Relatively speaking

I spent the day in Vegas.  I have some relatives on both my mother and father's side here.  First up was brunch with dad's sister Rochelle and her husband Marshall.

  I think this was the first time I saw them since they moved away from Detroit. 

After brunch I was to meet up with Lynn Miller for a mall show/  Lynn had to cancel out, but I still made it to the mall show.  I had low expectations.  First table, I ask about vintage oddball and eclectic.  He said he does not bring anything like that to the show.  He goes try looking in this football box.  He had a few 1962 Post and some Wonder Bread cards.  Turns out one was a Town Talk.  Then he finds an off grade 58 Topps yellow letter.  Then finds 5 Bell Brand Rams.  Some 1968 Topps BB Posters, which I did not need, but lo and behold there were some 1972s in there.  He also had a stack of 1968-70 Fleer fabric stickers (no Senators to finish it off for Ron Perry).  I told him to hold the items and see what else I found at the show and would be back.  He could also let me know if he remembered anything else.

I found a 1939 British complete set of Sporting Personalities, and after some haggling picked up the set.  I then found a guy that had a few oddball items.  He had a set of 1977 Pepsi Glove discs.  I only needed about a dozen and asked if he had singles.  He said he had a ton at home, but only the set with him.  As I started to look at some 1977 Burger Chef box panels, he said that since he had so many at home, I could pull the singles of the Pepsi I need and he would replace them later.  I started pulling, and then I had some without the glove backing, so pulled the upgrades and finally just asked him his best price on the set.  He went from $40 to $15 for the 72 panels!  Set complete.  Got the stack of Burger Chef box panels as well.  He also had a 1961 Topps Stamp book without stamps in it, plus 1 1961 stamp panel.  He threw that in for a total of $5.  What a great buy. 

Ended up going back to the first guy, an he found a few more items.  I ended up getting the grouping from him at what I thought was a great price.  If it wasn't for baseball cards, I would be below budget on the trip.  They are becoming one of my biggest expenses of the trip.  I should cut back, but am finding some great deals.

Left the show and met up with my cousins for dinner.

  We went for ribs and he girls insisted on smearing ribs on our faces for the photo.  As if, we needed help getting rib sauce on our faces.  Robert, with my cousin Dena, myself and my cousin Bonnie. 

Great food and lots of cards.  Disappointed I could not meet up with Lynn, but had a great day nonetheless.  Tomorrow, on to the Grand Canyon.