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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1248092, member: 16948&quot;]After having my Saturday flight cancelled, I took a Sunday afternoon flight and finally arrived late Sunday night.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110814-00111.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110814-00110.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I know my report is a bit delinquent, but this show has been one of my businest shows ever!&nbsp; And I haven&#039;t gotten back to my room before midnight until tonight!&nbsp; I have tried several times to start a report, only to (gratefully) have another customer stop by my table.&nbsp; In a nutshell, this has been an exhaustinglywonderful show so far, with lots of buying and selling going on!</p><p><br /></p><p>First, let me say that the weather here in Chicago has been wonderfully comfortable!&nbsp; Not to humid or not, with bright blue skies during the day and cool breezy evenings.</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00120.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00122.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Day 1 (Monday):</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to the preshow Monday morning, and my first impression was that this room is absolutely HUGE - probably the biggest showroom I have been in!&nbsp; However, the preshow was pretty sparsely attended at least on Monday morning, so I was able to sit and buy new inventory coins at my leisure from several of my favorite dealers - and buy I did!&nbsp; I bought at least 20 new slabs and many more new raw pieces!&nbsp; I even bought a stunning &quot;Christmas tree&quot; toned new 1882 NGC MS66 RB for my personal collection.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone I spoke to said the preshow was not very well attended, though many vest pocket dealers said they did well.&nbsp; Part of the problem was that all the dealers were able to set up at the preshow at their regular assigned table so they wouldn&#039;t have to move during the main show.&nbsp; However, the showroom floor is so huge that having all the preshow dealers spread out all over the showroom made the whole room seem very sparse.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure what could be done to make it more successful, but the dealers I spoke to were not comfortable with the preshow set up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Soon it was time to set up my table that I share with Todd/Blue62vette (table # 1235).&nbsp; Since Todd was still teaching his photography class, I had the booth to myself and could take my time getting everything in place so that when Todd showed up he would have the room to set up his photo booth.&nbsp; Since set up was scheduled from 3pm til 5:30pm, there wasn&#039;t a lot of time for those not already set up for the preshow to make the rounds before it was time to shut down for the night.</p><p><br /></p><p>We decided to head to downtown Chicago to Little Italy for some Italian food.&nbsp; We ended up at this little Italian Caberet restaurant which had ok food and a slightly stale Caberet program.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t bad, but not really my thing.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00124.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00123.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We then walked around downtown for a little while looking for a Blues club.</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00127.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00129.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We came upon the House of blues but there were no available seats so we didn&#039;t stay long.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00130.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00131.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00133.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I was beginning to think that my first night in downtown Chicago wasn&#039;t exactly what I thought it would be .... that is, until we found the BEST little Blues pub on the planet - Blue Chicago!&nbsp; WOW, what a GREAT place that was!&nbsp; The band was fantastic, so good that I even bought one of their CD&#039;s!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00135.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00140.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00137.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Chicago-20110815-00139.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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