Our Las Vegas Trade Show was interesting to say the least. We stayed and did our show at Mandalay Bay. Our first room was not that great for the amount of money we spent so my sister called the front desk and told them that she just “couldn’t see herself actually sleeping in the lumpy beds”. They put her on hold and came back on to tell that we had been upgraded to their “gold wing” in a 2 room suite. We about peed our pants when we actually got to our new room. It was at the end of the hallway with big double doors. It had a bar, dining room, living room, and two full suite rooms. We have never stayed in something so nice before. The first room service order that came up he asked if we wanted it set up on the table, so we started moving our stuff. Then he grabbed a cloth tablecloth and tried to actually “set up” our dinner. My sister said “whoa, we aren’t that fancy, I thought you meant if we were going to just eat at the table”…..he ended up setting up his little push cart to form a table and we were still awed that he set everything up. The next morning when our breakfast came I didn’t realize that the Japanese style doors were see through (I couldn’t see through them!) and ended up talking to the guy the entire time with my head poked around like I was hidden in my bra and underwear but it was actually like some sort of burlesque show. I have to wonder if there was any talk about the hillbillies up in the suite!

As to peddling our wares I think we did pretty well. We picked this show because it was smaller and we had no idea what we were doing so thought we would get our feet wet. We didn’t place any orders so that was disappointing but we did make a couple of good contacts. We shall see if they pan out but we talked with a Gaiam buyer and a buyer from TheKnot.com, both are pretty big companies. The only reservations that they had were that we couldn’t keep up with demand but we assured them that we could! We are trying to work with them now. I hope we don’t seem like hillbillies to them!