ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Las Vegas Security Convention Fr</title> </head> <body background="images/graypapr.gif"> <p align="center"><b><font size="4" face="Garamond">Las Vegas Security Convention<br> Friday April 8 &amp; Saturday April 9, 2011</font></b></p> <p><font face="Garamond">Me and two good friends, Tommy Trest and Mark Butler went to Las Vegas to attend the last day of a Security Convention Expo to develop contacts with Asian manufacturers of Security equipment, specifically automated video recordings for vehicles.&nbsp; We stayed at the Hilton off of the strip and road the new monorail to get around along with renting a car for the two nights and two days while we were there.</font></p> <p><font face="Garamond">On Friday, we spent most of the day at the show.&nbsp; Friday evening we walked down the Strip enjoying the ambience along with driving down to Fremont to see the Freemont Experience.&nbsp; If you have never been to the Fremont Experience, it is worth the trip because of the live bands and three block electronic video canopy which covers the entire walk.&nbsp; Unfortunately, because it was night time along with the lighting, I did not get any pictures but included a public photo off the web for you to see what it is like.&nbsp; Throughout the trip, the weather was very nice and cool.</font></p> <p><font face="Garamond">See if you recognize some the famous hotels:</font></p> <table border="1" width="77%" id="table1"> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">1</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Apr11a.jpg">Keith in front of the Luxor Hotel</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">2</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Apr11c.jpg">Keith inside the atrium at Luxor.</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">3</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11d.jpg">Keith (in dark silhouette) at the monorail station with our Hilton Hotel in the background.</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">4</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11f.jpg">Monorail running down the track toward the Hilton</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">5</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Apr11b.jpg">Mark and Tommy walking in front of the MGM Grand on the way to eat at a buffet at Excalibur</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">6</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11g.jpg">Front of the Excalibur Hotel</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">7</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11e.jpg">New York -New York</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">8</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11h.jpg">Keith in front of the &quot;Gold &amp; Silver Pawn Shop&quot; which is the location of the hit History channel TV series, &quot;Pawn Stars&quot;.</a>&nbsp; It looks bigger on TV and is very small inside.&nbsp; There were lots of people coming and going just to check out the store because of the TV show.&nbsp; They sell T-Shirts and coffee mugs with the cast of the show.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">9</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11i.jpg">Another view of their marquee as seen on the TV show.</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">10</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11l.jpg">Tommy in front of the marquee</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">11</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Apr11m.jpg">Public photo off of the web of the Fremont walk and shows area with the shops.</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">12</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11j.jpg">Mark hamming it up with some of the convention girls where he bought some equipment.</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="29"><font face="Garamond">13</font></td> <td><font face="Garamond"><a href="images9/8Aprl11k.jpg">View of one tiny section of the expo which was part of the China section.</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>