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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
I didn’t do anything worth blogging about the morning of Day 2. I did head over to Blogworld in the afternoon. I knew Pete from Izea was going to be there around one, and I definitely wanted to meet him in person. I also needed to finish walking through the trade show and Mark Cuban was the closing speaker. I wanted to see him speak.
I did run into Pete:
He’s from England, so not only is he cute but he has an English accent too. Pete has his own fan club (whether he likes it or not). One of the booths I stopped at was for Southwest. On my Lisa Reviews blog, I actually wrote up a review regarding my flight on my way to Vegas, so I stopped by and let them know. They also were giving away inflatable airplanes, and I wanted to grab one for Madison. I let them know that I had written a review and enjoyed the fight. They told me they were having a contest for anyone who commented on their blog. Needless to say, I commented.
Who knew that I could later have used a nurse from a travel nursing agency later that day? Seriously, I did not need a nurse that had a travel nursing job, but my heart did stop when I found out that I won. What did I win? A free round trip ticket that doesn’t need to be used till December of 2008. I can use it anywhere that Southwest goes. Since I live in Chicago and that is Southwest’s main headquarters, I can pretty much go anywhere. I keep repeating this and no one believes me. Really, I am not lucky. I never win anything.
Tags: airplanes, blog, blogging, blogworld, booths, english_accent, fan_club, grab, keep_repeating, later_that_day, mark_cuban, nurse, nursing_agency, PostieCon, postiecon07, southwest, trade_show, travel_nursing, trip_ticket, vegas, win_a_free
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
After we ate dinner, half of us took a cab and the other half rode with Julie and Michael to New York New York. We parked but I figure that Julie might need a GPS tracking system to find her car at the end of the night. Colleen wanted to ride the roller coaster. I had never done it before, so I figured why not. Let me tell you, I won’t do it again. Great coaster — really bumpy though. Colleen ended up bruising her elbow and I bruised my leg. It still was pretty fun. After that, we headed over to Coyote Ugly to see Michael’s brother. Here’s the really awesome thing — he got us in VIP. It was so cool in there. Here is a picture of the girls dancing on the bar:
I know the picture is super dark, so it may be hard to see. Thanks again Julie and Michael! After Coyote Ugly, we headed over to Harrah’s to meet up with several other bloggers that had arrived. You may have seen pictures of the traveling boa on others blogs. I think everyone at some point had it on (whether a picture got taken or not). I left with Mr. Fab since we were taking the monorail the same direction. I know Julie ended up staying out super late (Michael went back to Coyote Ugly to talk to his brother). Since I don’t know how much she had to drink after I left, I wonder if she needed gps vehicle tracking to find her car. Needless to say, I was very happy to go to bed, since I was super tired by this time.
Tags: blogworld, boa, brother, coyote_ugly, go_to_bed, gps_tracking_system, gps_vehicle, harrah, i_don_t_know, monorail, new_york_new_york, PostieCon, postiecon07, ride_the_roller_coaster, vegas
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
I left BlogWorld and hopped onto the monorail to get back to my hotel. Having been to Vegas two times before, I was excited to ride the monorail. It wasn’t here my two prior visits. You still end up doing a ton of walking, but it definitely does help to get around. The monorail dropped me off at the Hilton. I then walked to my hotel.
Actually, my hotel wasn’t really a hotel at all. Instead, it is a Hilton timeshare. What is a timeshare? Basically, what I did was to rent condos for the 3 nights I was there (actually make that 1 condo for all three nights). Bill and I did not buy a condo. We just borrowed my inlaws. I do think you can buy these as condos for sale. I know this is super confusing. However, since we don’t belong to this, I have a very limited understanding of it. The room was gorgeous. I love staying in places that are better than my house. I had a king size bed for all of me. It was great. Since there was only me staying there, I only got the studio. However, if Bill would have come with, I definitely would have gotten the 1 bedroom. Otherwise, we would have been on top of each other and driving one another bananas.
Once I got settled, I met up with several other bloggers for dinner at a German place there. Anybody who was with — please let me know the name. Bill has been to Germany, and I would love to see if he went there or not. However, I do not know the name of the place. I took a couple of pictures. For some reason, a lot of pictures turned out really dark, so bear with me.
I forgot to take a picture of the beer. It was huge (like a liter of beer). Dinner took forever, but it was good and fun to meet up with everyone!
