Random Vegas Trip on an hour's notice? Why not?

So I’ve been to Vegas before, but I always wanted to be out there when they hold the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES).  Every year electronics companies and industry people from all over the world descend upon sin city to show off of and check out all of the new technology that it is on the horizon.  I’m talking everything from new TVS, videogames, cars, all kinds of stuff!  All the new stuff gets demonstrated and prototypes are shown off, you get to see stuff that may be coming out next week, or in 10 years, or sometimes stuff that will never even actually be released at all.  The convention is huge, and I’ve followed it for years but never actually attempted to go.

As you may or may not know, for the past year and a half I’ve been working different events and promotions for different companies.  I pick up random work promoting different stuff, it’s pretty fun and I can find work pretty much anywhere in the U.S. for short periods of time, and for big conventions like CES there are usually a ton of opportunities.  I had already flirted with the idea of working it last year and I knew I had some friends doing it this year so I applied to a couple of things out there.  I was kinda lazy and only applied for like 2 things; of course I didn’t hear anything until after day 1 of CES was already in the books.  This was a Tuesday night and they wanted me to come down to work weds-fri, but since there were no more flights that night I had to tell them that I couldn’t do it unless I could just work thurs-fri.  And of course they didn’t hit me back up until like 830pm on weds night.  But I said what the hell? Let me check flights really quick, sure enough there was another flight at 830 that night. I told them that I had to contact my friend to see if I could crash in his hotel room, and that I’d call them back when I knew.  I told em if they find anyone else first, go ahead and hire him or her.  I successfully scrambled to make arrangements and called back 20 minutes later, unfortunately they found somebody else.  But then I thought about it for a minute, why not just go for fun and try to check out CES? I literally stuffed my backpacked with a couple changes of close, and within 10 minutes I was off to the airport.