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Yesterday as I tried to slip into the MBA of New Jersey annual convention I was greeted by an Elvis-impersonator .This was a first for me...never seen one live and in person. Later I saw him walking around,shooting hoops, the whole time in character-calling me 'little lady' and serenading people as he walked the arena with his guitar. It was an experience I will cherish for the rest of my life. Another first was achieved yesterday; walking through a casino. Atlantic City is a cool place even if you didn't go to gamble. Very entertaining and kind of pretty too, right by the ocean.

Well now where was I? On the Sunday that we were to return to Wallasey, our crew took a detour to Loch Lomond. By the time we got there it was just about dinner time (time for tea). We walked a beach to get to our restaurant. But this restaurant had a claim to fame that, quite honestly, went far beyond what our wildest dreams could ever have hoped for. BILL CLINTON- THE Bill Clinton- stayed there. It said so in the boys bathroom. Now how I know that it says that in the boys bathroom is not because I was peeking...it's because a boy told me. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Therefore, armed with this bit of information, Steve thought it'd be a good idea to work that into the conversation a few times... "Do you want to sit at this table that Bill Clinton had when he stayed here?" "That was the wine Bill Clinton drank when he stayed here." "Bill Clinton saw that Loch when he stayed here" "Hey, did you serve Bill Clinton when he stayed here?" And so on and so forth for the rest of the night and then some...made for a fun dinner in an otherwise posh setting.

The following Monday was a lazy day, rained while we slept in or "Had a Lie In", watched a movie, and ate junk. That night we sampled the National Dish...curry! Which is so not English but let's let them have this one otherwise they get snitty...don't EVER take their curry from them. But we had some laughs with Abdul (seriously, he was our waiter), his magical friend, and some very colorful rice...then afterward hung out at a pub and gabbed it up. What an evening!

I'm gonna stop here as Tuesday in Liverpool was rather eventful and I think it deserves its own entry altogether.