How dare I go away without my parents and sibling?

Look the feeling was nerve wrecking, I felt very scared. I thought my parents were 100% going to disown me.

One day, I mentioned in a conversation to my bestie Adah (still today), I want to go on vacation and she tells me “let’s go away.” I was like “yeah, let’s do it. Where are we going?” I got excited of course and even offered for us to stay at Marriott hotels, where I was working at the time and got super awesome Marriott Employee rate at any hotel.

Ok, but, here is the truth, I had no idea Adah was serious about going away. Until, one night after work, she called me and told me to stop by so we can book our trip. I went over to her apartment where we went on Priceline travel booking site, which was the it place for risk takers and being heavily advertised. That night changed my life for sure. We placed super low bids on Priceline and booked a trip, my heart was pounding hard, because we couldn’t cancel our trip with he site. I was freaking out, asking Adah, how am I going to tell this to my parents and her answer was “you’re an adult, you’ll be fine.” But she knew how strict my parents were. I was 24 and still living at home with a 10pm curfew. How the hell, I was going to pull this one off????

Well…. I was soooo nervous to tell my parents, every time I wanted to tell them, I saw a life of punishment. I called them that same night after booking our trip and all I said to my parents was “Adah and I are going on vacation to Las Vegas.” my mother freaked out, telling me, you’ve never been away without your family, you did not ask for permission and your’re not going and I said we booked the trip already and will loose all of our money.

THANK YOU ADAH AND PRICELINE!!!! You saved my live. My bestie made me break the ice with my parents and Priceline’s restrictions made impossible to cancel any trip. When I got home that night, my parents were not too happy with me and in shock (mostly my mother, my father was more relaxed about it). The next day, my mother would ask me over and over if I wanted to take that trip without the family, what was I going to do? My mother was sad, upset and couldn’t believe what I was doing, then becoming very flexible and telling me to be very careful, that I was an adult and knew what I was doing.

The experience was a lot smoother than I anticipated, and had I known, how very cool and understanding my parents were back then, I would have gone away soon. Everything worked out great.

However, we booked our trip for 10 days to Las Vegas, we stayed at our beautiful Marriott Las Vegas hotel, which was on the side off the main strip, it was brand new and my employee discount was beyond amazing, which made our 5 star hotel stay a total success. I love Marriott hotels and always will, they have the greatest and best customer service ever, even as a Marriott employee, the services are always excellent and side note and an ex Marriott associate, we were highly trained in customer service and they don’t take anything less, an absolutely amazing company to work for.

In hindsight…… 10 days in Vegas is just too much, we had a great time, but also wanted to kill each other by the end of our trip. We walked everywhere, visited some night clubs, I don’t like alcohol, but Adah got me drunk in the hotels jacuzzi, where I almost died, practicing her bartending skills on me with a chocolate sweet drink she knew would be perfect for me. She made me Kaluak and it was delicious and almost killed me too. I did not drink again for many years after that. I just hated the feeling of an uncontrollable suffocation, out of my hands.

Overall, I had such a great time, we walked everywhere, visited museums, took photos everywhere, spent time in the pool, ate a lot, visited the top clubs, made new friends who took us horse riding in the Nevada mountains, some that took us boating in Lake Mead, we observed the street landmarks and night scenes, we had great fun. The only down side, with my no family excitement was that I wanted to be sightseeing all day, I would wake up at 6am and wake Adah up nice and early and she wanted to rest, while I was ready to go, that was the down side, so Adah was annoyed with me and I was annoyed with her for staring the day at 12 noon. In all honestly, I am still the same way, I like waking up super early and exploring. But, as an experienced adult now, I can understand why a vacation is also for sleeping in a little late and relax and then go explore. To go around my explorer mentality and I now like to go away for at least two weeks so I can find a great resting, relaxing and exploring balance.

All in all, they say Las Vegas, is sin city, and I thought I would come back home married, but not at all, the hub was more relaxing and fun than I imagine, I lost $20 dollars in gambling and I was horrified, but went back and I made $725, which helped me recuperate some of my expenses. Between the $20 casino loss and drinking alcohol and getting drunk for the second time in my life ever was the riskiest most sinful thing I did. I loved my trip! I have my bestie to thank for this experience, thank you again, my dear Adah, love you hb.