My days. My nights. My life. Lived well.

I went to this amazing workshop this past weekend in Phoenix. It was with Cheryl Muhr and Amy Smith. The focus was building a portrait business. I got so many good pictures! If you like this, I am proud to announce that I am officially in business and available for hire! I’ll be updating this site with more information in the next few days! I am just so pumped! I have been tweakin’ all stinkin’ day!

I got to meet so many freakin’ cool photographers! Special shout-outs to my table-mates who were so inspiring to be around! Leah, Ellen, Gustavo, Lori, Sarah, Lindsay- such talented people!

While I work on some paperwork, here are my pics from the workshop!

So, we were in Chicago for a couple days. I had a photography seminar yesterday and Rob shopped while I was out.  It was a great seminar with Corey McNabb and Amber Holritz, and as a bonus I got to meet another photographer whose work I love. Samantha Uphold, she’s in my blogroll on my site over here.  While I was in the seminar, Rob shopped for records and even ended up with a T-Shirt based on a Blue Note album that looks super cool.

Then I met my girl Blagica for a drink at the hotel bar before going off with the photo group and having dinner at the Billy Goat Tavern (Cheezborger Cheezborger from SNL). As much as I enjoyed dinner with the photo group, I could have talked to Blagica for like 6 more hours. Oh well, we’ll catch up more later. But it was kind of weird because we so share a brain on some things.

Dinner was a good time and the drinks at the Billy Goat are strong, so be warned. Then we walked back on the beautiful Chicago night.

Rob and I just finished some room service breakfast and now we’re going to head back to Indy.

We missed seeing Jenny and Dave.  But we’ll be back up soon.  Rob has more record shopping to do.

So, I have been sick as a dog for the last two weeks it seems like. I had a really bad chest cold, and I was still getting over it when we went to Vegas for Jen and Tony’s wedding. I don’t really think I felt healthy again until the day before we left Vegas. Then when I got home, I almost feel more congested- allergies perhaps?

Anyway, Vegas. Halloween day- Rob and I went to the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum (which is an arcade with awesome pinball machines from old to new) and ate El Pollo Loco for the second of 3 times while we were there. I left my phone at the Pinball Museum and had to drive back to see if they had it because there is no phone there. Then we dressed up and went to dinner at Trader Vic’s. The drinks were great and the food was good, but not fabulous. I miss the Trader Vic’s in Chicago. For the record, I was Elvira and Rob was a Ghostbuster. It was funny because people really responded to Rob’s costume yelling all kind of stuff from the movie and the obvious “Who ya gonna call?” at him. Elvira- well, when we walked past Margaritaville, people got it, so I don’t know what that means.

Wedding day was Thursday and I don’t think I have any pictures of me on my camera. Anyway, Jen looked gorgeous. Mandalay Bay has a great wedding chapel, and the reception dinner was at the Bootlegger Bistro and it was awesome. I took a few pictures of Jen and Tony around various places. They all look the same- just in different places. I need to learn how to pose people.

The next day we went to the Neon Boneyard and it was super cool. I highly recommend it! It was just really neat! You can get info on tours from the Neon Museum.

Our last night we went and saw the Cirque de Soleil show Love which has the Beatles’ music in it. It was awesome. We sat next to a dutch guy who was the president of Best Western Hotels in the Netherlands. I asked him if Leep meant anything in Dutch and his wife told me it was a weird person. Sounds about right.

Pinball Hall of Fame pics coming later- check my Flickr tomorrow. In the meantime, here are the Flickr sets I’ve already posted:

Neon Boneyard- Click to see all the pics!

Halloween and the Wedding Day-Click to see all the pics!