Fat Tuesday

Fat Tuesdays

Fat Tuesday is the English translation for Mardi Gras. I’m not religious or anything, but Fat Tuesday comes before Ash Wednesday. According to Christianity and some Catholic religions, Ash Wednesday is when they celebrate lent, 40 days of fastening. Fat Tuesday is a day of binge eating and I guess nowadays a lot of drinking. In New Orleans, where they celebrate Mardi Gras, someone opened up a number of Fat Tuesday Mix Drink Bars.

While on the Vegas Strip, about day 3 on our trip, something enamored me about Fat Tuesday. I don’t know what it was. The Louisiana based company opened 4 Fat Tuesday Bars on the Vegas Strip. You can buy their big ass oversize cup and put mix drinks inside. They have these machines, appears to be slurpee machines that dispenses the mix drinks. Alcohol is already mixed inside. They also serve extra shots for only 1 dollar a shot. I guess they already make bank because everyone is drunk on the Vegas Strip. Probably cost only $3 to make the drink, but they sell it for $14.

We passed about 2 Fat Tuesday Bars before I got interested in the bar and oversize cup. It was late one night and for some reason I decided that I wanted a Fat Tuesday mixed drink. We were probably somewhere near the Paris hotel. I thought there was a Fat Tuesday near the Miracle Mile Shops near the Paris. We saw this girl with a Fat Tuesday oversize cup. Michelle asked her where she got it. She said MGM. So we went to the MGM Grand Hotel. I had my gps on and still couldn't find it, so we ask a guy who worked there and he said we were on the wrong floor. That's the one thing gps doesn't tell you ~ elevation.

Michelle and I got the oversize cup and drank it on the way to the hotel. We were both inebriated on the monorail. I couldn't even remember going back to the hotel because I was so drunk. The empty oversize cup is the only memory of how drunk we got that night and that picture to the right.

The night I could not remember