We got back around 4:00PM on Friday. We took the long way home because we thought we would take the scenic route through Caliente. It was pretty but damn that was a long drive. I think from now on we'll take the shorter route up 318.

G2E officially started at 7:00 PM on Monday at the Wynn. This was the G2E opening party and started with a long line to get in. It was nice that they had servers walking up and down the line handing out glasses of wine. After about 10 minutes of waiting and drinking wine we made it in to the ballroom where The Dukes of Dixieland was playing. There was lots and lots of food, good food, really good food.

We left the Wynn and walked over to Treasure Island in the Tangerine/Social House where Aristocrat had their party. It was two floors of standing room only and loud music. I thought the food was terrible but they has sushi and Patty likes sushi so the food was good for here. We talked to our sales rep and then got the hell out of there and went back to our room.

Tuesday, the 14th, we get to the show around 11:00 to get our badge holders so we can get into the show. Right at noon the show starts and there's big line going into the front door. I'm not going to go into every little detail about the floor, just the stuff I thought was cool. First place I went was the Paltronics booth where I learned we don't need an expensive media server to display live content on our LCDs. We just need an OSK with a video input. This will let us do some pretty cool stuff with overlaying sporting events on top of our own ads. Also I can display web content on the LCDs. And the cost will be around 7% of the cost of the full system. Next we ran into Steve Browne from Raving Consulting. This is the only man I know who never concludes a conversation.

The first party Tuesday night was the IGT party at PURE in Caesar's Palace. Again the lines were long, the music was loud and there was way to many people for the size of the club, and the club was huge. So, we went to the second party that night, the WMS party at The House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. The band was Cowboy Mouth and they were loud but at least they were a good loud. They had a good tone but I really didn't care for the music they were playing. It was a long day so we went back to our room.

I will try to finish this with a part two after I get caught up with some work.