| 24 October 2009
At this point last week, I was in Las Vegas sitting in a Blog World Expo conference session and trying to shake off a crazy night of partying with Captain Morgan, Carlton Banks, and some of the top sports bloggers of the world.
Technically, last Friday night ended around 7:15 in the morning when I finally got back to my hotel, but I was back up at 11:00 to go learn some new techniques and information about how to make myself a better writer and blogger.
The Vegas experience definitely took a toll on my body, which is why I have still yet to get my full recap from Blog World Expo & Blogs With Balls 2.0 (it'll be finished tomorrow I promise). Until then, I leave you with my tallies from last weekend, including complete totals of my food & drink consumption, expenses, hours slept, and lastly the master tally:
Expenses
Wow! I did well on this one. This is how much I spent myself as most of the travel expenses were split with my weekend roommate, Patrick Crawley of BasketballFiend:
FREE - Blog World Expo full access weekend pass (including Blogs With Balls 2.0 track)
$25 - Gas for drive from Los Angeles to Vegas
$52 - Three nights at the Greek Isles Hotel & Casino
$27 - Dress shoes
$19 - Food for four days
$60 - BwB charity poker shootout for Ante Up for Africa
$46 - Drinks over course of three nights
$110 - VIP for club (paid for 2 1/2 people's costs)
$50 - Ghost Bar cover (paid for 2 people...still ridiculous)
$33 - Cab fares
$5 - Monorail ticket
$25 - Various tips
TOTAL - $457
However, by coming in 4th place in the poker tournament by some slight miracle, I WON $528, so for the entire weekend I came out $76 AHEAD.
Food & Drink
This is all the food I consumed, no matter how small, throughout the entire four days from Thursday morning when we left (at 3 AM) until we returned to Los Angeles Sunday evening (6:30 PM).
- convenience store pickled sausage ($1.50)
- small breakfast muffin (FREE)
- smoothie ($5)
- ESPN Zone buffet of wings and loaded potato wedges (FREE)
- 4 brownies (FREE)
- 12" Subway sandwich ($7)
- snack plate of chicken fingers (FREE)
- ice cream cone (FREE)
- snack size bag of Doritos (FREE)
- multiple milkshake samples from Fatburger (FREE)
- large strawberry milkshake & fries from Fatburger ($5)
Here are the different drinks I consumed:
- water
- MonaVie eMV energy drink
- Jeremiah Wood sweet tea vodka w/lemonade
- Jose Cuervo Silver shots
- Captain Morgan shots
- Captain Morgan w/Coke
- Crown Royal on the rocks
- Crown Royal w/Coke
- vodka w/ 7UP
- whiskey sour
- Mountain Dew
Sleep
I'm going to trace this one all the way back to Monday night/Tuesday morning before leaving because it definitely had its toll.
- Monday/Tuesday - 2 hours
- Tuesday/Wednesday - 5 hours
- Wednesday/Thursday - 0 hours
- Thursday/Friday - 6 hours
- Friday/Saturday - 3.5 hours
- Saturday/Sunday - 5 hours
TOTAL: 21.5 hours of sleep over 6 days or an AVERAGE of 3.5 hours per night
Master Talley
- 2 - swollen shins from standing on VIP railing and singing
- 2 - blistered Achilles from walking multiple miles in new dress shoes
- 1 - chafed left thigh from the multiple miles
- 1 - liver claiming attempted manslaughter
- 3 - cab drivers lied to
- 6 - casinos entered that I did not gamble in
- 3 - pictures taken with Carlton Banks
- 3 - shots of Captain Morgan taken with the Captain Morgan
- 2 - true Vegas experience nights
- 1 - freakin awesome conference
- too many to count - incredible conversations and contacts made throughout the weekend
Shotgun Spratling
