Day 44

Since I last wrote, I stayed up all night and managed to place the last few cards only moments before the press conference. I'm very happy to report that Guinness was on hand to verify that a new record for the Largest House of Freestanding Playing Cards has been set! Approximately 218,000 cards in all.

Now I sleep.

BB

Day 43

Another day of massive progress on the PLAZA!! AT last, the last major building. Tonight it will be a little sleep and a massive day of stacking tomorrow. Guinness arrives tomorrow afternoon.

BB

Day 42

Some days I can just crank it out and today was one of those days. Somehow I managed to build the entire perimeter of the Four Seasons tower today. Tomorrow I'm putting a roof on it.

BB

Day 41

Ok.....after today I'm taking a rest from the village....it's starting to hurt my head to even think about that portion. I have no idea how this part has taken so long. The arches look good.

BB

Day 40

You guessed it....village.....

Day 39

Still working on the "village" .....ouch.

Day 38

Good progress today on the perimeter of the Venetian complex (I called it the Village earlier). I'm thinking I can have this portion almost done tomorrow.... lets hope.

It's looking good.

BB

Day 37

Today was a little slow for me. I finished the day feeling like I need to find a quicker way to complete this portion of the project. I don't like the pressure of feeling like I'm getting behind. The Sands went up very quickly and bought me some time, I feel like I just lost that time today. Ouch.

Day 36

The race to build the village of Venice continues. It's too soon to tell what I'm in for on this part of the project.

Day 35

The Sands took a bit more time to complete than I had anticipated, but it still went up quickly....thank goodness. Later in the day I began the process of starting the lower portions of the Venetian complex. I'm trying to capture the essence of the many many little buildings that make up the perimeter of the Venetian, without committing too much time.

Day 34

Today was a victory....almost. Ladders and planks are gone without incident and the Sands is at about 90 percent completion. A little more work on the tower and the facades and it's done. On to the next big push..... to be decided.

BB