Viva Las Vegas! 

My "Vegas Plan of Attack" (VPOA) has been derailed and its only Day 2! So much for a good night’s sleep, taking the conference by storm, and soaking up as many CE sessions as possible over the next four days!

Instead, my roommate (who I haven’t seen in about 10 years) and I sat up chatting until 2 a.m. PST. This, unfortunately for me, was actually 5 a.m. EST, meaning I had officially been awake for 24 hours. Believing I would get at least get three hours sleep before initiating my VPOA, I was awakened after one and a half hours by children and friends texting from the East Coast who are apparently unaware of the concept of time zones. On the bright side, this pushed my VPOA forward, leaving plenty of time to high tail it over to a sunrise session on feeding the senior horse, presented by Mary Beth Gordon, PhD.

Fatigue flew out the window during the lively discussion on the special dietary needs of older equids, and I continued to suck energy from the Entertainment Capital of the World as hundreds of conference attendees (the majority of whom were not at the sunrise session, by the way) officially kicked off the 61^st Annual Convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners. In classic Vegas style, those well-rested individuals were belting out the tunes with the one and only Elvis Presley within minutes of arriving at the conference’s opening session. Attendees like Andrea Malatestinic, BSc, DVM, from Guelph, Ontario, Canada began fulfilling their own VPOAs by hanging with this hunk of burning love