S E O gnoes!
Rockstar Erle
As you may or may not know I’m in Las Vegas this week for PubCon. This will be my second time in Vegas and so far things are going pretty good. Gretchen, Jeff, and I have been rocking the sessions pretty hard trying to gain as much information as we can.
There was an issue with the hotel checkin when we got here, but we finally made it. The downside of taking so long to check in was it looks like we got the shaft on the quality of the rooms. Gretchen is over looking some vents and power boxes and the roof of the adjecent building and the likes. The only positive to her room is that it is large and has a bad ass bathroom. I on the otherhand have a pretty nice view out the back side of the hotel (I can see the Palms and Rio) but have a bjankety bathroom. I reckon that’s the trade off. I’ve not seen Jeff’s room, but I hear it’s got a flats screen TV, decent view, decent bathroom (better than mine, but not quite Gretchen’s). Oh well, it’s not like we will be spending a lot of time in the room.
After we got checked in we headed around looking for stuff to do. First on the list was food. Both of us were wicked hungry and needed something to eat on the quickness. Gretchen wanted to experiece a buffet and I wanted to eat all the food in the world, so it was a perfect match. The buffet at Caesars Palace is dencet. It’s a bit small for the price. The food was ok but it was an odd mix and not a lot of selection. It was your basic buffet.
After the buffet we went to our rooms rested up a bit then walked down the strip to just take in the sights. It was a beautiful day and it was good to be in Las Vegas. Finally we managed to make it to the pool area for some adult beverages and a beautiful sunset.
Team BJ and GE
Jeff rolled up ons around 6ish. We were all famished from the sitting around not really doing anything and Gretchen wanted some Italian food. Well there was only one choice: Batista’s Hole in the Wall. I was here before and it was just as good as last time. We were lucky enough to have the accordian player guy come by. He asked where we were from, and when he heard Atlanta treated us to a little Georgia On My Mind. It was really pretty cool. The food was great and the entire bottle of wine I had to myself was awesome (Jeff and Gretchen split the red while I drank all the white). Unfortunately none of us could eat all our food and it went to waste. Oh well, it’s Vegas there’s always more food or something else to spend money on just around the corner.
Being Gretchen’s first time in Vegas she wanted to go out and have some fun, but on the flip wanted to keep it simple and calm seeing as we were going to be hitting up the conference the following morning at 7:30am. Well, as luck would have it we ended up at Shadow Bar at the hotel meeting new people, having a few drinks and just taking it easy. That is until we went to the “dance” club next to the bar. It was rather weak compared to virtually all other places to dance. The DJ was lacking any ability to get people on the floor, so after a few songs we headed out. A few pulls of the slot machine later on the way to the room and we called it a night.
So that was day one. Not too much going on. We just kinda got use to the area, tested the waters, took it easy and eased into the week ahead. I’ll be back with Tuesday’s post later on. Stay tuned for the crazy shenanigans of Team BJ* and GE.
*Team BJ = Ben and Jeff. While planning what sessions to attend Jeff and I signed up for the same ones and I dubbed us “Team BJ”.
On Friday night Maggie got to celebrate her 30th birthday one more time. This time, Rock Band style! Thanks go out to Kim, James and Kit for making that one hell of a night. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had that much fun. That and I got to see James all kinds of tore up (and see a “side” of him I’d rather not see again). It really was a great night and birthday or not, I’d really like to do that again. Pictures are now on the Photos page!