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| Con Virgin Report Pt 2...THE CON...PART1 Thursday 8th July. Sue and I set off around 9:30am. We're soon on the motorway. It's a straight road to Kansas City. Not a lot to see going through IOWA! Space, space and more space! We stop three times(I think). Once for lunch, in a wee diner. I think the waitress is a bit taken aback to hear a Scottish accent in the middle of nowhere, in Iowa! :-o. After driving(well Sue did the driving. I wouldn't have trusted me behind that wheel, driving on the wrong side of the road! Half the time I made for the passenger seat, only to discover that it was the driver's seat! LOL) for about seven hours, we finally reach the outskirts of Kansas City. We know this, as we hit *traffic*, lots of it! After maybe 45 minutes, we finally get to downtown Kansas City. Sue asks me to navigate the wee streets. Yeek! She laughs as I proceed to pronounce the street names by their letters...ie. EEEEEEE 14th street, and DOUBLEYEW 12th street etc. I'm a Scot, in a strange land! What do I know?! LOL! Eventually, after many EEEEE's and DOUBLEYEW's....we reach the Phillips Hotel! Yeay! I *think* Shelia is the first person we encounter, as we enter the lobby. How appropriate, with me being a *virgin*. I get a special *Shelia-hug* Then Lori appears, and Chan. Hugs all round. We get checked in. Ride up the elevator( I think Chan might have been in the elevator with us). Get to the room. I give Sue a huge hug for getting us there safely. Thanks Dear!(even though I braked a few times for ya ! LOL ;-)). After sussing out the room, we head to the 3rd floor for a sneak peek. JoAnn greets us, and promptly informs me that I'm her #1 guinea pig for "something" on Saturday night! LOL! "I'm game" ;-). I think we met a few other people in there as well. Sandy2, maybe(Sue! Help me out here dear!). Then we head down to the lobby, looking for Pixie. No one there. By this time we're getting just a bit peckish. We head out of the hotel to look for somewhere to eat. Not a lot to choose from. We encounter the fabulous library as we browse. The outside is like a huge bookshelf, with all these bookends and titles. Wonderful! We finally decide to eat dinner in The Marriott. To our astonishment, the place was full of deaf people. Never seen so many people using sign language in the one place before. Quite a sight. Needless to say, it was the quietest meal I'd ever had! Sue and I were the only ones speaking! We headed back to the hotel. Still no Pixie (where were ya Pix? LOL). I think we crashed out just after 10pm. I think the phone rang sometime after 11pm. I didn't answer, as I wasn't sure if it was a dream or not! I slept pretty well... Page Three |