If you missed my day 0, you can view it here.

As there was no Oracle EMEA Appreciation Event like the past couple of years, today was simply enjoying Las Vegas and adjusting to the new time zone, which wasn’t as hard because I came from New York this time, so was already used to GMT-5 hours.

Enjoying Las Vegas

First thing first was to get breakfast. So hit my usual restaurant Zeffer’s within my hotel. As I was eating healthy, tried to have my staple diet of sourdough bread and soft-boiled eggs. There was something similar on the menu which had some avocado, so I went for that. And it was delicious.

Next, I went back to my hotel room and spent a few hours getting my first blog post out, covering the trip over and my NYC visit. Once I got this out of the way, a customer of Version 1, James, was attending the conference and it was his first time over in Las Vegas, so I offered to meet up, show him around, and go for some lunch. We decided to go to The Cheesecake Factory, a place I am familiar with.

Honestly, this place is mental, cheesecakes are like 1,000 to 2,000 calories! I clearly passed on this and went for something healthy 😂

Just outside, there is a show every half hour or so called The Atlantis Show, which at the end has some cool balls of fire that you can feel the heat from.

After the very big lunch, as I had the dinner portion, when I really should have had the lunch one 🤦🏽‍♂️, we went for a walk down the strip.

We reached the LINQ promenade, which I showed James around. We even got to see people doing the zipline ride 😎

Next, we walked down the strip, saw Gordon Ramsay’s new burger joint and Hell’s Kitchen, a shrine, some green fairy garden, and the Paris hotel with its replica of the Eiffel Tower. We finally saw the water fountain show at the Bellagio. Annoyingly, the view was a little obstructed by the large Formula 1 grandstand, for the Grand Prix next month.

James wanted to go back to the hotel and get sorted for tomorrow and have an early night. So after walking him back to the hotel, I went to meet my good friend Sai in the Venetian shopping mall.

We had a walk around the mall, as we waited for our friend Osama to join us.

Osama wasn’t answering, so we decided to go for dinner at Yard House in the LINQ promenade, as I had been there before in the past and it was good. Chandan, a friend of Sai, also joined us. Keeping with healthy eating, I went for a shrimp salad and because of the big lunch, went for a half portion and even this was still huge 🤦🏽‍♂️

Osama eventually caught up with us and had dinner. Then we called it a night just before getting a group photo.

Tomorrow will be registration, attending the Oracle Partner Success Summit, Partner Networking Reception, Regional Partner Awards, and Database Premier Customer Appreciation Event.

You can view my day 2 here.

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Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)