In our last day in Miami we decided to check our lock, gambling at the Hard Rock Casino, 20 miles north of Miami. They did not have roulette and crab, but they did have lots of slots and card games. We decided to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe. The walls filled with musical memorabilia of instruments, pictures, customs, jackets of famous musician.. See below and feel as if you were there….

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Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield Guitar

Fred Schneider

Various Collection of instruments and Pics…

The Bee Gees

While at the Hard Rock cafe casino a birthday party was going on while I was videoing the walls and walls filled with valuable and collectible musical instruments. Watch the video and feel the moment….

Miami is the land of melting pot of ethnic backgrounds. Miami music is varied. Cubans brought the conga and rumba to Miami from their homelands instantly popularizing it in American culture. Dominicans brought bachata, and merengue, while Colombians brought vallenato and cumbia. West Indians and Caribbean people have brought reggae, soca, kompa, zouk, calypso, and steel pan to the area as well.
In the early 1970s, the Miami disco sound came to life with TK Records, featuring the music of KC and the Sunshine Band, with such hits as “Get Down Tonight”, “(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty” and “That’s the Way (I Like It)”; and the Latin-American disco group, Foxy (band), with their hit singles “Get Off” and “Hot Number”. Miami-area natives George McCrae and Teri DeSario were also popular music artists during the 1970s disco era. The Bee Gees moved to Miami in 1975 and have lived here ever since then. Miami-influenced, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, hit the popular music scene with their Cuban-oriented sound and had huge hits in the 1980s with “Conga” and “Bad Boys”.

On our way to South Beach…. The Party town with Samba, Congo, and the sun-shine beach……

Miami is also considered a “hot spot” for dance music, Freestyle, a style of dance music popular in the 80′s and 90′s heavily influenced by Electro, hip-hop, and disco. Many popular Freestyle acts such as Pretty Tony, Debbie Deb, Stevie B, and Exposé, originated in Miami. Indie/folk acts Cat Power and Iron & Wine are based in the city,[43] while alternative hip hop artist Sage Francis, electro artist Uffie, and the electroclash duo Avenue D were born in Miami, but musically based elsewhere. Also, punk band Against All Authority is from Miami, and rock/metal bands Nonpoint and Marilyn Manson each formed in neighboring Fort Lauderdale. Popular Cuban American female recording artist, Ana Cristina, was born in Miami in 1985, and became the first Hispanic person in history to perform the “Star Spangled Banner” at a presidential inauguration.

We have not done with shopping yet… So, even when we are heading for dinner we stop by and do a bit more Shopinggggggg…..

We eat at an eclectic place, the Wasa, 5 miles south of Miami.

The atmosphere was great, especially eating outside where the temperature is cooling off…

The food was great especially the Tabuli…

At lunch we went to a Cuban resturant in South Beach called Yuca..Great food, especially the fried banana… We took a picture of our server. She was pleasant as you could see…

Well the night is not over yest. Miami is alive with lots of things to do.

I’ll keep you post it..

So I left off on day two…when the bachelor was passed out by the pool again.

After leaving the pool and returning back to the room. We all decided we wanted to do something better than the first night.

Second night: The plan was to go to the Mirage and hit up the lounge/club called Revolution. We decided we would pre-game there and then move to an actual club later. So we get to the Miarge and a promoter walks up to me asking if I  wanted to check out ‘Revolution’. I told her twelve guys….at first she was like…oh hell no…but then she was like, whatever… So we get inside the place and have a few drinks. I step out to the lounge area and another promoter approaches me. This time they ask me if I would like to check out ‘Jet’, which is the club in Mirage. I tell em yes…and I have an extra twelve dudes.Long story short we ended up going to the club and it sucked. Everyone left at different times…me and E-deee left together and headed back to our hotel. When we were heading back up to the room a young Caucasian couple comments on my out fit and style. I kindly thank them and keep walking. They continue to follow me and E-deee and ask where we are going. We tell them that our night is pretty much done and were gonna head back to the room. They ask if they can join us for a drink and conversation. E-deee looked at me with the same look I had…confused…but we said yes. It was around 4:00 a.m mind you. So we get back to the room and everyone else is passed out until they hear a girls voice…soon people are trying to open there sleepy eyes to get a glance at what E-deee has brought back. What confuses them is that there’s a girl…but shes with this dude who doesn’t stop talking. The couple has a beer or two and then offers us to go back and check out their room. I honestly wanted to go to sleep at this point…but E-deee didn’t want to go alone. I accompanied him and we ended up on there balcony shooting the shit. At this point I had no idea what we were doing there…and what the hell was going on. Every one was exchanging what they did for a living and blah blah blah…until I heard something come from the boy friends mouth. While E-deee was explaining what he did to the white girl…her boyfriend was saying things like…”just do it already”…and “that’s hot”. If I was confused before…now I’m just feeling damn weird. I’m under the impression that this dude wants E-deee to handle his chick. Okay…now I leave. There’s no sense in me staying with this freaky guy; so I tell him I’m gonna take off. The boyfriend walks back inside the room with me and closes the balcony door behind him. He asked me to stay for a minute….and also asked if I would go back outside. I was like “naw”. It was then when I realized that the sliding glass door was reversible.Meaning…me and the boy friend on the inside can see everything on the out side…but E-deee and the girl friend can’t see us at all. The only thing they can see is their own reflections. By that time I knew exactly what the boyfriend pervert had planned. We were both looking at E-deee from the inside when we noticed they started kissing. All of a sudden the boyfriend was super eager to kick me out. I didn’t argue one bit. I happily left E-deee on the balcony, while Mr. pervert boyfriend was having a peep show. I don’t have to explain the rest…but for confirmation. Exactly when E-deee was finished…the boyfriend came storming out shaking his hand, telling him it was a pleasure to meet him and all that jazz. E-deee shouldn’t have shook his hand sorry E-deee!

