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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Vegas! Day 3 - Wow, this place is SO freaking crowded!

LouAnna’s day officially started at 7:30am with a continental breakfast that the conference provided.  Chris decided to get up and go take pictures starting about 7am, as well.  He found that the casino is so much less crowded and he can frame up pictures without the mobs!  He walked through Caesars, up to the Venetian, across and up to Treasure Island and caught the Mirage on the way back.  Here are just a few of his pics.



LouAnna got to breakfast that was buffet in the hallways of the lower level conference center and it was mayhem.  There were about 4000 advisors trying to get food and coffee while there was also a poster session in the same hallways.  Poor planning, NACADA!  They ran out of coffee by the time I finally got through the lines up to the pots. L  Several sessions later (they were just so-so), it was lunch time and now over 4k people were trying to eat lunch in the same 90 minutes in the casino.  Again…mayhem and VERY long lines with crowds of people that did nothing for crowd anxiety and claustrophobia.  After trying to find a less busy location, Loren, Carly, Chris and I decided to put our name in at Spago at 12:52 because there was only a 25 minute wait.  That turned into about 38 minutes.  Here was our view…which as you can see is pretty and with the ceiling painted…you never know what time of day it is...that's how Vegas gets ya!  ;)



The food only took 15 minutes and was VERY tasty.  Chris got a veggie pizza with a spicy pesto sauce that was YUM, and LouAnna got the BBQ chicken pizza that was a perfect blend of flavors!  The meal was pretty affordable, but we didn’t get done with lunch until 2:15pm, which means that by the time I would have gotten back to the conference rooms, it would have been 2:30…and I missed my 2pm session.  This session was the one at the conference that was my “must see”.  Oh well.  I did go to the next two sessions and then decided to stay in the rest of the evening to recharge my batteries.  Loren decided to stay in, as well, and brought her mixed drink to our room where we drank and chilled.  My darling, Chris, went on a burger run to Smash Burger (which is still in the casino), so that Loren and I could just chill out.  The burgers were good, but the company was better!


Today’s weather was rainy most of the day with heavy rain during parts of the day…namely during lunch when some of the 4000+ people might have left the casino to eat elsewhere.  Geez!  By the time bedtime rolled around…I was SO glad to have about 900 sf of hotel room to just me and Chris!!  I think we fell asleep in 2.4 seconds!  Goodnight Vegas…you crazy crowded city!

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