I am sitting here in my family room.. watching a cartoon cuz I am too lazy to get up and change the channel and my kidlets are in bed.. how pathetic is THAT?
Well, I promised I would share some stories and some pictures so here goes.. it may be a little longwinded (I know, hard to believe)
So first of all, it took us a whole day to get to california.. we took 3 planes.. Toronto to Chicago, Chicago to Denver, and Denver to Santa Ana.. it was a LOOOONG day sistahs but we were so excited to see goodies and people that we haven’t seen in a long time that it was well worth it!
A couple of things we saw along the way the store below was in the Denver airport
Nicky and I travelled first class and let me TELL you that it was a gift… the seats are NICE AND WIDE.. Nicky and I played the WILL THE SEATBELT FIT AROUND US game…LOL.. and they always did! LOL (Phew!).. if you read my CHA post last year, we discussed the red carpet for first class. It is an amazing thing really.. you feel like ROYALTY.. see below..
We finally arrived at the hotel and were COMPLETELY wiped. It was draining and all we wanted to do was go to sleep so that we can be fresh for the show. We had a very nice suite with 2 rooms and 2 baFrooms and we were ready to call it a night. I run to her and ask her if she is able to find her blinds?! We only had sheer curtains and I was getting increasingly angry that we would have to sleep without a blind and the sun would shine in our eyes in the a.m. SO I decided to be CRAFTY and attached my curtains with a bella pin ( a bit upside down)
Nicky says that she too can’t find her blinds.. so I am just ready to scream.. I call the main desk, start packing my clothes to move, they send the maintenance man to our room, he walks to the windows and casually pullllls the blinds across the window and make the room nice and dark.. I say.. did you just put those curtains in??? he looked at me like I was some KOOK and said no ma’am.. they were always there. Well I was sure we would stump him when he got to Nicky’s room but sure enough, he pulls the curtains to reveal a blind. It was RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!! we were VERY humiliated..LOL
The next day was the show and a great time was had by all.. we bought LOTS of goodies.. you know me.. I won’t reveal until it starts trickling in and once it does… WATCH OUT! we got beautiful papers and other goodies.. so stay tuned and please tell your scrappy friends too that I will have the newest and the BESTEST stuff.
Here are some pics from the show
the above picture has Nicky, Me, Keri Lee Sereika, Anna Wight and the owner of Whipper Snapper designs.. am I LUCKY or WHAT?
We spent lots of time with Kim from My Favorite Things and Alma from the cat’s Pajamas.. LOVE YOU SISTAHS!
That’s pretty much it in terms of pictures.. on our way back to Toronto, and in the John Wayne airport, I decided that morning to wear EVERYTHING THAT HAD dangles, metal, rhinestones, skulls.. all in one outfit. Sure enough, the second I went through security, I set off a KAJILLION alarms. I was thinking to myself.. why didn’t i wear my sweats? of ALL days!!! So they keep on making me walk in and out and in and out and finally they took me aside to a type of “holding” cell where they had to frisk me.. all of a sudden I am in a compromising position and see ANGELA from unity stamp co. she says HI EM and i wanna crawl under a rock with hands midair and legs spread apart..LOL
All in all a phenom time was had.. although I must say I am happy to be home and was even happier when I walked into Bellaland yesterday 🙂
Mwah to da sistahs who will come and visit
Em
Love you too! Can’t wait to see you in Boston!
All I can say that that I am totally insanely jealous and am in stitches right now – that security story!!!!
OH Em I think I would love to travel with you because I know I would never stop laughing. Glad you had a good time and are home safe.
How is a sistha supposed to sleep with the vision of our dear Em spread-eagled and being frisked! I can’t sleep, I’m laughing too hard. What a great post. I’ll be seeing you soon for Nicky’s Copic Craze class. Can’t wait.
Sounds like an eventful couple of days!! 🙂 Thanks for sharing your stories though – too funny!!
glad you are home safe! Sounds like you had a great time! Loved your red carpet treatment!
So I am feeling COMPLETELY left out, but *sigh* I will forgive you… maybe someday I will be BIG enough for a mention on the Bella blog… *wink* (it’s okay… really! I LOVE my anonymity… 😉 )
LOL – sure wishing *I* was in Cali right now! glad you made it back safe 😀
I can’t believe you were here in Denver and I missed you!! (drat) Oh to be a fly on the wall during your escapades…they have to be 10 times funnier in real life. Glad you’re back home safely.
Let the enabling begin!!!
Hi guys. So glad you are back in our wintry, cold climate. I bet you wish you were still in warm sunny California. Poor Em, I hope the guy who did the frisking was at least cute or young or something. It sounds like you both had a great time. Can’t wait to see the goodies.
Come and visit? I would love to!
But it’s not in the cards (read: pocketbook) this year…..
Sounds like you had an exciting, interesting and FUN trip! It’s always nice to get home after being away:)
Cheers, Shelagh
You have got to be a laugh a minute….I so enjoy your blog entry. I am laughing out loud and everyone at home is wondering why!
Emily, you crack me up like no one else can! Oh my!
So glad to put faces with names. You all are stunning–and what a wonderful time! (My favorite is the baby picture–there can never be enough baby pictures in the world!)
Oh Em….your escapades are just like watching an I love Lucy Show. I can always count on you for my daily chuckle. Luv you Guy’s. A Big Mwah!!!
Goodness, Em, wearing black? Gotta love a sistah who wears black, a girl after my own heart…
Y’all look fabulous – and I’m glad you had such a good time.
Oooo! Important air travel tips! Don’t wear danglies! 😀
Looks like a fun time was had by all, can’t wait to see what you have in store for us.
Wish I had known you were coming through Denver, I would have stalked the airport for a glimps of the Bella Queen! Just kidding, I am no stalker but it would have been fun to chat. Let me know if you ever NEED something from the Bella store.
MWAH Qweenie,