kim schmidt

Here are the last bunch of photos from our time in Las Vegas for the WPPI 2010 Convention. It seriously has taken me three days to catch up on sleep – it didn’t help that we lost an hour last night! I had a blast hanging out with Ashley, Jen, Bernadette, Becky, Stephanie, Jess, Laura, and April (we also met up with Susan throughout the week). These girls seriously rock my world – I don’t think my experience would have been what it was without them!

Monday afternoon I waited in line for over 2 hours to see Jasmine Star speak one of the evenings. Her room filled up quickly and it had over 900 seats available. I am glad I was in line because I got to be on the FRONT row. The rest of the girls were in the 2nd row (as you can see them all lined up!)

Back in January I went up to NYC to see Justin & Mary’s one-day workshop on Spread the Love. I was very inspired that day and have implemented many ideas I learned. They gave a condensed version of their workshop on Tuesday afternoon and I am so glad I got to hear them again (once again the room filled up quickly, many of the girls didn’t get to hear them that day but the next day when they gave an encore presentation). Yes Justin is wearing 3-D glasses – there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, right?

Tuesday evening Laura, Ashley, Becky and I took the monorail down to the Paris/Bellagio/Planet Hollywood area for dinner and photo taking. Here are the girls waiting for the monorail to arrive.

We had dinner at Cabo Wabo where the girls get on the bar to dance and then give tequila shots to anyone who wants to come up (must be 21 – Becky got carded before she could go up there!). This was definitely a highlight to our evening!

Walking back through Paris to get to the monorail, we stopped in the lobby to get these photos. I have always stayed at Paris and have been enamored with the decor every.single.time. I go. This was the first time I have been to Vegas since I started really getting into photography and I’m glad we explored the area to get these!

Group photo from Tuesday evening (L-R; Stephanie, Laura, Becky, Jen, I’m in front & Bernadette is behind me, Ashley, Jess, and April). Please note that we never made it down to the famous sign, but we did have a canvas of the sign, so Bern is holding it up for prosperity purposes!

Wednesday night (our last night in Vegas) we went back down towards Paris/Bellagio/etc. so the rest of the girls could see the fountains and enjoy dinner at Paris.

These photos seriously crack me up. From L-R, Becky, Stephanie, Jen, Bernadette, and April.

Ceiling decor at the Bellagio

Inside the non-complete Bellagio botanical gardens.

We spent our last evening in style, having dinner at Mon Ami Gabi in the Paris Casino. Here is my entree of pork tenderloin with mashed potatoes. Seriously this is the best food I’ve ever had!

iphone photos edited with shakeitphoto. The sunset from our last night there was edited with Cross Process. The first photo was how I started my trip to Philly, stuck in traffic for 25 minutes. Apparently there was a spill.

This is the third time I have put this post together and the internet has ate it. But its worth it right? Here are a few photos from the past two days of our time in Vegas. These girls rock my world!

This is the group of ladies staying in our part of the suite, out of 9 photographers.

There are 9 photographers in our suite at the Signature Towers of MGM Grand. Here is our part of the suite which is SO incredible.

5 years ago this June, Anthony and I took our honeymoon in the Sonoma Valley area of California. This is when we truly fell in love with wine. We came back thinking we were wine connoisseurs (ha! to think how naive we were!) and enjoy a glass occasionally. The problem for me is I love to have one glass and then a few days later have another. I’m not a huge fan of leaving white wine in the frig opened for days at a time. I think it becomes much more bitter and unpleasant.

I found a solution – Black Box wines. The last time we bought a box was in red (several years ago) and I’m not even sure they had whites yet. A few weeks ago I was browsing the wine store at my favorite grocer Wegmans and what do I see but a Pinot Grigio Black Box wine. HEAVEN! It has the right amount of sweetness and tart that I found in my pinot g’s. And so much classier to drink out of this box than the normal boxed wines.

(I apologize for all the kitchen garb in the first photo; when you have a tiny kitchen as ours is you make do!)