Vegas...

I know... I know... its been a month and no vegas pictures posted online yet... SORRY KIDS... I'm a slacker!!

I have been enjoying Corinas posts about her trip to Rwanda, including visits to the genocide memorial and meeting impoverished children... well in comparison to her trips blog posts, mine seem superficial, crass, tacky and materialism at its worst... which is how I will describe Vegas from now on.... I had a good time, but its not my kind of place. It was not unusual in the morning when Mary the Seattle Alaska rep and I were walking at 7:30am from Caesars palace where we stayed to the Venetian where the convention was being held to see people stumbling around in the street carrying a beer drunk. It was also not uncommon to walk past people sitting on benches or in chairs in the casinos or on the side walk and wonder if they were dead or alive. My dad summed up vegas in a few simple words "if everything is legal its cheap to maintain since there is no need for cops..." its true, all night and all day you are harrassed by the men handing out flyers with naked women on them, you can walk around with your drinks, even enter a bar with your drink from the last bar, you can gamble.... I dont have any pictures from the business portion of the trip, though if I did they would be full of boobies and other such antics... All of my pictures are from before business started on wednesday and from saturday after I split from the prodesign crew till i left on sunday.