Third day/night: We woke up and did the usual. By this point…4 hours of sleep total…excessive drinking and partying…and whatever else is in my system….feeling like a science project. Went down to the pool for the last time. Sun burnt and lips chapped as hell but still ready to party. The pool that day was packed even more then the two previous days; maybe because it was a Saturday. Of course on last day everything was to be done bigger and better. So pretty much everything we did was tripled with reference to the third and final day. E-deee of course started the pool off with a bucket of beers and 30 jello shots. That was just a start…then the normal shots came…Patron-Jack-Morgan-Jim-Javier – Carlos-and any other name in the book.The more and more shots came…the more I had no idea if I was even getting drunk anymore.After leaving the pool with a feeling of not even knowing whether  or not I was drunk…I decided to follow the guys up to the room. It was the final night in Vegas…and it was time to go big. Our initial plan was to hit XS and do the whole bottle service thing. But last minute we changed our minds and wanted to hit the newer club ‘Surrender’, which is also at Encore.We did bottle service there and I’m happy we did…There was a surprise show by the Killers!

Annddd…it’s back to the E-deee show.

Uh-oh…the bachelor sat down…is he getting tired!? It’s only 11:00…

We headed to Miami last night from LA and caught the united red eye flight. The good thing is we got upgraded to business class and the flight was pleasant. We flew to Phily and from Phily to Miami. We arrivde in Miami around 10:30 AM this morning. The weather was OK, it was in the mid 80s and not too humid yet. We got our rental car and drove to the Hyatt hotel in Downtown Miami. On the way we caught a Picture of downtown Miami, here it is..

We drove for less than 20 minutes from Miami International Airport and we arrived at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown. The Hotel, supposedly a five stars, but needed a phase lift and internal renovation. It has too much of the 70s decor.. Anyway the suite was fine, clean and spacious. we were on the 20th floor and had semi good view of the beach and downtown. See below Pics.

We were kind of tired from flying during the night and decided to relax and order food to the room. After we rested for couple of hours we dressed and headed toward a close by outlet mall, the Dolphin mall. The shopping started from Sak off fifth, to Neiman Marcus Last Call, to forever 21, and then Rolph Lauren

After three hours or so shopping we got tired and it was around 7:30 PM. We were hungry and decided to head down back to downtown Miami and eat at a famous Spanish restaurant, Casa Juancho, and SW 8th street. The restaurant has good entrance with palms and Spanish Architecture. The ambiance was very pleasant with entertainment..

We ordered couple of appetizers. Sea food salad and well prepared Mushroom plate sautes with garlic and olive oil. See Pics below..

I said the entertainment was good. It included a Spanish musicians playing traditional Spanish tunes. See the pictures bellow..

The main meal was seafood paella. It was mouth watering, delicious, and fulfilling.. see the pic below..

Overall the first day was great. Good weather, good shopping, and good food with entertainment..

Stay tuned for the second day in Miami….. More to come…

So day 1 was great…ended with the Bachelor passing out 5 feet away from the pool at 2:00 p.m. Success! Once we got back to the room, everyone pretty much shut their engines off for about an hour. Some of the bachelors late  ‘atendees’ poured into the room and joined the party. They had fresh legs and fresh stomachs….they woke the bachelor up and poured more Jack Daniels down his throat to wake him from his beauty rest.

Now with the new additions to the group, I want to introduce a character in the story that will play a big role with me come day2 and 3…he goes by the name “Ed” but is also known as “Lil Gandhi” with reference to how his last name is pronounced. He’s a 6′ft tall Haitian black dude that LOVES white women…preferably blond hair with a big booty.”Whooty” chaser…perfect guy to do it by the way. He is definitely the buff black dude that isn’t ghetto but still has the physical credentials and swag that can send a certain white women to paradise…or orgasm world.He went to UCLA…smart guy…knows how to play his cards right. Now…let’s move onto night 1.

