Wow! If you would have tried to describe to me what it would be like to have 7506 SharePoint people converge on Las Vegas, I still would have a hard time imagining it.  But it’s real.  Everywhere you turn you see a familiar face, someone with their twitter tag shirt on, or SharePoint bag, or that MVP or Community Lead or expert that you’ve been reading their blog for years.

This event is like no other.  So hard to put it to words.

SPC started at the airport for me.  Sitting at the gate was right to left, Jared Spitaro (Dir of Search & Fast)Tom Rizzo (Sr. Dir Product Mgmt) and the new SharePoint Workspace guy.  Here’s a quick clip from these guys on stats for SharePoint Conference.

Sunday morning I met up with @fabianwilliams and Christian Buckley.  After breakfast we had a contingency of 5 for #ShareChurch.  Great crew of LDS, Catholics, and Non Denominational Christians.  We had a great discussion. 

The registration line was HUGE!  This is before the switch backs and behind Christian it curves and keeps going.  I bet it was measurable in Kilometers.

The Welcome reception on Sunday evening exposed the Massive vendor hall with nearly 200 SharePoint partners.

A few of us snuck out after a while to get some real food, despite the fact that the cuts of steak at the welcome reception were incredible.  We had about 50 or so show up for #ShareIndia organized by @alpesh, @michaeltnoel @meetdux, and with help from @eusp (Mark Miller) of end user SharePoint.  It was a nice quiet setting with decent Indian food.  I told a few India stories as I connected back up with Michael Noel our first meeting since our India and Nepal excursion.