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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1143684, member: 16948&quot;]Well I guess my pictorial show reports are becoming somewhat popular since even forum lurkers have come up to me to tell me how much they enjoy reading them, and asked if I&#039;m going to do another one for this show.&nbsp; So here it is!</p><p><br /></p><p>My hubby dropped me off at the airport Wednesday at 5:30 am (he was so sweet to get up that early just for me!).&nbsp; I arrived in Baltimore around 4pm, waited for Todd&#039;s plane so we could take a taxi together since we are staying at the same hotel.&nbsp; After we checked in, we discovered that they placed us both in the &quot;step child&quot; tower which was probably half a block away by the time we went down numerous hallways, through multiple single doors (that were very difficult to maneuver while hauling 3 suitcases each), then waited quite a while for one of two elevators to our floors!&nbsp; When I asked why they put us in that tower, they said they were getting in a large group of cheerleaders and felt the business people wouldn&#039;t want to be on the same floors as 100 loud and noisy teenage girls!&nbsp; Well, for me that is absolutely the case, but I&#039;m not so sure Todd would agree.&nbsp; Todd informed me that he would be eating dinner in the lobby tomorrow (when they are scheduled to check in).&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So after we dropped our stuff off at the convention security, a group of us went over to our favorite crabcake place - G&amp;Ms - UMMMMMMM!&nbsp; Each of us ordered the double crabcake special just so we could have leftovers for lunch today!&nbsp; I took this photo while we were in the bar waiting to be seated.&nbsp; The whole place was completely packed, and the waitress said it was like that every night - I can believe it!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/District5-20110330-00285.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Me and Todd and our table (#1751)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00290.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two usual suspects (Wei and Ian)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00289.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>More usual suspects (Julian)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00293.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tony (Northern Nevada Coin)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00294.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>View from my table towards the middle of the show, late Thursday afternoon</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00287-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>View towards the back of the room</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00288-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Our hosts (Barbara/Whitman)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00296.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lot viewing at Stacks Bowers table</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00291.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00292.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00295.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00297.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Matt/NGC (their table looked sparce because it was late in the day and I waited for their customers to leave before I interrupted to take a photo)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00299.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And last but not least, Mr. Sparty!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00298.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Friday was amazing!&nbsp; I went out to get coffee abut 10:15 am after the public was let in and I couldn&#039;t even get out the door because they were still streaming in!&nbsp; This show has been a great show for Todd and me all day on Friday and didn&#039;t slow down til late in the day.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I asked about the Mr. Sparty - apparently the dealer bought him for his store and got tired of seeing him sitting around, so he brought it to the show in the hopes of selling it.&nbsp; He&#039;s asking $450 for it and it is extremely heavy, but really cool looking - I think it would make a great Halloween costume.</p><p><br /></p><p>So.... here are some photos from last night.&nbsp; First, we went to dinner at a wonderful Italian restaurant in Little Italy (Chipparelli&#039;s) where we had some very yummy Italian wine before we went to Howl at the Moon -a very fun dueling piano bar.&nbsp; We had a few yummy Irish Carbombs while listening to some great piano music!&nbsp; (I&#039;ve been trying to hold my phone camera more steady so the photos don&#039;t turn out so blurry, but I&#039;m still pretty pathetic at photo taking so please bear with me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Howl at the Moon sign</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00301.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The piano guys</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00305.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00303.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>They have this message board next to the stage where you can pay a dollar more than the last person who posted a message to have your message on the board. People had posted messages about the local sports teams here, so of course I had to post one for my favorite SoCal team, which of course received a few &quot;boos&quot; from the audience!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00311.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>One of my usual &quot;partners in crime&quot;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00307.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And the waitress doing the Time Warp dance</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110331-00316.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I did manage to get around and take a couple photos of Coinosaurous (a PCGS forum member who wrote this really great book) while he signed my copy of the book.</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110401-00318.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110401-00323.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110401-00322.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110401-00324.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, as I said, this show has been crazy busy, both buying and selling.&nbsp; I bought one of the most amazing proofs I&#039;ve ever had!&nbsp; Wow, is all I can say when I look at this coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s PF66 and completely blue cameo!&nbsp; I can&#039;t wait to see Todd&#039;s photograph of this beauty.&nbsp; I also bought a nice group of very pretty Lincolns, a couple of which I will keep for my own collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many forum members have stopped by and said hi, several of whom I hadn&#039;t met before, and it has been a lot of fun meeting and chatting with them. Kanga, MercCrazy, Merlin, PennyGuy, and several others stopped by - it was really and sincerely great seeing all of you!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Larry Steve, who had the all time highest Indian cent variety set, came by and introduced himself.&nbsp; What a pleasure it was to meet him.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I managed to get Larry/Little Bear&#039;s picture (from PCGS forum) but forgot to take photos of some of the other forum members. </p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110401-00321.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is David who does a great job helping put this show on for Whitman</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110401-00319.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here are more photos of the bourse taken from my table during the peak hours</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110401-00326.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Baltimore-20110401-00325.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It seriously was a really great day, both business-wise, and meeting forum members! </p><p><br /></p><p>Then we went back to Little Italy and had dinner at another wonderful Italian restaurant (La Travola) with more great Italian wine (Primitivo).&nbsp; We thought this restaurant was sort of a neat undiscovered wonder, and low and behold, we ran into about 10 other coin dealers there!</p><p><br /></p><p>Then it was time to call it a night since last night we stayed out so late, we were all worn out and tired, and our comfy cozy beds seemed more appealing than another night &quot;howling at the moon&quot;! </p><p><br /></p><p>So that&#039;s it for Friday.&nbsp; Tomorrow Todd and I will be packing up and on our way to the airport by late afternoon, and on our way back to our respective WARM California cities!&nbsp; It has been in the 40&#039;s (highs) which is extremely cold for this warmblooded gal!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, believe it or not, I actually have to set up my local show early Sunday morning!&nbsp; I am not looking forward to that since traveling back east always wears me out and it will be hard getting up that early on Sunday.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And even more, on Thursday, I have to pack up and head up to Washington state for another show!&nbsp; At least there I will be staying with my brother whom I don&#039;t&#039; get to see very often, so that will be a big plus!&nbsp; That&#039;s it for now.&nbsp; I&#039;ll post more either tomorrow or later on Sunday![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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