First Night: The plan was go to wing it and hit any random  club some what early…Me and someone else got separated from the group and decided to hit Tryst and not let it ruin our night. The guy I happen to get separated with was by far the drunkest guy in the group. We weren’t even in the club yet and he was doing the drunk walk and talk. Let’s just call him ‘Drunky’.I was surprised to see that the line at Tryst was huge…I thought this club went out like 5 years ago. Anyway…that didn’t work out to my plan; and now we had to think of something to get us in. ‘Drunky’ comes up with the idea of telling them he plays for the Chicago Fire and that the team is already inside and they forgot about us…I looked at him….his crossed eyes…heavy breathing from the mouth…leaning posture…shirt un-tucked at this point…and said f*ck it…

He starts by waving his hand in the air and pointing at the people with clip boards…Once we get their attention, one of them walked over and asked us what the problem was. Drunky demanded that we go inside now because his team is already inside…and he is upset that he is still waiting…his adamant behavior struck them…we got in. Shortly after we got in we grabbed another drink. I don’t think this was the best plan for Drunky, cause 15 minutes later he was thrown out of the club for popping ‘collah’s’ on bouncers. As I watched him leave the club, I felt bad so I quickly ran to the bar and got another drink.

The night played itself out with some twist and turns and I called it quits. I went back to the room and got prepared myself for the next day.

Second Day: Everyone woke up and talked about their first night experiences…followed shortly by opening the grey goose and making some morning screw drivers. We planned on hitting the pool early but wanted to get that pre-buzz going. After getting a little tipsy I started calling ‘Ed’, “E-Deee”..kind of like how Vince Vaughn calls the Rock “E-Weeeeezy” from Be Cool. Anyway…we headed back down to the lazy river to find out that it was twice as packed as the day before. E-Deee was telling me something that I would soon hear from him all trip…he loves white women. So when we got to the pool it was perfect…white women everywhere getting drunk…some with the inner most desire to try their first black man…hence, E-Deee. We jumped in the pool and the buckets of beer never stopped coming…

The Bachelor gettin’ hyphy with his good friend from Oakland.

No that is not Bad Nooz Bear, our other writer for this blog. But…he does act like him a whole bunch..dances just like him…anddd they both go to strip clubs more than once during the week. Hell yes! This character in the picture goes by the name ‘Teddy’, if that wasn’t convenient enough….shortly after I met him…his name was “Teddy Bear”. Oh how I wish the Gods of Bears will let Teddy and our Bear unite to slay all strippers.

Let’s take a short intermission from E-Deee and see what the Bachelor is up too…last time we seen him he was having a blast and getting hyphy.

Now back to E-Deeee….

Wait till you hear about what happens the rest of the trip…stay connected!

The road trip to Vegas was filled with excitement and  anticipation. The car was filled with guys who were ready and willing for anything that came their way. We had planned a trip to stay 3 nights…Although;  now I know that Vegas Bachelor parties should only be a 1 or 2 thing. Any more than one or two nights…you will probably die of dehydration…drugs…alcohol poisoning…falling over a balcony because you haven’t slept for the last 72 hours, instant aids, and all the other great things Vegas has to offer…including non-stop partying and losing every cent the first night…

Now with that being said…

First day: scorching hot…the guys decided to take a few shots and hit the pool. MGM offers the beach party “Wet Republic”; the admission and chance that 12 guys would get in wasn’t great, so that wasn’t too high on our priority list. Our intentions walking out of the elevator was to head toward the normal pool, which was the ‘Lazy River’…but while passing wet republic we were pulling door handles checking if anything was left unlocked…It just so happens that the back entrance door was unlocked. I pulled the door open and the twelve of us snuck in acted as smooth as possible. The only problem was…I was wearing a bright red back pack filled with beers. I highly doubt they let people in with back packs full of beer. So I quickly went to an un-reserved cabana and threw the bag on the seat….then quickly headed toward the bar to look normal. From the bar I watched the bag to make sure no one would steal or take it away. While I was watching I realized my boys noticed the bag and thought that one of us had found a place to sit…next thing you know…our whole group had a new cabana. lol

After chilling at Wet Republic for a and hour or so, we decided to go next door to the ‘Lazy River’. Lazy River was actually better than wet republic in terms of  massive socializing…you are almost forced to talk to  random people  due to the current of the river. Groups would come down the river and start conversations like it was a mandatory duty. Our guys were more than pleased…bacholrette parties flowing through that river like no ones business…guys…if your one of those pool party lovers… have fun. After a few more hours, 10 beers and 100 jello shots later…I realized our group was depleting. There was only a few strong ones  surviving…The Bachelor on the other hand was still hanging by the pool…not by choice though…lol

After picking the bachelor up and taking him to his room…some of us crashed out for an hour or two, while others went down stairs to try their luck. I am extremely tired from the trip still..so I well end the first segment here..tomorrow I will have night one, day two, and night 2…STAY TUNED. Here’s a preview picture of day 2…Be ready.