2004 and Ill you this much.
If youve got your airfare and accommodations squared off (lets say 350 for round trip and 50 bucks a night per head for 3 nights; thats 500 for that).
Any money you bring after that is all you. Whether another 500 hundred for drinks/food/clubbing, thats on you. Or 1,000, 1,500 or 2 gs plus if you wanna ball so hard.
But how much fun you have is depending on your attitude and/or who youre with.
You can make the most out of any budget as long as you spend right (budget, i.e. eat once a day and binge on your meals, purchase alcohol at CVS before clubbin and thuggin, dont buy women drinks - just your crew, pack sufficiently but efficiently so you dont end up coppin shiit you dont need, etc.)
I didnt realize this until I went dolo last November for work (SEMA). I went with 3 hundred in my wallet and had as good as a time as if I went with my squad. Reason being is because I was out of my element; your boy wasnt accustomed to traveling alone. But because of the solitary trippage, I found myself interacting with anybody and everybody; the novelty of dipping out of your convert zone is that you meet people youd generally never interact (and the big upside to this is that it increases your confidence and youre talking to women of all calibers).
Because of the aforementioned, I got about half a dozen numbers. Well, you say thats not much considering it was vegas right?
The 3 days I was there, Well I ended up hanging out with one of the girls for half a day (she was just good company for a lonely lad on business), and laid 2 of them (one of them twice, no call girl, no money spent except for my own drinks. *In jadakiss bird call* EH HAH!). 50 percent aint bad.
But before that, the 6-7 trips I made to vegas before that, I didnt go beyond a makeout session. That just tells you that anything can happen in Vegas as long as your attitude is there.
By the end of that trip, I still had 50 bucks left in my pocket (and I got shiitfaced every night and ate good, even a 5 course meal at Robert Palmer Steakhouse).
The only night I went clubbing was on Thursday night at Haze and thats where I met the chicks I got down with. But there, also ran into a group of brothas (military cats). We just drank like a motha, parled with some females, I eventually went off to do my own thang. But they invited me to come kick it with them the next night cuz they had bottle service at Foundation (or whatever the club in Cosmopolitan is called). I had to Fly early Sat so going out again Fri night was too much for me).
But overall, I cant stress being open minded and having the right attitude. I had black people, white people, who have never really interacted with people of my kind tell me, Man, I didnt know guys like you get down like that. Black people, white people, old people, young people, the chicks who rendezvoud back at in suite, concierges being extremely helpful, cab drivers that were telling me their life stories, lady at the buffet who cut me an especially thick slice of roast beef, etc). It was all because of my attitude (it was out of urgency though cuz I not wanting to be alone and delving out of my normal circumstances and daring to be bold and me being a non-threatening seeming kind of guy prolly helped my cause as well. LOL).
What I got in return was sense of self discovery, new friends, new-found confidence and an experience I will never forgot.
I do miss going with friends though because there were times where I just felt bored or lonely as hell 4 days and 3 nights, theres only so much you can do or want to do by yourself - that's why this June, i'm headed down there with my fleet but will still keep my mind, heart and demeanor open to everybody and just vibe like magazine).
Bottom line, the possibilities and outcomes are endless. There are literally hundreds of thousands of like-minded people who are there, regardless of reasoning, are ultimately there to have a good time.
Keep that in mind and i know for certain - you and your brother will have a blast. Nasa launch pad.
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