VEEEEEEGGGGGAAAASSSSS!!!
WOW, It feels like I was just here.....oh, wait, I was just here. lol
Yup, just a month ago I was here with Susan, Glen, and Julie for a little 5 day getaway. Now I am here for a Magic Convention with 1600 Magicians!!! Well actually 1599 and Me!!
Our first night in town we went to a taping of Penn and Teller's "Fool Us" show. Very cool to see some of the behind the scenes of the show, and how it is structured and filmed.
Magic Live is a convention that I go to every year, as it has everything a magician needs, lots of Magic, at least 50 different dealer booths, stage shows, lectures, talks and workshops, friends from other parts of the world, and it's VEGAS!!!
One of my coolest purchases this year was not a trick but this limited edition deck of Houdini cards that was cut by hand to make it 3D. It's hard to see how it really looks in the picture. There are only 10 of these in the world and I own #3/10
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I also got to see lots of famous magicians such as Shin Lim, and Criss Angel
David Copperfield was also there, but I didn't get a picture with him this time, but have several times in the past.
We walked up the strip one day, and I took Scott and Glen to see the "Siegfried and Roy" statues in front of the Mirage. I have been here before a few times, but they had not seen it yet. Years ago when I first came to this spot there was a Virtual here called "LV Money Makers" sadly years later it was archived. Both men have since past away, but it was their legacy that made Magic big in Vegas. I got some info at the area as I would love to one day have another Virtual at this location. If I receive a Virtual reward, or another Adventure Lab Credit, I may make that happen.Even after spending 8 days in Las Vegas, I ended up not even finding one cache. That's right, none!!!
I went to one near the Giant Ferris Wheel called the "High Roller" but there was 2 security Guards right there, so I was not able to have a good look. The good thing is, I have found all the caches down the strip on previous trips, and last month Susan and I found 49 finds in total during our 5 day stay. And I will be back in Vegas soon enough!!!
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August Wheel of Challenges
Once back in BC, I started working on Grounspeaks Geochallenge of the Month which was called "Iconic Cacher" and it was to find several different Icons. You had to find a Traditional, attend an Event, an Earthcache, A multi, an Adventure Lab location, A Virtual cache, a Letterbox cache, and a Mystery cache, within the month of August. The cool part is I also qualified for the Geocaching Vloggers Geochallenge of the month also by going to an event.
August 19th was International Geocaching day, and I was able to get my souvenir by finding a cache on the way to my show that day.
Sunshine Coast
I booked a show over in Halfmoon Bay on the Sunshine coast, so I headed over early to grab some caches before my show that evening.
These Signs were everywhere.
This was the only Bear I saw while over on the Sunshine Coast
I walked down this breakwater to the end to grab a cache, and was surprised when I saw what was in it. 
I found one of my own FTF Trackable card, and a deck of cards in this cache. How funny is that. I never placed one here, so it shows that my Trackable cards are traveling.
This was the sign at the end of the breakwater.
But its not where the cache is at.
One of the things I love about caching is most people would never see this as it was on a side road that isn't the main road of travel. But Caching brought me here!!
Next weekend, Susan and I are heading across the border to do some caching. I have been working on a series of Puzzle caches and have just completed solving 10 more of the 25 caches. We have found 8 of them so far. But more about that and more in next months Blog. Thanx for following!!
Well that's it for this month!!
Keep on caching!!
Chris Yuill
Magicman65
