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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1150582, member: 16948&quot;]Let me start out by saying, in case you didn&#039;t already know, that as beautiful and pristine as Seattle (and the surrounding area) is, Seattle is VERY COLD!!!!!&nbsp; It&#039;s even colder than Baltimore was, but this SoCal gal is a huge cold WIMP!&nbsp; As much as I love trees and mountain beauty, I still much prefer the 120 degree Havasu-desert-boating-on-a beautiful-cool-lake climate over this 30-degree-frost-covered-scraping-windshields-frosty-breath coldness!&nbsp; It didn&#039;t help that my table is set up right next to the huge open door loading area which made it feel like I was sitting outside.&nbsp; OK, enough whining, now on to show stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>My brother Paul lives here (he too was born and raised in SoCal so I don&#039;t know how he ever acclimated to the Seattle climate, but he does love it here).&nbsp; Any way, right after I arrived here in Seattle, Paul (who works for Expedia) took me to Frys to help me pick out what I call my new &quot;show&quot; notebook - it&#039;s a 10&quot; laptop that I will take to shows instead of my regular laptop which will stay at home safe and sound.&nbsp; Yes, I also back up my laptop up but I feel safer having a separate travel notebook that doesn&#039;t contain everything my home laptop does but still has the the things I use on the road, and of course all my coin photos! I thought about getting an iPad-type device but just couldn&#039;t get used to the virtual keyboard that I would need to input information on my Excel inventory, so I went with the tiny Dell notebook. My brother is setting it up for me - yippee! </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110407-00348.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I arrived at the show pretty early since Paul had a meeting at work and dropped me off around 7am.&nbsp; Set up went smoothly (except of course for it being 20 degrees below zero - I had to keep wrapping my hands around my lamps to keep warm, ok, sorry for the whining...).&nbsp; Then I did some quick shopping.&nbsp; I bought some more beautiful Conder tokens for my collection (including another white metal Conder - a Red Lion Inn), as well as several nice better date Indians for inventory, AND a beautiful AU 1877 Indian cent!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00358.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00363.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The show opened at noon - I took a couple photos of what the bourse looked like about 2 hours into the show</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00350.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00349.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Several CU forum members stopped by and I actually remembered to take some of their pictures (a couple I had to ask pretty please!).</p><p><br /></p><p>lil ol me</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00354.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A usual suspect - Glen/PonyExpress</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00372.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A fellow Bob Dylan fan - Dennis88</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00371.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Our show&#039;s guest speaker - John/Pistareen</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00367.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jeremy/Airplanenut</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00364.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jackrabbit</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00357.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Seattleslammer</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00355.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jeff</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00368.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jerry Bobby</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110408-00366.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m headed out to dinner with my brother and his girlfriend, so gotta wrap this up - more tomorrow![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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