Las Vegas!
How can I even begin to describe it?
Suffice it to say that we two rubes from Mayberry NC felt like Salmon swimming the wrong way in the wrong stream when we first arrived late Saturday night!
The conference/expo we attended was in the MGM Grand complex, the newest and most ornate of the "New Vegas" Casinos.
We got in around 11:00 PM.
First off, the shuttle driver backed completely over the sidewalk at the airport, nearly running over a young man who was waiting as we were for his ride. His friends yelled and pulled him out of harms way in the nick of time.
When we pulled into the massive driveway at the Grand, we were caught in a traffic jam consisting mostly of stretch limos.
I had forgotten that there was a championship prize fight in the arena at the Grand that night.
The fight had just ended, welterweight champ Floyd Mayweather had come out of retirement to win back his title.
Our 'driver' and I use the term loosely dropped us off in the middle of that vortex of traffic and left us to pull our suitcases and run for our lives to the lobby!
We had a hard time even spotting the check in area, the mob of people was so massive.
I think every thug, ner'do' well, hooker and celebrity wanna be in North America was there.
The rest of the country was safe that night I think, all of the low life types were at the Grand!
We were exhausted and just wanted to get into our room and crash.
When I opened the door, I could see that the room had not been cleaned from it's previous occupant.
After calling the front desk I was told to wait there and a concierge would bring up keys to another room for us. He finally arrived, and said "You did want a smoking room, right?"
Absolutely not I replied.
He apologized profusely and said "Wait here, I'll be right back with the key to an appropriate room for you"
Due to all of the hassles, they upgraded us to a beautiful suite!
It was most certainly a room normally given to high rollers, by far the nicest hotel room I have stayed in during all of my travels.
The Lord does work in mysterious ways, and in the heart of Sin City to boot!
More on our journey to 'Oz later, with pictures that the Queen took.
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I can just see Auntie there, luxuriating in a big, heart-shaped whirlpool tub. How fun! I hope everything went well for your business, too.
It did, made some valuable contacts and ran into some of my old comrades from HPW.
Got some real insight into why myself and some others were let go and others were not.
Corporate higher ups protecting themselves at our expense basically.
Your Auntie had fun, but we were never so glad to step off that plane last night at home!
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