Las Vegas -- A Surreal Experience

Colleagues told me that I would find Las Vegas to be something I had never seen before and they were right.  Standing outside the Paris Hotel on a gorgeous Wednesday afternoon looking up at a replica of the Eiffel Tower (half size) seemed incredibly surreal. 

And it just got better.  Fountains at the Bellagio first caught our attention because of the beautiful music that accompanied the fountains which could be heard long before we saw the actual fountains. And these fountains were way beyond anything someone could ever explain to you.

 The gondola ride with gondoliers who broke out in Italian arias swept us to Florence Italy -- at least in our minds -- as we cruised along the waterways inside yet another beautiful hotel.

Everything was just bigger than big -- over the top we kept saying. 

 When we first drove down the strip, as it is known, we were like kids at Disney world -- our necks got a good workout that day!

As for the conference, it was all about different ways of learning. Some good insights, but really the whole trip became about how de-stressing Las Vegas turned out to be. We just had a lot of fun and laughed at ourselves frequently as we discovered yet another sight on "the strip"!