Days gone by - Vegas

It's a very fun, grey and cold Tuesday here. So uplifiting indeed!
So Tatiana was reminiscent about Vegas the other day, when she moved there etc.
Do you want to hear about it? Of course you do!
Tatiana moved to Vegas with her friend Shelley. They looked at about ten different places before they decided on where to live. Tatiana wanted a nice, clean and roomy apartment. Finally they found a place that fit the bill, in the South West.
Tatiana and Shelley lived together for a while and then Shelley met a guy and eventually moved out to cohabite with him. He was a brilliant magician but also a very troubled and dark soul. Needless to say, it didn't last between Shelley and the magician. Like so many Vegas romances.
He did perform some magic tricks for Tatiana in that apartment that she will NEVER forget, quite amazing.
So Tatiana found herself living alone in this roomy apartment and that was not the initial plan.
One night she went to Drai's after work. Drai's used to be very popular after hours club, it's still around.
Tatiana was sitting down with some friends when a guy sauntered over and started up a conversation with her. His name was Mike and would become Tatiana's next roomate. Mike was (and is) a great person. He was studying to become a teacher and finished his studies and is working as a teacher in Las Vegas right now.
Back in those days he was a student and also work as a host at PF Chang's and sub for other teachers when they were sick.
He also really liked to party! Oh, if only the parents of the kids he has in class now would know about some of the adventures of Mike the Teacher. He has so many crazy stories that he is thinking seriously about writing a book about it all. He should! He even has the title picked for this master piece.
Anyhow......... Living with Mike was great. Tatiana got along with him fabulously and they would often go out together and have SO much fun. Many memories!
Favorite spots would be SRO on Sundays and GLO after hours any other day of the week. Besides Utopia, a legendary Vegas club no longer existing, SRO and GLO were really fun, full of locals and tourists that all had a very good time. Great music, Tatiana's style totally.
Then Tatiana got really bored and tired of Vegas and just had to go somewhere else for a while. So she packed a couple of suitcases and went to London. Auf Wiedersehen Las Vegas! Meanwhile Mike bought a house. The plan was that Tatiana would continue living with him after her return to Sin City.
So while Tatiana was in London, Mike moved all her stuff over to the new house. Then they agreed to get a third roomate. Another guy. Somebody they both knew. Mikey. So now Tatiana lived with two guys. Super cool!
Tatiana knew Mikey and liked him a lot. Mike had actually introduced them to each other at Utopia of all places.
So don't say that you can't meet good people in night clubs, it's been ten years and Tatiana is still very close friends with both of them.
There were some great times in that house. Mikey was a student at UNLV and also worked as a waiter. Nowadays he is making a great living working at a ritzy mega club on The Strip.
Mike wanted us to become a reality show, like have cameras filming our shenanigans 24/7. That is how entertaining it would be at our place at times. The only dull moments would occur when nobody was home. Then the cockroaches could roam freely.
Tatiana wanted to start a band with her two roomates. Her chosen name for the band was "Dirty Sanchez", brilliant huh!? And though neither she, Mikey or Mike could play any instruments she was convinced they would make it big by just being themselves. Some drums, a tamburine and Tatiana on the mic, voilà! Great success!!!
Unfortunately, Mike and Mikey didn't share this vision with her. Tatiana is still to this day positive that they would had developed a huge following.
Though Tatiana got along really well with Mike, her and Mikey had some intense clashes as roomates. There was not room for two queens in the house, if you get the point........some people are better of as friends only, not roomates. And that was the case with these two.
Today they remain the bestest of friends, Mikey is Tatiana's little Skrinkle and Tatiana is Mikey's Skroodle.
All good things eventually come to an end and Mike decided to purchase yet another house. And at that point Tatiana jumped on the real estate band wagon too and got approved for a loan and moved into a condo. BIG mistake from a financial standpoint.
Aaaaah............those were the days in Vegas!!