Sorry it has taken me so long to finish updating on Vegas, but here we go…
Monday was our first day of work in the company store, which is where we are selling things that are uniquely ours to the bottlers who attended the convention. Before we left we ordered about 400 chip cups with our logo on them to pass out to the bottlers, and when we got there everyone was quick to point out that no one uses chip cups anymore! Everyone uses the credit card type things, so we stuffed them with our mail order catalog and passed them out as really big drink cups. Oh well. So we had to shove those onto people all day and basically just stand there and greet everyone, answer questions, and such. Right outside our booth there was a guy from this software company who had set up this touch-screen monitor with a bubble game on it, and people had to play to enter to win one of three guitars signed by Rod Stewart. So the guy was there for maybe a whole hour out of the two days, and he left us to run his booth for him, so Jennie and I played the bubble game A LOT! Mainly as demo, of course. Jennie played once and got the highest score by a lot, and she was the winner almost all day on Tuesday until a guy from Evigna named Wayne (who Jennie had a slight crush on) beat her score. For lunch on Monday Jennie and I went to Red 8, which is a Chinese restaurant in the Wynn, and the only restaurant in the hotel that we really wanted to eat at. It was soooooo good! I got Pork Chow Mien and Jennie got Mongolian Beef. After that we walked down to the chocolate boutique in the hotel and each got a $9.00 four-piece box for dessert. Very decadent. The afternoon went by quickly, and Jennie was not feeling well so I went up to Linda and Jack’s room to have a glass of wine before dinner while Jennie rested. We got Little Penguin wine at the skeezy liquor store, and it was great. We met Jennie downstairs to go to the big dinner, which had Rat Pack impersonators! They were soo funny, and the dinner was great, but they gave us these tiny plates to put all of our food on, which was not cool. There was so much good stuff, so we all got like 4 plates. Afterwards we watched Jack gamble for a minute, then Jennie went upstairs and Linda, Jack, and I wandered the Wynn shops. I went into Manolo Blahnik, but was scared of the prices so we left. Oh, and it cost $10.00 just to get in to the Ferrari show room, so we definitely did not do that. Well, that was Monday!
Tuesday was another day of selling stuff in the morning, and the hotel provided great breakfast and lunch for us. At 9:00 was the general session where they announce all the new promotions for next year, and that is also when the American Legends impersonators performed. The funniest part was probably when Elvis sang “Vive Dr Pepper.” I am trying to get the video up soon. At 2:00 we started to tear down the company store, and it is amazing that it only took about 2 hours to tear down something that took an entire day to put up. After that Linda, Jennie and I walked over to the Fashion Mall across the street because I wanted to look around, but mainly I HAD to get some more comfortable shoes. I am pretty dumb thing that the two pairs of $20.00 Target loafers I brought would be good enough for 7 days of being on my feet, and on Monday I thought I was going TO DIE my arches hurt so bad. So basically I was in pain and I felt like an old lady cause I need arch support. So at Macy’s I found a pair or really cute Born shoes and I did not even look at the price and I just bought them. I think it was the best purchase I made in many years. I wore them the entire rest of the time, except for at the night shows, and my feet actually healed while wearing them. Amazing! Go buy yourself some!! Anyway, that night was the ROD STEWART CONCERT!! So Jennie and I went up to Jack and Linda’s room again and Linda and I finished the bottle of wine from the night before. I had not had anything to eat since about 11:30, and I got a little drunk. So we went downstairs outside by the pool to the dinner and I had some bread to try and sober me up a little, but then when Jennie was not looking Linda brought me a glass of white wine! So funny. Ok, so after dinner we go inside, and as Jennie is trying to infiltrate the line to get into the concert I am running behind her yelling “Isn’t this the line for the concert??” and Jennie gets so mad! Then, I stop and ask this young guy in a pink shirt if it is the line for the concert, and when I see Jennie coming I stop talking to him. As we are walking away he goes “What is wrong with your friend? Is she drunk?” Jennie says yes, and he says “Oh, bring her back!” So funny. So we get into the concert and end up sitting close to pink shirt guy, but he leaves midway through the concert. Rod sang all of his this, and at the very end we got to go up to the front of the seats and dance to “If you want my body and you think I’m sexy….” It was a blast! By the end of the concert I was fine, but we ran into pink shirt guy who started talking all nicey-nicey to Jack because he thought he was my father. So after he talks to Jack for a minute, he comes up to me and says “So where does the evening….(pause because he realized Jack and Linda and Jennie are still around)…and your family take you?” I let him know it was taking me straight back up to my room to pack, so he left. But that is without a doubt the quote of the trip!! So Jennie and I went back up to pack since we had to switch hotels the next day.
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