VMworld 2013: Arrival and registration

A very cool picture to say myself, the grey colours everywhere makes it perfect.

My first post from San Francisco and I have some catching up to do. Since I haven’t been doing nothing once the plane touched down in Frisco. So let’s get my story going!

After a long day I have finally arrived in ‘Frisco’ yesterday around 5PM, while at home the clock was already pointing at 2AM. What do you mean, back to the past?

I have to mention the flight by British Airways which was a pleasure to experience. An entertainment system with new movies (watched Iron Man 3!), free drinks and 3 meals to make our travel as comfy as possible. Seen the fact that our flight endured 10 hours and 30 minutes 🙂

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To celebrate our arrival, my colleague and me grabbed a burger at the local diner and enjoyed some local beers before leaving to the hotel and catch a good night sleep. At least, if the beds were a little bit more comfy:

: The hotel bed was awful

This morning we had breakfast at 8AM and went for the Moscone centre to pick up our badges and backpack. I made some photos of the Partner Exchange which was still being built up but already looked very awesome. Oh, and I shook hands with Alan Renouf, the PowerCLI Guru and creator of the vCheck script.

: Moscone Centre West

: Registration went flawless!

: The biggest goodie bag of San Francisco I guess =)

: Busy people getting the stands ready

: Veeam Gold Sponsor!

: Big names, what will they show us this year?

: Cool looking stand by Cisco

: The pass for this years VMworld

: VMware has an endless amount of billboards and other forms of ads throughout the city.

A little bit off-topic, but like the second picture of this post suggested, we visited Alcatraz this afternoon. A cool experience and people who haven’t been there should really check it out. The audio tour was even available in Dutch!