This morning at our team meeting my team got on the discussion of why so many conferences are in Las Vegas. One person said it has to be that there is always room for another conference there and they probably don’t charge a lot for the conference rooms because they know they are going to get a lot of money out of the attendees. I wondered, how many rooms are there in Las Vegas? According to Wikipedia, there are more than 60,000 hotel rooms on the strip! Holly Crud! That is a lot of rooms, and I could not have imagined that there are that many people staying in Vegas! Whether it was the mob or some other way in which that town got started, someone was a visionary to have dreamed that up. Think about it, you pull up to what was probably a couple of trailers and maybe a gas station, would you have looked around and said, yep this is the place where we are going to build a mega casino! I just looked it up. In 1920-1929 the population of Las Vegas was 2,304. How did it go from that to over 60,000 hotel rooms and a population of 603,488! I can tell you this much, in my wildest dreams I could not have ever come up with something as crazy as Las Vegas! I guess that is why people like Steve Wynn and others are stupidly rich, and I am typing up this blog during lunch!