OK, so I can’t believe it’s taking me this long to blog about this trip!

Anyway, moving on.

Let me give you preface so you understand our crazy dinner situation. Saturday morning, we tried to make dinner reservations for this Japanese place. Andi called and they said the only times they had available were 5:30 or 11 p.m. Ugh. We tried to make reservations at another place, and they require a credit card and will charge you $25 per person if you don’t show up. Jeez!

So we really didn’t have a great dinner plan. After the pool, we got dressed up and decided to head down to the Japanese restaurant just to see if any tables would be available. But first, we took some pictures.

Oh, and my dress is hot, right? That’s thanks to my cousin. I wasn’t too keen on spending money on clothes before this trip and I knew my cousin had TONS of clothes. So I asked if I could borrow a dress or two, and she didn’t hesitate one bit to say yes. She even made me dinner when I came over to try on the dresses! How sweet!

As an aside, it was pretty funny, because Tara takes me upstairs to her “dress closet” in her house. She opens up the doors and it’s like a movie where a light shines and a chorus says “Aaaaaaaah.” I mean, she had tons of dresses. And she’s a nerd and has them organized in categories, hahaha. Anyway, she let me borrow this dress and I totally loved it and it was really sweet of her. When girls in the bathroom at the club commented on my dress, I’m sure I rambled about how I love my cousin. So, I am in debt to Tara.

OK, so back to dinner. I walked into Izakaya to ask if they had any tables available. The hostess points to this table near the door and said that once those people were finished, we could have their table. They looked to be finished soon. No problem. Great. Grand.

Well, about two hours later, they were still ordering food, taking pictures, and acting completely drunk. I think they had too much sake. We had our hearts set on this place and we wanted sushi really badly, so we waited it out. The hostesses took pity on us and actually gave us another table. Looks like we should have just taken that 11 p.m. reservation!

Anyway, the place was very cool. Unlike any restaurant I’ve eaten in. Chic.

And the food? Oh good Lord. It was well worth the wait. Doesn’t Jess’s face tell you how good it was?

HAHA! That picture cracks me up.

Anyway, pictures were hard to take with my camera in this place, but I ordered edamame dumplings and king crab California rolls. I seriously almost fainted when I ate the California rolls. They were THAT good.

Oh boy. My mouth is watering just thinking of that dinner.

After dinner, we headed to this club inside the Borgata. It was really cool, and they even had DJ Jazzy Jeff, you know, from the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air!” It was awesome. We left when our feet hurt so bad we could barely walk anymore. As we were walking back to our rooms, we walked past some girl who had thrown up ALL over the floor right outside the club. Sucks to be her!

The rest of the girls went to bed, but Andi and I decided we weren’t tired yet. We went back down to the Borgata, I hit up the ATM and played a little craps! I love craps! Before I left my mom had told me to bet a three for her if I bet at all. So when I rolled my die, I would set each dice with the three side up. And I rolled two sevens in a row! For those of you who don’t know how to play craps, that was really good! I didn’t hit the jackpot, but I had a great time.

Andi and I then wandered around the Borgata and got some drunk girl to take our picture. I’m shocked this picture came out, because it didn’t look like she had the camera even remotely pointed at us, HAHA.

Awww, me and my BFF.

So it was a truly awesome trip. I’m so glad to have these memories with my girls. I’ll never forget this trip. And now, we better get start planning 2010’s trip………