Monday, September 29, 2008

Vegas! (again)

September means conference time at work. This time it was back to the Mandalay Bay in Vegas. It's the biggest conference my company does - a full week of training sessions, over 1200 attendees, and some evening events. Since I've been working from home it's been rough not having any human interaction during the day, so this was a nice change of pace. Exhausting, but nice.

Apparently I have a reputation for always posting food pictures, which I might add is Rebecca's doing (that's my Ohio Diary plug ^__^), so far be it for me to disappoint. Here are some pictures of the sushi we had Saturday night - and by sushi I mean cucumber salad and california rolls.
Here is the view from the hotel window.

The main reason I get sent to these conferences is to assist with our Japanese partners that attend. Presenting some of the content in the conference in Japanese, building good relations with them, and all that good stuff. And here they are. At least the 3 guys that didn't end up cancelling last minute...
On Tuesday night we took some of our partners from Japan to New York New York to ride the roller coaster. That's my coworker Tim on the far right.



Here are some of the guys and gals I work with.



Wednesday night my company hosted a beach party at the Mandalay Bay. Complete with 80s/90s cover band, "Love Shack" and a wave pool.




This is a casino called Excalibur, where I gambled on Thursday night. I played at a table for the first time and won! Only $15, but still...better than losing, right?
And that's pretty much the week in a nutshell, with lots more dancing in between. ^__~
If you're interested in seeing all the pictures you can check them out here:

3 comments:

aa said...

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The whole article and picture is telling that how they complete there official work with some enjoyable events.
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Brijesh
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Tim said...

I'm famouse!!!

....well...at least on your blog..

(^_^)

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