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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 970641, member: 16948&quot;]On Wednesday, I was pretty busy, though I did do a little running around to take some photos!&nbsp; And I just had to see some of the exhibits, and also purchase the Greatest US Error book and run around to find the authors so they could sign it for me too!&nbsp; </p><p>Any way, only a couple of my photos turned out from the ANA cruise (all my pictures are taken from my blackberry), so here they are.....&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00105-20100810-1731.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00112-20100810-1739.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I did take some photos on the bus over to the ANA dinner, but they were terrible, so I couldn&#039;t post them.&nbsp; And, by the way, there really is a Karin (Rick&#039;s assistant), but her photo was pretty bad, so I will try and get some of her tomorrow.&nbsp; We did get a &quot;formal&quot; photo taken by the ship&#039;s crew and I&#039;m going to see if Todd can take a picture of that picture so I can post it here.</p><p>So the cruise was much better than anticipated, actually it was really very nice.&nbsp; The food was great, the weather was perfect, and even though the award announcements were hard to hear, by all accounts, the ANA dinner cruise was a complete success!&nbsp; I was at a table with some fun folks (Brian, Rick, Karin, Jonathan, Todd, etc.), and everyone really had a good time.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then of course a few of us went pubbing after we docked, we even &quot;accidentally&quot; tried to crash a private party that was being held on the lawn at the hotel but didn&#039;t have much success success, so we ended up at the Cheers bar in Nathanial Hall.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I tend to &quot;talk&quot; with my hands somtimes and ended up spilling a whole glass of red wine all over me.&nbsp; Good thing I was wearing black!&nbsp; Of course, that didn&#039;t deter me from having another glass of wine!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At the show on Wednesday, a few forum members stopped by, and Ricky (900 Fine) and his wife are set up just up the aisle from me.&nbsp; It was nice to finally formally meet Mark Feld, though I&#039;ve crossed paths with him a few times at some other shows.&nbsp; Also, it ended up being quite humorous as Mark and another forum member kept trying to connect at our table - they kept JUST missing each other - it was very &quot;three stooges-ish&quot; in their timing!&nbsp; Luckily, they were finally able to catch each other and hook up.&nbsp; But it truly is wonderful to meet the faces behind the avatar/user names on this forum, and it continually surprises me that the image I had pictured of a particular forum member always turns out to be completely different!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I bought a bunch more coins today, spent more at this show than at any other show - ever!&nbsp; But I was presented with some coins I just couldn&#039;t pass up!!!!&nbsp; So far, I&#039;ve bought a total of 4 very nice certified 1877 Indian cents from XF45 to MS65, some really pretty half cents, and several Lincolns that I needed for inventory as well.&nbsp; Even though sales are going well, it has been a GREAT buying show for me.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Any way, I took some pictures at the show today, some of the exhibits - ship of gold, etc., and a photo of what I refer to as the &quot;red headed stepchild&quot; room our table is in, as well as the &quot;main room.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00127-20100811-1427.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00128-20100811-1428.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00125-20100811-1423.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00126-20100811-1423.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you look closely, my table with the red banner is against the back wall at the very end of the aisle of this secondary &quot;red headed step child&quot; room</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00129-20100811-1428.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This was taken in the &quot;main room&quot;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00131-20100811-1429.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then, Rick and his FBI childhood friend and I went to another pub right across the street from the convention center - Rick was waiting to bid on some auctions but his lots weren&#039;t going to come up until around 11:30 pm, so we had to kill some time.&nbsp; It was a great little pub that had a fun party atmosphere, and they played the best music!&nbsp; Here are some pictures of me, Rick and the FBI guy...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00132-20100811-1951.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00133-20100811-1951.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00135-20100811-1955.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I took this picture on my way back to the hotel, which is through the convention center, so this is what the convention center hallway looks like after hours!!!!&nbsp; (sorry some of my photos are not that clear)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00136-20100811-1958.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>p.s.&nbsp; And, to answer a question in a pm by another forum member and to sort of &quot;set the record straight,&quot; YES there absolutely is a &quot;Mr. Penny Lady&quot; - he is a wonderful guy who I absolutely adore, and who doesn&#039;t mind my &quot;covorting&quot; around the country with all my gentlemanly coin buddies!!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00016-20091126-0932.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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