Spring One 2016

Spring One is one of Paul's company's annual developer conferences and he went this year to do some pre-conference training for delegates.  This is something they do every year now.  It started as a way to raise the profile of training within the company but has proved so successful it covers the costs of attending the conference and actually makes money!

We were all staying in the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas (recently featured in the "Now You See Me" and" Jason Bourne" movies).  The assumption is that the company got a good room rate because everything else was exorbitantly expensive.  Typical Vegas hotel with bars and a massive, tacky gaming room with the conference centre attached.

In Vegas with work Colleagues

Casino's are a very good example of it costing a lot of money to look that cheap.  Wiwat loves them (fortunately he wasn't there!) but they bore Paul rigid and certainly we are not nearly rich enough to gamble anyway.  There are lots of bars, but you can go to a bar anywhere. A show would have been nice but there wasn't enough spare time for that.

In Paul's opinion: Vegas is "an experience - and now I've done it, I don't feel the need to ever do it again!"

Some of us did take a walk down "The Strip" and saw the musical dancing fountains outside Caesar's Palace.  Very similar to the fountain display we saw in Dubai a few years ago outside the Burj Khalifa.