I’ve been coming to Las Vegas twice a year for the World Market Center’s furniture trade show, and it’s all become somewhat routine by now. I’m staying at the Monte Carlo for a week to help with the show and to check out some of the other exhibitors at the trade show.
We had a pretty small booth this year, so the set-up didn’t take very long. We’re showing a couple beds at the Pavilions at the World Market Center, but soon we’ll have our own showroom in building three, which is being constructed right now and will open next year.
I was too busy preparing for the show and making an emergency trip to Kinko’s to print some things to have much fun.
Our company President came by on Wednesday, and we took a limo over to the Renaissance Hotel to have dinner at Envy, a swank little steakhouse. It’s been quite a posh week to say the least, and it isn’t quite over yet.
My responsibility on Friday and Saturday was to pack up our things from the trade show and get it all on a palette to have hauled out of here.
Saturday afternoon, I treated myself to lunch at Inn-n-Out burger, which was a convenient fifteen minute walk from the Monté Carlo. The place was packed, and I was amazed at how a simple burger and fried restaurant could be “standing room only” when I arrived. Anyone who eats here knows why, though. Everything is made fresh, and you could see them cutting down actual potatoes for the french fries. I ate them with ketchup, of course, the way all normal people do. I was able to chill a while and catch up on my reading before the flight back home.
And here the sun sets over Vegas for the last time for me this year.
Goodbye, Sin City! I’ll see you again in January.