Friday, March 18, 2011

Las Vegas Trip Wrap-Up & Back to Reality!

Hello!

I am back home from my adventures in Las Vegas & Lynn's LOL.  Back to reality!

My last day in Vegas was Tuesday, and I had a little bit of angst in the morning when I couldn't get the room safe open!  My passport was in there!!!!!!!  I had yet to pack, shower & check out and I hadn't eaten a thing!!!  and the number "5" had quit working.  I called downstairs & they sent up security.  I scrambled to get dressed so I wouldn't be greeting them in my PJ's.  Big burly men arrived, verified my ID and then tried the safe themselves.  Verdict.....the battery was dying!  They called the locksmith to come up.  I couldn't pack, I couldn't shower....time was marching on.  The locksmith arrived.  These room safes just take 2 x AA batteries!  He has a gadget to get the safe opened no matter what, and I heaved a HUGE sigh of relief when I saw the door swing open.

Packing was a jigsaw puzzle, spreading my Treasures between 2 suitcases & trying to judge the weight of each.  They seemed to weigh a TON!  The bellboy came to get them so I could roam for a few hours before having to leave for the airport.  I finally got something to eat at 3 pm!

Checking in my luggage at the airport.....it was NOT overweight!  YAY!  I had the extra bag charge, but still far less than mailing a box home to Canada.  No sleep was possible on the plane.  Too uncomfortable.  I arrived on my home doorstep at 7:30 am Wednesday morning. 

No bed for me!  I had LOADS of shipments to prepare for from sales while I had been away.  I got to work and also managed to take photos of my NEW treasures that I will soon begin listing.

TIP: Do NOT write handwritten greetings/thank you notes on your packing slips after being awake for 48 hours!  Auditing them yesterday, after a good night's sleep, while sealing & attaching the shipping labels to all my parcels, I found several of my statements that were total GIBBERISH!!

What do you think I was trying to say?  Here is one example (my favourite):
"I appreciate your understanding for while or when he will check out!"

Now that it is Friday morning, things are still not "back to normal".  I suddenly have NO INTERNET ACCESS with my wireless router!  Connectivity is excellent, but no internet access!  I tried the usual....unplug modem and router.  Plug them back in as a mini reboot. Still NOTHING!  Luckily I have a mobile stick to access the internet so I can still communicate with the outside internet world, but I will have to deal with this router issue soon....just NOT today! 

I hope you have enjoyed my photos of Las Vegas and my mini summaries of Lynn's LOL event!  I plan on posting on this blog on a regular basis, bringing stories of daily challenges and successes, highlighting interesting collecting genres, information and photo references on a variety of subjects and telling of further adventures on any future travel!  If you have a particular subject or item idea you would like me to write about, please leave me a comment and I will do my best to address!

Bear Hugs
Mandy
Mandicrafts

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