Las Vegas

Just got back from a trip to Vegas for the World of Concrete. If you have never been to a trade show at the Las Vegas Convention Center consider yourself lucky. The show I attended (with about 65,000 other people from around world) featured a front loader obstacle course (a front loader is like a bulldozer), a brickmason competition where they basically made brick firepits, tool demos, and a million other boothes ranging from tile to 5-hour energy to vacation packages. The 40 hour stay consisted of lots of walking, sitting in 3 hours of class, and eating a chicken sandwich from Nathans' hotdogs.
But, since this was a free trip to Vegas, it also featured a stay at the brand new Aria hotel at the City Center, beer pong with some friends and a coworker at Blondies, dinner at the always classy Hawaiian Tropic Zone, gambling at Aria, and getting way too little sleep. I would recommend that everyone do all of the above with the exception of eating at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone. Not sure how that will look on the HDCCO expense report either.