Small Pleasures Week: Only Vegas
We have been in Las Vegas covering CES (the Consumer Electronics Show). All over the Las Vegas Convention Center are these small billboards, urging conventioneers to stay an additional night. They are from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Based on the flock of people heading for the airport, not many people heeded their call.
We planned on staying another day past the end of the convention, so I find the signs funny. Even though we are staying a night longer than the convention, they are enticing me to stay yet another night. Even as I type these words, I find them appealing. I feel like I should stay another night.
Las Vegas is the town that people always say they lost their shirt in. That’s not because of the hotel costs or even the rising cost of food and gasoline. It’s because of the gambling. The appeal of winning 10.7 million dollars might be what makes people stick the coins in the slot machines, but gambling isn’t the only thing to do in Las Vegas. This week, I will be highlighting unique and interesting things to do in the city without spending big bucks. I call them Small Pleasures and you get to enjoy them all this week.