Vegas in a day

So,  I was just in Vegas. It wasn't a long trip, I was there for literally less than 24 hours. The CEO of the company that I work for also founded the Internet Marketing Association, which had an event at the Mandarin Oriental on Thursday evening, and I went to help out and to see the event. I stayed at the Mandarin Oriental (there was special pricing for the event attendees) which was SO NICE! So, I arrive and the doorman comes and gets my bag out of the taxi and greets me as "Miss Beverly" (so probably he looked at the tag. Or they were watching for me...hehehe). Then I took the elevator (all of their elevators have lounge chairs in them, which is cool but really I doubt anyone is in the elevator long enough to use it) up to the lobby on the 23rd floor. Funny, because all of the rooms are on lower floors! =D But everyone was super nice and friendly and it was so luxurious that I felt super weird in my jean skirt and t-shirt =D They had the type of room key that you hold in front of a reader (vs. inserting it into the reader like a credit card). Then I opened the door and the room turned on, so to speak. the shades all raised and the TV turned on and everything. The room was also big and very well designed. Here are some pictures:

Super nice. And there was a tablet-style controller by the bed that controls everything - the lights, the sheer & blackout curtains, the TV, everything. The wake-up "alarm" turned on all the lights, which was nice and I'm glad that that woke me up because there was no sound. I had set my cell phone alarm too, just in case, but I didn't need it! I really should get one of those light alarm clocks! (One's sitting in my Amazon cart right now!)


So, I after settling into my room and everything and sitting there relaxed for a while (I'll admit. I was sort of waiting for direction, and sort of resting). Then I went down and helped, but it was mostly under control by then. So the event was pretty cool. There were speakers from several big companies Adobe and Facebook. The presenters from Adobe and Google were definitely the best. The Adobe presentation was very creative (using Adobe flash, of course) and the Google one was informative and interesting. Not much else to say really, so here are some pictures:

Then there was the after party.! Clearly I forgot to take a picture of the desserts, but there were lots of mini desserts from cupcakes to lemon meringue tarts to chocolate espresso mousse...yumm. But the view was spectacular and was really nice. It was on the top floor of nearby Veer East.

(These sofas were actually inflatable, but the pillows were real)

Afterwards, a lot of us went over to this place called the Chandelier Room or something like that and it was really nice. I had a raspberry martini and it was so good. They used real raspberries and everything.