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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1153149, member: 16948&quot;]Saturday was another incredibly busy day.&nbsp; It&#039;s only started to thin out around 4pm.&nbsp; I had some great sales, including a beautiful 1955/55 PCGS MS64 and two 1909-S Indian cents.&nbsp; Other than a few rolls rolls of lower end Indian and wheat cents, I haven&#039;t bought anything, though I haven&#039;t had a chance to walk the floor at all yet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some shots of the bourse taken around 11am - this is what it looked like yesterday too!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110409-00382.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110409-00381.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I had the pleasure of chatting with several more CU forum members who stopped by today.&nbsp; Bochiman and Swampboy hung out with me for a little while, and I was honored to have my photo taken with Laksamman and Bochiman!&nbsp; (It&#039;s a little blurry but my neighbor took it, so it&#039;s not only me that is photo inept!)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110409-00392.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110409-00384.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>High Relief and his pretty wife also stopped by, and they even brought me TWO bottles of tasty Washington wine (what sweathearts they are!) - I can&#039;t wait to have some!&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110409-00387.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/PNNAShow201100000.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>BillyGoat</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20110409-00388.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dave99</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Seattle-20110409-00386.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then on Saturday night, my brother Paul, his girlfriend Vicki, and a couple other friends went to Mizu (sp?) which is a Bennihana-type restaurant where the chef prepares your food right in front of you.&nbsp; Our chef was quite entertaining, flinging shrimp up in the air towards one of us to catch in our mouth, which my brother was quite good at (you know, the trained seal type thing!) What was really interesting was that he used Vodka to clean the grill surface in between types of food he was grilling!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Tahoma-MapleValley-20110409-00394.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Tahoma-MapleValley-20110409-00398.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Tahoma-MapleValley-20110409-00399.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Tahoma-MapleValley-20110409-00397.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Tahoma-MapleValley-20110409-00396.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Tahoma-MapleValley-20110409-00395.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We then went back to his house, where he continued setting up my new &quot;netbook&quot; (I earlier called it a notebook and was quickly corrected that the term is &quot;netbook&quot; - I told him, &quot;tomato-tomoto, notebook-netbook&quot;!)&nbsp; Any way, this thing is sooooo coooool!&nbsp; It&#039;s has everything I was looking for - portability, a keyboard AND a touch pad, powerful speed and big memory, can hold all my files including Excel, and best of all it has a flip screen so you can use it like an iPad!&nbsp; I just LOVE IT!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00425.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00423.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00424.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Sunday:&nbsp; Wow! What a show! I was exhausted... Glen, Dennis and I managed to finish off one of the bottles of wine that HighRelief brought, it was yummy and just what we needed to end the day and the show.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/photo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp; I spent the last hour of the show mostly socializing with Matt BillyGoat, Glen, and Dennis88.&nbsp; Then I coerced kindly Matt into helping me pack up! He was awfully gracious to assist especially when all I did was sort of hand him a box and showed him where to start!&nbsp; If only Todd could be so easily and amicably coerced. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some photos I took of my new Conder tokens with my phone camera - of course they didn&#039;t turn out very good (so Todd doesn’t have anything to worry about!)&nbsp; The 1 pence D&amp;H Young&#039;s Promissory Penny is very beautiful and very rare and the D&amp;H 24 Slough Red Lion Inn is a very cool and rare white metal piece</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00403.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00412.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00418.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00408.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here are the rolls of Indian and early Wheats I bought from a little old lady who just wanted to sell them so she wouldn&#039;t have to carry them around!&nbsp; I don&#039;t usually buy rolls of Wheats since I have so many already, but there were a few some nice early dates, rather than the usual 30&#039;s and 40&#039;s and they were all original and uncleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00401.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I also mentioned earlier that another customer had given me a can of yummy Washington-made Almond Rocha (but since I&#039;m a chocolate addict and try to keep away from such temptations, I decided to bring it home to my hubby who loves these tasty treats.&nbsp; But the can wouldn&#039;t fit in my bag (yes, my bags are packed very tightly), I just dumped the foil wrapped pieces in my carry on.&nbsp; However, when the TSA folks decided to do a bag check and remove everything from my bag, all the almond rocha came tumbling out, so they helped me gather them up and put them in a TSA blue rubber glove to help contain them back in my bag!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20110411-00400.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now another great coin show has come and gone.&nbsp; This one was unexpectedly fantastic!&nbsp; I mean last year was a really good show but you never know how mid-sized shows will turn out.&nbsp; As with any show, it just depends on what you have and what collectors are looking for.&nbsp; Scott and Lisa Loos and the PNNA group do an extraordinary job putting this show on.&nbsp; They really cater to us dealers, making sure we have what we need, even providing a separate dealer lounge where we can relax, have a cup of coffee, some snacks, etc. before the show begins, as well as throughout the show.&nbsp; And they do a great deal of advertising and offer great little seminars for the collectors during the show.&nbsp; Sometimes everything comes together as it did at this PNNA show.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not only that, but there are so many forum members in the Seattle/Portland area so they made this show even more fun stopping by, chatting, swapping coin stories and interesting forum stories, and even buying a coin or two.&nbsp; It&#039;s this kind of comaraderie and show success that make all the traveling, walking around in very cold cities, hauling coins through airports, setting up/tearing down, sleeping in lumpy beds, etc. very much worth the effort! </p><p><br /></p><p>My show started out with a bang when I sold a beautiful raw 1864 bronze proof, and ended with another bang when I sold my 1873 S-1 double Liberty Indian cent! I was glad to see both of these great coins go to good homes. As I already mentioned, the show was steadily active and went by so fast. There were a lot of passionate coin people in the Pacific NW and I am grateful to have met many new ones and chatted with familiar ones too.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a day of catching up, it&#039;ll be time to prepare for Santa Clara!&nbsp; Here we go again....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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