With Neon

This is what my view is like at night, neontastic and this is the tame part of the Strip!

The Strip

Brian suggested we use the Sunday to walk the Strip (what did you think I meant?) so I could see what all the different themes of the hotels were as I have never been to LV before. We also went to find the Apple store as my friend Adrie would like me to buy him a Macbook Air.

This is what we found when we got there...

Yes I framed the picture purposely, shiny and sexy as Apples products are, I do feel they are overpriced and over hyped. Interestingly a lot of recent articles on IT websites are suggesting that Macs will begin to both be pushed towards the enterprise market as well as pulled in by end users demanding them in non traditional Mac areas (i.e. non media uses). One of the sessions I am attending this week is about using System Centre to support non MS environments and Macs were specifically mentioned in the brief so that should be interesting.

So Adrie, I haven't bought you a Air as it was closed! I have also found that my bank has blocked my cards as they think they are being used fraudulently - I have now pointed out I actually am in the US and please will they let me have my money!

In another Mall we managed to visit the M&Ms store. I thought this would be for people to buy them but chocolate is perhaps the smallest range of items available. Whilst there are many colours of M&Ms to buy including the new Indiana Jones tie in flavour;

the majority of the merchandise available is things like clothing, stationary and so on. I think there were 4 floors and the shop was very busy which is great to see. It was also the first time we saw genuinely happy people that days with big smiles, people really identify with Red and Yellow and buy in to the brand, not just the products. No one in Casinos seem to be smiling! Some more pics of the shop:

I got to the end of the escalator hence the blurred action shot ;-)

and its consequences - I'm guessing that should get me the Homer award for a bit!

and as the team are into cars:

According to the USA Today I got this morning (Mon) the M&Ms car won yesterday, so congratulations to them!

The M&Ms store was the first time I had physically seen Ethel M's products too. There was more to come but Brian will blog about that.

As we walked back up the Strip we went to the Fashion Show Mall as Brian needed a book to read, here we found an open Apple store which was packed and had free Wifi and another store which claimed to be future technologies. Here there had an Asus EEE 700 (which has been superseded by the 900, but still looks good)

and some glasses with screens and earplugs for big screen action on the move.

and after 6 hours of walking we were done!