Alliance Conference 2014

This year the HEUG (Higher Education User Group) held their annual "Alliance" conference in Las Vegas!  Jake and I flew down Friday to explore the city and have some fun before the conference started Sunday night/Monday morning.

I felt lucky right from the start; the front desk gave us free drink coupons- Yeah!  Then, we also got a free buffet dinner - our first night in Las Vegas, yes please!  Dinner was delicious, thanks MGM Grand!  After dinner we met Jaime and Ryan Russell for drinks and catching up.  There was much excitement in the area as some Nascar celebrities were getting pictures out front.

That night we decided to hit up club Krave, they had a special going free well drinks, all you can drink, until midnight.  I'm telling you, there's a running theme here and it revolves around the word FREE!

Saturday the rest of the Sonoma State crew flew in and we spent the afternoon exploring the city, riding the monorail, picking up our tickets for the Beatles LOVE show, dinner and then heading to the show!  Had a lot of fun with the crew.

After the concert, Jake and I headed back to club Krave which was once again doing an amazing drink deal; free well drinks until midnight!  Had a lot of fun and then headed home to get to bed at a reasonable time because Sunday morning is the Alliance IO Fun Run!  You can see the run on my Runkeeper.

Sunday night the conference kick-off began and we had snacks and food at the event.  The next morning, Jaime and Erica presented first thing- way to go ladies!  After a full day of conference going, attending session after session, we were ready to have some snacks and drinks out.  IO Consulting reserved Hakkasan and presented everyone with delicious Hors d'oeuvre and an open bar.  Had a great night and ended up dancing up on the bar with everyone!  We enjoyed our night!

After another full day on Tuesday, the closing night celebrations were quite fantastic!  There were many performances and acrobatics and stunts.

By far my favorite was Drummer & DJ who just blew my mind with their choreographed music DJ'd and drummed along with the videography; just amazing!  You can see some of the recordings I made on my youtube channel.

After all the fun, we walked the stip a bit and grabbed ourselves a snack.  I had the munchies after all the delicious drinks!

The next day I ran the strip with Amanda and Trisha.  Always fun running with them, always fun running the stairs, bridges and streets of the Las Vegas strip!  HaHaHa!  Check it out on my Runkeeper.

Almost a full week in Las Vegas- we survived it, and had a lot of fun in the meantime!