Thank you all for your fine suggestions. What I did was I sat in the meeting rooms and listened to conference presentations. (They were excellent.)
(WARNING: None of these pictures are huge--most about 200K or less. But there's a buttload of them.)
Before I get started I have to explain something. I have to explain it, though I expect most of you won't care. I usually shoot in RAW format, which means my camera doesn't do any processing on the shot. This gives me a lot of leeway to monkey with the exposure and the color balance and stuff like that. The downside of this is that it's not as easy to view as the more common JPEG format. My camera has a mode that takes a low-quality JPEG along with the RAW file. That way you have a quickie preview if you're in a situation where you can't handle the RAW format--like right now, since the machine I brought along doesn't have Photoshop.
What I'm saying is since these files were done from the basic quality JPEG with almost no processing except for some cropping and resizing, the image quality isn't as great as it could be. Like I said, most of you probably don't care.
Here's the chandelier in the entrance of the conference hotel.
Sunday night I had dinner at the Yard House restaurant. Mrs. Dallas said on the phone that I should "have a drink for me." So I did.
When you went downstairs to the restrooms, you could see into the room where they have all their beer kegs and related stuff.
Here's the hotel from outside at night.
There's a fountain with an aquatic-themed sculpture out front. Here's a closeup and a full view.
Also out front is this scary-sounding warning. I wish they would actually tell us what the chemical is!!
Self-portrait in the mirror of a conference room.
The hotel staff prepares to serve lunch on Monday.
I'm uncertain what the nature of this obelisk is, outside the Horton Plaza shopping center.