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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1576156, member: 16948&quot;]So, yes, the rumors are true – I finally ditched my Blackberry and bought an iPhone 5!&nbsp; So, hopefully you’ll see a little better quality pics in this report.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So I left my house around 10am on Wednesday for the airport (which is less than 10 min. from my house), arrived at the John Wayne airport in plenty of time for my noon flight - the OC airport is one of the airports that usually requires a bag search so I always get there early but was pleasantly surprised when they let my bags go through with no search!&nbsp; So I decided to start trying out my new iPhone camera.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is a picture of the wine tasting bar that was right across from my gate.&nbsp; You can actually buy a bottle of wine and bring it on board the plane, and the flight attendants will even open it for you! Needless to say, I’m a member of their wine club!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0018.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is looking out on a beautiful sunny 85 degree day in OC, knowing that I would soon be landing in 40 degree Baltimore!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0015.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Again, playing with my iPone camera features – this one lets me turn the camera on myself (boy, not sure if I like this feature – it seems to highlight all those wrinkles that I thought were a little less apparent!)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0016.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I soon arrived for my connecting flight in Phoenix where I had an almost 3 hour layover, so of course I found a nice little cubby hole where I could hang out!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0020.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I finally arrived in Baltimore just after midnight.&nbsp; I ran into another dealer at the baggage claim who happened to be staying at my same hotel, so we it was nice to be able to share a cab.&nbsp; For some reason our bags took about half an hour to finally appear on the carousel.&nbsp; It was about 1:30am when I finally got to the hotel, but I was pleasantly surprised that they upgraded my room to a nice corner room.&nbsp; Here are some photos of Baltimore I took from my room at night.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0022.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0023.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And in the morning (through dirty windows)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0072.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then I quickly passed out on my big super huge soft cozy bed!&nbsp; Then, suddenly, it was time to get up!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Set up on Thursday was 8am, so I dragged myself and my bags over to the convention center.&nbsp; While grabbing my badge, I ran into these two gentlemen – </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>David Crenshaw/Whitman and John Kreljevich/Pistareen</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0025.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I also saw this very kind gentleman at the Stack’s table who graciously allowed me to take his photo…</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>David Bowers</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0032.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When I made it to my booth, Todd was irritatingly bright-eyed&nbsp; and bushy-tailed, and had just about finished setting up his photo booth (he had arrived the day before and was already acclimated to the time change).&nbsp; So he left while I began slowly setting out my coins.&nbsp; After I finished, I went out to the lobby and took some photos before the public was let in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0026.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0030.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0031.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here are me and Todd ready for business!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0040.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Matt/BillyGoatsGruff of Pinnacle was once again our back door neighbor</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0029.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And here’s Todd and Wei/WTCG who was giving me some lessons on taking photos with my iPhone – so I turned my camera/phone on him when he wasn’t expecting it!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0042.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here’s a view of the bourse looking straight out from our table</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0046.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I had brought these “self-contained” little wine little glasses of wine to try out at the show.&nbsp; All you did was peel off the lid and drink – surprisingly, they weren’t too bad.&nbsp; So Thursday afternoon when things slowed down, I brought them out - I used Rick as a guinea pig!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0048.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After the show ended, we went out to one of our favorite restaurants in Little Italy – Da Mimmo’s</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0049.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is Neil (Rick’s FBI friend), Rick and me</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CHARMY/2012%2011%20Baltimore/IMG_0051.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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