I recently took a little trip to Las Vegas to celebrate my friend’s 30th birthday. What a fun way to celebrate your birthday, right!? I, along with 2 other girls who were invited, would celebrate the whole weekend with my friend and have a good time.
Somewhere along the way, this didn’t really go according to plan. Don’t get me wrong, in the end, we all had a good time and my friend said she had a good time nonetheless. However, the many instances and situations which occurred throughout the weekend took a lot of the celebratory mood away.
I should start by saying that I personally don’t know the other 2 girls who were invited. My friend knew them but didn’t know them for that long. I guess she was comfortable inviting them on a trip to Vegas. If she was cool with it, I was cool. It was for her birthday after all.
Well, from the very beginning, it wasn’t meant for all of us to be together and celebrate with my friend. We all went to see Magic Mike together, and hung out by the pool for a few hours, but that was about it. Out of a 4 day weekend in Vegas, we only were together about 2 times. Most of the time, the other 2 girls were hanging out together and doing their own thing.
I mean, we’re all adults. They can do what they please. However, on this particular occasion, we were all INVITED to Las Vegas to CELEBRATE MY FRIEND for her birthday. It was supposed to be a time we all spent together, celebrating her, and doing whatever she wanted to do because she was the birthday girl.
They seemed to have other plans. From my perspective, they seemed to use that invite to get to Vegas so they could do what they wanted. It was one of those situations where the group seemed to separate and stick to certain people. That’s not what this weekend was supposed to be about and my friend didn’t want that to happen either.
It was very sad. Even on my friend’s actual birthday, not once did we all get together to celebrate her. I hung out with my friend and did whatever she wanted to do, because this was her day. The other 2 girls, literally, hung out together the whole time and not once decided to hang out with us. Even for dinner, they had their own separate plans and didn’t even have dinner with my friend or I. They had their own dinner plans with some guys they hooked up with.
Although my friend appreciated our time together, and the celebration we had on her birthday, it was still a shame that those girls couldn’t even put their agendas aside for one day to be with my friend. I didn’t even know these 2 girls that well but after this experience, I really don’t care to.
We tried multiple times throughout the weekend to get together, or invite them to the things my friend wanted to do. Each time, they declined or said they’d meet up with us and never did. I can assure you we tried to make this trip work, get all of us together to do more things as a group, but it didn’t work out unfortunately.
Moral of the story: be careful who you invite on your trips. Although you may think you know someone, you never truly know them or what they’re like. Even if you do, sometimes people’s true colors show when you’re traveling together. I believe the latter was the case this time. I just wished the weekend would’ve gone differently so my friend could’ve had a better birthday celebration.