Thursday, March 05, 2009

Live from the Public Choice Meetings

This is your correspondent Angus reporting from the PC meetings in Las Vegas. Let me break it down for you so far into three groups: The good, the bad, and the ugly.

First the good. We had dinner tonight at Spago. Very very nice. Mrs. A had two kinds of handmade pasta, I had a baby beet and goat cheese salad and fresh halibut with seafood risotto and some awesome "chocolate monkey" tea for dessert.

Now the bad: it was 85 today in Norman and only about 60 here in Vegas.

Now the ugly: the conference hotel is the hideously mis-named Imperial Palace. It is loud, smoky, tacky, ugly, and frankly a little bit scary. We have a mirror on the ceiling over the bed and the carpets in the elevators have large dark stains all over them.

So much action and the conference doesn't even start until Friday morning. Stay tuned for more.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

LV = great restaurants and sleezy casinos. My advice: Rent a car and drive the half hour out to Red Rocks and go hiking.

Anonymous said...

As for casinos with regal monikers, leave the Imperial Palace, take a right, and in about two blocks you will run into the grand-daddy of all casinos...The world famous Casino Royale

Shawn said...

...bellagio'ing next week. hopefully slightly sleaze-free.