Tags: bananas, beer_dinner, bloggers, blogworld, condos_for_sale, german_place, hilton, inlaws, i_do_not_know, i_love, liter, monorail, PostieCon, postiecon07, timeshare, vegas, vegas_two_times
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Mr. Fab and I decided to eat there at the conference center. I wanted a pepperoni pizza. They didn’t have it, so I ended up with a cheese pizza instead. Then it happened. I went to put Mr. Fab’s phone number into my cell phone, and it wasn’t there! (mini freak out starts now). Luckily, we were at a booth, I had looked at my phone for the time, and then we walked to lunch. It couldn’t have went far. While I emptied out my computer bag, Mr. Fab walked back to place we bought lunch and looked there. We constantly tried calling it. Then Fab came back and I went back to the last booth we were at and retraced my steps. No phone. Trying not to freak out at this point. After calling my phone at least 20 times, finally somebody picked up! It was were we bought lunch!!! Whew!!! If I wasn’t married, I might have kissed Mr. Fab right then and there. I only use my phone sparingly, but it has all of the important numbers I need. It was my way to keep in contact with the other bloggers in Vegas. We finished our lunches and I was going to go check into my hotel. Mr. Fab was going to head back and take a nap (I think).
Well, I got hung up there and decided to go to the sessions I signed up for. Should have went to the hotel instead. The sessions were not quite what I expected. The first session I went to I ended up writing two posts during, checked my email, and read a couple of the forums I am a part of. Yeah, a little bored, but thank goodness for free WiFi. The second session was just as bad. The speaker was pretty much promoting his company that doesn’t allow most people in. Yeah, waste of time. I actually walked out early and found a bathroom to use instead. I headed over to the Izea booth at this point to hopefully catch Ted (which I did):
Yeah, he’s a little crazy. Some may think he needs drug rehab or alcohol rehab or both. However, the guy reminds me of an excited 5 year old. His enthusiasm is actually quite addicting. Shortly after meeting Ted, it was time to go and check into my hotel.
Tags: addicting, alcohol_rehab, blogworld, business, cell phone, cheese_pizza, contact, drug_rehab, email, freak_out, free_wifi, important_numbers, izea, little_bored, little_crazy, luckily, lunch, Mobile phone, pepperoni_pizza, pizza, PostieCon, postiecon07, Science and Technology, second_session, sessions, sparingly, take_a_nap, Telephone number, vegas, waste_of_time, whew, Wi-Fi
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
I flew into Las Vegas last Thursday morning around 8. (I left Chicago at 6 — had to be at the airport at 4. Yes, that sucked). I was able to get my luggage fairly quickly. What surprised me most about the airport was that they had vending machines for things like Ipods and flowers. Honestly, I have never seen that before. Having used the bathroom in both airports, I have to say the Midway wins hands down (no pun of any kinds intended there). I was able to take a shuttle right away to get over to my hotel. I lucked out — the shuttle was $6 and nobody else was on it, so we went straight to the hotel. Of course, since I was so early, I was not able to check in. However, I was able to leave my luggage there. Oh yeah, when I left Chicago it was a balmy 34 degrees, it was 65 in Vegas. Needless to say, I didn’t need my new leather coat I just bought.
I headed over to BlogWorld since that is why I was in town. Registration was super easy. While I was doing that, I ran into Mr. Fab. The opening speaker was talking, but Mr. Fab said it was pretty boring, so not to rush myself trying to get over there. Instead, we talked shop together until ten when all the booths opened for the trade show. I spent the morning walking around with him. I think I have a picture:
Why, yes I do. This was at the ligit booth I think. (I am going to have to find the sticker they gave me to see if it right). This is one of the few companies that has bothered to contact since the trade show (I’ll leave that for another post). The place looked beautiful. They definitely had some commercial lighting experts with their electrical supplies on hand. (Why would I even notice such a thing? I live with an electrical engineer who points stuff like this out to me in public. Constantly.) Anyway, the place looked good. The thing that surprised me most was that they (the organizers) predicted something like 10,000 people comes to this. There was definitely not 10,000 people there. I spent the morning with Mr. Fab and did run into Christine, Colleen, and her husband too. After meeting with some of the booths, Mr. Fab and decided it was lunch time.
Tags: blogworld, booths, commercial_lighting, contact, electrical_engineer, electrical_supplies, even_notice, hands_down, ipods, last_thursday, leather_coat, lighting_experts, ligit, luggage, midway, oh_yeah, one_of_the_few, PostieCon, postiecon07, pun, thursday_morning, trade_show, vegas, vending_machines
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